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Amazonian Soils Mapped Using Indicator Species

17.04.2019

Understanding the ecology and distributions of species in Amazonia is hampered by lack of information about environmental conditions, such as soils. Plant occurrence data are typically more abundant than soil samples in poorly known areas, and researchers from Finland and Brazil have now developed a method that uses both plant and soil data to produce a map of soil properties.

Study Reveals Brain Marker for Angry Dreams

16.04.2019

Researchers have identified a pattern of brain activity that reflects anger experienced during dreaming according to a new study carried out on healthy adults and published in The Journal of Neuroscience. The study helps to clarify the neural basis of dream emotions.

Web-based Parent Training Intervention for Childhood Disruptive Behaviour Successful in Primary Health Care

12.04.2019

A programme developed for the early detection of children’s disruptive behaviour and low-threshold digital parent training intervention was successfully transferred to child health clinics in primary health care, shows a new Finnish study. In addition, the programme’s low discontinuation rate implies that parents experienced digitally implemented intervention as both user-friendly and easily accessible.

Sex Differences in Personality Traits in Asian Elephants

11.03.2019

Scientists from the University of Turku, Finland, have found that male and female Asian elephants differ in their personality. Previous work on a timber elephant population from Myanmar has shown that Asian elephants have three personality factors: Attentiveness, Sociability and Aggressiveness. The new study demonstrates that male elephants score higher on the Aggressiveness trait than females, whereas female elephants score higher on the Sociability trait than males.

University of Turku Celebrates 99th Anniversary

04.03.2019

The University of Turku had its 99th Anniversary Celebration on 28 February. At the event, Editor-in-chief Ville Pernaa was awarded as the Alumni of the Year. In addition, Rector Kalervo Väänänen highlighted the autonomy of academic education and degree system in his speech.

Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy Increases Risk of ADHD among Offspring up to 3-fold

26.02.2019

The higher the cotinine levels were in the mother’s blood during pregnancy, the greater was the child’s risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) later in life, showed an epidemiological study conducted by the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku. Globally, it is the first study in which the connection between fetal nicotine exposure and diagnosis of ADHD was shown by measuring cotinine levels from pregnant maternal serum specimens.