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Antiabortion Amendments Stalling Unrelated Bills In Ky. House
Two Republican members of Kentucky's House are attaching antiabortion-rights amendments to several unrelated bills that are awaiting a chamber vote, a move that is threatening to derail changes related to children's Medicaid coverage, among other things, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. The amendments -- sponsored by Reps...
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03/12/2010 01:00 PM
American Psychiatric Association 2010 Annual Meeting Features Conversations With Terry Bradshaw
Mental illness can affect anyone, including celebrities and public leaders. The American Psychiatric Foundation's ninth annual Conversations event, will feature sportscaster and former NFL star Terry Bradshaw, who will talk candidly about his personal story of living with mental illness...
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03/12/2010 01:00 PM
Different Signal Paths For Spontaneous And Deliberate Activation Of Memories
Entirely different signal paths and parts of the brain are involved when you try to remember something and when you just happen to remember something, prompted by a smell, a picture, or a word, for instance. This is shown by Kristiina Kompus in her dissertation at Umeå University in Sweden. Imagine you are asked to remember what you were doing exactly one week ago...
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03/12/2010 12:00 PM
Mother's Flu During Pregnancy May Increase Baby's Risk Of Schizophrenia
Rhesus monkey babies born to mothers who had the flu while pregnant had smaller brains and showed other brain changes similar to those observed in human patients with schizophrenia, a study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found...
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03/12/2010 11:00 AM
Young Boys' Academic Functioning May Be Adversely Affected By Video-Game Ownership
Parents of young boys may want to encourage moderation when it comes to their kids' video game habits. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, owning a video-game system may hamper academic development in some children. Psychological scientists Robert Weis and Brittany C...
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03/12/2010 10:00 AM
Confidence Is Key To Gauging Impressions We Make
The gift of "seeing ourselves as others see us" is particularly beneficial when we judge how we've made a first impression - in a job interview, during a sales pitch or on a first date. Yet, many come away from these situations with at best a vague notion of how that first impression was perceived or at worst no clue at all. Now, psychologists at Washington University in St...
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03/12/2010 10:00 AM
Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy Recognized For Advocacy Work On Mental Health Issues
Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) was honored last night by the American Psychological Association for his advocacy work and legislative accomplishments on mental health issues. The APA presented Kennedy with the 2010 Outstanding Leadership Award, given annually to a member of Congress who has prominently championed the goals of professional psychology...
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03/11/2010 08:00 PM
Mind Calls For Regulation Of Counsellors And Psychotherapists, UK
Mind today presents new evidence to illustrate the barriers people face when trying to make a complaint about counsellors and psychotherapists and urgently calls for independent statutory regulation to help protect clients from malpractice (1)...
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03/11/2010 02:00 PM
Risk-Free Treatment For Low Female Sexual Desire
According to the Journal of Sexual Medicine, people who engage in regular sexual activity gain several health benefits, such as longer lives, healthier hearts, lower blood pressure, and lower risk of breast cancer. However, approximately 33 percent of women may not receive these benefits due to low sexual desire...
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03/11/2010 10:00 AM
National Jewish Health Receives Grant To Learn How Families Cope With Food Allergy
Families with food-allergic children face a life of constant vigilance and the looming fear of life-threatening allergic reactions. This fear can have a huge impact on an entire family's life, from heightened anxiety to severe limits on their daily activities. Some families cope well with this situation, while others find it extremely stressful and difficult to manage...
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03/11/2010 10:00 AM
Brain Activity Predicts Emotional Resiliency Following A Fight With A Partner
Common wisdom tells us that for a successful relationship partners shouldn't go to bed angry. But new research from a psychologist at Harvard University suggests that brain activity - specifically in the region called the lateral prefrontal cortex - is a far better indicator of how someone will feel in the days following a fight with his or her partner...
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03/10/2010 03:00 PM
Male Batterers Consistently Overestimate General Rates Of Violence Toward Partners
Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days, according to new research conducted at the University of Washington...
