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• Women have more empathy, but do even we care any more? | Christina Patterson

  05-02-2016 21:00
  
  People are becoming more self-centred, says new research. The shocking death of Louise Wolstenholme suggests this may be truePsychopaths don’t yawn. They might yawn when they’re tired, or bored, or when the conversation switches to a subject that isn’t linked to them, but when other people yawn, psychopaths don’t. They don’t yawn because they don’t give a monkey’s what other people feel.In this they are different to orangutans, which apparently laugh whe
  
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• Super bowl won’t make you feel super, even if your team wins

  05-02-2016 19:54
  Communication researchers have created a unique way to watch the emotional dynamics of the game in real-time during this year's Super Bowl.
  
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• The significance of non-motor microtubule-associated protein in maintaining synaptic plasticity thorough a novel mechanism

  05-02-2016 17:05
  NMDA glutamate receptors, which function as receptors that bond with glutamates, are known to be deeply involved in animal memory and learning. In order for memories to be created inside the brain, these NMDA glutamate receptors must first be transported to and accumulated in the synapses.
  
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• Aggression causes new nerve cells to be generated in the brain

  05-02-2016 16:53
  Neurobiologists have demonstrated experimentally that aggression has an influence on the production of new nerve cells in the brain. The scientists conducted a series of experiments on male mice.
  
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• More effective speech therapy approach for children with Down Syndrome

  05-02-2016 16:08
  Children with Down syndrome who have motor speech deficits have been inadequately diagnosed, which could have a major impact on the interventions used by speech pathologists when treating patients, a new study indicates.
  
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• First-of-its-kind study explains why rest is critical after a concussion

  05-02-2016 16:04
  Neuroscientists say rest -- for more than a day -- is critical for allowing the brain to reset neural networks and repair any short-term injury. This new study in mice also shows that repeated mild concussions with only a day to recover between injuries leads to mounting damage and brain inflammation that remains evident a year after injury.
  
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• Can you make your own happiness?

  05-02-2016 16:00
  
  The basic premise is that the human mind is a crappy computer – full of bugs, but capable of reprogrammingIf phrases such as “goal refactoring” and “urge propagation” mean nothing to you, perhaps it’s time to shell out £2,700 on a four-day workshop to learn the self-improvement philosophy sweeping Silicon Valley: applied rationality. The basic premise is that the human mind is a crappy computer – full of bugs, but capable of reprogramming. Take the
  
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• Parental preference for boys damages girls' self-esteem and happiness

  05-02-2016 14:00
  
  While most studies of parental sex discrimination explore the devastating social and demographic effects of a cultural preference for boys, a new study examines its psychological effects on the...
  
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• Health-care disparities contribute to delayed testicular cancer diagnosis in a transgender woman

  05-02-2016 14:00
  
  A family physician reports the case of a transgender woman whose testosterone levels rose unexpectedly while on feminizing hormones, leading eventually to a diagnosis of a rare, virilizing form of...
  
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• 'My liver is bleeding': life inside an Afghan psychiatric hospital – in pictures

  05-02-2016 13:34
  
  ‘My liver is bleeding’, a local saying meaning ‘I am unhappy’, is a familiar refrain among patients at the Alemi neuro-psychiatric hospital, Afghanistan’s first private clinic, in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. After nearly 40 years of on-off war, mental illness is widespread, but facilities to help patients are few• All photos by Magda Rakita for the British and Irish Agencies Afghanistan Group Continue reading...
  
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• How I learned to stop worrying and love The Donald

  05-02-2016 13:08
  
  The age of Trump can arouse feelings of anger, fear and flat-out existential dread, and the thought that many people agree with him only makes it worse. But all this angst is futile – so how can it be turned into something useful?Lately, in New York, it seems as if every conversation – in a bar, over dinner, on the subway – eventually grows suffused with one highly specific emotion: a blend of fear, despair and disbelief brought on by the continuing rise of Donald Trump. (We ne
  
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• UCI researchers link compulsive Facebook checking to lack of sleep

  05-02-2016 13:00
  
  If you find yourself toggling over to look at Facebook several dozen times a day, it's not necessarily because the experience of being on social media is so wonderful.
  
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• Targeting the mind/body connection in stress

  05-02-2016 13:00
  
  Our ability to cope with stress depends on how efficiently our body and mind regulate their response to it.
  
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• Phantom cell phone signals - who hears them and why?

  05-02-2016 13:00
  
  If you think you hear your cell phone ringing or feel it vibrating to signal an incoming call or message, but there actually is none, you may have "ringxiety" and be psychologically primed to...
  
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• International study explores the good, the bad and not-so ugly of hallucinations

  05-02-2016 13:00
  
  Hallucinations can be a terrifying part of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia.
  
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• New non-invasive form of vagus nerve stimulation works to treat depression

  05-02-2016 12:00
  
  Depression can be a devastating and unremitting problem.Researchers of a new study published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry report successful reduction of depressive symptoms in...
  
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• Neurobiological changes explain how mindfulness meditation improves health

  05-02-2016 12:00
  
  Over the past decade, mindfulness meditation has been shown to improve a broad range of health and disease outcomes, such as slowing HIV progression and improving healthy aging.
  
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• NICE guidelines for psychological therapy - overstepping the evidence?

  05-02-2016 11:01
  
  NICE claim that they provide ‘evidence based’ healthcare guidance, but Keith Laws believes this isn’t the case when it comes to psychological therapies like CBTWe routinely hear about bias and questionable research practices in the world of ‘Big Pharma’, while psychological therapies are often portrayed as pursuing a ‘purer’ path. Is it possible, however, that an organisation as renowned as the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
  
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• Early poverty disrupts link between hunger and eating

  05-02-2016 11:00
  
  How much you eat when you're not really hungry may depend on how well off your family was when you were a child, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the...
  
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• 'Resting bitch face' is real, scientists say

  05-02-2016 03:03 via cnn.com
  
  Cultural differences and gender bias may play a role in people's perception of someone's underlying emotions.
  
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• Research explores consequences of revealing embarrassing details

  05-02-2016 03:01 via npr.org
  
  Research finds that people distrust withholders of details more than they dislike revealers of unsavory information.
  
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• 'Suicide prevention app' trial

  05-02-2016 03:00 via bbc.com
  
  An NHS mental health trust is working with US researchers to develop an app that may stop people from killing themselves.
  
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