http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A combination of two tasks for implied sexual associations has distinguished – with more than 90 per cent certainty – a group of paedophilic men from a group of men with a sexual preference for adult women. In the long term this could lead to a diagnostic test, for example for men who have applied to work with children. Psychologists at Radboud University Nijmegen will publish their findings in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-paedophiles-accurately-implicit-association-tasks.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:49:17 EST news286130950 Caffeine perks up most coffee-lovers, but a new study shows a small dose of caffeine also increases their speed and accuracy for recognizing words with positive connotation. The research published November 7 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Lars Kuchinke and colleagues from Ruhr University, Germany, shows that caffeine enhances the neural processing of positive words, but not those with neutral or negative associations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-caffeine-recognition-positive-words.html Neuroscience Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:00:04 EST news271519669 When it comes to prevention of substance use in our tween population, turning our kids on to thought control may just be the answer to getting them to say no. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-tweens-cigarettes-alcohol.html Addiction Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:51:51 EST news250789901 Researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health along with Boston Medical Center have found children's academic achievement test scores not affected by intrauterine exposure to cocaine, tobacco or marijuana. However, alcohol exposure in children who had no evidence of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) did lead to lower scores in math reasoning and spelling even after controlling for other intrauterine substance exposures and contextual factors. These findings currently appear on-line in the journal of Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-intrauterine-exposure-drugs-affect-academic.html Health Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:54:29 EST news250170863 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers in the US have discovered that hearing gossip about a person literally changes the way you see them, and hearing negative information about people makes their faces stand out. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-gossip-purpose.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 20 May 2011 07:59:18 EST news225090364