Archive for April, 2009

Some Youth Addicted to Video Games

April 21st, 2009
Some Youth Addicted to Video GamesA new study by an Iowa State University psychology professor is the first to actually report that pathological patterns of video game addiction exist in a national sample ...

Does Alcohol Affect Perceptions of Age?

April 21st, 2009
Does Alcohol Affect Perceptions of Age A new study led by the University of Leicester has demonstrated that consuming alcohol did not affect how men judged the age of women. This has important legal ...

Makeup, Alcohol Don’t Affect Judgment of Age

April 20th, 2009
Makeup, Alcohol Don't Affect Judgment of AgeNeither makeup nor alcohol significantly influence a man's ability to make a judgment of a woman's age. So says new research from the U.K. This study sought to determine ...

1 in 12 Teens Addicted to Video Games

April 20th, 2009
A new nationwide survey suggests that approximately 1 in 12 teens show signs of behavioral addiction to video games. Teens who answered the survey admitted to skimping on chores and homework, lying about how ...

Male Drugs for Female Sexual Dysfunction

April 20th, 2009
Over the last twenty years, significant advances have been made in the cure and treatment of male sexual dysfunction. Less visible progress has been made in understanding and treating female sexual disorders (FSD), a complex and multi-layered problem. A team of researchers ...

Fish Oil May Protect Cells From Parkinson’s

April 20th, 2009
Louisiana State University researchers have demonstrated that an omega-3 fatty acid in the diet protects brain cells by preventing the misfolding of a protein resulting from a gene mutation in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Huntington's. With funding from the National ...

Bipolar Disorder Affects Daily Life

April 20th, 2009
A new national online survey finds that for individuals living with bipolar disorder, their greatest concern is that their symptoms will impact daily life, such as family, relationships, or job. In particular, about 9 in 10 patients (89 percent) said they have canceled ...

ADHD Often Accompanies Tourette’s

April 20th, 2009
Tourette's syndrome is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by the presence of multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic. Now, researchers are learning that the most disabling aspect of Tourette's syndrome is that in 90 percent of ...

Doctor Gets Jail Time for Web Antidepressant Prescription

April 18th, 2009
Christian Hageseth, a 68-year-old Colorado physician, was sentenced on Friday to nine months in jail for prescribing an antidepressant medication over the Internet to a Stanford University student. The student later committed suicide. ...

Leisure Play Is Important for Human Collaboration

April 17th, 2009
A new theory about early human adaptation suggests that our ancestors capitalized on their capacities for play to enable the development of a highly cooperative way of life. Writing in the current edition of the interdisciplinary American Journal of Play, Boston College developmental ...
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