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• Obama in Kenya: Female Genital Mutilation Is Indefensible

  30-07-2015 23:58 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Social Psychology Network NewsAs the first sitting U.S. president to visit Kenya, Barack Obama used the opportunity to call out the country for practices that harm women and girls. “There’s no excuse for sexual assault or domestic violence, there’s no reason that young girls should suffer genital mutilation, there’s no place in a civilised society for the early or forced marriage of children. These traditions may go back centuries; they have no place in the 21st c
  
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• How Do Body Cameras Affect Police Officers?

  30-07-2015 23:58 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - HealthBody camera footage made headlines again this week after Officer Ray Tensing was indicited for murder after he allegedly shot a man in the head during a traffic stop. Michael Broder, a therapist who worked with the Philadelphia police department for five years providing psychological counseling, said the big question among experts is if the body cameras will make police afraid to act or if they will just not act inappropriately. There are not...
  
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• ​Google Reveals How It Crams a Neural Network into Your Smart Phone

  30-07-2015 23:58 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - BusinessGoogle has developed a miniature neural network so that its Translate app can do live translations without being connected to the internet.
  
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• Dentist Who Killed Popular Lion Faces Online Shaming

  30-07-2015 23:58 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Time MagazineWhat the online hate directed at a U.S. dentist, who shot and killed a lion in Zimbabwe, says about us.
  
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• Depressed females have over-active glutamate receptor gene

  30-07-2015 23:23
  Numerous genes that regulate the activity of a neurotransmitter in the brain have been found to be abundant in brain tissue of depressed females. This could be an underlying cause of the higher incidence of suicide among women, according to research.
  
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• The body and the brain: Impact of mental, physical exertion on fatigue development

  30-07-2015 22:24
  Do you ever notice how stress and mental frustration can affect your physical abilities? When you are worried about something at work, do you find yourself more exhausted at the end of the day? This phenomenon is a result of the activation of a specific area of the brain when we attempt to participate in both physical and mental tasks simultaneously.
  
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• Take a Trip Through the Brain: New Imaging Tool

  30-07-2015 19:07
  A new imaging tool could do for the brain what the telescope did for space exploration. In the first demonstration of how the technology works, the researchers look inside the brain of an adult mouse at a scale previously unachievable, generating images at a nanoscale resolution. The inventors' goal is to make the resource available to the scientific community in the form of a national brain observatory.
  
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• Trying to quit smoking? First strengthen self-control

  30-07-2015 19:07
  The desire to quit smoking -- often considered a requirement for enrolling in treatment programs -- is not always necessary to reduce cigarette cravings, argues a review of addiction research. Early evidence suggests that exercises aimed at increasing self-control, such as mindfulness meditation, can decrease the unconscious influences that motivate a person to smoke.
  
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• Genetic tug of war in the brain influences parental control over offspring behavior

  30-07-2015 18:10
  Researchers report that a nuanced, targeted version of parental control over gene expression is the method of choice over classic genomic imprinting. So-called noncanonical imprinting is particularly prevalent in the brain, and skews the genetic message in subpopulations of cells so that mom, or dad, has a stronger say, they say. The mechanism can influence offspring behavior, and because it is observed more frequently than classic imprinting, appears to be preferred.
  
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• Seniors get mental health drugs at twice the rate of other adults, see psychiatrists less

  30-07-2015 17:00
  
  High use of psychotropic medications in seniors raises possibility of interactions with their other prescriptionsOlder Americans receive prescriptions for mental health medications at more than...
  
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• Blood test predicts prognosis for traumatic brain injuries

  30-07-2015 14:08
  A new blood test could help emergency room doctors quickly diagnose traumatic brain injury and determine its severity. The findings could help identify patients who might benefit from extra therapy or experimental treatments.
  
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• Adolescents with sleep problems more likely to self-harm

  30-07-2015 14:00
  
  There is a strong relationship between sleep problems such as insomnia, and self-harm, according to findings in a new Norwegian study.
  
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• Aquariums deliver health and wellbeing benefits

  30-07-2015 12:00
  
  People who spend time watching aquariums and fish tanks could see improvements in their physical and mental wellbeing, according to new research published in the journal Environment ...
  
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• Health insurers face little enforcement of federal mental health parity law

  30-07-2015 06:00
  Insurers are supposed to cover mental health treatment as they cover other illnesses but the U.S. does not appear to actively enforce the federal law.
  
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• Surprise! You may be an ambivert

  30-07-2015 05:59
  
  Ambiverts are sometimes the life of the party and other times they just want to curl up with a book to recharge.
  
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• Could you have a drinking problem and not know it?

  30-07-2015 05:57
  
  Only 10 percent of American adults have alcohol-use disorder, but nearly one-third lie somewhere on the spectrum as "excessive drinkers."
  
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