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Children with higher intelligence less likely to report chronic widespread pain in adulthood

A UK-based study team has determined that there is a correlation between childhood intelligence and chronic widespread pain (CWP) in adulthood, according to a new study published in the December issue of PAIN. About 10-15 ...

Health created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study suggests humans are slowly but surely losing intellectual and emotional abilities

Human intelligence and behavior require optimal functioning of a large number of genes, which requires enormous evolutionary pressures to maintain. A provocative hypothesis published in a recent set of Science and Society ...

Genetics created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (37) | comments 78 | with audio podcast

Link found between child prodigies and autism

(Medical Xpress)—A new study of eight child prodigies suggests a possible link between these children's special skills and autism.

Autism spectrum disorders created Nov 09, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A family history of alcoholism may add to damaging effects of prenatal alcohol exposure

Prenatal exposure to alcohol (PAE) can lead to serious deficiencies associated with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), such as impairments in general intelligence, adaptive function, ...

Addiction created Oct 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Training computers to understand the human brain

Understanding how the human brain categorizes information through signs and language is a key part of developing computers that can 'think' and 'see' in the same way as humans. Hiroyuki Akama at the Graduate ...

Neuroscience created Oct 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Intelligence is in the genes, but where?

(Medical Xpress)—You can thank your parents for your smarts—or at least some of them. Psychologists have long known that intelligence, like most other traits, is partly genetic. But a new study led by psychological scientist ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Theory: Music underlies language acquisition

(Medical Xpress)—Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and language are cognitively separate or that music is a byproduct of language, theorists at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and the University ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Emotional intelligence: Fact or fad?

Emotional intelligence is not the cure-all elixir for spotting who will succeed in work and life, but it is more than a useless fad, says Carolyn MacCann.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 14, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Experts propose 'cyber war' on cancer

In the face of mounting evidence that cancer cells communicate, cooperate and even engage in collective decision-making, biophysicists and cancer researchers at Rice University, Tel Aviv University and Johns ...

Cancer created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neuroscience just got faster, cheaper and easier

Richard Gershon has a shiny new toolbox for neuroscientists that will revolutionize their clinical research by making it radically faster, cheaper and more accurate. It also will help researchers recruit children and adults ...

Neuroscience created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Tokyo Tech researchers develop the WalkMate System for improving the quality of life of Parkinson's disease patients

Tokyo Tech's Yoshihiro Miyake and colleagues have developed an innovative, non-invasive therapeutic intervention that may improve the mobility, stability, and quality of life of Parkinson's disease patients. ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Aug 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain imaging can predict how intelligent you are, study finds

(Medical Xpress) -- When it comes to intelligence, what factors distinguish the brains of exceptionally smart humans from those of average humans?

Neuroscience created Aug 01, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Sex and trauma research is less upsetting to college students than previously assumed

Research on sex and trauma faces an ethical dilemma: how can we find out more about the effects of such psychologically sensitive topics without hurting the people who participate in the study?

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bedbugs can infest your office, too

(HealthDay) -- Add bedbugs to your list of potential occupational health hazards. A new report reveals nearly half of the employees of a U.S. government office in Tennessee were bitten by the blood-thirsty ...

Health created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Training teens to handle emotions improves mental health

Teens who received emotional intelligence training in school had improved scores on several measures of emotional well-being, including less anxiety, depression and social stress, according to a new study ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast