http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Turns out the trope is true: You should trust your gut—as long as you're an expert. So says a new study from researchers at Rice University, George Mason University and Boston College. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-decision-making-worth-gut.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:47:34 EST news274722435 (HealthDay)—There is a significant difference in the brain's response to stress among patients with epilepsy who believe stress is an important factor in seizure control compared to those who do not, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, held from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 in San Diego. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-aes-brain-stress-response-differs.html Neuroscience Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:20:03 EST news273861547 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Hebrew University in Jerusalem have found that contrary to popular thinking, people are capable of reading sentences and solving math problems without consciously thinking about them. The team describes their experiments and results in testing such abilities in their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-people-capable-math-equations-subconsciously.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:50:02 EST news272017529 A century and a half ago, French physician Pierre Paul Broca found that patients with damage to part of the brain's frontal lobe were unable to speak more than a few words. Later dubbed Broca's area, this region is believed to be critical for speech production and some aspects of language comprehension. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-neuroscientists-broca-area-subunits-function.html Neuroscience Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:40:53 EST news269592007 Children who are skilled in understanding how shapes fit together to make recognizable objects also have an advantage when it comes to learning the number line and solving math problems, research at the University of Chicago shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-early-spatial-relationships-boosts.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:28:58 EST news258802126 In a discovery that could help instructors better teach deaf children, a team of University of Chicago researchers has found that a gesture-sign mismatch made while explaining a math problem suggests that a deaf child is experiencing a teachable moment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-deaf-children-gesture-mismatches-clues.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:49:55 EST news252841708 Willing to risk your knowledge, skills and monetary reward in competition? If you are under age 50, you've probably not reached your competitive peak. If you are older, that peak is behind you. That people are willing to engage in risk at 50 surprised University of Oregon economists and psychologists who explored such behavior in their research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-risk-taking-behavior-age.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:52:01 EST news240151898 Using brain-imaging technology for the first time with people experiencing mathematics anxiety, University of Chicago scientists have gained new insights into how some students are able to overcome their fears and succeed in math. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-brain-reveals-successful-students-math.html Neuroscience Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:02:42 EST news238294951 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 Fatigue can lead to dangerous errors by doctors, pilots and others in high-risk professions, but individuals who work together as a team display better problem-solving skills than those who face their fatigue alone, new research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-effects-fatigue.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:36:01 EST news232799752 Laptops, cellphones, smartphones, tablets. It's becoming an e-world when it comes to messaging, but a Kansas State University education expert says that doesn't mean it's time to put a period to handwriting. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-penmanship-important-skill-kids.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:20:04 EST news231760064