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Kids with brains that under-react to painful images

When children with conduct problems see images of others in pain, key parts of their brains don't react in the way they do in most people. This pattern of reduced brain activity upon witnessing pain may serve as a neurobiological ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 02, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

PTSD research: Distinct gene activity patterns from childhood abuse

Abuse during childhood is different. A study of adult civilians with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) has shown that individuals with a history of childhood abuse have distinct, profound changes in gene activity patterns, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 01, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Teen girls less successful than boys at quitting meth, pilot study says

A UCLA-led study of adolescents receiving treatment for methamphetamine dependence has found that girls are more likely to continue using the drug during treatment than boys, suggesting that new approaches are needed for ...

Addiction created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Virtual patient advocate delivers preconception care to improve pregnancy outcomes

Results of a pilot study suggest that a virtual patient advocate (VPA) could help influence positive changes and help women have healthier pregnancies. Developed at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston Medical ...

Health created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

No evidence of lyme disease in children with autism

(HealthDay)—A new study failed to find any evidence to back up a suggested association between Lyme disease and autism spectrum disorders.

Autism spectrum disorders created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Decoded: Molecular messages that tell prostate and breast cancers to spread

Cancer cells are wily, well-traveled adversaries, constantly side-stepping treatments to stop their spread. But for the first time, scientists at the University of Michigan have decoded the molecular chatter that ramps certain ...

Cancer created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Shedding light on the long shadow of childhood adversity

Childhood adversity can lead to chronic physical and mental disability in adult life and have an effect on the next generation, underscoring the importance of research, practice and policy in addressing this issue, according ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mentoring, leadership program key to ending bullying in at-risk teen girls

New research from experts within the University of Minnesota School of Nursing has found teen girls at high risk for pregnancy reported being significantly less likely to participate in social bullying after participating ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows Internet-based program effective in reducing stress

The use of Internet-based stress management programs (ISM) effectively reduce stress for a sustainable period, according to a Cleveland Clinic study published recently in Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Do you obsess over your appearance? Your brain might be wired abnormally

Body dysmorphic disorder is a disabling but often misunderstood psychiatric condition in which people perceive themselves to be disfigured and ugly, even though they look normal to others. New research at UCLA shows that ...

Neuroscience created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Child fruit consumption up with pre-slicing in schools

(HealthDay)—Schools that use fruit slicers to pre-slice fruit report increased fruit sales, more fruit eaten, and less fruit wasted, according to a study published in the May issue of the American Journal of ...

Health created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sharing examination questions threatens trust in medical profession

Unethical behavior among physicians-in-training threatens to erode public trust and confidence in the medical profession, say two academic physicians in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Reacting to CNN report ...

Other created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds men most attractive with heavy-stubble

(Medical Xpress)—A research team from the Evolution and Ecology Research Centre at the University of New South Wales has found that women find men most attractive when they have approximately ten days of ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (35) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Good night's sleep linked to happiness

(Medical Xpress)—Want a good night's sleep? Be positive – consistently. Although happiness is generally good for sleeping, when a person's happiness varies a lot in reaction to daily ups and downs, sleep suffers, reports ...

Health created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Competing pathways affect early differentiation of higher brain structures

Sand-dwelling and rock-dwelling cichlids living in East Africa's Lake Malawi share a nearly identical genome, but have very different personalities. The territorial rock-dwellers live in communities where ...

Neuroscience created Apr 26, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast