A new Northwestern University and UCLA study has found for the first time that young people who are high on the personality trait of neuroticism are highly likely to develop both anxiety and depression disorders.
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Tom Skeyhill was an acclaimed Australian war hero, known as "the blind solider-poet." During the monumental World War I battle of Gallipoli, he was a flag signaler, among the most dangerous of all positions. After being blinded ...
Jan 27, 2016
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich together with colleagues in Cologne and Zürich have used mathematical models to explain differences in social behaviour associated with autistic personality ...
Dec 21, 2015
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Sensation seeking is a personality trait that describes a person's tendency to seek out novel and exciting experiences, and a high level of sensation seeking has been implicated as a risk factor for addiction. According to ...
Dec 10, 2015
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Neuroscientists at EPFL identify a brain region that links anxious temperament to low social status. The researchers were able to tweak social hierarchy in animals by using vitamin B3.
Dec 1, 2015
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Are the brains of men and women truly different? Not if you look at the overall structure, a new study says.
Nov 30, 2015
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(Medical Xpress)—Autistic traits diagnosed in early childhood, including communication problems and adaptive behavior deficits, tend to persist into adulthood. A very few autistic individuals demonstrate improvement in ...
Measuring autistic traits in just under half a million people reveals that your sex, and whether you work in a STEM (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) job, predict how many autistic traits you have, according ...
Nov 3, 2015
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A new UK study has shed light on the negative impact that epilepsy can have on autism in adult patients.
Oct 23, 2015
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The way our brains are wired may reveal a lot about us, according to new research co-authored by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis.
Oct 19, 2015
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