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• Bullying is a 'serious public health problem,' report says

  10-05-2016 22:30 via cnn.com
  
  Researchers also noticed that bullying causes changes in the stress response system of the brain, affecting cognitive function and self-regulating emotions.
  
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• Do you inherit your parent's mental illness?

  10-05-2016 22:29 via bbc.com
  
  In the battle to find what causes mental illness, scientists are increasingly looking at genetic factors.
  
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• Brain pattern predicts how fast an adult learns a new language

  10-05-2016 19:43
  A five-minute measurement of resting-state brain activity predicted how quickly adults learned a second language, report scientists.
  
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• Out of mind, out of sight: Brain's frontal cortex controls vision

  10-05-2016 18:48
  Ever search desperately for something, then realize you were looking straight at it the whole time? Research indicates that vision is controlled by the part of the brain associated with thinking. And in sight, too, it can be absent minded.
  
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• Early life stress accelerates maturation of key brain region in male mice

  10-05-2016 18:48
  Scientists studying how stress in early childhood affects the brain have new evidence from a study in male mice that a key region, the hippocampus, appears to mature faster.
  
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• How modern power works: less Game of Thrones, more Black Lives Matter

  10-05-2016 17:15
  
  Social psychologist Dacher Keltner, author of The Power Paradox, says the key to success is changing. The Machiavellian rule of the Lannisters is less effective than ground-up collaborationIf you drive a Prius, Dacher Keltner believes, there is an above-average chance that you are not an especially pleasant person. He explains how he came to this conclusion as congenially as he can. It is not a hunch.One day, near the Greater Good Science Center that he runs in Berkeley, California, Keltner was
  
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• SATs: the dangerous exam that's frying our children's brains | Dean Burnett

  10-05-2016 14:58
  
  Often new technology or development is condemned as being “damaging to children”. Why not apply that approach to the disastrous government SATs?You may have noticed that it’s very common, particularly in the more right-wing leaning media, to suggest that something is bad because it’s potentially harmful to children, particularly their brains. Video games, smartphones and tablets, Facebook, the internet as a whole, screens in general, fizzy drinks, vaccines, and who knows
  
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• Researchers find potential breakthrough in binge-eating disorder treatment

  10-05-2016 14:57
  A treatment used for depression, Parkinson’s disease and autism shows promise to alleviate obesity in binge-eating disorder patients. tDCS is a type of neuromodulator that delivers constant, low-current electricity to a targeted portion of the brain.
  
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• Study suggests new treatment for seizures

  10-05-2016 14:42
  A new factor in the escalation of seizures has been discovered: the synthesis, or generation, of estrogens in the brain. This study also suggests that using a drug that inhibits estrogen synthesis, called an aromatase inhibitor, may be an effective approach to controlling seizures.
  
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• Mouse model of autism offers insights to human patients, potential drug targets

  10-05-2016 14:42
  A new mouse model of a genetically-linked type of autism reveals more about the role of genes in the disorder and the underlying brain changes associated with autism's social and learning problems. Scientists who developed the new model also discovered that targeting a brain receptor in mice with this type of autism could ease repetitive behaviors and improve learning in some animals.
  
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• Worrying about being a perfect mother makes it harder to be a good parent

  10-05-2016 13:00
  
  As my research shows, the quest for perfection can actually make providing sensitive, warm and consistent care more difficultEven armed with a PhD in developmental psychology, I remember the frightening first moments after bringing my newborn daughter home from the hospital. I wasn’t sure what to do – and not at all confident that I was capable of being the parent she needed me to be. Every little decision about feeding and caring for this helpless human seemed momentous and fraught
  
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• New data on brain network activity can help in understanding 'cognitive vulnerability' to depression

  10-05-2016 11:00
  
  Neuroimaging studies of interconnected brain networks may provide the "missing links" between behavioral and biological models of cognitive vulnerability to depression, according to a research review...
  
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• Behavioral Economists Create Model of Our Desire to Make Sense of It All

  10-05-2016 08:09 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: ScienceDailyResearchers have identified a powerful human motive that has not been adequately appreciated by social and behavioral scientists: the drive to make sense of our lives and the world around us. They show that it can help to make sense of a wide range of disparate phenomena, including curiosity, boredom, confirmation bias and information avoidance, esthetics, caring about other's beliefs, the importance of narrative and the role of 'the good life'...
  
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• Unique Swedish Study Tests Drugs to Prevent Child Sex Abuse

  10-05-2016 08:08 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - HealthAnders, who agreed to be interviewed using a pseudonym, says he has never abused children but sought help because he knew his sexual fantasies were "not normal". At Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, patients like Anders who have sought help for paedophile fantasies, but have not acted on them, are being given a drug normally used to treat advanced prostate cancer to determine if it reduces the risk of them sexually abusing a...
  
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• After Mom Starves to Death, New Concern for Mentally Ill

  10-05-2016 08:08 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: MSNBC - Health NewsLinda Bishop, a once vibrant mother, starved to death after she was released from a New Hampshire mental hospital in 2007. A new film tells her story.
  
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• New test for ‘growth mindset’, the theory that anyone who tries can succeed

  10-05-2016 08:00
  
  Researchers are going to examine the theory from American psychology that has taken UK schools by storm. Can it improve Sats results?Can watching short films featuring actors impersonating Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein improve your brainpower? Researchers working in 100 British primary schools will try to find out from September, thanks to a £290,000 grant from the Education Endowment Foundation to test whether instructing children aged 10 and 11 in “growth mindset”, an id
  
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• Insight into the mystery of smell

  10-05-2016 01:10
  Researchers have uncovered the mechanism underlying a phenomenon in how we smell that has puzzled researchers for several decades. In a new article, the team reports that, surprisingly, the mechanism follows a simple physics principle called cooperativity.
  
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