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• Chance is ever present in the game of chess | Letters

  22-09-2016 20:21
  
  Stephen Morris (Letters, 17 September) claims that while backgammon requires great skill, as a dice game it also involves luck – unlike chess. But top chess players, including reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen, would beg to differ. While chess is a game with perfect information, its complexity precludes perfect evaluation of the play. Like life, flagging attention, moments of indecisiveness and inexplicable “faulty” moves give the game unpredictable turns and lead to unexp
  
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• Study challenges widely held view about children's moral judgement

  22-09-2016 18:00
  
  New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) argues that children's ability to make moral judgements has often been substantially underestimated.
  
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• Oxytocin may intensify spiritual beliefs

  22-09-2016 17:00
  
  It is widely known as the 'love hormone' due to its role in social bonding, but new research suggests oxytocin may also play a role in spiritual beliefs.
  
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• A moment that changed me: group therapy stopped me falling for versions of my dad | Eleanor Moran

  22-09-2016 15:54
  
  Why was I attracted to charming, older and unavailable men? The Hoffman process showed me I had placed my unreliable, dangerous father on a pedestalThe hotel function room was packed tight with tables, drunken voices raised to cut through the hubbub. It was a TV awards do, guests all dressed up and the booze flowing like a river bursting its banks. As I manoeuvred through the crowd, my eyes met his. The older writer I’d been seeing – and obsessing about – for the past few month
  
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• When we're unsure how to respond, how does our brain decide whether a situation is pleasant or not?

  22-09-2016 15:34
  Emotionally confusing video clips were used in a new study that revealed different neutral networks that operate when we perceive a situation as positive or negative.
  
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• Sleep is key to curing chronic pain

  22-09-2016 14:00
  
  I won't be able to cope with my pain if I don't sleep well' - research from the University of Warwick reveals that the way chronic pain patients think about pain and sleep leads to insomnia and...
  
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• How frequent are mental disorders in cancer patients?

  22-09-2016 14:00
  
  In an investigation published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics a group of German investigators provides the largest survey of mental disorders in cancer.
  
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• The era of emotional support animals on flights may be ending

  22-09-2016 04:10 via today.com
  
  Many airlines and mental health advocates are debating whether the practice should continue.
  
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