Thursday, July 31, 2014

Motivated Older Adults Able to Stay on Task

An emerging theory may help to explain why older adults show declining cognitive ability with age, but don’t necessarily show declines in the workplace or daily life. Dr. Tom Hess, a psychology researcher at North Carolina State University believes older adults are good at prioritizing their attention...
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Special Needs Children Benefit from Mainstreaming

Researchers have found the practice of educating children with special needs in regular classes helps to improve the language skills of preschoolers with disabilities. Researchers found that the average language skills of a child’s classmates in the fall significantly predicted the child’s language skills in the spring — especially for children with disabilities. The results support inclusion policies in schools that aim to have students with disabilities in the same classrooms alongside their typically developing peers.
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Emotional + Social = General Intelligence

IQ has so much meaning in our culture! What is it really. Well... we are not fully sure. It seems the more richness we can work with the higher the IQ will be. This suggests that when we are able to see things from many sides without collapsing the possibility of the others we will have a higher IQ. In simple words when we can see things from others viewpoint and even better empathize with them we are holding more "richness" and this may correlate with the functioning needed for scoring a higher IQ score. Below is an interesting article able IQ and its relation to emotion and social functioning.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/07/30/emotional-social-general-intelligence/73040.html
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Depression Is a Risk Factor for Dementia, New Research Says

The two have been linked before, but the new study says depression may be an independent risk factor for the diseaseThe link between depression and dementia is puzzling for researchers. Many studies have noticed a correlation between the two diseases...

http://time.com/3060179/depression-is-a-risk-factor-for-dementia-new-research-says/
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Monday, July 28, 2014

Hot or not? We decide in only 100 milliseconds, research finds

There’s a man across the room with big eyes and a warm smile. In an instant, we decide that not only is he hot, but he also seems approachable — based solely on his looks. We make snap judgments about people all the time, and a new study finds that it takes as little as 100 milliseconds for us to guess what someone’s personality is like based on facial features...
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Decoding sexual attraction: When being 'responsive' is good

It's widely considered the spark that ignites romance, but a team of researchers wanted to know exactly what heterosexual singles mean by saying they're seeking a partner who is responsive to their needs because, as results indicate, inconsistencies in expectations can shake things up. Although men are more likely to become sexually attracted to a responsive woman, the question of responsiveness was less important to female participants during early dating...
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Likelihood of False Memories Increase after Poor Sleep

New research may have strong implications for the criminal justice system as researchers discover not getting enough sleep may increase the likelihood of forming false memories.
Researchers from University of California, Irvine discovered sleep-deprived people who viewed photographs of a crime being committed and then read false information about the photos were more likely to report remembering the false details in the photos than were those who got a full night’s sleep.
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Childbirth Pain May Influence Depression

A provocative new editorial suggests controlling pain during childbirth and after delivery may reduce the risk of postpartum depression...
http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/07/24/childbirth-pain-may-influence-depression/72842.html
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Babies Recognize Familiar Rhyme in the Womb

Babies in the womb begin to respond to the rhythm of a familiar nursery rhyme by 34 weeks gestational age and are able to remember a set rhyme just before birth, according to new research by the University of Florida. The study also highlights the important role of the mother’s voice in the baby’s learning capabilities.
For the study, published in the journal Infant Behavior and Development, pregnant women...
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Mechanism by Which Child Abuse Influences Adult Health Identified

A new study demonstrates that childhood abuse affects the way genes are activated, thereby influencing a child’s long-term development.
Previous studies focused on how a particular child’s individual characteristics and genetics interacted with that child’s experiences in an effort to understand how health problems emerge....
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Genetics play a bigger role than environmental causes for autism

Genetics plays more of a role in the development of autism than environmental causes, according to new research published Sunday in Nature Genetics. The study found that 52% of autism risk comes from common genes, while only 2.6% are attributed to spontaneous mutations caused by, among other things, environmental factors. “These genetic variations are common enough that most people are likely to have some,”...
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/22/genetics-play-a-bigger-role-than-environmental-causes-for-autism/
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Could 7 hours of sleep be better than 8?

