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• Virtual reality maze 'predicts Alzheimer's disease'

  23-10-2015 19:07 via bbc.com
  
  Alzheimer's disease can be detected decades before onset, using a virtual reality test, a study suggests.
  
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• Teens leaving foster system may lack needed mental health care

  23-10-2015 19:06 via foxnews.com
  
  Study shows about one third of teens and young adults leaving foster care continued to receive needed mental health services.
  
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• Our high school kids: tired, stressed and bored

  23-10-2015 19:05 via usatoday.com
  
  Research warns that such negative feelings can influence young people's attention, memory, decision making, school performance and social lives.
  
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• Depression too often reduced to a checklist of symptoms

  23-10-2015 16:58
  How can you tell if someone is depressed? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) -- the 'bible' of psychiatry -- diagnoses depression when patients tick off a certain number of symptoms on the DSM checklist. A large-scale quantitative study now shows that some symptoms play a much bigger role than others in driving depression, and that the symptoms listed in DSM may not be the most useful ones.
  
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• Alzheimer risk impairs 'satnav' function of the brain

  23-10-2015 14:45
  Young adults with genetically increased Alzheimer's risk have altered activation patterns in a brain region that is crucial for spatial navigation.
  
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• Active body, active mind: The secret to a younger brain may lie in exercising your body

  23-10-2015 14:44
  It is widely recognized that our physical fitness is reflected in our mental fitness, especially as we get older. How does being physically fit affect our aging brains? Neuroimaging studies, in which the activity of different parts of the brain can be visualized, have provided some clues. Until now, however, no study has directly linked brain activation with both mental and physical performance.
  
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• Therapy dogs have calming effect on children having cancer treatment

  23-10-2015 12:00
  
  A multi-center trial provides some of the first hard evidence to support anecdotal claims that therapy dogs can help calm child cancer patients and their families.
  
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• Children in foster care three times more likely to have ADHD diagnosis

  23-10-2015 11:00
  
  Study of 2011 Medicaid claims also finds that among children with an attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnosis, those in foster care were as likely as others to be treated with ADHD...
  
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• The power of 2 may help explain brain design

  23-10-2015 09:00
  
  At its most basic level, the brain is about the power of two, says Medical College of Georgia neuroscientist Dr. Joe Z. Tsien.
  
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• Subliminal effect of facial color on fearful faces

  23-10-2015 09:00
  
  Facial color affects N170 stage of subliminal processing of facial expressionFacial color is suggestive of emotional states, as in the phrases: "flushed with anger" and "pale with fear.
  
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