What Happens After the Worst Happens?

Perimenstrual chocolate craving. What happens after menopause?

About half of American women crave chocolate, and approximately half of the cravers crave it specifically around the onset of menstruation. This study examines whether the primary cause of this "perimenstrual" craving is a direct effect of hormonal changes around the perimenstrum, or rather if the craving is a general response in some individuals to stress or other notable events. Insofar as th...

What happens before chemotherapy ?

Modern medical cancer interventions are allowing for greater survival rates. A chemotherapy side-effect, where patients report difficulty during performance of familiar cognitive tasks, is named chemo fog or chemobrain. Traditional neuropsychological assessments may not be sensitive enough to detect these subtle chemotherapy-related cognitive impairments (or CRCI). The advent of MRI and fMRI to...

Human Communication: What Happens?

The development of information technology opens up new venues of human communication. So far, most research has been devoted to the technological side of communication. By analysing the metaphors that are used to talk about communication, the differences between technological and human communication can be targetted. What is needed in order to understand human communication is more knowledge ab...

What Happens Before?

Little is known about how discrimination manifests before individuals formally apply to organizations or how it varies within and between organizations. We address this knowledge gap through an audit study in academia of over 6,500 professors at top U.S. universities drawn from 89 disciplines and 259 institutions. In our experiment, professors were contacted by fictional prospective students se...

Recall Activity: What Happens before and after Basal Cell Carcino-mas’ Surgery?