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Childhood Cancer Survivors at Risk for Long-Term Emotional Distress

May 26th, 2012
Childhood Cancer Survivors at Risk for Long-Term Emotional DistressSurvivors of childhood cancer are at greater risk for persistent hair loss and disfigurement, and for some ...

Strong Emotions Put People In Sync

May 25th, 2012
Strong Emotions Put People In SyncExplaining the role and purpose of emotions has been a human preoccupation since Plato and Aristotle. Now, brain imaging suggests the experience of strong emotions ...

Harnessing Unconscious Visual Preferences to Consumer Choices

May 24th, 2012
Harnessing Unconscious Visual Preferences to Consumer ChoicesWhen you pick up a pen out of a messy drawer or grab a coffee cup in the morning, you don't really ...

Temporal Context Impacts Discrimination

May 22nd, 2012
Temporal Context Influences DiscriminationA new study suggests timing can affect whether females and minorities experience discrimination – at least in the case of higher education. The finding comes from an experiment in which ...

Direct Brain Stimulation Decreases Hallucinations in Schizophrenia

May 22nd, 2012
Transcranial direct stimulation may help some patients with schizophrenia, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Although still considered an experimental therapy , direct brain stimulation (DBS) has been in practice for several years and has been tried ...

Treating Sleep Apnea in Children Reverses Brain Abnormalities

May 21st, 2012
Treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children can improve attention and verbal memory, according to a new study. "OSA is known to be associated with deficits in attention, cognition, and executive function," said lead author Ann Halbower, MD, associate professor at the Children's ...

Winning the War Against PTSD

May 19th, 2012
A new study has found that the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq is dramatically lower than predicted. A Harvard researcher credits new efforts by the Army to prevent PTSD, as well as ensuring that those ...

Children Tend to Bring More Joy than Misery

May 18th, 2012
Children Bring More Joy than MiseryNew research has found that parents are happier than people who are not parents. In the study, “In Defense of Parenthood: Children Are Associated With More ...

Texting Seems to Boost Truthfulness

May 17th, 2012
Texting Boosts Truthfulness Texting is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study. "The preliminary results of our study suggest that people are more likely to ...

Looks Matter Most When Trusting People With Money

May 16th, 2012
Looks Matter Most When Trusting People With Our MoneyWhen deciding who we can trust with our money, we rely more on looks than any other information, ...
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