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Study: The way you grew up may shape how your brain handles risk | Cornell ChronicleResearchers found people who are socially rich, with strong social support but whose family had less money, and those who are economically rich, having more money but less social support, take similar levels of risk but activate different parts of their brains.

Same Risks, Different Brains: How Upbringing MattersCornell researchers found that childhood access to social or financial resources affects adult brain responses to risk. While participants from different backgrounds took similar risks, brain scans showed distinct neural patterns.

How Childhood Resources Affect Risk-Taking Later in LifeA ground-breaking study found that the types of resources available during childhood could affect the cognitive mechanisms people use to evaluate and take risks later in life.

Being a dad has made my brain younger | Psyche Notes to SelfAs the father of twins, I could hardly feel more frazzled. But my brain age might paint a different, more youthful, picture

Are grandmothers more connected to their grandchildren than own kids? One study says yes.One study conducted at Emory University in Atlanta shows grandmothers have more empathy activated when looking at pictures of grandchildren.

For whom does determinism undermine moral responsibility? Surveying the conditions for free will across culturesFind information and research on ethics, psychology, decision-making, AI, morality, ethical decision-making for mental health practitioners.

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