Computer game aims to zap teen depression
Long viewed as a contributing factor in teenage isolation, computer games are now being used to treat adolescent depression in an innovative New Zealand programme.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 31, 2012 |
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Concerns over accuracy of tools to predict risk of repeat offending
Tools designed to predict an individual's risk of repeat offending are not sufficient on their own to inform sentencing and release or discharge decisions, concludes a study published in the British Medical Journal today. ...
Other
Jul 24, 2012 |
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Male Ontario students show declines in fighting; females show elevated bullying and mental distress
An ongoing survey of Ontario students in grades 7 to 12 conducted for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that while the majority of students have healthy relationships and report overall good mental ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 24, 2012 |
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New hope for society's most challenging kids
(Medical Xpress) -- Parents of young children who show extreme behaviour problems and a lack of empathy or remorse may find new hope from research at the University of Sydney.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 23, 2012 |
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Child's behavior linked to father-infant interactions, study shows
Children whose fathers are more positively engaged with them at age three months have fewer behavioural problems at age twelve months, according to new research funded by the Wellcome Trust. The study suggests that interventions ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 18, 2012 |
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Psychologists discover links between angry thoughts and displaced aggression in male gang affiliates
(Medical Xpress) -- Research conducted among pupils in three London schools has shown that male street gang affiliates who engage in angry rumination (i.e. think continuously about provoking or negative events and situations) ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 13, 2012 |
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Drugs used to treat HIV also reduce risk of HIV infection
People at high risk of HIV infection can reduce their risk of acquiring the disease by taking antiretroviral drugs, according to Cochrane researchers. In an update of a systematic review first published in 2009, the researchers ...
HIV & AIDS
Jul 10, 2012 |
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Urban groups help women but no effect on perinatal outcomes in Mumbai
In this week's PLoS Medicine, David Osrin of the UCL Institute of Child Health, UK and colleagues report findings from a cluster-randomized trial conducted in Mumbai slums that aimed to evaluate whether facilitator-supported women' ...
Health
Jul 03, 2012 |
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'Ambient' bullying gives employees urge to quit
Merely showing up to work in an environment where bullying goes on is enough to make many of us think about quitting, a new study suggests. Canadian researchers writing in the journal Human Relations published by SAGE, have f ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 29, 2012 |
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Safety fears and agism denying care home residents right to consensual sex
Concerns about safety, and ageism, are needlessly denying elderly care home residents what is often one of their few remaining pleasures - the right to consensual sex - say specialists in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Health
Jun 26, 2012 |
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Drug addiction study offers new insight on compulsive behavior
The same neurological mechanism involved in the transition from habitual to compulsive drug use could underlie less severe, but still harmful, compulsive behaviours.
Addiction
Jun 25, 2012 |
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A better way to help high-risk pregnant smokers
Cigarette smoking among drug dependent pregnant women is alarmingly high, estimated at 77 to 99%. Programs that treat pregnant patients for substance use disorders often fail to address cigarette smoking despite the clear ...
Addiction
Jun 21, 2012 |
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Scientists lead rat race for better PET scan
Scientists in Australia have devised a method of scanning lab rats' brains as they scurry about freely, eliminating the need for anaesthesia or forced restraint, a report said Wednesday.
Medical research
Jun 19, 2012 |
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Canadian teen moms run higher risk of abuse, depression than older mothers
(Edmonton) Teen mothers are far more likely to suffer abuse and postpartum depression than older moms, according to a study of Canadian women's maternity experiences by a University of Alberta researcher.
Pediatrics
Jun 18, 2012 |
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Modern mice pose a challenge for medical research
The environment in which laboratory mice are reared can drastically alter the results of experiments and may have major implications for medical research around the world, according to new Australian data ...
Medical research
Jun 12, 2012 |
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