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• All humans make the 'not face'

  29-03-2016 23:44 via foxnews.com
  
  Researchers say this single expression of disapproval is so instinctively used that it might as well be part of our language.
  
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• What it's like to be a male survivor of sexual assault

  29-03-2016 23:43 via cnn.com
  Researchers have found that one in six men have experienced abusive sexual experiences before age 18.
  
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• Infradian oscillation of circadian genes in a mouse model of bipolar disorder

  29-03-2016 19:22
  Molecular basis of changes in mood and mood-associated behaviors are unknown. Researchers in Japan have succeeded in predicting states of mood-change-like behavior by studying the gene expression patterns in the brain in a bipolar disorder mouse model. They found that expressions of circadian rhythm-associated genes concomitantly change with mood-change-like behaviors in these mice. The current results also provide a novel insight into the molecular basis of bipolar disorder in the brain.
  
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• Simulations show how helmets would have protected bike crash victims' brains

  29-03-2016 16:15
  Bicycle helmets can reduce the risk of concussions by 54 percent, and drastically cut the risk of skull fractures, according to a study. To assess the impact on the brain, the researchers compared results of simulations with CT images, in which bleeding was evident in the brains of the crash victims. Then, they conducted simulations with and without helmets to see what would happen.
  
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• Transmissibility of Alzheimer's: No clinical symptoms

  29-03-2016 16:12
  Researchers have published the results of a clarifying research study on the potential transmissibility of Alzheimer’s disease. Although the protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid-?, might be transmissible under very unusual circumstances, this does not go along with a transmission of the clinical manifestation of Alzheimer’s disease. The affected persons develop no clinical symptoms of the disease.
  
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• Imaging predicts long-term effects in veterans with brain injury

  29-03-2016 16:10
  Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a type of MRI, may be able to predict functional post-deployment outcomes for veterans who sustained mild traumatic brain injury, or concussion, during combat, according to a new study.
  
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• The ‘drugs v talking’ debate doesn’t help us understand mental health | Simon Wessely

  29-03-2016 14:52
  
  Mental illness and how we treat it is back in the spotlight – but confusion and false distinctions create problems for both doctors and patientsMental health is in the headlines again. In recent weeks, we have had the independent commission report on psychiatric care in England, which concluded that patients should not be treated miles away from their families; the Mental Health Taskforce report, which highlighted a rise in suicides; and the prime minister committing to improving mental he
  
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• Personalized doctor office interventions show small potential for preventing depression

  29-03-2016 14:00
  
  Personalized primary care-delivered interventions may hold some promise for preventing major depression in adults, according to an article published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
  
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• Molecular mechanism for higher brain functions and neuropsychiatric disorders

  29-03-2016 13:00
  
  Implications for the development of new treatment strategies for neuropsychiatric disorders.
  
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• Social recall: factors that can affect false memory

  29-03-2016 12:00
  
  The brain can be as creative as it is inaccurate when it comes to memory, working to turn made-up stories and childhood emotions into remembered fact
  The fallibility of human memory is one of the most well established findings in psychology. There have been thousands of demonstrations of the unreliability of eyewitness testimony under well-controlled conditions dating back to the very earliest years of the discipline. Relatively recently, it was discovered that some apparent memories are not jus
  
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• Study finds brain's response to social exclusion is different in young marijuana users

  29-03-2016 09:00
  
  A study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers finds that the brains of young adult marijuana users react differently to social exclusion than do those of non-users.
  
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• Cannabis vs. alcohol: economic and social impacts

  29-03-2016 09:00
  
  Thanks to recent law changes, the negative implications of cannabis abuse are a hot topic. New research delves into the social and financial implications.
  
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• Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why | David Shariatmadari

  29-03-2016 09:00
  
  A new study reveals for the first time how different personality types react to spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. It’s all about arousalWhen you picture a “grammar nazi”, what does that person look like? Are they old or young? Male or female? Professorial or blue-collar?Related: Eight words that reveal the sexism at the heart of the English language | David Shariatmadari Eysenck’s theory was that extroverts have just a slightly lower basic rate of arousal. The eff
  
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• A study by UCSB researchers shows people are capable of multiple, simultaneous life changes

  29-03-2016 09:00
  
  Let's say you've decided to make some changes in your life. You're out of shape, your mind wanders, your self-esteem is wavering, and you have no idea what you just read.
  
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• Can machines come up with more creative solutions to our problems than we can?

  29-03-2016 07:46
  
  Design engineer David Thomassen can see a future where robots make feature films, build cities autonomously and let humans get on with helping each otherIf there’s any comfort offered during the current debate around robots, automation and the future of work, it’s that robots can’t do creativity. Machines are great for automated, precise, repetitive work; not so great for creative, expressive work. Beating beneath the discussion is a steady pulse of fear that once the technolog
  
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• Vascular brain injury evident in people in their 40s

  29-03-2016 01:47
  For the first time, a large study has shown that people as young as their 40s have stiffening of the arteries that is associated with subtle structural damage to the brain that is implicated in cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease later in life.
  
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