Art therapy helped
ease trauma
symptoms in
Syrian refugee
children.
during memory encoding than
younger adults do, not because
of brain decline, suggests
research published in Neuroim-
age. Researchers used fMRI to
image the brains of 112 adults,
ages 19 to 76, as they showed
them a series of photos of faces
on a display, and then asked
them to recall when and where
on the display they had seen
particular faces. During this
task, the middle-aged and older
participants had less activity than
young adults in the visual cortex,
and more activity in the medial
prefrontal cortex. The researchers
say this suggests that the older
adults may be focusing less on
external visual details during the
memory-encoding process than
younger adults do, and more on
their internal thoughts.
ART WORKS
A short-term group art therapy
intervention could help ease
symptoms of trauma, depression
and anxiety among Syrian refugee children, according to a pilot
study in the journal Vulnerable
Children and Youth Studies.
The researchers enrolled 64
7- to 12-year-old Syrian refugee
children, all living in Turkey,
in a five-day group art therapy
intervention. The program used
visual art, music and dance to
help the children identify and
express their emotions and learn
problem-solving and other
skills. After the intervention, the
children showed significantly
reduced signs of trauma, depres-
sion and trait anxiety.
LEADERSHIP STYLES
Companies do better when they
have a CEO with a leadership
style at odds with the company’s overall culture, according
to a study in the Journal of
Applied Psychology. The researchers interviewed 114 CEOs and
324 members of those CEOs’
management teams. They
found that companies with a
relationship-oriented culture
(one focused on teamwork
and communication) did
better when they had a
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