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• Team links two human brains for question-and-answer experiment

  23-09-2015 21:13
  Researchers used a brain-to-brain interface they developed to allow pairs of participants to play a '20 question' style game by transmitting signals from one brain to another over the Internet. Their experiment is thought to be the first to demonstrate that two brains can be directly linked to allow someone to accurately guess what is on another person's mind.
  
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• WHO says most people in Europe too fat

  23-09-2015 20:05
  
  The World Health Organization also warned that Europe had the highest levels of alcohol and tobacco use in the world.
  
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• Less pain, less joy: A new look at aceteminophen

  23-09-2015 20:00
  
  A recent study suggests that acetaminophen, a common pain reliever, is an all-purpose damper, stifling a range of strong feelings.
  
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• Decision-making involves a little known brain region in the thalamus

  23-09-2015 19:42
  When faced with a change to our environment, we have to make appropriate decisions, which usually involves the orbitofrontal cortex. Yet unexpectedly, scientists have discovered that a brain region located in the thalamus also plays a crucial role in using these evolved skills.
  
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• Ringing in the ears and chronic pain enter by the same gate

  23-09-2015 19:41
  Tinnitus and chronic pain have more in common than their ability to afflict millions with the very real experience of 'phantom' sensations. Homing in on their structural and functional bases in the brain, researchers have identified a central gatekeeping system implicated in both disorders.
  
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• How the brain encodes time and place

  23-09-2015 19:41
  Neuroscientists have now identified a brain circuit that processes the 'when' and 'where' components of memory. Previous models of memory had suggested that the hippocampus, a brain structure critical for memory formation, separates timing and context information. However, the new study shows that this information is split even before it reaches the hippocampus.
  
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• Adolescent brain may be especially sensitive to new memories, social stress, and drug use

  23-09-2015 19:35
  Adolescence, like infancy, has been said to include distinct sensitive periods during which brain plasticity is heightened; but in a review of the neuroscience literature saw little evidence for this claim. However, a small number of studies do support that memory formation, social stress, and drug use are processed differently in the adolescent brain compared to other periods of life.
  
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• What motivates "facebook stalking" after a romantic breakup?

  23-09-2015 18:00
  
  Social networking makes it easy to monitor the status and activities of a former romantic partner, an often unhealthy use of social media known as interpersonal electronic surveillance (IES) or...
  
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• Gene magnifies the psychological impact of life events, for better and for worse - Depression gene has silver lining

  23-09-2015 18:00
  
  People with a certain type of gene are more deeply affected by their life experiences, a new study has revealed.
  
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• The secret to being a convincing liar? Tell your fibs on a full bladder

  23-09-2015 16:17
  
  We put the ‘inhibitory spillover effect’ to the test: first by telling porkies on an empty bladder, and again after two pints of waterA person who needs the toilet is the purest person you’ll ever meet. Stripped of all niceties and social conventions, and assigned with a task that simply cannot be allowed to fail, you briefly get to witness them for who they really are. Aggression, contrition, frustration and cowardice; these are all attributes that come to the fore when someon
  
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• National school-based mental health intervention improves outcomes for at-risk students

  23-09-2015 14:00
  
  A national school-based mental health program that is now reaching almost one quarter of all elementary school students in Chile appears to have produced significant improvements in both behavioral...
  
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• 'Mind-reading' kids are more discriminating learners

  23-09-2015 14:00
  
  To learn about the world around them, young children depend on information provided by others.
  
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• Do women experience negative emotions differently than men?

  23-09-2015 14:00
  
  Women react differently to negative images compared to men, which may be explained by subtle differences in brain function.
  
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• Gene may amplify impact of life events on mental health

  23-09-2015 12:00
  
  Adults with a certain gene are more likely to have depression following history of childhood abuse but also seem happier than most in the absence of such history,a study shows.
  
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• Intelligent Car Seat Detects Driver's Stress Level

  23-09-2015 08:21 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: Reuters - TechnologyKeeping calm behind the wheel could get easier thanks to a new car seat that actively monitors a driver's physical and mental status to offer an on the move therapy session.
  
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• Can a Black Dot on a Victim's Hand Help Tackle Domestic Violence?

  23-09-2015 08:21 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: BBC News - UK NewsThe campaign aiming to highlight domestic abuse.
  
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• Psychology of Immigration: Why Responses to Migrants Vary

  23-09-2015 08:20 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - ScienceThere's also a gulf of difference between how European citizens and their governments are responding to the influx of asylum seekers from Syria, North Africa and other Middle Eastern nations. "One of the first things to appreciate is that the anti-immigrant reactions are really natural, and in some ways fundamental to who we are," said Steven Neuberg, a psychologist at Arizona State University who researches prejudice and in-group/out-group...
  
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• New technique negotiates neuron jungle to target source of Parkinson's disease

  23-09-2015 04:12
  Researchers believe they have found a potential new way to target cells of the brain affected by Parkinson's disease. The new technique is relatively non-invasive and has worked to improve symptoms of the disease in rats.
  
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• Increased activity in older brains may point to new avenues for treating memory loss

  23-09-2015 00:48
  Scientists have examined activity in a little-studied part of the brain associated with memory and found for the first time the reason that neurons there become more active in old age, findings that may suggest a new target for future therapies to combat memory loss in aging and Alzheimer's disease.
  
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• Researchers identify possible physiological cause of brain deficits with aging

  23-09-2015 00:47
  Like scratchy-sounding old radio dials that interfere with reception, circuits in the brain that grow noisier over time may be responsible for ways in which we slow mentally as we grow old, according to the results of new studies from UC San Francisco on young and older adults.
  
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