http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from University of Nottingham (Medical Xpress)—University of Nottingham researchers have developed a new predictive tool to help GPs identify and treat patients at risk of stroke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-qresearch-tool-treatment.html Cardiology Thu, 16 May 2013 07:10:01 EST news287906067 New research at The University of Nottingham is calling for changes to a government scheme which engages community nurses in the prevention of child abuse and neglect in the home as part of a maternal and child health care programme. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-child-abuse.html Health Tue, 14 May 2013 12:47:12 EST news287754424 (Medical Xpress)—Toddlers living in socially-deprived areas are at the greatest risk of suffering a scald in the home, researchers at The University of Nottingham have found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-toddlers-socially-deprived-homes-scalds.html Health Thu, 09 May 2013 05:54:58 EST news287297690 An innovative study led by The University of Nottingham is to investigate whether arts and humanities can help improve the mental health and well-being of patients and carers alike. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-humanity-healthcare.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 08 May 2013 08:30:02 EST news287219504 The University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, have been working with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) to develop special 3-D glasses and games to help treat children suffering from Lazy Eye. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-university-partners-sony-lazy-eye.html Ophthalmology Wed, 08 May 2013 07:50:03 EST news287216164 Researchers at The University of Nottingham have examined why large numbers of children and young people sometimes don't take their medication, despite suffering from a range of chronic and potentially life-threatening illnesses. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-meds-involving-young-patients-treatment.html Health Wed, 08 May 2013 07:16:34 EST news287216182 (Medical Xpress)—We can often predict what people are going to do. But is it possible to guess what it was that made them do it? Guessing what provoked a reaction by simply observing a brief sample of behaviour is something psychologists at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) believe we can do—by using much the same mentalising processes that we use to predict someone's future behaviour. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-can-you-guess-what-happened.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:14:37 EST news285923667 Playing simple games using words and pictures can help people to learn a new language with greater ease, researchers from The University of Nottingham have shown. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-fun-language-academics-reveal.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:57:49 EST news285328664 Mimicking the behaviour of mum and dad has long been considered a vital way in which children learn about the world around them. Now psychologists at The University of Nottingham have shown that copying unnecessary behaviour is more likely to be a social phenomenon than part of the practical process of acquiring new skills. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-social-phenomenon-scientists.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:00:01 EST news284638543 (Medical Xpress)—Controlling the symptoms of schizophrenia is the job of antipsychotic drugs which block a set of specific neural signals. But the way these drugs work can lead to a host of severe and debilitating long-term motor side-effects. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-schizophrenia-treatments.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:12:35 EST news284361137 Women who have suffered a still birth or have medical conditions including varicose veins, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or heart disease are at greater risk of developing dangerous blood clots after giving birth, a study has revealed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-reveals-factors-blood-clots-pregnant.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:00:01 EST news284114097 The stick can work just as well as the carrot in improving our performance, a team of academics at The University of Nottingham has found. A study led by researchers from the University's School of Psychology, published recently in the Journal of Neuroscience, has shown that punishment can act as a performance enhancer in a similar way to monetary reward. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-academics.html Neuroscience Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:51:47 EST news282397900 Enriching crops by adding a naturally-occurring soil mineral to fertilisers could potentially help to reduce disease and premature death in the African country of Malawi, researchers have said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-fertilisers-tackle-nutritional-deficiency-african.html Health Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:50:01 EST news282292765 (Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers is to examine whether learning about injury prevention in school really can help to prevent a distressing trip to the A&E department for children and their parents. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-injury-schools.html Health Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:19:30 EST news281085559 Technology developed at The University of Nottingham has been used in a breakthrough study aimed at developing the first comprehensive model of a fully functioning fetal heart. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-fetal-heart-ecg-device-breakthrough.html Cardiology Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:51:17 EST news280741868