Wordsworth's poem ‘Yarrow Unvisited’ suggests that it is better not to go somewhere than to go and risk being disappointed. Responding to this idea in the poem ‘Askam Unvisited’, the twentieth-century Cumbrian poet Norman...
Norman E. McClure is inaugurated as seventh president of Ursinus College Brumbaugh urges seniors faith in democracy Meminger offers seniors optimism Edward Bell to head graduates next year Board of Directors names new...
The President writes Dr. McClure's charge to graduating classes Norman Egbert McClure: A tribute Faculty memorial minute Alumni memorial minute Twenty-five years of the Messiah at Ursinus "As I recall" A gift for the...
What makes something horrific? Does history play a significant role in the perception of horror? How have Black creatives used the horror genre, particularly the films and literary texts collectively called "Horror Noire," to...
Presidential candidate Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto used the mass media to win the 2019 presidential and vice presidential elections. Researchers chose the news on the presidential debates in the national mass media...
The science of mental life is critical for understanding both how we function, and impairments in our functioning. However, understanding the causal mechanisms underlying mental health disorders and developing new treatments are...
Inside this Issue:
Business Report of the Friends / Endowment to be EstablishedDean HerringKay McSpadden Wins Norman Mailer AwardA Note From the ChairMember Application
Betty and Milton Holcombe have established a $50,000 endowment to benefit education majors from Bamberg, S.C. Betty Holcombe created the scholarship in honor of her college roommate, Elizabeth Carter Steedly.
Until such time as the new Morgan-Holcombe Alumni Center is built, Winthrop University will dedicate its current Office of Alumni Relations as "The Milton W. and Betty Morgan Holcombe Alumni Center." Mrs. Holcombe noted that she...
Addicted individuals are highly susceptible to relapse when exposed to drug-associated conditioned stimuli (CSs; "drug cues") even after extensive periods of abstinence. Until recently, these maladaptive emotional drug memories...
Fear is a highly adaptive emotion that has evolved to promote survival and reproductive fitness. However, maladaptive expression of fear can lead to debilitating stressor-related and anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic...
Disrupting reconsolidation of the maladaptive memories underlying PTSD could be transformative for treatment. However, patients cannot undergo the direct re-exposure to trauma-cues used to induce reconsolidation in animal...
In obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), functional behaviors such as checking that a door is locked become dysfunctional, maladaptive, and debilitating. However, it is currently unknown how aversive and appetitive motivations...
Energy-related carbon emissions from UK manufacturing have fallen, between 1990 and 2007, by approximately 2% per annum. This reduction could be caused by a number of effects that can act to increase or decrease the level of...
Extinction within the reconsolidation window, or 'retrieval-extinction', has received much research interest as a possible technique for targeting the reconsolidation of maladaptive memories with a behavioural intervention....
Once a Paisley, always an Ursinus Philosophy of the game Births Weddings In memoriam Class news Mabel Pew Myrin, Board member, benefactor, dies Century II Spring calendar Spiritual life conference here Soph aids ailing...
Fear is a highly adaptive emotion that has evolved to promote survival and reproductive fitness. However, maladaptive expression of fear can lead to debilitating stressor-related and anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic...
Working memory training improves children's cognitive performance on untrained tasks; however, little is known about the underlying neural mechanisms. This was investigated in 32 typically developing children aged 10-14 years...
Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disorder. The progression to pathological drug-seeking is thought to be driven by maladaptive learning processes which store and maintain associative memory, linking drug highs with cues and...