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• Electrical brain stimulation could support stroke recovery

  16-03-2016 20:11
  Medical researchers have studied the use of transcranial direct current stimulation to support rehabilitation training for stroke patients and found that those who had tCDS had better outcomes.
  
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• Flipping a light switch recovers memories lost to Alzheimer's disease mice

  16-03-2016 19:04
  Light stimulation of brain cells can recover memories in mice with Alzheimer's disease-like memory loss, according to new research. The rescue of memories, which changed both the structure of neurons as well as the behavior of mice, was achieved using optogenetics, a method for manipulating genetically tagged cells with precise bursts of light. This finding suggests that impaired retrieval of memories, rather than poor storage or encoding, may underlie this prominent symptom of early Alzheimer's
  
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• Women Read Sexist Donald Trump Quotes in Viral Ad

  16-03-2016 18:47 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsNew anti-Trump ad features horrible things Donald Trump has said about women, as read by women.
  
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• Nigeria Turns to Healers for Help Filling Mental Health Needs

  16-03-2016 18:46 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Science and Development NetworkIn Nigeria, there is just one psychiatrist for every million people — like in many low-income countries, mental health is severely neglected. A WHO survey found that only 20 per cent of Nigerians with mental health conditions received treatment over a 12 month period, and only 1-in-10 of those treated got adequate care.
  
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• Hormone Cortisol Linked to Increased Aggression in 10-Year-Old Boys

  16-03-2016 18:45 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: ScienceDailySpanish researchers have studied the relationship between hormones and aggressive behaviour in girls and boys between the ages of eight and ten. The results confirm that the subjects who experienced the greatest increase in levels of aggression by ten years of age were those whose cortisol levels had also increased during those two years.
  
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• High Psychosis Risk Among Europe's Refugee Migrants

  16-03-2016 18:44 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - HealthRefugees fleeing war, violence and persecution have a much higher risk of developing psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia than people who migrate for economic or social reasons, according to research
  
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• Pakistani Groups Say Law Protecting Women from Abuse "Un-Islamic"

  16-03-2016 18:42 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - HealthAn all-parties conference convened by Pakistan's oldest Islamic political party and attended by powerful religious groups has asked the government to retract an "un-Islamic" law that protects female victims of violence. The Women's Protection Act, passed in Pakistan's largest province last month, gives legal protection to women from domestic, psychological and sexual violence. Domestic abuse, economic discrimination and acid attacks made Pakistan
  
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• Trump Rally Violence Not Simply "Mob Mentality," Says Psychologist

  16-03-2016 18:41 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsIt's easy to dismiss the spate of violent clashes at Donald Trump rallies as the result of what's called mob mentality, but social psychologist Cliffort Stott says this "misses the point.".
  
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• German Leader Says Refugees Must Reject Anti-Semitism

  16-03-2016 18:41 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportBERLIN — Germany's foreign minister says refugees who find shelter in his country must reject anti-Semitism.
  
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• Could Meditation Replace Opioids for Pain Relief?

  16-03-2016 18:41 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Medical News TodayA new study is the first to demonstrate that mindfulness-related pain relief is distinct from placebo pain relief, putting meditation squarely in the center of the opioid epidemic.
  
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• Mindful meditation eases pain and may help medication work better

  16-03-2016 17:55 via today.com
  
  A new study finds that easy-to-learn mindful meditation significantly reduces pain.
  
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• Canadian Woman Who Made History Suing Over Forced Sterilization Dies

  16-03-2016 17:44 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Globe and Mail -NationalLeilani Muir-O’Malley was among 3,000 Albertans sterilized under a law intended to prevent those the province called ‘mental defectives’ from passing on their genes.
  
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• Anxiety may lead to bad decision-making

  16-03-2016 17:00
  
  Anxiety may interfere with a specific set of neurons in the prefrontal cortex of the brain that are responsible for choice, causing us to make bad decisions, a new study suggests.
  
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• Mouse model yields possible treatment for autism-like symptoms in rare disease

  16-03-2016 14:00
  
  Anti-anxiety drug clonazepam reduces autistic features in mouse model of Jacobsen syndrome.
  
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• Child abuse contributes the most to mental health problems in the Canadian Armed Forces

  16-03-2016 13:27
  Among the mental health disorders reported in the Canadian Armed Forces in 2013, 8.7 percent of the burden of illness was attributed to Afghanistan-related military service while 28.7 percent was attributed to past child abuse experiences.
  
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• Post-traumatic stress disorder seen in many adults living with congenital heart disease

  16-03-2016 13:00
  
  Adults living with congenital heart disease (CHD) may have a significantly higher risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than people in the general population.
  
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• IUPUI psychologists explore pain in Hispanic-Americans

  16-03-2016 13:00
  
  Hispanic Americans report fewer pain conditions compared with non-Hispanic white or black Americans, according to a critical review and analysis of more than 100 studies on pain experience and pain...
  
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• Why do humans like to get drunk? You asked Google – here’s the answer

  16-03-2016 10:37
  
  Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queriesAlcohol is a very simple molecule with incredibly complex effects. Although I already knew a bit about the neurobiology of alcohol, I just spent an afternoon reading a dense journal article that described roughly 50 different neural mechanisms it affects. After which I felt like I needed a drink. It’s widely known that alcohol reduces stress
  
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• Anxiety Attack Symptoms: Signs, Duration and Complications

  16-03-2016 08:00
  
  Learn about the symptoms of anxiety attacks, including when they might occur, how long they can last for and what can be done about them.
  
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• Refugees have a substantially higher risk of psychotic disorders

  16-03-2016 01:00
  
  Refugees face a substantially higher risk of psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, compared to non-refugee migrants from the same regions of origin, finds a study published in The BMJ.
  
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