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• Stress hormone link with psychosis

  03-06-2016 18:00
  
  JCU Associate Professor Zoltan Sarnyai said it was the first meta-analysis study to compare the level of cortisol in a waking patient's body with the stage of schizophrenia they are suffering.
  
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• Want to imbibe wisdom by accident? | Oliver Burkeman

  03-06-2016 16:00
  
  Aphorisms are making a comeback, says Oliver Burkeman ‘We each have two lives,” a wise person once said, “and the second begins when we realise we have only one.” I can’t tell you which wise person, sadly; the internet attributes it in roughly equal measure to Confucius and Tom Hiddleston. (It’s not a very Confucian sentiment, so I’m going with Hiddleston.) But it hardly matters. It’s an aphorism, and like all the best ones, it feels as if it alway
  
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• Study shows how judgment of sensory simultaneity may develop in the brain

  03-06-2016 15:28
  In a study using tadpoles, neuroscientists tracked how the brain develops its sense of whether two sensory inputs -- for example, vision and touch -- happened at the same time.
  
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• Snails reveal how two brain cells can hold the key to decision making

  03-06-2016 13:16
  Scientists have discovered how just two neurons in the brain hold the key to explaining how complex behavioral decisions are made. Scientists studied the brain activity of freshwater snails and discovered how a circuit comprising of just two neurons can drive a sophisticated form of decision making.
  
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• We need more good news stories, like Yamato Tanooka’s rescue | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  03-06-2016 11:38
  
  The negativity in our 24-hour media-obsessed culture can get on top of you. It would be great to have a better balance with tales about the brighter side of lifeThe joyous news that seven-year-old Yamato Tanooka has been found alive and very much unabducted, unmurdered, and uneaten by wild bears, will have brought smiles to many a face this morning. The child, who disappeared after he was made to get out of his parents’ car on a mountain road for misbehaving, has been found bunking down in
  
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• Local Doctor Striving to Bring a Happier Ending to "Concussion" Story

  03-06-2016 09:00 via pr.com
  They played their hearts out on the NFL gridiron; however, it’s their heads that are now feeling the impact. The recent “Concussion” movie, starring Will Smith, will shed immense light on the disease process known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a disease stemming, in part, from repeated head injury. Currently, the diagnosis can only be made at autopsy. But while millions of dollars have gone [PR.com]
  
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• Tinder to Open Up to Transgender Dates

  03-06-2016 08:28 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: USA Today - TechnologyDating site to make changes            .
  
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• In Missouri, Black Drivers Get Stopped More Often

  03-06-2016 08:28 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesBlack drivers in Missouri were nearly 70 percent more likely than whites to get stopped by the police last year, marking a slight improvement from the year before but showing there still are significant racial disparities in such stops.
  
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• Gender Gap Found in Biology Exam Performance

  03-06-2016 08:28 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: ScienceDailyMale students in undergraduate introductory biology courses are outperforming females at test time, but it may be due to how exams are designed rather than academic ability, suggests new research. In addition, high socioeconomic status students are performing better than lower-status students on those same tests.
  
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• Americans Accept and Engage in Same-Sex Behavior More Than Ever

  03-06-2016 08:28 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: ScienceDailyA new study shows a fundamental shift in Americans' attitudes about same-sex behavior. Since the 1990s, the percentage of adults who accept same-sex behavior has quadrupled, and those who have participated in same-sex experiences has doubled. These increases were among all generations, with Millennials leading the way.
  
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• Women held to higher ethical standard than men

  03-06-2016 05:36 via npr.org
  
  In a study on gender and ethics, researchers found women receive harsher punishments than men for ethical violations at work.
  
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