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• Researchers identify the source of the debilitating memory loss in people with psychosis

  23-07-2015 18:00
  
  As disabling as its delusions and hallucinations, psychosis' devastating toll on memory arises from dysfunction of frontal and temporal lobe regions in the brain that rob sufferers of the ability...
  
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• Having wealthy neighbours can make you think everyone is rich

  23-07-2015 18:00
  
  Wealthy people may be likely to oppose redistribution of wealth, and poor people to support redistribution, because they have biased information about how wealthy most people actually are...
  
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• Body fat can send signals to brain, affecting stress response

  23-07-2015 17:13
  The brain's effect on other parts of the body has been well established. Now, a group of researchers has found that it's a two-way street: Body fat can send a signal that affects the way the brain deals with stress and metabolism.
  
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• Bullying, 'rather than misogyny,' explains online abuse of female gamers

  23-07-2015 17:00
  
  Women receive three times as much abuse as men when playing online games. A new study suggests the psychology behind this is rooted in the need to men's desire for social status.
  
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• New insights into the circuitry of PTSD, mild traumatic brain injury

  23-07-2015 16:10
  Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have devastating consequences. Both are associated with high rates of disability and suicide, and although they are separate conditions, they commonly co-occur. For example, a soldier who has developed PTSD as a result of a traumatic experience may have also sustained a brain injury during that experience.
  
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• Large rise in suicide among male patients in mental health care

  23-07-2015 15:00
  
  There has been a 29% rise in suicide since 2006 among men under the care of mental health services in the UK, a report by The University of Manchester's National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide...
  
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• Musical tastes offer a window into how you think

  23-07-2015 13:00
  
  Do you like your jazz to be Norah Jones or Ornette Coleman, your classical music to be Bach or Stravinsky, or your rock to be Coldplay or Slayer?
  
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• PTSD affecting 'a quarter-million' Vietnam war veterans

  23-07-2015 09:00
  
  Four decades on from the end of the Vietnam war and some US ex-servicemen still experience mental health problems, including post-traumatic stress and major depression.
  
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• What to do when your ex comes out as gay | Dean Burnett

  23-07-2015 08:10
  
  A recent observer article looked at what it’s like for children whose parents come out as gay. Having your parents come out is one thing, but what if you’re ex-partner comes out? What, if anything, is the appropriate response to this?If you’ve been in a relationship that has ended, you’re almost certain to have an “ex”: someone you were romantically involved with but aren’t any longer. Relationships with an ex-partner are among of the most complicated and delicate it’s possible f
  
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