http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Autism Speaks, the world's leading autism science and advocacy organization, today released An Introduction to Behavioral Health Treatments, Applied Behavior Analysis and Toilet Training parent's guides. These latest tool kits, all developed as part of the work of the Autism Treatment Network through its participation as the HRSA-funded Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P), are available for free download on Autism Speaks Tool Kits webpage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-autism-strategies-child-difficult-behaviors.html Autism spectrum disorders Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:26:14 EST news259503928 Working memory training is unlikely to be an effective treatment for children suffering from disorders such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity or dyslexia, according to a research analysis published by the American Psychological Association. In addition, memory training tasks appear to have limited effect on healthy adults and children looking to do better in school or improve their cognitive skills. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-memory-adhd-boosting-iq.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 31 May 2012 10:55:42 EST news257680534 (Medical Xpress) -- Once you pop the top of a tube of potato chips, it can be hard to stop munching its contents. But Cornell researchers may have found a novel way to help: Add edible serving size markers that act as subconscious stop signs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-edible-food-halt-overeating.html Health Tue, 15 May 2012 06:40:57 EST news256282850 A drug that has been shown to prevent HIV infection in a significant number of cases must be combined with behavioral approaches if the U.S. health care establishment is to succeed in reducing the spread of the virus, according to the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-hiv-behavioral-strategies-apa.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 14 May 2012 13:56:00 EST news256222504 In the eyes of young college men, it's more unethical to use steroids to get an edge in sports than it is to use prescription stimulants to enhance one's grades, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-college-men-steroids-game-ethical.html Addiction Tue, 08 May 2012 11:16:54 EST news255694588 Teaching students of all ages about the value of diversity and the serious mental health impacts of bias and stereotyping will help end widespread discrimination in the United States, according to a new American Psychological Association task force report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-apa-task-outlines-actions-discrimination.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:50:44 EST news252075036 Children may perform better in school and feel more confident about themselves if they are told that failure is a normal part of learning, rather than being pressured to succeed at all costs, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-academic-pressure-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:48:53 EST news250768124 The methods psychologists and other health-care providers are using to treat immigrants to the United States need to be better tailored to deal with their specific cultures and needs, according to a task force report released by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-mental-health-treatment-immigrants-retooling.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:27:38 EST news250345652 Men like to know when their wife or girlfriend is happy while women really want the man in their life to know when they are upset, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-women-happier-relationships-men-pain.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:49:38 EST news250170568 Employees on sick leave with common mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety fully returned to work sooner when therapy deals with work-related problems and how to get back on the job, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-work-focused-psychotherapy-employees-sooner.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:12:27 EST news249563511 Impulsive children with attention problems tend to play more video games, while kids in general who spend lots of time video gaming may also develop impulsivity and attention difficulties, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-impulsive-kids-video-games.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:28:50 EST news249215324 Young adult blacks, especially those with higher levels of education, are significantly less likely to seek mental health services than their white counterparts, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-blacks-higher-prior-treatment-mental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:51:31 EST news249133866 Teen victims of dating violence are overwhelmingly more likely to have been victims of other forms of violence, such as sexual violence and child abuse, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire Crimes Against Children Research Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-teen-date.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:04:14 EST news248353448 The American Psychological Association recently released a study reporting that one in five Americans is extremely stressed. We asked Erin Sharaf, a clinical instructor in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and a former primary-care provider, to expound on the concept of stress from a physiological perspective and what we can do to reduce stress in our own lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-3qs-mind.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:45:35 EST news247131925 Blogging may have psychological benefits for teens suffering from social anxiety, improving their self-esteem and helping them relate better to their friends, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-blogging-teens-social-distress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:47:14 EST news244900024 Mothers with jobs tend to be healthier and happier than moms who stay at home during their children's infancy and pre-school years, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-moms-stay-at-home.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:15:03 EST news242910891 Creative people are more likely to cheat than less creative people, possibly because this talent increases their ability to rationalize their actions, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-creative-thinkers.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:26:12 EST news241709160 The less people know about important complex issues such as the economy, energy consumption and the environment, the more they want to avoid becoming well-informed, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-bliss-social-issues.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:43:02 EST news241112569 For black American adults, perceived racism may cause mental health symptoms similar to trauma and could lead to some physical health disparities between blacks and other populations in the United States, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-racism-impact-black-americans-mental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:42:26 EST news240662538 According to a new study by researchers from the MPI for Psycholinguistics and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, you don't need to have words for emotions to understand them. The results of the study were published online on October 17 in Emotion, a journal of the American Psychological Association. The study provides new evidence that the perception of emotional signals is not driven by language, supporting the view that emotions constitute a set of biologically evolved mechanisms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-emotions-language.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:57:42 EST news239450216 Being reminded of the concept of God can decrease people's motivation to pursue personal goals but can help them resist temptation, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-belief-god-ways.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:07:05 EST news238939614 In a recent study conducted by scientists at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions involving 154 heavy-drinking college students whose sexual behavior put them at risk for HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), there were two expected findings and one surprise. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-ways-college-risky-sex.html Addiction Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:00:01 EST news238406392 Could a passing mood influence your financial portfolio for decades to come? Can impulses you inherited from your cave-man ancestors influence your financial decisions in the modern world in ways that may have lifelong consequences? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-mood-profoundly-rational-decisions.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:02:47 EST news238323752 People who try to boost their self-esteem by telling themselves they've done a great job when they haven't could end up feeling dejected instead, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-undeserved-self-praise-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:39:38 EST news238239564 A new study is the first to examine the effectiveness of a widely used counseling approach to treating substance abuse among African-Americans. The study found that African-American women were more likely than men to continue a counseling approach to treating substance abuse, but their substance-abuse issues continued. The study led by LaTrice Montgomery, a doctoral student in the University of Cincinnati Department of Psychology, is published this month in "Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology," a journal of the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-approaches-substance-abuse-african-americans.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:06:01 EST news238079154 Children as young as 3 are likely to say that things made by humans have owners, but that natural objects, such as pine cones and sea shells, are not owned, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-children-human-made-natural.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:45:26 EST news237116697 Directly advertising food items to children worries many parents and health care providers, and the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association have expressed concern about the negative impact of advertising on children's healthy food choices. A new study soon to be published in The Journal of Pediatrics explores the relationship between fast food advertisements, parental influence, and the food choices made by children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-children-food-choices-affected-advertising.html Health Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:41:07 EST news237091254 Michael Jordan, Lady Gaga and Angelina Jolie. Most people can probably name some award-winning athletes, musicians, and actors. But, if you were asked to name the winners of last year's Nobel Prizes in Economics, Physics, or Literature, could you do it? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-rethinking-gifted-policy-action.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:54:42 EST news235914485 Stereotypes suggest women are more cooperative than men, but an analysis of 50 years of research shows that men are equally cooperative, particularly in situations involving a dilemma that pits the interests of an individual against the interests of a group. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-men-women-cooperate-equally-common.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:03:56 EST news235904597 Intuition may lead people toward a belief in the divine and help explain why some people have more faith in God than others, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-intuitive-belief-god.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:26:46 EST news235740388