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• WHO backs 'treat-all' HIV drug plan

  30-09-2015 21:56
  
  Everyone who has HIV should be offered antiretroviral drugs as soon as possible after diagnosis, the World Health Organisation says.
  
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• Insight on how a new class of antidepressants works

  30-09-2015 20:06
  The experimental drugs target brain cells’ ability to respond to the chemical messenger glutamate, however, it has been unclear how they work. The recent discovery of a molecular amplification system helps explain how the drugs achieve an antidepressant effect by altering signaling in particular neurons.
  
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• Placebo power: Depressed people who respond to fake drugs get the most help from real ones

  30-09-2015 20:01
  When it comes to treating depression, how well a person responds to a fake medicine may determine how well they'll respond to a real one, new research finds. Those who can muster their brain's own chemical forces against depression, it appears, have a head start in overcoming its symptoms with help from a medication. But those whose brain chemistry doesn't react as much to a fake medicine, or placebo, struggle even after getting active drug.
  
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• New study proves link between recent abuse and menopause-related symptoms

  30-09-2015 18:00
  
  Numerous studies have already documented how abuse of any kind can result in health problems. There are even proven links between adverse childhood experiences and hot flashes.
  
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• Memory is greater threat to romantic relationships than Facebook

  30-09-2015 18:00
  
  A new study was designed to test whether contacts in a person's Facebook friends list who are romantically desirable are more or less of a threat to an existing relationship than are potential...
  
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• Antipsychotics increase risk of death in people with Parkinson's disease psychosis

  30-09-2015 18:00
  
  Antipsychotic drugs may increase the risk of death in people with Parkinson's disease psychosis (PDP), according to a new study led by researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology ...
  
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• Human visual cortex holds neurons that selectively respond to intermediate colors

  30-09-2015 17:04
  Researchers have found the presence of neurons in the human brain which can each selectively respond to an intermediate color; not just neurons of red, green, yellow and blue.
  
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• Unbound Medicine and the American Psychiatric Association Launch DSM-5® Diagnostic-Support App for Mobile Devices and the Apple Watch®

  30-09-2015 17:00 via pr.com
  Unbound Medicine launched a leading-edge differential diagnosis app for health professionals in collaboration with the publishing arm of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Derived from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5®) Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, the app combines interactive guidance with expert commentary, enabling clinicians to perform faster and more [PR.com]
  
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• Stress causes infants to resort to habits

  30-09-2015 17:00
  
  Under stress, people are inclined to resort to habits, rather than trying out new things.
  
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• Scientists reveal brain network for observed social threat interactions

  30-09-2015 17:00
  
  Observing one person threatening another is a commonplace event. Now, in research published in eLife, scientists have used large-scale neural recording and big data analysis in monkeys to enable a...
  
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• Pope Met Secretly in U.S. with Antigay Marriage Clerk

  30-09-2015 16:21 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesKim Davis, a born-again Christian, told broadcaster ABC she met the pontiff on September 24 while he was in Washington after receiving a surprise phone call from a Vatican official. In Rome, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi confirmed the encounter with the Kentucky clerk, but declined to comment further. Davis has become a heroine to US same-sex marriage opponents, after she landed in jail for six days for refusing to issue licenses for gay...
  
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• Study finds that discrimination is linked with worse health among transgender Americans

  30-09-2015 16:00
  
  Despite a surge in public attention toward the transgender population, transgender adults continue to face both major and daily discrimination that often directly leads to dangerous health...
  
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• Identifying youth as 'at risk' for mental problems may be less a stigma than the symptoms

  30-09-2015 16:00
  
  Study suggests benefits of early intervention outweigh stigma of at-risk labelingThere is an emergent and promising field of research on schizophrenia prevention, yet little is known about the...
  
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• Baylor study: Cellphones can damage romantic relationships, lead to depression

  30-09-2015 16:00
  
  Cellphone use can undermine the bedrock of our happiness -- our relationships with our romantic partners,' researcher saysResearch from Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business confirms...
  
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• Brain network for observed social threat interactions revealed

  30-09-2015 15:25
  Observing one person threatening another is a commonplace event. Now, in new research, scientists have used large-scale neural recording and big data analysis in monkeys to enable a first glimpse of the brain remembering and recalling the memory of such negative social interactions.
  
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• Chimpanzee personality linked to anatomy of brain structures, study finds

  30-09-2015 12:00
  
  Chimpanzees' personality traits are linked to the anatomy of specific brain structures, according to researchers at Georgia State University, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and...
  
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• Scientists control rats' senses of familiarity, novelty

  30-09-2015 00:12
  Brain scientists didn't just study how recognition of familiarity and novelty arise in the mammalian brain, they actually took control, inducing rats to behave as if images they'd seen before were new, and images they had never seen were old.
  
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