Archive for the ‘Psychology / Psychiatry’ Category
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Volunteers who take part in conservation efforts may do it more for themselves than the wildlife they are trying to protect, a University of Alberta case study shows. A study of purple martin landlords-those who keep and monitor special birdhouses on their land-revealed that they were more motivated to take ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
August can be a stressful time for teens and tweens, as they prepare to face another school year - and with it, new social and academic pressures. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America recently released a survey showing that the number one reason for teenage drug and alcohol abuse ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
No one likes to be excluded from a group: exclusion can decrease mood, reduce self-esteem and feelings of belonging, and even ultimately lead to negative behavior (e.g., the shootings at Virginia Tech). As a result, we often try to fit in with others in both conscious and automatic ways. Psychologists ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Want to go to the gym but never even set off? The best first step might be to close your eyes and imagine yourself on the journey. A new study, published today (4 August 2008) in the British Journal of Health Psychology, found that people who visualised themselves going through ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Church leaders have joined campaigns group Black Mental Health UK in welcoming the findings of the Human Genetics Commission (HGC) Citizens' Inquiry into DNA database calling for the removal of all innocent DNA from the criminal database and for an independent body to replace the Home Office and Police as ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Those who know someone who died in the Iraq War or 9/11 terrorist attacks are less likely to approve of President Bush's performance in office than people who have no such connections, according to new research from the University of California, Davis. The pattern holds true for Republicans as well ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Less able to achieve their life goals, women end up unhappier than men later in life - even though they start out happier, reveals new research by Anke Plagnol of the University of Cambridge, and University of Southern California economist Richard Easterlin.Plagnol and Easterlin's study, forthcoming in the Journal of ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Parents of children who self-harm often become aware of the problem long before school or NHS services are involved, prompting experts to call for greater support to help parents understand and cope with self-harm. Approximately 170,000 adolescents receive hospital treatment for self-harm annually in the UK. However, studies suggest ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
A new study published in the August issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry concludes that the quality of antipsychotic prescribing is no worse for black patients than for white patients. In the past, there have been suggestions of institutional racism in UK mental health services. Several studies, mainly American, ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
The bright yellow dot on the computer screen is stationary as the blue shapes in the background swirl around it. As the viewer continues to stare at the center of the screen, the yellow dot appears to vanish. In a study published online Sunday in the journal Psychological Science, Yale ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Parents of children who self-harm often become aware of the problem long before school or NHS services are involved, prompting experts to call for greater support to help parents understand and cope with self-harm. Approximately 170,000 adolescents receive hospital treatment for self-harm annually in the UK. However, studies suggest ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
A new study published in the August issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry concludes that the quality of antipsychotic prescribing is no worse for black patients than for white patients. In the past, there have been suggestions of institutional racism in UK mental health services. Several studies, mainly American, ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Alzheimer's disease is the end result of gradual, progressive brain aging. Positron emission technology (PET) scans of patients' brains typically reveal a decreased rate of metabolism, a hallmark of the disorder.A small sample of adults with mild age-related memory loss was randomly assigned a daily placebo or Aricept, a drug ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
A maternal history of Alzheimer's disease appears to predispose individuals to the mind-robbing disease because their brains aren't using glucose efficiently, according to new findings presented at the Alzheimer's Association 2008 International Alzheimer's Disease Conference held in Chicago.The new findings by a group led by Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D., research assistant ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
The Australian Psychological Society heartily congratulates the Rudd Government, and Senator Chris Evans, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, for their review of the way Australia has been treating asylum seekers. The APS supports the humane decision to limit detention to the small number of people who pose a risk to ...
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