http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—College-aged women judge promiscuous female peers – defined as bedding 20 sexual partners by their early 20s – more negatively than more chaste women and view them as unsuitable for friendship, finds a study by Cornell developmental psychologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-women-promiscuous-female-peers-friends.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 31 May 2013 07:29:43 EST news289204009 (Medical Xpress)—A pile of dirty dishes looms in the kitchen. It's your spouse's night to wash, but you know he or she has had a long day so you grab a sponge and step up to the plate. It's just one of the minor daily sacrifices you make in the name of love. But what if you had a long, stressful day, too? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-good-days-bad-sacrifices-relationship.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:28:16 EST news286550880 An international study found that despite widespread acceptance that mental illness is a disease that can be effectively treated, a common "backbone" of prejudice exists that unfairly paints people with conditions such as depression and schizophrenia as undesirable for close personal relationships and positions of authority. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-backbone-mental-illness-stigma-common.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:52:57 EST news284896370 It appears that the majority of spouses/partners of physicians in the United States are happy with their relationships, according to Mayo Clinic research. Of the about 900 spouses/partners of physicians who responded to a national survey, 85 percent said that they were satisfied in their relationship and 80 percent said they would choose a physician spouse/partner again if they could revisit their choice. These values are similar to those of married adults in the U.S. overall. The study appears in the March edition of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-physician-spouses-relationships.html Other Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:04:29 EST news283691050 Like it or not and despite the surrounding debate of its merits, 3-D is the technology du jour for movie-making in Hollywood. It now turns out that even our brains use 3 dimensions to communicate emotions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-human-emotion-d.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:40:01 EST news283512469 Research shows that married people have better mental and physical health than their unmarried peers and are less likely to develop chronic conditions than their widowed or divorced counterparts. A University of Missouri expert says that people who have happy marriages are more likely to rate their health as better as they age; aging adults whose physical health is declining could especially benefit from improving their marriages. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-happily-couples-healthier-expert.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:10:03 EST news279986393 A new study in the Journal of Communication links verbal aggression to prenatal testosterone exposure. The lead researcher, at University at Buffalo – The State University of New York, used the 2D:4D measure to predict verbal aggression. This study is the first to use this method to examine prenatal testosterone exposure as a determinant of a communication trait. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-prenatal-exposure-testosterone-aggressive-behavior.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:29:12 EST news273392938 Cell phone and instant messaging addictions are driven by materialism and impulsiveness and can be compared to consumption pathologies like compulsive buying and credit card misuse, according to a Baylor University study in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cell-addiction-similar-compulsive-credit.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:28:56 EST news273331720 The quality of a woman's social networks—the personal relationships that surround an individual—appears to be just as important as the size of her networks in predicting breast cancer survival, Kaiser Permanente scientists report in the current issue of Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-high-quality-personal-relationships-survival-women.html Cancer Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:28:42 EST news271675711 An international team of researchers, led by Professor Graham Thornicroft at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, used detailed questionnaires to ask 1082 people being treated for depression in 35 different countries about their experiences of discrimination. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-three-quarters-people-depression-discrimination.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:30:01 EST news269711899 Doctors who have been on long term sick leave find it hard to return to work because they are overwhelmed with feelings of shame and failure, and fear the disapproval of colleagues, finds research published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-sick-doctors-struggle-shame-failure.html Health Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:30:01 EST news269514952 The Affordable Care Act will fund more community health centers, making primary care more accessible to the underserved. But this may not necessarily lead to better access to subspecialty care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-health-reform-centers-access-subspecialty.html Health Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:24:36 EST news265530265 The potentially lasting implications of day-to-day couple conflict on physical and mental well-being are revealed in a study published today in the journal Personal Relationships. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-partner-affect-long-term-mental-physical.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:35:49 EST news227522076 The judgments we make about the intimacy of other couples' relationships appear to be influenced by the brain chemical serotonin, reports a new study published in Biological Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-serotonin-critical-chemical-human-intimacy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:41:02 EST news221996450