A new study from the University of Edinburgh uses an unique longitudinal dataset - the Lothian Birth Cohort - and an ingenious analysis technique called Mendelian Randomisation to disentangle the causal influence of drinking alcohol on cognitive change in older age.
Date Posted: April 28, 2014
Categories: Addictions
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Self-control can be difficult - sticking with a diet or trying to focus attention on a boring textbook are hard things to do. Considerable research suggests one potential explanation for this difficulty: Exerting self-control for a long period seems ...
Apr 26
Categories: Adult ADHD, Control Issues
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The influence of fathers on their teenage children has long been overlooked. Now researchers are finding surprising ways in which dads make a difference
Apr 26
Categories: Parenting
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If you are trying to quit smoking one method to incorporate is to do new, exciting "self-expanding" activities that can help with nicotine craving.
This is the take-home message from a new study published online in PLOS ONE by a team of researchers ...
Apr 25
Categories: Addictions
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Can you tell how intelligent someone is just from their facial features?
A new study finds that when judging men just on their facial appearance, there was a relationship with actual intelligence.
Apr 25
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Peekaboo is a game played over the world, crossing language and cultural barriers. Why is it so universal? Perhaps because it's such a powerful learning tool.
Apr 24
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What's one of your worst memories? How did it make you feel? According to psychologists, remembering the emotions felt during a negative personal experience, such as how sad you were or how embarrassed you felt, can lead to emotional distress, ...
Apr 24
Categories: Anger Management, Anxiety, Depression
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As I approached four years as a widow, the loneliness of a one-person household began to drag me down. Acquiring a four-legged companion, rather than a two-legged one, appealed to me.
Apr 24
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What does it take to be a good parent? We know some of the tricks for teaching kids to become high achievers. For example, research suggests that when parents praise effort rather than ability, children develop a stronger work ethic and become more ...
Apr 24
Categories: Child Development
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Children who are bullied can still experience negative effects on their physical and mental health more than 40 years later, say researchers from King's College London.
Their study tracked 7,771 children born in 1958 from the age of seven until 50.
Apr 23
Categories: Bullying
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A new study points to a conceptually novel therapeutic strategy for treating depression. Instead of dampening neuron firing found with stress-induced depression, researchers demonstrated for the first time that further activating these neurons opens ...
Apr 23
Categories: Depression
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I learned many of life's great lessons while watching Audrey Hepburn movies with my grandmother. To this day, I cannot hear the word "empathy" without being reminded of the first time I heard that word in the movie Funny Face. Empathy is difficult ...
Apr 22
Categories: Empathy
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Many of us assume that once we hit a certain age, our best years are behind us. In fact, there are plenty of examples of folk throughout history (and right up to the present day) who only really hit their stride and celebrate their greatest triumphs ...
Apr 22
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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Scientists have observed that reading ability scales with socioeconomic status. Yet music might help close the gap, according to Nina Kraus and her colleagues at Northwestern University.
Apr 22
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A study, carried out on mice, has just confirmed the neurobiological origin of attention-deficit disorder (ADD), a syndrome whose causes are poorly understood. Researchers from CNRS, the University of Strasbourg and INSERM have identified a cerebral ...
Apr 22
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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A RADICAL new medical test will measure patients' heart rates to determine if they have a mental illness.
The test, which has been developed by Australian researchers, could be in use by mid-2015.
Apr 21
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