Excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that influence how neurons communicate. Excitatory neurotransmitters increase the likelihood that the neuron will fire an electrical signal. Inhibitory neurotransmitters decrease the liklihood that the neuron will fire an electrical signal.
The study investigates the psychological and social experience of early motherhood—particularly the concept of expectations versus reality.
This includes themes such as maternal identity, support systems, and emotional well-being in the fourth trimester (the first 12 weeks postpartum).
The prefrontal cortex—the part of the brain responsible for planning, impulse control, and decision-making—doesn’t fully mature until around age 25.
While a child’s brain grows rapidly in size during early childhood, the prefrontal cortex continues developing in complexity and function well into early adulthood.
Booth, R. W., Erhan, K., Erkocaoğlan, O., Kuşpınar, H., & Yaldırak, K. (2025). The best possible self task has direct effects on expectancies and mood, … Read more
Zhang, Y., Hedley, F. E., Zhang, R.-Y., & Jin, J. (2025). Toward quantitative cognitive–behavioral modeling of psychopathology: An active inference account of social anxiety disorder. Journal … Read more
This study explored how autistic and alexithymic traits relate to specific personality disorder (PD) dimensions in clinical and non-clinical adults.
To an outsider, autistic emotional outbursts – often called meltdowns – can look like temper tantrums or defiant behavior.
In reality, these intense reactions are not about “bad behavior” at all. They are overwhelming emotional or sensory experiences that the autistic person cannot easily control.
Understanding this difference is key to responding with empathy instead of judgment.
An action potential is an electrical nerve impulse that travels along a neuron’s axon. It’s a transient, all-or-nothing electrical current that is conducted down the axon when the neuron’s membrane potential reaches a specific “threshold of excitation.”
The main difference between chemical and electrical synapses is how they transmit signals—chemical synapses use neurotransmitters to send messages across a small gap, allowing for flexible and complex communication, while electrical synapses pass signals directly through gap junctions, enabling much faster but less modifiable transmission.
This study explored how personal strengths like sense of coherence, hedonic, and eudaimonic motives help university students—with and without ADHD—adapt and thrive emotionally and academically.