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Scientists at Newcastle University have shed new light on how the brain tunes in to relevant information. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-attention-focus.html Neuroscience Thu, 23 May 2013 09:45:15 EST news288521088 Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed a smart phone app that helps users lose weight by carefully recording their food consumption. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-smart-app-weight-loss.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 13 May 2013 10:51:39 EST news287661083 (HealthDay)—It's not how much time teens spend watching TV but how intensely they watch that adds on the pounds, new research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-teens-focus-tv-obesity.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:50:01 EST news284631717 paying attention to one's current experience in a non-judgmental way—might help us to learn more about our own personalities, according to a new article published in the March 2013 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-thyself-mindfulness-self-knowledge.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:10:59 EST news282496251 A new study from the University of Utah shows that individuals who describe themselves as being more mindful have more stable emotions and perceive themselves to have better control over their mood and behavior throughout the day. Higher mindful people also describe less cognitive and physiological activation before bedtime, suggesting that greater emotional stability during the day might even translate into better sleep. The study results will be presented later this month at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-mindfulness-traits-emotional-well-being.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:19:46 EST news281884777 Jack Andraka catapulted from being a typical US teenager unaware of the pancreas to one with a cheap way to detect cancer in the organ before it turns deadly. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-teenager-crafts-early-tool-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:58:15 EST news281249888 (HealthDay)—Many gay and bisexual teenagers are bullied in school, but the problem does ease substantially as they get older, a new study out of England suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-bullied-gay-kids.html Pediatrics Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:20:01 EST news279194362 Stroke patients who have difficulty paying attention to part of their visual field may perform better when offered a reward, a study by Imperial College London and Brunel University researchers has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-reward-visual-awareness-patients.html Neuroscience Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:29:32 EST news273158939 (Medical Xpress)—Physicians are less likely to trust the results of clinical trials when they know those trials were funded by pharmaceutical companies, regardless of the quality of the research, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-physicians-drugs-pharmaceutical-industry-funded-trials.html Medications Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:35:13 EST news268994102 (Medical Xpress)—One in 88 children has been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A new study by a University of Missouri researcher found that many children with ASD also experience anxiety, chronic gastrointestinal (GI) problems and atypical sensory responses, which are heightened reactions to light, sound or particular textures. These problems appear to be highly related and can have significant effects on children's daily lives, including their functioning at home and in school. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-children-autism-interrelated-health-issues.html Autism spectrum disorders Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:07:22 EST news267275232 (HealthDay)—Living without stress may seem nearly impossible these days. Technology beckons at all hours for you to read just one more tweet or text. Politics are polarizing. Costs are rising, but salaries not so much. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-mental-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:10:01 EST news266852809 Young children who are able to pay attention and persist on a task have a 50 percent greater chance of completing college, according to a new study at Oregon State University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-preschool-children-attention-finish-college.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:25:33 EST news263485470 USC researchers show that men and women focus on different things when paying attention and are drawn away by different types of distractions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hey-im-men-women-differently.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:00:29 EST news262965621 (Medical Xpress) -- Have you ever found yourself paying attention to the sound of your footsteps when walking down a quiet corridor? Or perhaps you enjoy creating rhythmic patterns by tapping on a surface? Almost every bodily movement we make generates an impact sound and a team of academics have been studying whether the perception of the physical dimensions of our body can be challenged by spatially altering the ‘action’ sounds we make. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-brain-body-differently.html Neuroscience Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:41:12 EST news261049253 A new study suggests clinicians might be able to identify children at risk of later emotional or behavioral problems by paying attention to a few key signs during early well-child check-ups.  Researchers found that boys with early sleep problems and girls with language and speech delays tended to have more emotional problems in adolescence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-future-emotional-problems-well-child.html Health Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:00:01 EST news254565172 The number of American children leaving doctors' offices with an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis has risen 66 percent in 10 years, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. Over this same timeframe, specialists, instead of primary care physicians, have begun treating an increasing number of these young patients, the study found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-diagnosis-adhd-million-american-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:48:32 EST news251380006 The eyes are the window into the soul -- or at least the mind, according to a new paper published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Measuring the diameter of the pupil, the part of the eye that changes size to let in more light, can show what a person is paying attention to. Pupillometry, as it's called, has been used in social psychology, clinical psychology, humans, animals, children, infants—and it should be used even more, the authors say. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-pupils-windows-mind.html Psychology & Psychiatry Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:19:28 EST news246953957 Paying attention to something and being aware of it seems like the same thing -they both involve somehow knowing the thing is there. However, a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that these are actually separate; your brain can pay attention to something without you being aware that it's there. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-attention-awareness-arent.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:20:06 EST news226584528 just as long as they are doing something. That's one of the findings summarized in a new review article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-rewards.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:07:17 EST news223301212 For drivers on a busy highway or workers in an airport control tower, paying attention to a number of moving objects can be a matter of life or death, but researchers know that most people can keep track of only four such items at the same time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-psychologist-ability.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:40:01 EST news223036163