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• Brain's immune cells key to maintaining blood-brain barrier

  11-01-2016 22:26
  New research shows that the cells responsible for protecting the brain from infection and inflammation are also responsible for repairing the system of defenses that separates the brain from the rest of the body. These findings have significant clinical implications because certain cardiovascular drugs could possibly impede the brain's ability to repair itself after a stroke or other injury.
  
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• Decision making in action

  11-01-2016 21:28
  The brain prepares multiple available movements before deciding between them, according to new findings. The research helps explain how the brain initially represents and decides between competing action options.
  
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• Will computers ever truly understand what we're saying?

  11-01-2016 19:52
  If you think computers are quickly approaching true human communication, think again. Computers like Siri often get confused because they judge meaning by looking at a word's statistical regularity. This is unlike humans, for whom context is more important than the word or signal, according to a researcher who invented a communication game allowing only nonverbal cues, and used it to pinpoint regions of the brain where mutual understanding takes place.
  
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• Transcendental Meditation may reduce PTSD symptoms, medication use in active-duty personnel

  11-01-2016 17:00
  
  Regular practice of Transcendental Meditation enables some active duty service members battling post-traumatic stress disorder to reduce or even eliminate their psychotropic medication and get...
  
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• Study demonstrates that consuming a unique carbohydrate complex during early life could provide benefits for brain health that extend into adulthood

  11-01-2016 13:00
  
  Clasado Biosciences Limited, the producers and suppliers of Bimuno® (B-GOS), a unique patented trans-galactooligosaccharide complex, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, has...
  
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• Healing Traumatic Memories, Part 1

  11-01-2016 12:44 via counsellingresource.com
  
  Can you really eliminate the fear and distress associated with a traumatic memory? Until recently, researchers weren't sure, but significant discoveries are now improving the way therapists treat traumatic memories.Tags: abuse and trauma, brain, in practice, news and research, therapy
  
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• Turning on the thyroid

  11-01-2016 10:00
  
  Thyroid disease affects about 12 percent of the U.S. population. While many people with thyroid disease don't even know they have it, an overactive or underactive thyroid can cause a slew of...
  
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• Postnatal depression linked to challenges in parenting -- could Oxytocin be helpful?

  11-01-2016 10:00
  
  Caring for an infant is challenging for any mother -- but especially so for women with postnatal depression, which may lead to adverse effects on child outcomes.
  
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• Texas Now Allows Guns in Mental Hospitals

  11-01-2016 09:25 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Social Psychology Network NewsAs of New Years Day, licensed gun owners in Texas have been allowed to openly carry firearms into restaurants, shops and zoos. Add a new place to the gun-friendly list: state mental health hospitals.
  
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• Mormon Leader: Policy Against Same-Sex Marriage Was Word From God

  11-01-2016 09:25 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: ABC News - US NewsA high-ranking Mormon leader says the church's policy against same-sex couples was a revelation directly from God to the church president.
  
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• Israeli Scientists Discover Way to Kill HIV Infected Cells

  11-01-2016 09:25 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Google News - HealthProfessors Abraham Loyter and Assaf Friedler of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem say they have reached a breakthrough in developing a process to destroy HIV infected cells. Clinical trials on human beings are set to begin within three months.
  
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• "Free Will" Investigated Using Brain-Reading Computer

  11-01-2016 09:25 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Medical News TodayThe fight between free will and determinism is almost as old as philosophy itself. Modern neuroscience techniques are now putting some meat on the bone.
  
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• UK Increasing Abuse of Foreign Maids, Says Damning Review

  11-01-2016 09:24 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: The GuardianDomestic workers transported to the UK are legally tied to their employer and are unable to change jobs while in the country. The Home Office has faced a barrage of criticism that this “tied” visa, introduced in 2012, leaves workers unable to escape abusive employers, effectively trapping them in domestic slavery.
  
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