Psychology & Psychiatry
What your choice of smartphone says about you
Choice of smartphone provides valuable information about its owner.
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain network of psychopathic criminal functions differently
A strong focus on reward combined with a lack of self-control appears to be linked to the tendency to commit an offence. Brain scans show that this combination occurs in psychopathic criminals, say researchers from Nijmegen ...
Aug 8, 2016
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Medical research
Study challenges view that sickle cell trait increases mortality risk
Health experts have long believed that sickle cell gene variants, which occur in about 1 in 13 African-Americans, increase the risk of premature death, even when people carry only a single copy of the variant. But health ...
Aug 3, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
When bad ideas refuse to die—the denial of human individuality
It is generally thought that science helps good ideas triumph over bad. The weight of evidence eventually pushes false claims aside.
Jul 20, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study examines oxytocin's role in binge eating
A study by York University researcher Caroline Davis and her colleagues at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is the first to demonstrate that variants of the Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) gene contribute to why ...
Jul 12, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Lessons on personalities help teens cope with social stressors, study says
Teaching teens that social and personality traits can change helps them cope with social challenges such as bullying, which in turn can help mitigate stress and improve academic performance, according to a study by psychologists ...
Jun 20, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Psychopathy need not be a disadvantage
Persons with high psychopathy values are egotistic, scheming, and sabotage their colleagues unscrupulously to look better themselves. For employers they are a super-meltdown - but is that really true? A study by the University ...
Jun 3, 2016
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Neuroscience
Folic acid during pregnancy could help to prevent autism caused by antiepileptic drugs
If pregnant women take antiepileptic drugs, the child can develop autistic traits. The administration of folic acid preparations appears to be a suitable means of preventing this serious side-effect. This finding is suggested ...
Jun 1, 2016
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Moms can transmit psychiatric trouble to kids, according to study
Individual symptoms, such as anxiety, avoidance and a heightened response to stress, can be transmitted from mother to child and even grandchildren by multiple nongenetic mechanisms, a new study by investigators at Weill ...
May 16, 2016
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Genetics
Scientists find genes associated with educational attainment
An international group of 253 scientists has conducted one of the largest genetic studies to date and identified 74 genetic variants that are associated with the years of formal education that an individual completes.
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