http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at LWL-University Hospital in Bochum, Germany have found that male volunteers looking at photographs of human eyes were better at guessing the "mood" of the person in the picture, if the person in them was also male. This, the researchers suggest in their paper published in the journal PLUS ONE, indicates that men are better able to read the mood of fellow males than females. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-men-emotions-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:40:02 EST news285232738 Why do straight women and gay men form close relationships with one another? A new psychology study from The University of Texas at Austin suggests the glue that cements these unique relationships is honest, unbiased relationship advice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-trustworthy-advice-deepens-bond-straight.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:02:04 EST news280584117 A report by the University of Otago, Wellington shows that many young people attracted to more than one gender tend to binge drink because they feel stigmatised and socially excluded. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-social-exclusion-binge-young-people.html Health Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:21:04 EST news271934455 Sexual orientation is best represented as a continuum that has two new categories -- "mostly heterosexual" and "mostly gay/lesbian" -- in addition to heterosexual, bisexual or gay/lesbian, according to a new Cornell study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-sexual-groups.html Other Wed, 09 May 2012 03:40:43 EST news255753631 The self-inflicted removal of one or both eyes, which has traditionally been attributed to sexual guilt, is, in fact, caused by untreated psychotic illness, such as schizophrenia, reveal researchers in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-self-inflicted-linked-oedipus-complex-untreated.html Ophthalmology Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:30:01 EST news249577136 Love can bring out both the best and the worst in people. Which way it turns depends on the best way to protect the relationship, say researchers studying the evolution of romantic love. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-unexpected-sides-romantic.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:36:54 EST news247138603 Bisexual women are more likely than their male counterparts to suffer from depression and stress and to binge-drink, according to a new national study led by George Mason University researcher Lisa Lindley. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-bisexual-women-men-depressed-abuse.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:38:23 EST news239967483 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry describes how the use of functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery, or fMRI, is able to detect and diagnose pedophilia with greater accuracy than current options. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-brain-scans-pedophiles.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:42:37 EST news237202866 Women find happy guys significantly less sexually attractive than swaggering or brooding men, according to a new University of British Columbia study that helps to explain the enduring allure of "bad boys" and other iconic gender types. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-happy-guys-finish-sexual.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 24 May 2011 04:02:50 EST news225428454