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• Higher levels of inattention at age seven linked with lower GCSE grades

  30-04-2015 20:00
  New research has shown that children who display increasing levels of inattention at the age of seven are at risk of worse academic outcomes in their GCSE examinations.
  
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• Psychologists met in secret with Bush officials to help justify torture – report

  30-04-2015 19:23
  
  Newly disclosed emails reveal American Psychological Associated coordinated with officials in CIA and White House to help ethically justify detainee programThe leading American professional group for psychologists secretly worked with the Bush administration to help justify the post-9/11 US detainee torture program, according to a watchdog analysis released on Thursday.The report, written by six leading health professionals and human rights activists, is the first to examine the alleged complici
  
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• Brain scan reveals out-of-body illusion

  30-04-2015 18:41
  
  Neuroscientists have created an out-of-body illusion in participants placed inside a brain scanner. They then used the illusion to perceptually 'teleport' the participants to different locations in a room and show that the perceived location of the bodily self can be decoded from activity patterns in specific brain regions.
  
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• Light -- not pain-killing drugs -- used to activate brain's opioid receptors

  30-04-2015 18:40
  
  Neuroscientists have attached the light-sensing protein rhodopsin to opioid receptor parts to activate the receptor pathways using light from a laser fiber-optic device. They also influenced the behavior of mice using light, rather than drugs, to activate the reward response. When an opioid receptor is exposed to a pain-killing drug, it initiates activity in specific chemical pathways in the brain and spinal cord. And when the researchers shone light on the receptors that contained rhodopsin, th
  
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• What is the link between impulsivity and binges?

  30-04-2015 11:00
  A report published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics analyzes the link between impulsivity and binge eating in obese subjects.
  
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• What cause post-traumatic stress in combat?

  30-04-2015 11:00
  New findings provide potential explanations for the very high percentage of post-traumatic disorders in combat, as outlined in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
  
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• Watching cartoons helps children undergoing immunisation

  30-04-2015 11:00
  Watching cartoons can reduce pain and distress in children undergoing immunisation before, during and after the procedure, a study in Italy has found.
  
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• The Truth About Adverts: Selling the White Woman™

  30-04-2015 05:23
  
  Source: The GuardianArtist Hank Willis Thomas’s latest show in New York strips the copy from advertisements to expose what the images are actually selling – a very white, highly controlled ideal of femininity Hank Willis Thomas’s work examines the ways in which advertising has fabricated notions of gender and race, and then convinced us all to buy into them. “I always talk about racism as the most successful advertising campaign of all time,” Thomas says....
  
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• Social Risks of Heavy Drinking Trump Physical Risks, Study Finds

  30-04-2015 05:23
  Source: ScienceDailyA new study involving some 40,000 people indicates that social and psychological problems caused by drinking generally trump physically hazardous drinking behaviors when it comes to overall mortality rates.
  
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• Hawaii Set to Raise Smoking Age to 21: Why It Might Work

  30-04-2015 05:23
  
  Source: Yahoo News - HealthThe bill prohibits the sale of tobacco products to people under 21 years old, and includes fines for underage smokers and even heftier fines for anyone who buys or sells tobacco products an underage person. "It's important to understand that virtually no one who smokes starts smoking after the age of 21," said Lawrence Steinberg, a psychology professor at Temple University and author of "Age of Opportunity: Lessons From the...
  
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