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Racing, shooting and zapping your way to better visual skills

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Do your kids want a Wii, a PlayStation or an Xbox 360 this year? This holiday gift season is packed with popular gaming systems and adrenaline-pumping, sharpshooting games. What's a parent to do? Is there any redeeming value ...


Antidepressants cut risk of hospital readmission for suicidal youth

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Suicidal adolescents who were prescribed an antidepressant medication during inpatient psychiatric hospital treatment were 85 percent less likely than others to be readmitted within a month after discharge, a new study found.


Psychologist to examine childhood depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research by Binghamton University psychologist Brandon Gibb could provide new weapons for the fight against childhood depression. Working with colleagues around the country, he hopes to identify the causes of mental-health ...


Marriage is good for the health: global study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Despite the barbs of comedians and the spectacular bust-ups documented in the gossip magazines, marriage really is good for you, international research has found.


Witnesses to bullying may face more mental health risks than bullies and victims

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Students who watch as their peers endure the verbal or physical abuses of another student could become as psychologically distressed, if not more so, by the events than the victims themselves, new research suggests.


National survey tracks rates of common mental disorders among American youth

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Only about half of American children and teenagers who have certain mental disorders receive professional services, according to a nationally representative survey funded in part by the National Institute of Mental Health ...


More mental health care called for in wake of Ft. Hood shootings

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The recent shootings at the Ft. Hood, Texas army base, allegedly by an army psychiatrist, have placed much-needed focus on mental health care in the army. In an article published in the December issue of the journal CNS Sp ...


Amount of gene surplus determines severity of mental retardation in males

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have discovered a new explanation for differences in the severity of mental illness in males. The more excess copies of a certain gene, the more serious the handicap. The genetic defect is situated on the X-chromosome; ...


Grinch likely depressed, suffers from lack of love, joy, expert says (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Being irritable, grumpy and seeking social isolation are also hallmarks of depression, and could explain the Grinch's disdain for the Who -- the tall and the small -- his mistreatment of his dog Max and, ...


Most antidepressants miss key target of clinical depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A key brain protein called monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) - is highly elevated during clinical depression yet is unaffected by treatment with commonly used antidepressants, according to an important study published today in ...


Child Development Expert Says The Magic Of Santa Claus Is No Lie

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Should parents let their children believe in Santa Claus?


Don't I know you? Research sheds light on memorial retrieval

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

We have all had the embarrassing experience of seeing an acquaintance in an unfamiliar setting. We know we know them but can't recall who they are. But with the correct cues from conversation or context, something seems ...


Delinquent boys at increased risk of premature death and disability by middle age

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Men who have a history of delinquency in childhood are more likely to die or become disabled by the time they are 48, and not just from the obvious consequences of antisocial behaviour, new research indicates.


Stopping rape as an object of war

Stopping rape as an object of war

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is a disturbing truth that sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV) is used as a war tactic in developing nations. Silvia Dominguez, assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University, ...


It's all in your head. No, really: How mental imagery training aids perceptual learning

It's all in your head. No, really: How mental imagery training aids perceptual learning

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Elisa Tartaglia of the Laboratory of Psychophysics at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and team show that perceptual learning—learning ...