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• Easy explanations for life's inequities lead to support for the status quo

  09-09-2015 18:50
  What if you heard that on planet Teeku, the Blarks were a lot richer than the Orps, and you had to guess why? In a new study, participants were asked to select from several potential explanations for this fictional disparity. A majority focused on inherent traits of the Blarks and Orps (maybe the Blarks were smarter, or better workers than the Orps), rather than on external factors.
  
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• Brain plasticity in leprosy

  09-09-2015 18:41
  A new study shows that nerve damage caused by leprosy is associated to changes in the brain of patients.
  
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• USC, China researchers find children who have a plan can overcome adversity

  09-09-2015 18:00
  
  Making a plan can be the difference in overcoming a difficult childhood, while just thinking about those difficulties can drag down the child.
  
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• Teens are not always irrational

  09-09-2015 18:00
  
  Teenagers are irrational and make bad decisions. Or do they? A new Duke study finds that adolescents ages 10 to 16 can be more analytical in their economic choices than many slightly older young...
  
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• Does our mental health as teenagers determine our entry into parenthood? Yes, and no

  09-09-2015 18:00
  
  The effects of parenthood on mental health are complex, but a new study published in Health Sociology Review reveals a different angle to the relationship: how a person's mental health at 16...
  
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• Stem cell-derived 'mini-brains' reveal potential drug treatment for rare disorder MECP2 duplication syndrome

  09-09-2015 16:00
  
  Using "mini-brains" built with induced pluripotent stem cells derived from patients with a rare, but devastating, neurological disorder, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of...
  
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• Mothers use a variety of protective strategies to mitigate risks to their daughters` body image

  09-09-2015 16:00
  
  Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) research demonstrates how mothers' emphasis on the many aspects of well being, fitness and a sense of self-fulfillment helps to counteract the innumerable...
  
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• Peering into fish brains to see how they work

  09-09-2015 15:08
  One of the fundamental challenges facing neuroscientists who want to understand how the brain works is actually figuring out how the brain is wired together and how neurons interact. Now transgenic zebrafish are being used by researchers to unlock the secrets of the brain.
  
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• Study identifies psychological traits associated with homophobia

  09-09-2015 15:00
  
  A new study that investigated the potential of certain psychological traits for predisposing heterosexuals to have negative attitudes towards homosexual people found that psychoticism - which is...
  
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• Tutoring relieves math anxiety, changes fear circuits in children

  09-09-2015 00:04
  Anxiety about doing math problems can be relieved with a one-on-one math tutoring program, according to a new study. The study showed that tutoring fixed abnormal responses in the brain's fear circuits.
  
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• A new factor in depression? Brain protein discovery could lead to better treatments

  09-09-2015 00:04
  Low. Down. Less than normal. That's what the word depression means, and what people with depression often feel like. But sometimes, depression can mean too much of something -- as new research shows.The discovery, about a protein called fibroblast growth factor 9 or FGF9, goes against previous findings that depressed brains often have less of key components than non-depressed brains.
  
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