http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. If designers want to develop effective products for children with autism, they first need to immerse themselves in the group they are targeting. This is the claim made by Helma van Rijn, who will be awarded her PhD for her thesis on this subject at TU Delft on Tuesday 18 September. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-five-step-approach-children-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:36:08 EST news275132160 There's no question that our ability to remember informs our sense of self. Now research published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, provides new evidence that the relationship may also work the other way around: Invoking our sense of self can influence what we are able to remember. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-self-imagination-memory-healthy-memory-impaired-individuals.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:50:21 EST news271522110 (Medical Xpress)—Pretend play can be fun for preschool children, but a new University of Virginia study, published in a recent online edition of the journal Psychological Bulletin, finds that it is not as crucial to a child's development as currently believed. Pretend play is any play a child engages in, alone, with playmates, or with adults, that involves uses of the imagination to create a fantasy world or situation, such as making toy cars go "vrrooooom" or making dolls talk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-crucial-child-believed.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:43:40 EST news265383809 Children today may be busier than ever, but Case Western Reserve University psychologists have found that their imagination hasn't suffered – in fact, it appears to have increased. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-children-decades.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 30 May 2012 12:41:10 EST news257600459 Parents who feel guilty about letting their young children watch too many fantasy movies on TV can relax. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-harry-potter-creativity-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:09:49 EST news251662182 (Medical Xpress) -- New research challenges the belief that psychopaths are born not made, and suggests psychopaths may even be able to change their spots. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-myths-psychopaths.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:15:54 EST news243497535 Imagining something with our mind's eye is a task we engage in frequently, whether we're daydreaming, conjuring up the face of a childhood friend, or trying to figure out exactly where we might have parked the car. But how can we tell whether our own mental images are accurate or vivid when we have no direct comparison? That is, how do we come to know and judge the contents of our own minds? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-perception_1.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:59:14 EST news227462337