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03/10/2010 03:00 PM
New Research Looks At Beliefs About God's Influence In Everyday Life
Most Americans believe God is concerned with their personal well-being and is directly involved in their personal affairs, according to new research out of the University of Toronto. Using data from two recent national surveys of Americans, UofT Sociology Professor Scott Schieman examined peoples' beliefs about God's involvement and influence in everyday life...
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03/10/2010 03:00 PM
Development Of New Scale To Measure Anxiety Outcomes
A new questionnaire and outcomes measurement scale developed by the department of psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital has proven to be a reliable and valid measure of anxiety. The scale can easily be incorporated into routine clinical practice when treating psychiatric disorders. The study appears online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry...
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03/10/2010 02:00 PM
The CSIC Presents The Archive Of Mourning Concerning The Terrorist Attacks In Madrid
The project, directed by CSIC researcher Cristina Sanchez Carretero was completed through close collaboration with associations for victims and those affected. On Thursday March 11, the project will end with its transfer to the Spanish Railway Foundation and the digitized catalog will be available for study with prior approval...
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03/10/2010 02:00 PM
Massage Eases Anxiety, But No Better Than Simple Relaxation Does
A new randomized trial shows that on average, three months after receiving a series of 10 massage sessions, patients had half the symptoms of anxiety. This improvement resembles that previously reported with psychotherapy, medications, or both...
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03/10/2010 12:00 PM
The Role Of Baby-Sign In Child Development
How important is it for mothers to use hand gestures to communicate with their infants? This is the key question investigated by new research being showcased at the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Festival of Social Science on 18 March. The event 'Communicating with Your Baby' has been organised by Professor Karen Pine from the University of Hertfordshire...
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03/10/2010 11:00 AM
When Personality Makes Drugs Ineffective In Depression
A study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics addresses the role of personality factors in moderating treatment response in depression...
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03/10/2010 10:00 AM
APA Modifies DSM Naming Convention To Reflect Publication Changes
Beginning with the upcoming fifth edition, new versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) will be identified with Arabic rather than Roman numerals, marking a change in how future updates will be created, according to the American Psychiatric Association...
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03/10/2010 10:00 AM
Veterans Mental Health Service Extended Across Wales
A pilot project to support armed services personnel experiencing mental health problems as a result of their service will be extended across Wales, Health Minister Edwina Hart announced. The service, which has been trialled in the Cardiff and Vale and Cwm Taf Health Board areas, offered access to clinicians with expertise in veterans' mental health to provide assessment and suitable treatment...
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03/10/2010 10:00 AM
Traumatized London Bombing Survivors Benefit From Outreach Program
A new mental health outreach programme set up after the 2005 London bombings has successfully identified and treated hundreds of survivors. After the 7/7 bombings in 2005 a group of clinical psychologists targeted nearly a thousand survivors of the attacks by painstakingly compiling hospital treatment records, police witness files and referrals from GPs...
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03/09/2010 03:00 PM
The Prevalence Of Cyberbullying And Its Psychological Impact On Nonheterosexual Youth Revealed By New Study
Schools are typically on guard against students who bully by inflicting repeated violence on other students. But technology has given rise to a relatively new form of bullying which inflicts emotional harm in a stealth manner, working through Web sites, chat rooms, e-mail, cell phones and instant messaging...
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03/09/2010 03:00 PM
Research Answers The Question, 'Who Am I Without You?'
When a romantic relationship ends, an individual's self-concept is vulnerable to change, according to research in the February issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (published by SAGE). Self-concept is defined as a person's sense of "me." Romantic partners develop shared friends, activities and even overlapping self-concepts...
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03/09/2010 03:00 PM
BC Psychologist Named 2010 Sloan Research Fellow
Sara Cordes, an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College, is among 118 outstanding early career scientists, mathematicians, and economists to be named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows for 2010, the Sloan Foundation has announced...
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