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Schizophrenic patients' frozen faces harm social interactions
Jan 23, 2009 |
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Non-verbal communication, in the form of facial expressions, may be impaired in people with schizophrenia. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions have shown that defici ...
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Improving education may cut smoking in youth
May 13, 2009 |
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Although low socio-economic status is associated with an increased liability to smoke, performing well at school can mitigate this effect. A new study, published in BioMed Central's open access International Journal for Eq ...
Recognizing children's successes in all areas may prevent teenage depression
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 08, 2009 |
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Students' successes in the first grade can affect more than their future report cards. In a new study, University of Missouri researchers found links among students' weak academic performance in the first grade, self-perceptions ...
Performance reviews are raising council standards, say researchers
Oct 18, 2009 |
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Performance assessment schemes aimed at making local authorities into more effective organisations are having the desired effect, according to new research released by the Economic and Social Research Council. The project ...
Poor health among indigenous peoples a question of cultural loss as well as poverty
Jul 02, 2009 |
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The health problems of Indigenous peoples around the world are intimately tied to a number of unique factors, such as colonization, globalization, migration, and loss of land, language and culture. These factors remain even ...
Study reveals worrying survival gap between rich and poor after heart surgery
Apr 03, 2009 |
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People from the most deprived areas of England have a far higher risk of death after cardiac surgery than people from the least deprived areas, finds a large study published on bmj.com today.
Feelings of stigmatization may discourage HIV patients from proper care
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 21, 2009 |
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The feeling of stigmatization that people living with HIV often experience doesn't only exact a psychological toll —new UCLA research suggests it can also lead to quantifiably negative health outcomes.
Few friends combined with loneliness linked to poor mental and physical health for elderly
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Although not having many close friends contributes to poorer health for many older adults, those who also feel lonely face even greater health risks, research at the University of Chicago suggests. Older people who are able ...
Material success and social failure?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 02, 2009 |
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It is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. Likewise, large inequalities of income are often regarded as divisive and corrosive.
Study: Race, class and gender shape religion's effect on American voters
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How Americans vote is strongly linked to their religious identities, but it is not an independent influence that transcends race, socio-economic class and gender, reports a new Cornell study.
Social anxiety disorder puts welfare recipients at risk for economic hardship
Jan 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women on welfare who suffer from social anxiety find it harder to work—and leave welfare—than women without the disorder, according to a new University of Michigan study.
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