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Men Who Do The Housework Are More Likely To Get The Girl
Marriage and cohabiting rates in developed countries can be linked to attitudes towards the roles of men and women, and views on who is responsible for doing the housework and...
Workplace Yoga And Meditation Can Lower Feelings Of Stress
Twenty minutes per day of guided workplace meditation and yoga combined with six weekly group sessions can lower feelings of stress by more than 10 percent and improve sleep quality...
New insight into human ciliopathy
In the 1st September issue of G and D, Dr Karen Oegema (UCSD) and colleagues identify the molecular basis of the lethal developmental disorder, hydrolethalus syndrome, and reveal that hydrolethalus...
Brain difference in psychopaths identified
Professor Declan Murphy and colleagues Dr Michael Craig and Dr Marco Catani from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London have found differences in the brain which may provide...
Khmer Rouge trials may affect post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among Cambodian survivors
The so-called 'Khmer Rouge trials' now underway are likely to have an impact on the mental health of many Cambodians, according to a new study published in the 5 August...
Elder self-neglect and abuse associated with increased risk of death
Elderly individuals who have a report of self-neglect or abuse submitted to a social service agency have an associated increased risk of death, according to a study in the 5...
Are kids today truly more autonomous?
Rutherford's analysis of back issues of the popular US magazine, Parents, maps how the portrayal of parental authority and children's autonomy has changed over the last century. Her findings are...
Universal screening for intimate partner violence may provide only modest benefits
New research suggests that universal intimate partner violence (IPV) screening in health care settings does not result in significant changes in subsequent reports of IPV or quality of life, according...
Thinking Crickets: 'Cognitive' Processes Underlie Memory Recall In Crickets
Activation of two different kinds of neurons is necessary for appetitive and aversive memory recall in crickets. Researchers blocked octopaminergic (OA-ergic) and dopaminergic (DA-ergic) transmission and found that this resulted...
Genetic risk, not anesthesia exposure, impacts cognitive performance
A recent study of more than 2,000 identical twins found that medical problems early in life, rather than the neurotoxic effects of anesthesia, are likely linked to an individual's risk...
Sociologists debate: Are Americans really isolated?
A widely publicized analysis of social network size, which reported dramatically increasing social isolation when it was published in 2006, has sparked an academic debate in the August issue of...
Video: New Hope For Amputees
A successful hand transplant gave an Iraqi war veteran renewed hope for the future. And, as Wyatt Andrews reports, it also inspired hope for amputees.
Child composers should not be written off, says music scholar
(PhysOrg.com) -- Children as young as three have composed serious music which deserves to be ranked alongside more established works by older composers, a renowned music scholar has said.
Do promises matter to employees? Not as much as we once thought
Years of research suggest that the promises organizations make to employees matter in establishing and maintaining a "psychological contract" between the two parties. However, new research by Samantha Montes and...
Research findings contradict myth of high engineering dropout rate
Research findings suggest that, contrary to popular belief, engineering does not have a higher dropout rate than other majors and women do just as well as men, information that could...
N.L. failing drug addicts, says advocate
An advocate for people recovering from drug addictions says the province is failing them. The executive director of Turnings, Ron Fitzpatrick, says people addicted to drugs like OxyContin and cocaine...
Looking at language
The study of the neural basis of language has largely focused on regions in the cortex - the outer brain layers thought by many researchers to have expanded during human...
Swedish crackdown on piracy leads to fall in illegal filesharing
Sweden's tough new anti-piracy law has led to a sharp drop in illegal downloading but critics say the effects will be short-lived and argue it is an excessive breach of...
Where Did Dogs Become Our "Best Friends"?
Although previous clues had hinted that the dog-human bond was forged in East Asia, new evidence suggests that exactly where dogs were first domesticated remains a doggone mystery.
Oscar Pistorius: Amputee Sprinter Runs Differently
A team of experts in biomechanics and physiology have conducted experiments on Oscar Pistorius, the South African bilateral amputee track athlete.
Children Now Enjoy More Freedom At Home, But Are More Restricted Outside The Home
Children now enjoy more freedom at home, but are more restricted outside the home. Children have certainly mastered the art of selecting, negotiating and even refusing the chores their parents...
Genetic study of African village dogs challenges the ancestral origins of several dog breeds
Domesticated animals provide man with benefits such as food, clothing and muscle power. Dogs, which descend from grey wolves that originated in Eurasia, were the first animals domesticated by man....
Mark Rosenzweig dies at 86; UC Berkeley pioneer in brain plasticity research
Rosenzweig and his colleagues found that the human brain can physically grow and change as people age. Scientists had long thought that the brain structure was 'etched in stone.' Mark Rosenzweig, a UC...
Opinion: Is directed gamete donation discriminatory?
Bernadette Richards argues that allowing gamete donors to stipulate factors such as the race, religion and marital status of potential recipients, a practice currently sanctioned by the NSW legal...
Research Undermines Dog Domestication Theory
A new report “leaves in disarray” the thesis that dogs evolved in East Asia, scientists say.
Hospital Dramatically Increases Transplant Donations By Integrating Bereavement And Donor Services
A UK hospital that combined its bereavement and donation services saw a forty-fold increase in tissue donations, such as corneas, in just five years. Between 2002 and 2007 the number...
How Marijuana Causes Memory Deficits
Memory loss associated with marijuana use is caused by the drug's interference with the brain's natural protein synthesis machinery, according to a new study by European researchers.
Asperger’s Syndrome, on Screen and in Life
Three upcoming movies focus on people living with Asperger’s syndrome.