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Overweight kids experience more loneliness, anxiety, study finds
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Jul 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As childhood obesity rates continue to increase, experts agree that more information is needed about the implications of being overweight as a step toward reversing current trends. Now, a ...
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Why are some young victims of domestic violence resilient?
Apr 29, 2009 |
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More than 10 million U.S. children witness domestic violence yearly, resulting in a range of emotional and behavioral problems. A new study suggests that the reason some of these children are resilient is because of their ...
Psychologists show new ways to deal with health challenges in space
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 14, 2008 |
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As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and then on to Mars, psychologists are exploring the challenges astronauts will face on missions that will be much longer and more demanding than previous space flights. Psychologists ...
Military children face more emotional challenges as parental deployments grow longer, study finds
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Children in military families may suffer from more emotional and behavioral difficulties when compared to other American youths, with older children and girls struggling the most when a parent is deployed overseas, according ...
Study finds behavioral link between insomnia and tension-type headaches
Feb 15, 2009 |
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A study in the Feb. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that the use of sleep or napping to relieve chronic pain caused by tension-type headaches could have the unwanted effect of decreasing the homeos ...
Effective mentoring critical to HIV/AIDS research efforts
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 26, 2009 |
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An innovative mentoring program at the UCSF-Gladstone Institute for Virology and Immunology Center for AIDS Research is providing vital support for the development of the next generation of HIV/AIDS researchers and clinician ...
Memory study on mice offers new insights into understanding autism
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Researchers at New York University's Center for Neural Science and the Baylor College of Medicine have identified a protein that when removed from mice results in behaviors that are akin to those with autism and obsessive-compulsive ...
UNC, WPIC to conduct Internet-based study of cognitive behavioral therapy for bulimia
Sep 15, 2008 |
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is leading a novel clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of online cognitive behavioral therapy, delivered through a Web site and augmented with therapist-moderated, weekly ...
Study confirms association between tobacco smoke and behavioral problems in children
Dec 09, 2009 |
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The scientists observed that the impact of tobacco smoke was especially detrimental during gestation. The results of the study have been published in the current online issue of the renowned journal Environmental Health Pe ...
Changes in brain architecture may be driven by different cognitive challenges
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists trying to understand how the brains of animals evolve have found that evolutionary changes in brain structure reflect the types of social interactions and environmental stimuli ...
Sleep and Cancer: Uncomfortable Bedfellows
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly-diagnosed cancer patients face a number of life-long challenges, but a new study from the Duke Clinical Research Institute suggests that a lack of sleep may be one of the most persistent and disruptive. ...
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