Facebook helps people feel connected, but it doesn't necessarily make them happier, a new study shows. Facebook use actually predicts declines in a user's well-being, according to a University of Michigan study that is the first known published research examining Facebook influence on ...
Date Posted: August 16, 2013
Categories: Happiness
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For the first time, clinical researchers from the University of Zurich have studied whether online psychotherapy and conventional face-to-face therapy are equally effective in experiments. Based on earlier studies, the Zurich team assumed that the ...
Aug 16
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About 10 percent of the U.S. population suffers from dyslexia, a condition that makes learning to read difficult. Dyslexia is usually diagnosed around second grade, but the results of a new study from MIT could help identify those children before ...
Aug 16
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It's no accident that goal-setting pervades so many areas of modern life.
There are hundreds of research studies going back decades showing that setting goals can increase people's performance.
Most have heard the goal-setting mantra that goals ...
Aug 15
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A visual projection of human heartbeats can be used to generate an “out-of-body experience,” according to new research to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The findings could inform ...
Aug 15
Categories: Eating Disorders
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Ever wonder why mental health is not taught in schools? Likely not, if you are of the mainstream mindset. But a majority of the population is affected by mental illness.
Twenty-five percent of individuals exhibit symptoms of various mental health ...
Aug 15
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
GOTo all appearances, Eleanor Longden was ...
Aug 14
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Even the smallest dose of power can change a person. You've probably seen it. Someone gets a promotion or a bit of fame and then, suddenly, they're a little less friendly to the people beneath them.
So here's a question that may seem too simple: ...
Aug 14
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Pregnant women who don't make nearly enough thyroid hormone are nearly 4 times likelier to produce autistic children than healthy women, report scientists from the Houston Methodist Neurological Institute and Erasmus Medical Centre in an upcoming ...
Aug 14
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Pregnancy & Birthing
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A new study out of the University of Cincinnati not only finds that parents feel responsible about taking action when their children struggle with social issues, but also that parents are influenced by their own childhood memories. Jennifer Davis ...
Aug 13
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Do you always fold a New York slice in all its oily glory? Is a whole lobster best relished in this order: legs, claws then succulent tail? Do you eat Oreos middle first? Or dunked in milk?
Far from being mere quirks of personality, rituals like ...
Aug 13
GOHealthyPlace.com Expert Bipolar Patient and author, Julie Fast, shares her tools for mood stability and for dealing with the ...
Aug 13
Categories: Bipolar
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Results from a longitudinal study show that children who exhibit lower conscientiousness (e.g., irresponsible, careless, not persevering) could experience worse overall health, including greater obesity, as adults. The Oregon Research Institute ...
Aug 12
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Meditating just a modest amount may help curb cigarette smoking, even in smokers who don’t intend to quit, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
After a few hours of meditation, smokers ...
Aug 12
Categories: Addictions, Mindfulness Meditation
GOSmart people are just as racist as their less intelligent peers — they’re just better at concealing their prejudice, according to a University of Michigan study. “High-ability whites are less likely to report prejudiced attitudes and more ...
Aug 12
GOTrying to explain riding a bike is difficult because it is an implicit memory. The body knows what to do, but thinking about the process can often interfere. So why is it that under certain circumstances paying full attention and trying hard can ...
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