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Parental Conflict Produces More Than Fleeting Distress for Children
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Feb 10 06
Six-year-olds whose parents displayed frequent disagreements in their relationship responded to subsequent parental conflicts with elevated distress and negative thoughts, according to a team…
Study looks at placebo effect
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Feb 03 06
The debate about the existence of a placebo effect has heated up over the past year as more and more lab experiments are detecting…
Anger may set the stage for injury
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Feb 01 06
Anger appears to raise the risk of suffering an injury, particularly for men, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that among more than 2,000…
Sex calms nerves before public speaking
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jan 25 06
Forget pretending you are talking to one person or concentrating on a single point in the audience - having sex is good way to…
The sweet answer to a poor memory
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jan 16 06
Sweet tooth types out there will be delighted to learn that those sweet and sugary drinks may improve the memory.
Research has apparently shown…
British research says daughters turn parents to left, sons to right
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jan 10 06
New research by economists Professor Andrew Oswald at the University of Warwick, and Dr Nattavudh Powdthavee at London University’s Institute of Education, reveals that…
Soaps Paint Far Too Rosy a Picture of Coma
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Dec 23 05
American soap operas paint an improbably rosy picture of coma patients’ survival and recovery, says a study in this week’s BMJ, with potentially important…
Be happy and you’ll be more successful
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Dec 20 05
Research from the U.S., says that being a ‘happy chappie’ is as effective as talent, hard work and commitment in helping people reach the…
Stress increases alcoholism
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Dec 13 05
A number of sociocultural studies indicate that stress may increase the risk of alcoholism. In other words, an individual’s ability to cope with stressful…
Schizotypy, creativity and mating success in humans
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Dec 04 05
The more creative a person is, the more sexual partners they are likely to have, according to a pioneering study which could explain the…
ADHD Researcher Helping Japan Implement Programs
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Nov 29 05
A leading ADHD researcher from the University at Buffalo is consulting with mental-health experts and physicians in Japan who are developing the first programs…
Are Pets Good for You?
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Nov 25 05
Owning a pet is linked to health and wellbeing, particularly for older people and patients recovering from major illness, say researchers in this week’s…
Statin drug reverses learning and attention deficits in a mouse model of the genetic disorder Neurof
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Nov 08 05
This week, researchers report evidence that a statin drug already shown to be safe for use in humans has proven effective at correcting cell-cell…
Antipsychotics for dementia may raise death risk
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 19 05
Atypical antipsychotic drugs used to treat Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia for relatively brief periods, less than 8 to 12…
Dementia cases set to triple by 2055
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 19 05
A report by the New South Wales Government and Alzheimer’s Australia predicts the number of people with dementia in the state will…
Eight percent of US kids have ADHD
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 02 05
Just under 8 percent of U.S. children ages 4 to 17 had ever been diagnosed with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in 2003,…
Response to ADHD drugs may depend on gene
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Aug 23 05
Variations in a gene linked to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may help determine how well a child responds to the stimulant medications…
Doubt a man’s masculinity and he’ll get macho
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Aug 11 05
Tell a man that he’s not “man enough” and he may exhibit extremely macho behavior to compensate, new study findings suggest.
“In general, men…
Study questions extent of autism in the U.S.
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Aug 08 05
Government figures that have been cited to prove that autism is rapidly increasing in the United States are not reliable and thus…
Schizophrenia risk rises for babies born in famine
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Aug 02 05
Children born during China’s 1959-61 famine were twice as likely to develop schizophrenia, confirming a link between nutritional deficiency and the mental…
Italians ‘bribe’ sons to stay home into their 30s
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 29 05
More than 80 percent of Italian men aged between 18 and 30 still live with their parents and a new study says it is…
More than three-quarters of docs believe in God
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 24 05
The majority of doctors believe in God and attend religious services, and more than half say their religious beliefs affect how they practice medicine,…
A good night’s sleep may be good for memory
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 14 05
Our bodies may be at rest while we sleep, but new research finds more evidence that our brains are hard at work as we…
Cynicism starts at a tender age
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 08 05
Young children may believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, but they are more savvy than many adults may think, according to a…
Teens who experience violence likely to be violent
• Psychiatry / Psychology • May 26 05
New study findings provide scientific proof for what some have already deduced: teens exposed to violence are more likely than their peers to…