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 Epigenetics – how gene expression is regulated by temporary switches, called epi-marks – appears to be a critical and overlooked factor contributing to the long-standing puzzle of why homosexuality occurs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-epigenetics-genetics-underlies-homosexuality.html Genetics Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:08:48 EST news274439290 Britons want a recommendation from the NHS on whether to attend bowel cancer screening, along with all the information on benefits and risks, according to research published in the British Journal of Cancer today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-britons-bowel-cancer-screening.html Cancer Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:34:53 EST news273911649 Everyone knows that men and women tend to hold different views on certain things. However, new research by scientists from the University of Bristol and published in PLoS ONE indicates that this may literally be the case. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-men-women-explore-visual-world.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:38:17 EST news273523084 Cyberbullying – the use of the Internet, phones or other technologies to repeatedly harass or mistreat peers – is often linked with teen suicide in media reports. However, new research presented on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, shows that the reality is more complex. Most teen suicide victims are bullied both online and in school, and many suicide victims also suffer from depression. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-cyberbullying-rarely-sole-factor-teen.html Psychology & Psychiatry Sat, 20 Oct 2012 05:30:01 EST news269928810 You're in a store, trying to choose between similar shirts, one blue and one green. You don't feel strongly about one over the other, but eventually you decide to buy the green one. You leave the store and a market researcher asks you about your purchase and which shirt you prefer. Chances are that you'd say you prefer the green one, the shirt you actually chose. As it turns out, this choice-induced preference isn't limited to shirts. Whether we're choosing between presidential candidates or household objects, research shows that we come to place more value on the options we chose and less value on the options we rejected. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-choices-years.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:36:54 EST news268486600 (Medical Xpress)—Academic staff in the Research School of Psychology at The Australian National University have strongly rejected the view reported in the media today that homosexuality carries with it psychological or biological harm. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-scientific-basis-idea-homosexuality-psychological.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:15:09 EST news267693290 Renal transplantation is best treatment option for improving quality of life in people with late-stage chronic kidney disease http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-quality-life-treatment-late-stage-chronic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:00:03 EST news266597549 In a University of Missouri study, girls and boys started grade school with different approaches to solving arithmetic problems, with girls favoring a slow and accurate approach and boys a faster but more error prone approach. Girls' approach gave them an early advantage, but by the end of sixth grade boys had surpassed the girls. The MU study found that boys showed more preference for solving arithmetic problems by reciting an answer from memory, whereas girls were more likely to compute the answer by counting. Understanding these results may help teachers and parents guide students better. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-boys-impulsiveness-result-math-ability.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:02:33 EST news262605745 New to meditation and already thinking about quitting? You may have simply chosen the wrong method. A new study published online July 7 in EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing highlights the importance of ensuring that new meditators select methods with which they are most comfortable, rather than those that are most popular. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-meditation-technique-key-user-satisfaction.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:00:01 EST news260787205 To improve the quality of life in gay men and minorities treated for prostate cancer, a greater awareness of ethnic and sexual preference-related factors is needed to help men choose a more-suitable treatment plan, researchers from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital conclude in a literature review published May 1 in Nature Reviews Urology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-poorer-quality-life-gay-men.html Cancer Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:29:59 EST news255014981 In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that women who have undergone one prior delivery via cesarean section appear to know little about the risks and benefits associated with undergoing either a second cesarean or trial of labor to attempt a vaginal delivery, and that the preference of their medical provider strongly affects their selection between the two options. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-pregnant-women-prior-cesarean-delivery.html Other Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:52:19 EST news247985532