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• Virtual reality study finds our perception of our body and environment affects how we feel

  13-10-2016 21:48
  Whether we feel scared or pleased in an environment and how we explore it is down to our combined perception of space and of our bodies, according to new research conducted in a virtual reality environment. The study suggests that the brain uses the interplay of these factors to control our emotional experience and exploration of an environment.
  
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• In a first, brain computer interface helps paralyzed man feel again

  13-10-2016 21:13
  Imagine being in an accident that leaves you unable to feel any sensation in your arms and fingers. Now imagine regaining that sensation, a decade later, through a mind-controlled robotic arm that is directly connected to your brain.
  
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• Some children have a built-in defense against AIDS

  13-10-2016 20:07 via cnn.com
  
  Up to one in 10 children infected with HIV is naturally resistant to developing AIDS.
  
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• Opiods may interfere wtih parenting instincts

  13-10-2016 20:06 via nytimes.com
  New research offers a glimpse into the addicted brain, finding that the drugs appear to blunt a person’s natural parenting instincts.
  
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• Building a better rat maze could help us all cooperate

  13-10-2016 19:01
  A fully-automated rat maze could help scientists better understand how individuals cooperate, and how this process may go awry in the brains of people with disorders ranging from autism to schizophrenia.
  
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• Limerence: Studying "Obsessive Love" and Persistent Heartbreak

  13-10-2016 18:00 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: CNN - Top StoriesOne expert thinks it's time for the psychology field to officially recognize that love can veer out of control and enter the realm of pathology.
  
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• Meditation Linked to Lower Stress Among Prison Inmates

  13-10-2016 17:50 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - HealthPrisoners who practice transcendental meditation twice a day may experience less stress and fewer mental health issues than fellow inmates who don’t meditate, a small U.S. study suggests. Previous research has linked this type of meditation involving mantras and mindfulness to reduced stress in a variety of populations at risk for mental health problems, including trauma victims, refugees and military veterans. For the current study, researchers
  
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• Gentlemen's Mags "Normalize" Sexist Jokes, Say Researchers

  13-10-2016 17:50 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Medical News TodayGentlemen's magazines are well known for their liberal usage of sexist humor and a masculine take on subject matter. A group of studies released this week demonstrate the extent to which these magazines normalize sexism.
  
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• Vitamin D During Pregnancy Tied to Lower Risk of ADHD

  13-10-2016 17:49 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - HealthNew Danish research has found that children of mothers who took vitamin D during pregnancy show fewer signs of ADHD at the age of 2½ years.
  
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• French Law Scraps Sterilization for Transgender People

  13-10-2016 17:49 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: MSNBC - International NewsHuman rights activists celebrated a major victory in France on Thursday after the country passed legislation allowing trans people to legally change their gender without undergoing sterilization.
  
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• Modern-Day Slavery: "I Was Trafficked from Romania"

  13-10-2016 17:48 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: BBC News - EuropeThe UK says it will be at the forefront of the global fight against modern-day slavery, which is still a common reality for Romanian trafficking victims. One of them tells her story.
  
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• People with bipolar disorder more than twice as likely to have suffered childhood adversity

  13-10-2016 09:00
  
  A University of Manchester study which looked at more than thirty years of research into bipolar, found that people with the disorder are 2.
  
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• Gentlemen's mags 'normalize' sexist jokes

  13-10-2016 09:00
  
  Three recently published studies demonstrate how gentlemen's magazines make sexist humor seem less hostile. Could this be the last nail in their coffin?
  
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• No, enjoying a gin and tonic does not make you a psychopath

  13-10-2016 01:37
  
  Research paper supposedly linking gin drinking to psychopathy does not actually even mention ginI was looking at Facebook one evening last week when my attention was captured by the headline Gin lovers are all massive psychopaths, according to experts – a somewhat disconcerting thing to read as I sipped the gin and tonic I had in my hand at the time.As someone whose propensity to empathise with others has seen me spend entire evenings crying over the plight of movie characters, psychopathy
  
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• New technology reveals fetal brain activity

  13-10-2016 00:35
  A new approach to image functional activity in the brains of individual fetuses has now been pioneered by researchers, allowing a better look at how functional networks within the brain develop. The work addresses a common problem of functional MRI; if the subject moves during the scanning, the images get distorted.
  
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