People who were children when their parents were divorced showed lower levels of oxytocin—the so-called "love hormone"—when they were adults than those whose parents remained married, according to a study led by Baylor ...
Sep 9, 2020
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Researchers at Colorado State University have found that teens who practice mindfulness techniques show fewer signs of stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic than those who do not.
Sep 4, 2020
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Couples that include a partner with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may someday have access to a faster, more efficient therapy that treats the disorder and simultaneously improves their relationships, according to ...
Aug 26, 2020
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Chronic pain affects the majority of older adults in the U.S., and getting enough exercise plays a key role in pain management. New research suggests that how people think about their pain can have a significant effect on ...
Aug 25, 2020
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Around the world, domestic abuse affects one in three women, and every three seconds, someone develops dementia. Yet despite the prevalence of both these issues, little attention is given to what happens when they are combined. ...
Aug 19, 2020
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Researchers and medical experts have long known that child sexual abuse has profoundly negative effects on the health of survivors; however, an international team of researchers was not able to find a link between the abuse ...
Aug 17, 2020
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Specific antibodies protect us against viral infections—or do they? Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) studied the immune response to papillomaviruses in mice and discovered a hitherto unknown mechanism ...
Aug 4, 2020
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Women smokers are four times as likely as their non-smoking peers to harbour an unruptured aneurysm—a weakened bulging artery—in the brain, finds research published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
Jul 27, 2020
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In May 2020, Orchard Villa, a long-term care home in Pickering, Ont., made headlines for a bad COVID-19 outbreak. Just two months into Ontario's lockdown, 77 patients in the 233-bed home had died.
Jul 27, 2020
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A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports that many of the former child soldiers of Sierra Leone have been accepted by their families and communities as they try to ...
Jun 2, 2020
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