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• How to forgive, even if you think it's impossible

  29-04-2016 17:29 via today.com
  
  Carrying around resentment and anger, guilt and shame, hurts our health, happiness and relationships.
  
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• Hawaii looks to allow psychologists to prescribe drugs

  29-04-2016 17:29 via foxnews.com
  
  State lawmakers are attempting to make Hawaii one of a few states that allow psychologists to prescribe medication in hopes of increasing access to mental health services.
  
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• Finding sheds light on what may kill neurons after stroke

  29-04-2016 16:55
  Strokes, seizures, traumatic brain injury and schizophrenia: these conditions can cause persistent, widespread acidity around neurons in the brain. But exactly how that acidity affects brain function isn't well understood.
  
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• Hormone, neurotransmitter systems disturbed in alcoholics' brains

  29-04-2016 15:58
  The brain tissue of people with alcohol dependence shows a variety of changes compared to non-alcoholic control persons. All alcoholics' brains share some characteristics, but some are exclusive to the brain tissue of anxiety-prone type 1 alcoholics or impulsive type 2 alcoholics, according to a recent study.
  
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• Salts in the brain control our sleep-wake cycle

  29-04-2016 15:51
  A new epoch-making discovery has been made, which may prove decisive to future brain research. The level of salts in the brain plays a critical role in whether we are asleep or awake. This discovery may be of great importance to research on psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and convulsive fits from lack of sleep as well as post-anaesthetization confusion, according to experts.
  
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• Analyzing the psyche of risky drivers

  29-04-2016 14:00
  
  Study of repeat drunk drivers, speeding offenders finds distinct behavioral profiles.
  
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• Harsh out of necessity: To cope with Multiple Sclerosis, patients become morally stricter

  29-04-2016 09:00
  
  Multiple sclerosis (MS) can have a strong impact on the life of patients. Not only must they address the unpleasant symptoms, they are also subject to unpredictable relapses after more or less long...
  
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• Parents and social media: do as I say, not as I do

  29-04-2016 02:00
  
  Two-thirds of parents fear social media is bad for their child, yet they use it extensively themselves.
  
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• Hospital self-harm cases have steadily risen in England since 2008

  29-04-2016 02:00
  
  But only half of those going to hospital afterwards get mental health assessment.
  
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