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Psychology & Psychiatry

Video gamers really do see more, research says

Hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a player's hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, according to Duke University ...

Jun 11, 2013
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Perfect pitch may not be absolute after all

People who think they have perfect pitch may not be as in tune as they think, according to a new University of Chicago study in which people failed to notice a gradual change in pitch while listening to music.

Jun 11, 2013
popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast
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Study uncovers why women remember events better

(Medical Xpress)—Gender plays a strong role in how people remember, a new Cornell study confirms. Research – and many tales from real life – report that women are typically better at remembering past events than men. ...

Jun 11, 2013
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Posttraumatic stress disorder treatment: Genetic predictor of response to exposure therapy

There is growing evidence that a gene variant that reduces the plasticity of the nervous system also modulates responses to treatments for mood and anxiety disorders. In this case, patients with posttraumatic stress disorder, ...

Jun 11, 2013
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Survivors of intimate partner violence not getting adequate mental health services

Although many abused women suffer from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and/or depression, they are not receiving needed mental health services, a University of Missouri researcher found.

Jun 10, 2013
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Reduced brain volume in kids with low birth-weight tied to academic struggles

An analysis of recent data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of 97 adolescents who were part of study begun with very low birth weight babies born in 1982-1986 in a Cleveland neonatal intensive care unit ...

Jun 10, 2013
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A rather complex complex: Brain scans reveal internal conflict during Jung's word association test

Over 100 years ago psychologist Carl Gustav Jung penned his theory of 'complexes' where he explained how unconscious psychological issues can be triggered by people, events, or Jung believed, through word association tests.

Jun 10, 2013
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People are overly confident in their own knowledge, despite errors

Overprecision—excessive confidence in the accuracy of our beliefs—can have profound consequences, inflating investors' valuation of their investments, leading physicians to gravitate too quickly to a diagnosis, even making ...

Jun 10, 2013
popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast
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Treatment of mental illness lowers arrest rates, saves money

Research from North Carolina State University, the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) and the University of South Florida shows that outpatient treatment of mental illness significantly reduces arrest rates for people with ...

Jun 10, 2013
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Do antidepressants impair the ability to extinguish fear?

An interesting new report of animal research published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that common antidepressant medications may impair a form of learning that is important clinically.

Jun 10, 2013
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You've had an out-of-body experience, but what kind?

Have you ever felt as though your sense of awareness was outside of your physical body? That you were looking back at yourself from another place in the same room? If so, you've probably had an out-of-body ...

Jun 10, 2013
popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0
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Suicide risk factors mapped in Swedish national study

The study, a collaboration between Lund University in Sweden and Stanford University, showed that the rate of suicide among men is almost three times that of women. Being young, single and having a low level of education ...

Jun 10, 2013
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Computer games may help forensic psychiatry patients

Brain-training computer games may help restore memory and competency to forensic psychiatry patients in state mental hospitals, researchers say.

Jun 07, 2013
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How similar are the gestures of apes and human infants? More than you might suspect

Psychologists who analyzed video of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant in a study to compare different types of gestures at comparable stages of communicative development found ...

Jun 06, 2013
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A way of thinking may enable battle but prevent war crimes

Combat troops must minimize the humanness of their enemies in order to kill them. They can't be effective fighters if they're distracted by feelings of empathy for opponents. But indifference to the enemy, rather than loathing, ...

Jun 06, 2013
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