Toxic chemicals may be triggering the recent increases in neurodevelopmental disabilities among children - such as autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and dyslexia - according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The ...
Date Posted: February 18, 2014
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism spectrum ...
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The option to abandon a project might just strengthen your resolve to complete it, according to a study published in Psychological Science.
The study, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvanis and Georgia State University, is ...
Feb 18
Categories: Workplace Issues
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How does a man feel if another man opens a door for him? The researchers Megan McCarty and Janice Kelly conducted a field study to find out.
Male research assistants waited near two university building entrances and looked out for men and women ...
Feb 18
Categories: Self-Confidence, Self-Esteem
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Journalist Scott Stossel was so anxious at his own wedding that he had to hold on to his new bride in order to steady himself at the altar. His clothes were by then soaked through by torrential sweat. At the birth of his first child, with his wife ...
Feb 17
Categories: Anxiety
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Scientists know there is a strong genetic component to bipolar disorder, but they have had an extremely difficult time identifying the genes that cause it. So, in an effort to better understand the illness's genetic causes, researchers at UCLA tried ...
Feb 17
Categories: Bipolar
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Moderate or heavy smokers who quit tobacco get a boost in mental wellbeing that, for people who are anxious or stressed, is equivalent to taking anti-depressants, a study said Thursday.
British researchers examined 26 published investigations into ...
Feb 15
Categories: Addictions
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I'm a very logical person. I’m an intellectual. I was raised that way and I remain that way to this day. Likely, because of that, it's more obvious to me than many that logic can be used to deal with bipolar emotions. I can separate my logical ...
Feb 15
Categories: Mood Swings / Bipolar
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Research from the University of Adelaide shows that although mental health screening of children at ages 4-5 can help to predict mental health problems in future years, only a quarter of children can be accurately identified with such screening.
Feb 15
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
GOCan perfectionism ever be useful? This was the question floated at the outset of an arresting keynote at the 2014 conference of the BPS's Division of Occupational Psychology. Paul Flaxman began by asking his audience to jot down helpful and hurtful ...
Feb 14
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Psychologists Elizabeth Dunn and Lara Aknin, along with Michael Norton of Harvard Business School, report that the benefits of helping others "are evident in givers old and young in countries around the world, and extend to not only subjective ...
Feb 14
Categories: Happiness
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With Valentine's Day around the corner, you may be thinking of pairing up two friends for a date. If you follow your instinct to play Cupid, it'll pay off in happiness - not necessarily for the new couple, but definitely for you.
According to new ...
Feb 14
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
GOWhy do we Cry? This video attempts to help you understand why we cry when we are really happy or really really sad. Besides ...
Feb 13
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After 22 years of failed treatments, including rehabilitation, psychotherapy and an array of psychiatric medications, a middle-aged Dutch man decided to take an extraordinary step to fight his heroin addiction. He underwent an experimental brain ...
Feb 13
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BANGKOK - The popular 'selfie', a popular trend among many is now linked to mental and low self-esteem disorders.
Popular among the youngsters it is said to cause addiction and negative impact on them.
The Thai Mental Health Department has warned ...
Feb 13
Categories: Self-Love
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University of California, Berkeley, researchers have shown that chronic stress generates long-term changes in the brain that may explain why people suffering chronic stress are prone to mental problems such as anxiety and mood disorders later in ...
Feb 12
Categories: Stress Management
GOWhen you really think about it, kissing is an odd human behavior. You know, all the rubbing of our faces all over each other. So ...
Feb 12
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