http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. With a dizzying number of ties in our social networks – that your Aunt Alice is a neighbor of Muhammad who is married to Natasha who is your wife's boss – it's a wonder we remember any of it. How do we keep track of the complexity? We cheat, says a Cornell University sociologist in Scientific Reports (March 21). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-memory-patterns-recall-social-webs.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:43:28 EST news283085001 More than a hundred patients suffering from severe motor impairments have voluntarily participated in the development of non-invasive brain-machine interfaces. The main purpose of these machines is to allow the patients either regain some of their mobility or improve their social relationships. Today, three presentations took place in Sion during the closing seminar of the TOBI European research program, which has been coordinated by EPFL for approximately four years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-mind-machines.html Neuroscience Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:40:01 EST news278231329 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 In low-income, minority communities, tight-knit social connections -- with family members, friends, and neighbors -- can lead people to eat healthy and be physically active, but in some cases it may actually be an obstacle to a healthy lifestyle, according to new research by investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-social-ties-impact-healthy-behaviors.html Health Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:00:01 EST news253374448