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Patients can relearn emotional skills
Brain injury patients who have lost the ability to interpret emotion can learn to read feelings again by studying body-language, according to new research.
Uncertainty Can Be More Stressful Than Clear Negative Feedback
We are faced with uncertainty every day. Will our investments pay off? Will we get the promotions we are hoping for? When faced with the unknown, most people experience some...
ADHD diagnosis? Try medication, support groups, mom says
When Gina Dunn's two sons were diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder earlier this year, she kept it private for fear they would be labeled as lacking intelligence.
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Bush Set To Ease Endangered Species Rules
Preisdent Bush is set to install new rules that would exclude input of wildlife scientists when federal construction projects are proposed. Bush hopes to enact them before Friday, preventing President-elect...
Dead Teen's Mom Testifies In MySpace Trial
The grieving mother of a Missouri girl told a jury how her daughter hanged herself after receiving cruel messages on her MySpace account, some of which came from a neighbor...
Racialised communication met with silence in the classroom
A new article in the journal Communication, Culture and Critique illustrates the ways some college students bear the costs of silence-mediated racialised communication in their everyday classroom activities. Specifically, the...
How Time-Traveling Could Affect Quantum Computing
(PhysOrg.com) -- If space-time were constructed in such a way that you could travel back in time, it would create some pretty strange effects. One of these oddities, as many...
Teenagers learn important social, technical skills online: study
Parents may disapprove of the amount of time their teenagers spend online but they are actually learning important social and technical skills, according to a study released on Thursday.
Manitoba's Opposition wants review of ER services after Sinclair death
Manitoba's Conservative Opposition is demanding an independent external review into the death of Brian Sinclair, who was found dead after waiting 34 hours in a hospital emergency waiting room in...
Removing Part Of Brain Controls Girl's Epilepsy
Surgeons told Jessica Nelson one of the scariest things she will ever hear as a parent: they wanted to treat her daughter's epilepsy by cutting out or disconnecting half of...
Official: No 'girls gone wild' epidemic
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The number of girls under age 18 arrested for violent crimes fell 17 percent from a decade earlier, U.S. Justice Department research says.
The Reality of Disputed Medical Maladies
Gulf War Syndrome is real, but what about chronic fatigue, multiple personalities and breast implant disorders?
Skinny clothing models not superior
Research using mock advertising has found that models of average weight worked as well as thin models – and also made people feel better about their bodies.
Razib Khan: Polygamy may be the natural, though unfair, order of things
Razib Khan: Some religions accept polygamy; others abhor it. But in nature, it's often a case of winner-takes-all-the-wives
Media Violence Cited As 'Critical Risk Factor' For Aggression
You are what you watch, when it comes to violence in the media and its influence on violent behavior in young people, and an article provides new evidence that violent...
New Theory Of Visual Computation Reveals How Brain Makes Sense Of Natural Scenes
Computational neuroscientists have developed a computational model that provides insight into the function of the brain's visual cortex and the information processing that enables people to perceive contours and surfaces,...
Stress warps brains and behavior, researchers say
Scientists have discovered how stress - in the form of emotional, mental or physical tension - physically reshapes the brain and causes long-lasting harm to humans and animals.
Let a friend be your backup partner
It's not "If" your hard drive will fail, it's "When." I've been saying it for years and will continue to do so. Sooner or later something bad will happen and...
Motrin ad a pain for Johnson & Johnson
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. giant Johnson & Johnson said it pulled an online ad for Motrin pain reliever after consumers protested that the ad...
Moderate pay best for job performance, study suggests
(PhysOrg.com) -- Employers hoping to get the best out of employees with huge performance contingent payments may actually be helping them to do worse, suggests a new paper published by...
Scientists are high on idea that marijuana reduces memory impairment
The more research they do, the more evidence Ohio State University scientists find that specific elements of marijuana can be good for the aging brain by reducing inflammation there and...
Survey shows significant education discrepancies among second generation immigrants in the Netherlands
No less than one quarter of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands drops out of school. This is the most alarming result of a recent survey conducted among the second generation...
Professor Finally Publishes Controversial Brain Theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the late '90s, Asim Roy, a professor of information systems at Arizona State University, began to write a paper on a new brain theory. Now, 10 years...
Darwin 200: The needs of the many
The idea that natural selection acts on groups, as well as individuals, is a source of unending debate. Marek Kohn reports on what the two sides disagree about #20; and...
More at-risk teens and young adults engaging in anal intercourse
A new study by researchers at the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center suggests that the incidence of heterosexual anal sex is increasing among teens and young adults – particularly those...
High rate of chronic pain in women separated from abusing partners
Many women separated from abusive partners still experience high-disability chronic pain after almost two years, according to Canadian researchers writing in The Journal of Pain, the peer review journal of...
Opening arguments set for fatal MySpace hoax case
Opening arguments will begin Wednesday in the case of a Missouri woman accused of using an internet social networking site to harrass a teenage girl who later committed suicide.