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Very Sugary Diet Makes You Stupid
As we near the final year exams for schools and universities, students should be wary of powering up on buckets of soda and pocketfuls of candy bars. A UCLA study on rats suggests that fructose slows down the brain and memory functions. Too much sweetness can also prevent learning. The findings are published in Journal of Physiology and also show omega-3 fatty acids helping to negate the effect...
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05/17/2012 06:00 PM
Resiliency During Early Years Can Protect Against Later Alcohol/Drug Use
Resiliency is a measure of a person's ability to flexibly adapt their behaviors to fit the surroundings in which they find themselves. Low resiliency during childhood has been linked to later alcohol/drug problems during the teenage years...
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05/17/2012 10:00 AM
Women Seen As Objects, Not People In Sexualized Images
Perfume ads, beer billboards, movie posters: everywhere you look, women's sexualized bodies are on display. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that both men and women see images of sexy women's bodies as objects, while they see sexy-looking men as people...
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05/17/2012 10:00 AM
Religion Replenishes Self-Control
There are many theories about why religion exists, most of them unproven. Now, in an article published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologist Kevin Rounding of Queen's University, Ontario, offers a new idea, and some preliminary evidence to back it up...
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05/16/2012 10:00 AM
Study Suggests Nature Walks Improve Cognitive Abilities For People With Clinical Depression
A walk in the park may have psychological benefits for people suffering from depression. In one of the first studies to examine the effect of nature walks on cognition and mood in people with major depression, researchers in Canada and the U.S. have found promising evidence that a walk in the park may provide some cognitive benefits...
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05/15/2012 02:00 PM
The Brain's Neuronal Circuit Excitability May Be Altered By Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Lead To Brain Network Dysfunction
Even mild head injuries can cause significant abnormalities in brain function that last for several days, which may explain the neurological symptoms experienced by some individuals who have experienced a head injury associated with sports, accidents or combat, according to a study by Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers...
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05/14/2012 11:00 AM
New Genetic Findings: Gifts Of The MAGI In Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder
These findings are not about the classic story of gift-giving, although the MAGI genes (officially named membrane associated guanylate kinase, WW and PDZ domain containing proteins) do influence brain function in important ways. MAGI1 and MAGI2 are genes that code for the MAGI proteins...
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05/14/2012 10:00 AM
New Study Finds Military Marriages Are Not More Vulnerable To Divorce
Despite the fact that military service means working long hours with unpredictable schedules, frequent relocations, and separations from loved ones due to deployment, a new study published in the Journal of Family Issues (a SAGE journal) finds that marriages of military members are not more vulnerable than civilian marriages...
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05/14/2012 10:00 AM
Neurotranmitters Identified That Lead To Forgetting
While we often think of memory as a way of preserving the essential idea of who we are, little thought is given to the importance of forgetting to our wellbeing, whether what we forget belongs in the "horrible memories department" or just reflects the minutia of day-to-day living...
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05/11/2012 11:00 AM
Study Identifies Five Factors That Promote A Positive Body Image In Women
Women with high family support and limited pressure to achieve the 'thin and beautiful' ideal have a more positive body image. That's according to a new study looking at five factors that may help young women to be more positive about their bodies, in the context of a society where discontent with appearance is common among women. The work by Dr...
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05/11/2012 10:00 AM
Facebook Addiction - New Psychological Scale
Researchers in Norway have published a new psychological scale to measure Facebook addiction, the first of its kind worldwide. They write about their work in the April 2012 issue of the journal Psychological Reports. They hope that researchers will find the new psychometric tool useful in investigating problem behavior linked to Facebook use...
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05/11/2012 10:00 AM
Another Facet Of War: Ex Armed Forces Service Personnel In Prison
Dr James Treadwell from the Department of Criminology at the University of Leicester presented his research before his peers at a research seminar, announcing his findings on why ex-armed forces personnel end up in prison The seminar will draw on 29 interviews with serving male prisoners, who were previously employed in HM armed forces undertaken in three prisons in England in late 2010...
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05/10/2012 11:00 AM
Bilingual Study Reveals How Emotion Can Shut Down High-Level Mental Processes Without Our Knowledge
Psychologists at Bangor University believe that they have glimpsed for the first time, a process that takes place deep within our unconscious brain, where primal reactions interact with higher mental processes. Writing in the Journal of Neuroscience (May 9, 2012 - 32(19):6485 - 6489 - 6485), they identify a reaction to negative language inputs which shuts down unconscious processing...
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05/10/2012 10:00 AM
Brain Networks May Help Prevent Traffic Jams
According to a study published May 6 in Nature Neuroscience, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the University Medical Center at Hamburg-Eppendorf and the University of Tübingen have found that networks in the brain may avoid congestion at their busiest intersections by communicating on different frequencies. Co-author Maurizio Corbetta, M.D...
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05/09/2012 08:00 PM
Depression - How Effective Is Collaborative Care Intervention?
A study published in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, reveals that individuals with depression and poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, or both, can benefit from a collaborative care intervention...
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05/09/2012 07:00 PM
After ICD implants, Heart Patients With A Distressed Personality Reported Worse Health
People with a distressed (Type D) personality reported worse health than other patients after having devices implanted to ensure proper heart rhythm, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal...
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05/09/2012 12:00 PM
Patients Benefit From Brief Training Program To Improve Resident Physicians' Empathy
Resident physicians' participation in a brief training program designed to increase empathy with their patients produced significant improvement in how patients perceived their interactions with the residents. This contrasts with several studies showing that empathy with patients usually drops during medical school and residency training...
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05/09/2012 11:00 AM
Facebook Addiction - New Research
The use of Facebook has increased rapidly. We are dealing with a subdivision of Internet addiction connected to social media, Doctor of Psychology Cecilie Schou Andreassen says about the study, which is the first of its kind worldwide. Andreassen heads the research project 'Facebook Addiction' at the University of Bergen (UiB)...
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05/09/2012 10:00 AM
Purpose In Life May Protect Against Harmful Changes In The Brain Associated With Alzheimer's Disease
Greater purpose in life may help stave off the harmful effects of plaques and tangles associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center. The study, published in the May issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, is available online...
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05/09/2012 10:00 AM
Identifying With A Fictional Character Can Affect Your Real Life
When you "lose yourself" inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior and thoughts to match that of the character, a new study suggests...
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05/09/2012 10:00 AM
Researcher Devlops Happiness Model To Help People Go From Good To Great
The sayings "variety is the spice of life" and "happiness isn't getting what you want, but wanting what you get" seem to have a psychological basis, according to a new study by an MU psychologist who identified two keys to becoming happier and staying that way...
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05/09/2012 10:00 AM
Depressed Patients Should Be Regularly Assessed For Suicide Risk
After receiving a small number of complaints that criticized GPs for failing to appreciate that a patient represented a suicide risk, GPs are being advised to ensure they regularly assess patients with depression for risk of suicide...
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05/08/2012 09:00 PM
News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: May 8, 2012, Online
1. Evidence Review: Screening Women for Intimate Partner Violence May Have Benefits, Few Harms Intimate partner violence, or IPV, includes a range of abusive behaviors perpetrated by someone who is in an intimate relationship with the victim...
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05/08/2012 01:00 PM
Against The Odds: Overcoming A Learning Disability Will Make A Physician-In-Training A Better Doctor
Overcoming a learning disability to become a physician will actually help in being compassionate toward patients, writes a medical student of his struggle with a severe reading disability in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)...
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