Archive for the ‘Psychology / Psychiatry’ Category
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Edward Zigler, Yale University Sterling Professor of Psychology, Emeritus has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology. Zigler will receive this most prestigious honor from the APA in Boston on August 14th during the annual convention. "There ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Former child soldiers in Nepal are more than twice as likely to suffer from symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as Nepali children who experienced war trauma as civilians, according to a study led by Brandon Kohrt, an Emory University graduate student. It is the first published study ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Almost 100 percent of American Counseling Association (ACA) members who completed a Capella University survey on military mental health issues have taken action to increase their understanding of post-combat and re-entry issues of returning servicemembers. The results also indicated that ACA survey respondents feel better prepared to help post-combat servicemembers ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Like many medical conditions, early detection of psychiatric illness can be critical in stopping or slowing the disease's progression. Clinical researchers in the BIDMC Department of Psychiatry, including some based at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, have recently been awarded several grants to study individuals on the verge of ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
According to an article published in the August 13 issue of JAMA,Liberian fighters who experienced sexual violence during civil warswere more likely to report higher rates of depression symptoms,post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicidal thoughts comparedwith men and women non-combatants or former combatants who did notexperience sexual violence.Kirsten Johnson, M.D., ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
World leaders in the science of the mind gathered in Edinburgh recently for a pioneering conference on understanding the mystery of human consciousness.The conference was organised as part of the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES programme. The programme supports a multi-million Euro project designed to explore Consciousness in a Natural and ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The victory stance of a gold medalist and the slumped shoulders of a non-finalist are innate and biological rather than learned responses to success and failure, according to a University of British Columbia study using cross-cultural data gathered at the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games.In the first study of its ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Researchers using positron emission tomography (PET) have validated a long-held theory that individual personality traits-particularly reward dependency-are connected to brain chemistry, a finding that has implications for better understanding and treating substance abuse and other addictive behaviors. In a study to identify biochemical correlates of personality traits in healthy humans, ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
After returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan, youngerservice members and Reserve and National Guard combat personnel aremore likely to begin heavy drinking, binge drinking, or other alcoholrelated problems. These findings are reported in a study published inthe August 13 issue of JAMA.Previous studies have suggested a strong link between ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Cognitive behaviour therapy may fail if the client believes their therapist is responsible for the outcome. This is the finding of a study published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology. This study looked at the success rate of group cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for 49 individuals suffering from social ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
A study published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology adds weight to the theory that a child's reading ability is linked to their sensitivity to the rhythm of speech. Lead researcher Andrew Holliman from The Open University said: 'The link between children's reading ability and their ability to ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Psychotherapy remains a major component in the treatment of mental illness, the American Psychiatric Association stated. Many mental health problems can be resolved with psychotherapy alone, and psychotherapy is often a crucial component in the success of treatment with medication. A recently released study in the Archives of General Psychiatry ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Neither snap judgements nor sleeping on a problem are any better than conscious thinking for making complex decisions, according to new research. The finding debunks a controversial 2007 research result asserting that unconscious thought is superior for complex decisions, such as buying a house or car. If anything, the new ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
In the September edition of Legal and Criminological Psychology, Forensic Psychiatrist Professor Don Grubin and Professor Gershon Ben-Shakhar argue the cases for and against the use of polygraph testing of convicted sex offenders.Polygraph, or lie detector tests, monitor physiological responses such as heart rate. Individual's physiological responses to questions are ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Our visual memory is not as good as we may think, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust - but it can be used more flexibly than scientists previously thought. In a study(1) published today in the journal Science, researchers have shown how we remember what we see and ...
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