http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from Stanford University (Medical Xpress)—Research by Stanford scholar Emma Seppala at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education found that post-traumatic stress disorder decreased in veterans who participated in a weeklong breathing, yoga and meditation workshop, and remained lower a year later. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-veterans-peace-war-scholar.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 24 May 2013 09:00:01 EST news288601473 (Medical Xpress)—Traditional methods of fMRI analysis systematically skew which regions of the brain appear to be activating, potentially invalidating hundreds of papers that use the technique. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-psychologists-uncover-brain-imaging-inaccuracies.html Neuroscience Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:34:04 EST news281954033 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers say how much risk you're willing to take in your investments may be linked to genetics. 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