http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—New research from social psychologists at Indiana University Bloomington suggests that feeling powerful might protect against the debilitating effects of negative stereotypes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-power-diffuse-effects-negative-stereotypes.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:05:59 EST news284814351 Children with brain lesions suffered before or around the time of birth are able to use gestures – an important aspect of the language learning process– to convey simple sentences, a Georgia State University researcher has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-children-brain-lesions-gestures-important.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:01:23 EST news280584076 (Medical Xpress)—Stroke victims affected with loss of speech caused by Broca's aphasia have been shown to speak fluidly through the use of a process called "speech entrainment" developed by researchers at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-technique-victims.html Neuroscience Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:02:13 EST news277552885 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Hebrew University in Jerusalem have found that contrary to popular thinking, people are capable of reading sentences and solving math problems without consciously thinking about them. The team describes their experiments and results in testing such abilities in their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-people-capable-math-equations-subconsciously.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:50:02 EST news272017529 (HealthDay)—At 25, Rachel Eagly had a one-week-old son and a vicious headache. But she never would have guessed that the headache signaled a major stroke that would temporarily seize her ability to speak and also change her future for the better. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-mom-aphasia-option.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:45:05 EST news268058699 The topic of domestic abuse remains a controversial issue when it comes to determining punishment for battered women who use violence towards their partner. According to a recent study published in Psychology of Women Quarterly, a SAGE Journal, battered women who are seen as engaging in mutual violence and shared substance abuse are often regarded negatively and subject to harsher sentences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-battered-women-stereotyping.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:44:03 EST news266679831 Far from processing every word we read or hear, our brains often do not even notice key words that can change the whole meaning of a sentence, according to new research from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-message.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:56:34 EST news261651381 (Medical Xpress) -- When jurors sentencing convicted criminals are instructed to weigh not only facts but also tricky emotional factors, they rely on parts of the brain associated with sympathy and making moral judgments, according to a new paper by a team of neuroscientists. Using brain-imaging techniques, the researchers, including Caltech's Colin Camerer, found that the most lenient jurors show heightened levels of activity in the insula, a brain region associated with discomfort and pain and with imagining the pain that others feel. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-brains-jurors-neuroscientists-reveal-brain.html Neuroscience Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:08:28 EST news252144486 (Medical Xpress) -- Talking to children has always been fundamental to language development, but new research reveals that the way we talk to children is key to building their ability to understand and create sentences of their own. The exaggerated speech we naturally use with young children is special register – often called ‘motherese’. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-motherese-important-children-language.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 06 May 2011 10:27:34 EST news223896448