Ketamine paired with looking at smiling faces to build positive associations holds promise for helping people with treatment-resistant depression

In a new study, a single infusion of the antidepressant – along with repeated exposure to positive imagery – significantly reduced symptoms in depressed patients in a clinical trial.

Rebecca Price, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences • conversation
Sept. 22, 2022 • ~6 min

How to be a god: we might one day create virtual worlds with characters as intelligent as ourselves

If virtual characters can be as smart as humans, having free will, can we kill or harm them?

Richard A. Bartle, Professor of Computer Game Design, University of Essex • conversation
Jan. 17, 2022 • ~7 min

Video games affect your moral development but only until you're 18 - new study

Moral reasoning was impacted in school-age teenagers but not university students.

Sarah Hodge, Lecturer in Psychology and Cyberpsychology, Bournemouth University • conversation
Aug. 11, 2020 • ~6 min

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