http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Mothers who have experienced childhood abuse, neglect or other traumatic experiences show an unwillingness to talk with their children about the child's emotional experiences, a new study from the University of Notre Dame shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-traumatized-moms-tough-kids.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 06 May 2013 07:18:20 EST news287043493 Our emotional responses to the stresses of daily life may predict our long-term mental health, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-negative-emotions-response-daily-stress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:17:10 EST news284138214 The act of talking is not an area where ability is usually considered along gender lines. However, a new study published in Springer's journal Sex Roles has found subtle differences between the sexes in their story-relating ability and specifically the act of reminiscing. The research by Widaad Zaman from the University of Central Florida and her colleague Robyn Fivush from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, discusses how these gender differences in parents can affect children's emotional development. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-tales-good.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:20:01 EST news283601208 Will you save the best chocolate in the box until last? Do you want the good news first or the bad? Your preferences may depend on your age, reports a Cornell study published in Psychology and Aging. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-age.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:10:01 EST news280057120 (Medical Xpress)—When modern-day crooner Trey Songz sings, "Cause girl, my heart beats for you," in his romantic ballad, "Flatline," his lyrics could be telling a tale that's as much physiological as it is emotional, according to a University of California, Davis, study that found lovers' hearts indeed beat for each other, or at least at the same rate. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-lovers-hearts-sync.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:30:29 EST news279786615 Originally, the label "borderline personality disorder" was applied to patients who were thought to represent a middle ground between patients with neurotic and psychotic disorders. Increasingly, though, this area of research has focused on the heightened emotional reactivity observed in patients carrying this diagnosis, as well as the high rates with which they also meet diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder and mood disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-borderline-personality-disorder-storm-emotion.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:02:25 EST news277462886 We humans have a fairly erratic sense of time. We tend to misjudge the duration of events, particularly when they are emotional in nature. Disturbingly negative experiences, for example, seem to last much longer than they actually do. And highly positive experiences seem to pass more quickly than negative ones. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-illusory-emotion-driven-distortions.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:00:05 EST news270304400 (Medical Xpress)—Clinically depressed people have a hard time telling the difference between negative emotions such as anger and guilt, a new University of Michigan study found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-angry-sad-ashamed-depressed-people.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:10:46 EST news269075439 How would you respond if someone told you that you have a very dedicated son and that he got the scholarship he most wished? Or that the company you worked for made great profits and you will receive a good salary raise? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-neural-signature-affiliative-human-brain.html Neuroscience Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:20:01 EST news265972354 (Medical Xpress) -- As children with autism spectrum disorder transition into adolescence, how mothers perceive the impact of their child on their lives is influenced by ethnicity and education levels, a new University of Michigan study found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-affect-mothers-perceptions-child-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:21:02 EST news261807654 (Medical Xpress) -- A team of Swiss and German researchers has found that a certain gene allele can be linked to increased emotional memory retention and because of that appears to be a factor in people who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The team, as they describe in their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, conducted emotional memory tests on a large random group of people and then again on a sample of people in a Rwandan refugee camp who had survived atrocities committed during the genocide that occurred there in 1994, and found a common genetic link between emotional memory retention and the likelihood of developing PTSD after experiencing a traumatic event. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-genetic-link-ptsd.html Genetics Tue, 15 May 2012 06:34:30 EST news256282444 They say time heals all wounds, and new research from the University of California, Berkeley, indicates that time spent in dream sleep can help. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-painful-memories.html Medical research Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:30:04 EST news241273790 (PhysOrg.com) -- Fear burns memories into our brain, and new research by University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists explains how. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-boosts-young-immature-brain-cells.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:26:11 EST news227273147