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• How are CTE and behavior linked? The answer requires more in-depth research, scientists say

  04-12-2014 21:27
  Media reports routinely link chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the neurodegenerative brain disease, with behavioral symptoms in former football players. But just how CTE and behavioral changes are related is poorly understood, researchers write.
  
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• Wireless brain sensor could unchain neuroscience from cables

  04-12-2014 20:07
  
  Neuroscience research has been constrained by the cables required to connect brain sensors to computers for analysis. Scientists have now described a wireless brain-sensing system to acquire high-fidelity neural data during animal behavior experiments.
  
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• The social brain: does guessing others' intentions make a difference when we learn?

  04-12-2014 20:00
  
  People regularly engage in sophisticated 'mentalizing' (i.e. guessing the intentions or beliefs of others) whenever they convince, teach, deceive, and so on.
  
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• Rule will allow high school athletes to pick their sports gender

  04-12-2014 14:29 via foxnews.com
  
  Proponents say transgender athletes will feel more welcome to participate in sports; while those opposed bring up potential safety issues in the case of girls facing off with boys.
  
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• Psychological problems in men experiencing cancer

  04-12-2014 11:00
  
  Hannah Dale and colleagues from the University of St Andrews have found some key markers for vulnerability to psychological problems in men experiencing cancer.
  
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• Clasado and University of Oxford demonstrate effect of advanced prebiotics on anxiety in clinical study

  04-12-2014 11:00
  
  Clasado Biosciences Limited, the producers and suppliers of the second generation prebiotic Bimuno(R) (B-GOS), a unique trans-galactooligosaccharide, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of...
  
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• Witnessing parental violence affects girls and boys differently

  04-12-2014 10:00
  
  Witnessing violence by parents or a parent's intimate partner can trigger for some children a chain of negative behaviors that follows them from preschool to kindergarten and beyond, according to...
  
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• SAFit-ligands provide the foundation for a mechanistically novel treatment of stress-related psychiatric disorders

  04-12-2014 10:00
  The FK506-binding protein 51 (FKBP51) is an established risk factor for stress-related psychiatric disorders such as major depression.
  
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• Do concussions have lingering cognitive, physical, and emotional effects?

  04-12-2014 10:00
  
  A study of active duty U.S. Marines who suffered a recent or previous concussion(s) examined whether persistent post-concussive symptoms (PPCS) and lingering effects on cognitive function are due to...
  
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• Deficits in one of the brain's off switches for anxiety can result in an anxious temperament

  04-12-2014 10:00
  
  Persistent anxiety is one of the most common and distressing symptoms compromising mental health.
  
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• Altered 'thought-markers' of autism identified by new tool

  04-12-2014 10:00
  Psychiatric disorders -- including autism -- are characterized and diagnosed based on a clinical assessment of verbal and physical behavior.
  
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• Schools 'ruled' by mean boys, not mean girls

  04-12-2014 09:00
  
  Debunking the myth of the "mean girl," new research from the University of Georgia has found that boys use relational aggression - malicious rumors, social exclusion and rejection - to harm or...
  
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• How behaviour is influenced by childhood trauma

  04-12-2014 09:00
  
  Traumatic and stressful events during childhood increase the risk to develop psychiatric disorders, but to a certain extent, they can also help better deal with difficult situations later in life.
  
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• Carroll Congo, Ed.D. Recognized by Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide Publication

  04-12-2014 09:00 via pr.com
  Carroll Congo, Ed.D of Huntington Station, New York has been included in the Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide Edition for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of education. About Carroll Congo, Ed.D Dr. Congo is currently retired after spending 36 years in the education field. He served as the Chief Clinical Psychologist for the Ladd School at the State Institute of Rhode Island and as [PR.com]
  
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• U.S. Justice Department Seeks to End Racial Profiling "Once and for All"

  04-12-2014 06:30 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: USA Today - U.S. NewsSpeaking at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta — the church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that he will soon unveil long-planned Justice Department guidance aimed at ending racial profiling.
  
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• Twitter Makes It Easier to Report Harassment

  04-12-2014 06:30 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: CBS News - Science and TechnologyAt a time when online threats are raising questions about the definition of free speech on the Internet, a move to take aggression more seriously.
  
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• Sons' Intelligence Linked to Fathers' Criminal History

  04-12-2014 06:30 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: ScienceDailySons whose fathers have criminal records tend to have lower cognitive abilities than sons whose fathers have no criminal history, data from over 1 million Swedish men show. The research, conducted by scientists in Sweden and Finland, indicates that the link is not directly caused by fathers' behavior but is instead explained by genetic factors that are shared by father and son.
  
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• 7.6% of Americans Are Depressed, But Few Seek Treatment

  04-12-2014 06:30 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Google News - Health7.6% of Americans are depressed, but few seek mental health treatment Los Angeles Times About 1 in 13 Americans was suffering from depression at some point between 2009 and 2012, yet only 35% of people with severe depression and 20% of those with moderate depression said they had sought help from a mental health professional,
  
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