http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Most people believe they can multitask effectively, but a University of Utah study indicates that people who multitask the most – including talking on a cell phone while driving – are least capable of doing so. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-frequent-multitaskers-bad-motorists-overrate.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:28:56 EST news278184526 Language mixing – using elements from two languages in the same sentence – is frequent among bilingual parents and could pose a challenge for vocabulary acquisition by one- and two-year-old children, according to a new study by Concordia University psychology professor Krista Byers-Heinlein. Those results are likely temporary, however, and are often counterbalanced by cognitive advantages afforded to children raised in a bilingual environment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-bilingual-dual-language-upbringing-young-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:16:42 EST news277560993 Parents and babies smile, laugh and coo at each other, but scientists still have a lot of questions about how these interactions help infants develop. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-babies-children-developmental-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:50:01 EST news276849027 (Medical Xpress)—Coming soon to a bookstore near you—a handbook on the science of reliance. Trust me. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-focuses-psychology.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:09:01 EST news276361736 Research on multisensory speech perception in recent years has helped revolutionize our understanding of how the brain organizes the information it receives from our many different senses, UC Riverside psychology professor Lawrence D. Rosenblum writes in the January 2013 issue of Scientific American. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-years-brain-multisensory-speech-perception.html Neuroscience Thu, 20 Dec 2012 07:30:51 EST news275211044 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers report that changes in social well-being are closely tied to one's personality, with positive changes in one corresponding to similar changes in the other. Their study reveals potential new mechanisms that can help individuals thrive as they age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-links-personality-social-well-being.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:58:49 EST news275119123 Psychologists studied 14 people who had sudden life-changing experiences. They say Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation fits right in. George Bailey from "It's a Wonderful Life" is another realistic movie character who embodies sudden change. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-psychologists-scrooge-parallels-real-life-changing.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:50:57 EST news275057306 Anger is a powerful emotion with serious health consequences. A new study from Concordia University shows that for millions of individuals around the world who suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), anger is more than an emotion; it's an agent that exacerbates their illness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-anger-larger-role-anxiety-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:42:28 EST news273847335 (Medical Xpress)—Most people know when to be afraid and when it's ok to calm down. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-autism-severity-stem.html Autism spectrum disorders Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:53:13 EST news273423184 (Medical Xpress)—Psychological factors can have as much—or more—impact on pediatric chest pain as physical ones, a University of Georgia study found recently. UGA psychologists discovered pediatric patients diagnosed with noncardiac chest pain have higher levels of anxiety and depression than patients diagnosed with innocent heart murmurs–the noise of normal turbulent blood flow in a structurally normal heart. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-anxiety-linked-chest-pain-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:32:04 EST news272316716 We humans have a fairly erratic sense of time. We tend to misjudge the duration of events, particularly when they are emotional in nature. Disturbingly negative experiences, for example, seem to last much longer than they actually do. And highly positive experiences seem to pass more quickly than negative ones. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-illusory-emotion-driven-distortions.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:00:05 EST news270304400 Psychology Professor Huw Williams has authored a major new report, published today, on the impact that acquired brain injuries can have on young people in childhood and in their transition to adulthood, and outlines the criminal justice consequences if these injuries go untreated. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-brain-injury-crime-young-people.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:52:20 EST news269851933 Students with autism have the best chances of success in school through an individualized education model that involves teachers, service providers and parents, according to a new book co-authored by John McGrew, Ph.D., and a psychology professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-collaborative-success-students-asd.html Autism spectrum disorders Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:01:51 EST news269784103 (Medical Xpress)—Parents: Want to help ensure your children turn out to be happy and socially well adjusted? Bond with them when they are infants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-parent-behavioral-emotional-benefits-child.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:47:34 EST news269182045 Pacifiers may stunt the emotional development of baby boys by robbing them of the opportunity to try on facial expressions during infancy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-pacifiers-emotional-consequences-boys.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:07:47 EST news267199651 Stress has long been pegged as the enemy of attention, disrupting focus and doing substantial damage to working memory—the short-term juggling of information that allows us to do all the little things that make us productive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-stress-loops-short-term-memory.html Neuroscience Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:00:06 EST news266763820 People face this predicament all the time—can you determine a person's character in a single interaction? Can you judge whether someone you just met can be trusted when you have only a few minutes together? And if you can, how do you do it? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-non-verbal-cues-personand-robottrustworthiness.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:25:15 EST news266585097 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers from The University of Western Australia have examined what motivates people who are greatly involved in the climate debate to reject scientific evidence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-climate-science.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:00:03 EST news264930449 Girls with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are significantly more likely to attempt suicide or injure themselves as young adults than girls who do not have ADHD, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-girls-adhd-self-injury-suicide-young.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:26:30 EST news264158728 People love social networks. That's the obvious conclusion from Facebook's 900 million active users and its current standing as one of the most visited sites on the web, second only to Google. New research from the University of Georgia finds what people may really "like" about social networking are themselves. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-facebook-good.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:55:54 EST news259926947 (Medical Xpress) -- Brooding, or excessive rumination over negative feelings, is known to interfere with important problem-solving abilities, while immediate distraction from those feelings can increase problem-solving capacity, according to new research by a University of Maine Department of Psychology faculty member and a colleague. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-distraction-negative-linked-problem.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:37:35 EST news259475843 Has your memory failed you today, such as struggling to recall a word that's "on the tip of your tongue?" If so, you're not alone. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-isnt-tongue-older-adults.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:45:55 EST news259004667 A principal standing in the hallway says, "You are one of my favorite students!" In class, a smart girl says, "You are the nicest person in our class!" http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-avatars-children-social-anxiety.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:41:12 EST news258716460 (Medical Xpress) -- New research by a University of California, Riverside psychologist raises serious questions about eyewitness identification procedures that are being adopted by police departments across the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-eyewitness-identification-reforms-unintended-consequences.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 31 May 2012 08:41:44 EST news257672497 Although a doting mom cuddling and caressing her infant may not seem to have much in common with a rat mother, she does. Not only are there striking similarities between the brain and hormonal systems of rats and humans that drive maternal behaviour, a U of T Mississauga professor suggests that early negative life experiences such as isolation, stress, trauma or inattentive parenting can affect whether a woman--or a rat--will become a good mother. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-mommy-gene.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:27:51 EST news254726753 A team led by psychology professor Ian Spence at the University of Toronto reveals that playing an action videogame, even for a relatively short time, causes differences in brain activity and improvements in visual attention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-action-videogames-brains.html Neuroscience Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:52:07 EST news254659918 (HealthDay) -- Three months into 2012, chances are good that those grand plans for self-improvement hatched at the start of the new year have become more of a dead weight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-resolutions-revisited.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:47:30 EST news252924439 Pediatricians who show an unconscious preference for European Americans tend to prescribe better pain-management for white patients than they do for African-American patients, new University of Washington research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-pediatricians-pain-medication-judgments-affected-unconscious.html Health Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:44:26 EST news251379851 Those motivated to actively change bad habits may be setting themselves up for failure, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-impulsive-behavior.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:19:59 EST news250942772 Maybe you've had a reoccurring sore throat or frequent headaches. Perhaps the pain in your leg won't go away. In the past, you might have gone to a doctor's office to diagnose symptoms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-medical-symptoms-online-difference-health-care.html Health Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:30:01 EST news250777179