We were all raised with a few universal health tenets. An apple a day keeps the scary doctors away, you better stay out of that swimming pool if you ate lunch less than an hour ago and eight hours of Zzzzs constitutes a full night’s rest. Duh, right?
Well, several sleep studies are questioning the whole eight hours thing—and it taking a step further to say that seven hours of sleep may be the ideal amount. (We’ll have to address apples and swimming on a full tummy in another post!)...
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University of Michigan study hints at how fear response can be inherited

Researchers may have new clues to the way human babies internalize fear from their mothers after laboratory rats were made to associate the smell of peppermint with electrical shock and then seemingly passed that along to their young.
The study at the University of Michigan is more evidence of the biological link between a mother’s emotional health and a baby’s stress levels — a critical understanding for those helping parents or would-be parents dealing with emotional trauma, such as combat veterans or victims of crime.
“You take care of the mother, you take care of the baby,”...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

The Way We Speak Mimics the Way We Feel


Ground-breaking European research has uncovered a link between language and emotions.

Psychologist Dr. Ralf Rummer and phoneticist Dr. Martine Grice were able to demonstrate that the articulation of vowels systematically influences our feelings and vice versa. The researchers looked at the question of whether and to what extent the meaning of words is linked to their sound.​


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‘Ringing in the Ears’ Alters Processing of Emotion


More than 50 million Americans suffer from tinnitus, a condition that causes individuals to hear noises that are not really there.
Sounds like whooshing, train whistles, cricket noises, or whines may be heard with the severity often varying on a day to day basis.
Research has shown that tinnitus is associated with increased stress,anxiety, irritability, and depression, all of which are affiliated with the brain's emotional processing systems...


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More And More, Young Women Are Being Diagnosed With ADHD



As a child, Diany Levy was called lazy and unfocused. She remembers that teachers called home on a daily basis to tell her parents she was not paying attention in class. Now, at the age of 23, Diany has finally been diagnosed with the cause of her problems – ADHD.

Levy is not alone. The number of Americans taking medication to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is steadily rising. But the biggest spike in ADHD medication is among young women between the ages of 19 and 34, according to a recent report. It found that the number of young women aged 19 to 25 on these medications is 27 percent higher than girls aged 4 to 18...

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Boys are more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder than girls, though both sexes are equally affected. Women are increasingly seeking treatment as young adults.
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Study: Less-Structured Time Correlates to Kids’ Success

Research found that young children who spend more time engaging in more open-ended, free-flowing activities display higher levels of executive functioning, and vice versa
Parents, drop your planners—a new psychological study released  Tuesday found that children with less-structured time are likely to show more "self-directed executive functioning," otherwise known as the "cognitive processes that regulate thought and action in support of goal-oriented behavior."...

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No Job? How New Grads Can Cope With Depression


You have freedom – but no job. How to handle the post-graduation blues.

Congratulations! You just graduated from college. No more papers. No more classes. No more exams. After celebrating with family and friends, you might be feeling on top of the world. Or not.
Many young people experience panic or depression following college graduation, especially if they don’t have set employment plans. So if you find yourself without a job and are feeling down, realize you’re not alone. If your unemployment blues start affecting your daily life, however, it's time to pay your mental health some attention...
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2014/06/20/no-job-how-new-grads-can-cope-with-depression​

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Obsessing Over Your Relationship May Be Bad For Your Sex Life


People in relationships who constantly question whether their partner loves them, or whether they've found Mr. or Ms. Right, may have a condition known as relationship obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Now, a new study finds that, perhaps not surprisingly, people with these symptoms may be less satisfied...
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New Study May Explain Why Stress Can Cause Heart Attacks


Stress can cause an overproduction of white blood cells, which can contribute to blockages.
Scientists may have identified the connection between chronic stress and heart attacks, according to a new study: white blood cells...

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Study finds genetic links between schizophrenia and cannabis use




Genes that increase the risk of a person developing schizophrenia may also increase the chance they will use cannabis, researchers said on Tuesday after studying more than 1,000 users of the drug.

The results chime with previous studies linking schizophrenia and cannabis, but suggest the association may be due to common genes and might not be a causal relationship where cannabis use leads to increased schizophrenia risk...

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