Psychology & Psychiatry
Caring for family is what motivates people worldwide
Across the globe, caring for loved ones is what matters most.
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LSUHSC simulation or team training improves performance and patient safety
A study conducted by an inter-professional team of LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans faculty found that simulation-based operating room team training of medical and nursing students resulted in more effective teamwork ...
Nov 1, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Two studies reveal benefits of mindfulness for middle school students
Two new studies from MIT suggest that mindfulness—the practice of focusing one's awareness on the present moment—can enhance academic performance and mental health in middle schoolers. The researchers found that more ...
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Psychology study finds key early skills for later math learning
Psychologists at the University of Missouri have identified the beginning of first grade math skills that teachers and parents should target to effectively improve children's later math learning.
Jul 11, 2011
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Health
Study explores how wearable technologies can help reduce risk of back injury among nurses
Nurses are often considered the unsung heroes and backbone of our health-care system but it's their actual backs that bear the brunt of physically demanding movements like lifting and transferring patients. In fact, nurses ...
May 10, 2018
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Attention deficit disorders
Nonprescription use of Ritalin may cause structural changes in brain, study finds
As nonprescription use of Ritalin increases among young adults, researchers at the University at Buffalo Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions warn that such use may cause irreversible structural changes in certain ...
Nov 16, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Imagining dialogue can boost critical thinking
Examining an issue as a debate or dialogue between two sides helps people apply deeper, more sophisticated reasoning, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The history of physician burnout
According to a 2022 Medscape poll, burnout rates among physicians are steadily increasing. The publication defines burnout as a "long-term, unresolvable job-related stress that leads to exhaustion, cynicism and feelings of ...
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Will psych majors make the big bucks?
A new crop of college graduates have just landed on the job market. Right now they're probably just hoping to get any job, if at all. However, for psychology majors, the salary outlook in both the short and long term is particularly ...
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Study links early life adversity, microglia dysfunction, to aberrant adult stress responses, mental illness
The poor function of microglia, the brain's immune cells in individuals exposed to early life adversity (ELA) promotes aberrant responses to stress in adulthood that may be linked to mental illness, according to a new study ...
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