In the first study of its kind, a team of researchers was able to perform functional MRIs of a group of children with autism whose IQs averaged 54. This was nearly impossible to conduct before as it was a challenge for them to keep still for at least 45 minutes in the machine. The scans offer a ...
Date Posted: January 7, 2019
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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A recent study made use of eye-tracking technology to investigate how people make decisions.
Dec 24
Categories: Compulsive Spending / Shopping, Other
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A new form of therapy has been found to be quite promising in its use as a treatment plan for schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is one of the more complicated disorders to treat, partly because its symptoms include multiple areas of impairment, from mood ...
Dec 17
Categories: Schizophrenia
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A new study has found that parents' attitudes towards mathematics can predict the learning outcomes of their children.
Dec 6
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Learning Difficulties, Parenting
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A new study from King's College London suggests that MDMA - found in ecstasy - may explain why users cooperate more after taking the drug. However, a caveat to this finding is that the enhanced cooperative effect only shows for people they have ...
Dec 5
Categories: Drug Addiction, Executive Functions
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Drugs have often been linked to a myriad of physical and mental health deteriorations, but in a recent study, it appears that a specific drug may in fact be useful in the alleviation of PTSD symptoms. Recent findings suggest that ecstasy’s role in ...
Dec 5
Categories: Complex PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / ...
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This article talks about people being indifferent to the self and apathetic towards everything in life, and how there is a chance of overcoming them.
Nov 27
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
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Black Friday is arguably the shopping events of the year, not just in America, but in recent years has seen the spread to other countries as well. However, this celebratory event is often marred by reports of fistfights and heated arguments between ...
Nov 24
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Compulsive Spending / Shopping
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It is hardly surprising knowledge to learn that some people manage negative emotions by binge-eating, usually of the junk food variety. Some of them may even be close friends and family members around us, and it appears to be increasingly common. ...
Nov 24
Categories: Adult psychological development, Eating Disorders
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A recent published experimental study investigated the effects of multi-tasking on productivity, with the results suggesting that perceived multi-tasking alone may well lead to increases in productivity. This is contradictory to previous findings ...
Nov 17
Categories: Other
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This article talks about how showing forgiveness is the best route to emotional healing and freedom.
Nov 16
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
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Narcissism has a negative connotation and is often seen as an undesirable trait to have. However, recent findings show that there are positive effects to narcissism, such as mental toughness and openness to experience.
Nov 16
Categories: Child Development, Health Psychology, Self-Confidence
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There are often certain misconceptions and misunderstandings about the definition of Emotional Abuse and the effects that come with it. This article extensively explains the negative impacts that come with emotional abuse, how it makes the party on ...
Nov 15
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
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Neuroscientists from MIT have found the underlying mechanisms for the steering of attention away from trivial tasks towards potential threats, and they believe that dopamine is central to this process. Danger signals are received and interpreted in ...
Nov 14
Categories: Executive Functions, Other, Paranoia / Suspiciousness
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This article talks about how the influence of technology can affect parents’ attitude towards their children and the quality of parent-children interactions.
Nov 13
Categories: Child Development, Parenting, Social Isolation
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It is often easy to put the blame on others when we do something wrong or realize a flaw within us, however it might not be the best way to resolve our emotional conflicts.
Nov 13
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
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