Other study participants described experiences of physical neglect, household drug abuse, exposure to violence at home and in their communities and other adverse experiences in childhood.
For example, Mel Slater of the University of Barcelona, Spain, and University College London, has used IVR to recreate some of psychology's most controversial experiments, including the 1960s obedience experiments by Stanley Milgram in which participants were instructed by an authority to administer what they believed were real electric shocks to
other study participants.
Those who had attempted suicide before 24 were 2.5 times more likely to be convicted of a violent crime, consumed twice as much welfare support and were unemployed for twice as many months at
the other study participants.
Women diagnosed with PCOS were hospitalized more often for mental health disorders such as depression, stress and anxiety than
other study participants.
Seventeen of the subjects in Bertolino's pool carried the SNPs on a single allele and showed increased activity in their striata and prefrontal cortices during the mental exercises, yet performed worse on the memory tests and had less attention control than
the other study participants.
In a recent study in the journal Brain, young to middle - aged adults who'd had at least one concussion and had genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's had less gray matter in parts of the brain associated with dementia, compared to
other study participants.
(People with more education and people who were married had lower rates of MCI than
the other study participants — a pattern that has been observed in previous studies.)