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• The Difference Between Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

  24-03-2017 18:21 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: CBS News - HealthwatchIt's a common misconception that a person's gender identity and sexual orientation are connected, but they are not.
  
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• Suicide Can Leave Partners with Higher Risk of Physical, Mental Disorders

  24-03-2017 18:21 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Psych CentralEmerging research suggests that losing a partner to suicide may result in physical and mental issues for the remaining partner.
  
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• Study Analyzes How People Manage Their Emotions

  24-03-2017 18:21 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Psych CentralFrom mood disorders to substance abuse, much of psychopathology is related to difficulty in regulating emotions. In a new study, researchers at the University of Buffalo (UB) sought to better understand […].
  
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• Prescription weight-loss medication helps with opiate addiction recovery, study confirms

  24-03-2017 17:37
  A prescription weight-loss pill decreases the urge to use opiates such as oxycodone, new research confirms. The researchers found that the drug, lorcaserin, reduced the use and craving for the opioid oxycodone in preclinical studies.
  
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• Spiritual retreats alter brain's reward, emotion centers

  24-03-2017 17:00
  
  New study sheds light on the psychological effects of spiritual retreats, after finding they alter chemical systems in the brain associated with emotion.
  
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• Who do you think you are – and how bad could you be?

  24-03-2017 16:00
  
  Given the right (or wrong) situation, each of us might become anyoneWhat turns good people bad? The road to depravity and corruption, we tend to assume, is a slippery slope: a few small immoral acts, then things snowball, and before you know it, the floodgates have opened. (To clarify, this slippery slope is near a hydroelectric power plant, hence the floodgates. Also, it’s snowing.)But according to a recent Dutch study, a more appropriate metaphor might be stepping off a cliff. Parti
  
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• Survivors of childhood brain tumors have increased body fat

  24-03-2017 15:50
  New research findings suggest that one of the most important risk factors for heart disease and type 2 diabetes, which is excess total and central fat in the body, is present relatively early in survivors of childhood brain tumors. This may program their future risk of these diseases and impact their outcomes.
  
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• Scientists get closer look at living nerve synapses

  24-03-2017 15:49
  The brain hosts an extraordinarily complex network of interconnected nerve cells that are constantly exchanging electrical and chemical signals at speeds difficult to comprehend. Now, scientists report that they have been able to achieve -- with a custom-built microscope -- the closest view yet of living nerve synapses.
  
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• Shared genetic origin for ALS/MND and schizophrenia

  24-03-2017 15:48
  A new study indicates that the causes of ALS/MND and schizophrenia are biologically linked. The scientists say that the new findings have major implications for how we classify diseases and that they challenge the existing divide between neurology and psychiatry.
  
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• Can we trust the Rorschach test? – podcast

  24-03-2017 12:49
  
  To its critics, it is dangerous pseudoscience. To its supporters, it offers unique insights. What is the future of this controversial psychological test?Read the text versionContinue reading...
  
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• Is 90 the New 80? Most People in Their 90s Feel Healthy

  24-03-2017 08:25 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - SciencePerhaps 90 is the new 80: A new analysis finds that many Americans who reach age 90 and beyond say they are in good health.
  
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• Boosting natural brain opioids may be a better way to treat anxiety: Research

  24-03-2017 08:00
  
  Published in Nature Communications by University of Sydney scholars, the findings suggest medications that boost the effect of natural brain opioids might be a better way to reduce anxiety than...
  
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