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Work stress triggers sick leave
Conflicts and stress at work may trigger employees to take sick leave, a new Swedish study finds.
During pregnancy, minority women have higher depression risk
A new study finds that African-American and Asian/Pacific Islander women have double the risk that others do of becoming depressed before giving birth, after adjusting for socioeconomic risk factors.
Culture, stigma affect mental health care for Latinos
Latinos benefit from antidepressants like everybody else only they do not use them nearly as often. The trick is getting past some cultural barriers.
Net support for bipolar disorder
Using information gathered from international sources, a website is launched to help caregivers of people with bipolar disorder.
"He completely lost me on gravity"
Lily Asquith: on supplementing Brian Cox's explanation of general relativity for her mum with a blanket, a coffee cup and a daughter.I got a typically hilarious email from my wonderful mother this morning....
Nicolas Sarkozy, the murderer of the Princess of Cleves | Hélène Cixous
Language is one area of culture that Nicolas Sarkozy can't dominate, so he mangles it with a calculated barbarity'La rupture!" A clean break! That was Nicolas Sarkozy's word. Break, he would shout, miming...
Well: How Sports May Focus the Brain
In a beguiling new experiment, student athletes were pitted against regular collegians in a test of traffic-dodging skill.
Patients and clinicians must share healthcare decisions, say experts
Clinicians have an ethical imperative to share important decisions with patients, and patients have a right to be equal participants in their care, say a group of experts.
Amoebas: Sexier than anyone knew
After taking a second look at the tree of life, researchers are rethinking the asexuality of amoebas, considered the epitome of chastity. They now have evidence of amoeboid sex lives,...
Youth at risk for obesity show greater brain activity in response to food
Do people overeat because they experience less reward from eating or because they experience more reward from eating? In the March 23, 2011 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience Oregon...
Digital versus analog control over cortical inhibition in the brain
In the cerebral cortex, the balance between excitation and inhibition is thought to be mediated by the primary mode of neuronal communication: "all-or-none" action potentials, or spikes. However, researchers in...
NASA's Message to Students: Science Will Take You Places
NASA hosted a forum in NYC today to encourage young people to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Libyan Refugees and the Looming Humanitarian Crisis
In Libya, the strategy of military intervention could spark a humanitarian crisis, says Associate Professor of Political Science Sarah Lischer. Author of "Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Crises, Civil War, and...
Research Practices Must be Changed to Minimize Fraud, Deception
in a commentary published in the Journal of the American Medical Association March 23, two U-M physicians call for changes throughout the research process to minimize fraud, deception.
Alta. Liberals set up line for doctor complaints
The Alberta Liberal Party has set up a toll-free line for doctors and nurses who believe they've faced intimidation and censorship by the government for speaking out about health care.
Quake Question #13: Are There Any Radiation Drugs Available Beyond Potassium Iodide?
Readers ask: Is the military's drug Rad-X being made available to the people of...
Smoke-free air law had no effect on off-track betting facility business activity, Indiana study finds
A new study found that a smoke-free air law implemented in an Indiana community did not hurt business at the off-track betting facility in that community.
Among the missing
Children go missing left and right in Sarah Braunstein’s haunting first novel. “She loved Crackerjack. She loved the home team with all her heart,” writes Braunstein, a fiction instructor at Harvard Extension School....
Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership
Paul Lawrence, a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, offers an integrated explanation of both human behavior and leadership using a scientific approach — and Darwin, too! — to illustrate...
Elderly Victims of Abuse Often Use Alcohol or Drugs
A UIC researcher reports in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that victims of severe traumatic elder abuse are more likely to be female, suffer from a neurological or...
Court hears claim of forced Roma sterilization
PARIS (AP) -- Europe's human rights court opened a hearing Tuesday into a Gypsy woman's allegation that she was wrongly and forcibly sterilized at a state-run...
Think you'll ace that test? Think again, then start studying
We hold many beliefs about memory -- for instance, if you study more, you learn more. We are also constantly making judgments about particular instances of learning and remembering --...
Texas Tech Expert Available to Discuss Bonds' Perjury Trial
Whether government wins is a matter of semantics. The reason this is a difficult case for the government is that Barry Bonds has denied that he ever knowingly took steroids.
Swartz Foundation Lecture: What Songbirds Can Teach Us About Learning and the Brain
Just as human babies learn to speak by listening to adults and then hearing their own attempts at speech, so young songbirds learn their distinctive melodies by hearing and then...
Gift Will Allow Mayo Researchers to Further Explore Common, but Little Recognized, Cause of Dementia in the Elderly
To help continue its internationally recognized work in Lewy body dementia, the Harry T. Mangurian, Jr., Foundation has awarded Mayo Clinic a $1 million gift, pledged over four years. Lewy...
Somersaults – review
Traverse, EdinburghWhat do you have left when you strip away your home, your personal possessions and your loved ones? For some, it might be a sense of selfhood, spirituality or oneness with...
Angry at God? You’re not alone
If you’ve got issues with the man upstairs, take a number. According to new research, many people report feeling anger at God at some point in their lives. Case Western...
Teacher trainees 'poor at maths'
An international comparison of trainee teachers suggests England's trainees have less mathematical knowledge than their peers in some chief economic competitors.