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• Depression, behavioral changes may precede memory loss in Alzheimer's

  14-01-2015 22:25
  Depression and behavioral changes may occur before memory declines in people who will go on to develop Alzheimer's disease, according to new research. Researchers have known that many people with Alzheimer's experience depression, irritability, apathy and appetite loss but had not recognized how early these symptoms appear before now.
  
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• Combat veterans' brains reveal hidden damage from IED blasts

  14-01-2015 20:06
  
  The brains of Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans who survived blasts from improvised explosive devices and died later of other causes show a honeycomb of broken and swollen nerve fibers in critical brain regions, including those that control executive function. The pattern is different from brain damage caused by car crashes, drug overdoses or collision sports, and may be the never-before-reported signature of 'shell shock' suffered by World War I soldiers.
  
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• A paradox revealed: Cues associated with infant abuse may help reduce stress in the adult brain

  14-01-2015 20:00
  Neurobiologists have found a surprising and paradoxical effect of abuse-related cues in rat pups: those cues also can lower depressive-like behavior when the rats are fully grown. This could shed light on why certain cues associated with early life abuse can reduce stress in those same individuals as adults.
  
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• Love is … getting the answers to all these 36 questions right

  14-01-2015 19:54
  
  Warning: the following experiment could lead to you falling in love with your co-participant. Dare you try this probing questionnaire?
  
  • Read how our guinea-pigs got on with the questionnaireThe 36 questions that can make you “fall in love with anyone” were first published in 1997, in an academic paper by psychologist Arthur Aron and others, under the title The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings. The questions appeared in the
  
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• Can these 36 questions make you fall in love with anyone?

  14-01-2015 19:53
  
  A 36-point questionnaire, which promises to help you and a partner kickstart a relationship, is being shared widely on the web. Could our singleton guinea-pigs find love among the probing questions?• Read the 36 questions that will lead to loveNo two ways about it, the premise is somewhat wacky. You ask a stranger a series of 36 questions in three sets, and then you conclude your encounter with a four-minute session of looking silently into one another’s eyes. The process of asking and answe
  
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• How men and women experience depression differently

  14-01-2015 14:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Women experience depression at twice the rate of men, and the genders often experience depression in distinctly different ways.
  
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• Trust through the olfactory fragrance of lavender

  14-01-2015 11:00
  
  People's trust in others increases after smelling the olfactory fragrance of lavender. Leiden psychologists Roberta Sellaro and Lorenza Colzato published their findings in Frontiers in Psychology.
  
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• How thoughts and behaviour affect mood

  14-01-2015 11:00
  
  The mood swings of people with bipolar disorder are influenced by their thoughts according to researchers.
  
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• Doctors find psychological input can help reduce symptoms of severe asthma

  14-01-2015 11:00
  
  Doctors in Southampton have found input from a psychologist can significantly reduce symptoms and hospital admissions among patients with severe asthma. Around 10% of the 5.
  
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• Study finds pediatric trauma nurses know about trauma-informed care

  14-01-2015 10:00
  
  A recent study from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital published in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing reveals pediatric trauma nurses are...
  
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• Why more than a third of American clergy are overweight

  14-01-2015 09:00
  
  More than a third of American clergy members are obese, with stress, longer hours, being underpaid and lack of self-care among the reasons, according to a Baylor University study.
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother and the rise of the ‘quantum celebrity’ | Dean Burnett

  14-01-2015 08:15
  
  The latest season of Celebrity Big Brother has proven to be just as awful as you might expect, but this and the increasing number of other questionable ‘reality’ TV shows are causing interesting and baffling new forms of fame and celebrity to arise, some of which can only be explained via quantum mechanicsThe latest series of Celebrity Big Brother started recently, and it’s already proving to be awful. When you have two people thrown out within 48 hours for being dreadful humans and Katie
  
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• Is poker a game of skill, or a game of luck? | Pete Etchells

  14-01-2015 08:00
  
  Last week, researchers claimed to have developed a poker-playing computer program that is nearly unbeatable. What are the implications for the old debate about whether poker is a game of skill or luck?As a spectator sport, poker traditionally isn’t the most engaging thing to watch. I realised this when I found myself in the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas a few years ago. I was there for a couple of days with a friend, and being a fan of poker, thought it would be fun to check out a high stakes ga
  
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• Blood test for brain injury may not be feasible afterall

  14-01-2015 00:41
  Complications involving the brain's unique waste removal system -- the existence of which has only recently been brought to light -- may thwart efforts to identify biomarkers that detect traumatic brain injury. That is because proteins that are triggered by brain damage are prevented from reaching the blood system in levels necessary for a precise diagnosis, experts explain.
  
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