People with type 2 diabetes in middle age had greater cognitive impairment in the following decades than did their nondiabetic counterparts. Dina Fine Maron reports
Date Posted: December 5, 2014
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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There are many aspects of memory, and they can all influence our judgments of others. For example, not only are we able to recall information about ourselves, but we also get a feeling for how easy it was to recall that information. That feeling ...
Dec 5
Categories: Self-Care / Self Compassion
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Hannah Dale and colleagues from the University of St Andrews have found some key markers for vulnerability to psychological problems in men experiencing cancer. Their results will be presented Thursday 4 December, at the Annual Conference of the ...
Dec 5
Categories: Anxiety, Cancer
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A new study from the UT Dallas Center for Vital Longevity shows that the brain activity prior to seeing an item is related to how well it is later remembered.
Dec 4
Categories: Other
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New research highlights the key to what makes us feel gratitude. There are lots of psychological benefits to gratitude: Feeling grateful to others can lift your mood. It enhances your feeling of connection to other people. Gratitude can also ...
Dec 4
Categories: Other
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Kids can get hyper, adults can gain weight - we all pay a heavy price for not sleeping
Dec 4
Categories: Sleep Disorders
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Vitamin D deficiency is not just harmful to physical health - it also might impact mental health, according to a team of researchers that has found a link between seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, and a lack of sunlight.
Dec 3
Categories: Depression
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Replenishing the supply of a molecule that normally activates cannabinoid receptors in the brain could relieve mood and anxiety disorders and enable some people to quit using marijuana, a Vanderbilt University study suggests.
Dec 2
Categories: Addictions
GOWhy is it that we find babies so cute, is this an inherently human trait?
Dec 2
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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"The body has all of these failsafe systems in place to keep itself healthy," says Michael Lumpkin, Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology at Georgetown University, USA. "All you really need to do is provide a healing ...
Dec 2
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Positive psychology has changed the course of mainstream psychology. After years classifying and repairing the worst of human experience, positive psychology emerged to build on the best. Spearheaded by Martin Seligman and MihalyCsikszentmihalyi in ...
Dec 1
Categories: Positive Psychology
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Professionals may believe they can maintain an ethical reputation by merely refraining from morally questionable practices: Don't steal, cheat, or bully others. But this alone is not enough. If a higher-up in your organization is found guilty of ...
Dec 1
Categories: Career Development and Change, Workplace Issues
GOStigma surrounding schizophrenia is a circumstance of mental illness that the newly diagnosed schizophrenic may not initially perceive or anticipate. To my knowledge, many schizophrenics initially speak of their mental illnesses publicly to ...
Dec 1
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Staying positive can feel like an uphill battle. No wonder: when Philippe Verduyn and Saskia Lavrijsen asked over 200 high-school students (average age 17) to reminisce about the duration of their recent emotional experiences, they found that ...
Nov 29
Categories: Depression
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Group mindfulness treatment is as effective as individual cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in patients with depression and anxiety, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden and Region Skåne. This is the first randomised study to ...
Nov 29
Categories: Anxiety, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Depression, Mindfulness
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The number of young people suffering from eating disorders has risen significantly in the past decade and is still climbing.
New cases at Singapore General Hospital (SGH), the only hospital to have an exclusive eating disorder programme here, have ...
Nov 28
Categories: Eating Disorders, Mental Health in Asia
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