Scientists study the mediating role of ‘FoMO’ given the trend towards ‘problematic smartphone use’ among adolescents

Researcher at the Department of Social Psychology of the University of Malaga Christiane Arrivillaga has participated in an international study conducted at the University of Toledo that aims to analyze how emotion dysregulation and FoMO—that is, the fear of missing out—together with a need to stay online to know what other people are doing, serve as factors to predict the possible problematic smartphone use among young people.

Openseize: A novel open-source software to analyze large-scale digital signals

Electroencephalography (EEG) is an indispensable tool used by clinicians to diagnose neurological diseases and by researchers to study and discover brain circuit mechanisms that support sensory, mnemonic, and cognitive processing. A new software—Openseize—created by Dr. Matthew Caudill, an investigator at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, can now analyze massive amounts of one-dimensional digital signals including huge EEG datasets. The study was published in the Journal for Open Source Software.