University of Adelaide researchers say new insights into how the human brain responds to chronic pain could eventually lead to improved treatments for patients.
Neuroplasticity is the term used to describe the brain's ability to change structurally and functionally with experience and use.
Date Posted: March 17, 2014
Categories: Chronic Pain, Pain management
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Management research about incentive pay often focuses on whether or not the tactic works to increase productivity.
But what if the promise of a bonus or some other reward works too well?
New neuroscience research from a team of American and ...
Mar 17
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Adolescents with antisocial personality disorder inflict serious physical and psychological harm on both themselves and others. However, little is yet known about the underlying neural processes. Researchers at the University of Leiden and the Max ...
Mar 15
Categories: Antisocial personality, Child Development, Teenage Issues
GOBeing a teenager is hard. Especially when hormones play their part in wreaking havoc on the teenage body and brain. In this episode, ...
Mar 14
Categories: Teenage Issues
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Although you probably consider all of your body is yours, if you're like most people, you also have a feeling that your very essence, your self, is more localised. Past research has turned up mixed findings for where exactly this spot is. In some ...
Mar 14
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"It's a whole new cancer world" and "I don't remember what it's like to have sleep" were the most common themes of mothers interviewed by University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers during the maintenance period after a child's treatment for ...
Mar 13
Categories: Parenting, Sleep Disorders, Stress Management
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Tension and frustration is mounting as families wait for any morsel of news about the whereabouts of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and the fate of their loved ones. Mental health experts say it is the not knowing that compounds their unresolved ...
Mar 13
Categories: Grief, Loss, Bereavement, Support Groups
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To date, no study has adequately examined whether heart surgery can change a person's personality, mainly because personality is difficult to define and measure. When recovering from heart surgery, some patients report trouble remembering, slower ...
Mar 13
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New research from Karolinska Institutet and Umeå University demonstrates for the first time that there is a close relationship between body perception and the ability to remember. For us to be able to store new memories from our lives, we need to ...
Mar 12
Categories: Borderline Personality Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ...
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Hong Kong - Last month, there was another tragic report of a suicide in the Chinese-language press, a post-secondary student in Hong Kong.
The student wanted to see a psychiatrist in a public psychiatric outpatient clinic and the earliest ...
Mar 12
Categories: Suicide Prevention, Teenage Issues
GOHospitals can be strange, foreboding places for young children. One idea to help reduce their anxiety is to invite clowns onto the ...
Mar 12
Categories: Anxiety, Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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Teenagers put a lot of stock in what their peers are doing, and parents are forever trying to push back against that influence. But with the advent of social media, hanging out with the wrong crowd can include not just classmates, but teenagers ...
Mar 11
Categories: Oppositional & Defiant Behavior in Children & Teens, Teenage ...
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It takes more mutations to trigger autism in women than in men, which may explain why men are four times more likely to have the disorder, according to a study published 26 February in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
The study found that ...
Mar 11
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have found that decision-making accuracy can be improved by postponing the onset of a decision by a mere fraction of a second. The results could further our understanding of neuropsychiatric ...
Mar 11
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A new study from Boston Medical Center reveals that parents who get absorbed by email, games or other apps have more negative interactions with their children, making them feel like they're competing for attention with their parents' gadgets.
Mar 10
Categories: Parenting
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When alcohol is involved, people are more inclined to view sexual aggression as morally ambiguous. New research, however, suggests that men who harass women in bars and clubs aren't misinterpreting women's signals because they are drunk. Rather, ...
Mar 10
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