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Combat Exposure May Increase Likelihood Of Newly Reported High Blood Pressure
Military deployment with multiple combat exposures appeared to be a unique risk factor for newly reported hypertension. Specifically, personally witnessing or being exposed to death due to war or disaster...
Reminder: Dan Brown's 'Lost Symbol' Is Fiction
"The Lost Symbol," is woven with a maze of secretive plots, conspiracies, symbols and codes.
Baucus Offers Health Plan but Lacks G.O.P. Support
Senator Max Baucus did not win support from a single Republican despite tailoring his proposal to be less costly and to extend the reach of government less than other health...
Quality Of Early Child Care Plays Role In Later Reading, Math Achievement
Using information from the longitudinal study of early care and youth development, researchers found that children who spent more time in high-quality child care in the first five years of...
Under Pressure: The Impact Of Stress On Decision Making
We are faced with making decisions all the time. Often, we carefully deliberate the pros and cons of our choices, taking into consideration past experiences in similar situations before making...
Brain's Response To Seeing Food May Be Linked To Weight Loss Maintenance
A difference in brain activity patterns may explain why some people are able to maintain a significant weight loss while others regain the weight, according to a new study.
Scary music is scarier with your eyes shut
The power of the imagination is well-known: it's no surprise that scary music is scarier with your eyes closed. But now neuroscientist and psychiatrist Prof. Talma Hendler of Tel Aviv...
Parental Physical Discipline Through Childhood Linked To Behavior Problems In Teens
Using data collected in two longitudinal studies, researchers found that parents typically adjust the way they discipline their children in response to their children's cognitive abilities, using less physical discipline...
Background TV Found To Have Negative Effect On Parent-child Interactions
A new study looks for the first time at the effect of background TV on interactions between parents and young children. Using an experimental design, researchers found that when a...
Reading Kafka Improves Learning, Suggests Psychology Study
Reading a book by Franz Kafka -- or watching a film by director David Lynch -- could make you smarter. According to research by psychologists, exposure to surrealism enhances the...
Researchers find phone assessment effective for evaluating cognition in the elderly
Cognitive testing by telephone in elderly individuals is generally as effective as in-person testing, according to a new study by Effie M. Mitsis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Mount...
Pollution fears on China birth defects
Beijing sees another rise in birth defects, mirroring increases elsewhere in China, amid fears pollution is to blame.
Spanking Found To Have Negative Effects On Low-income Toddlers
A longitudinal study of more than 2,500 low-income White, African American, and Mexican-American mothers and their children found that spanking at age 1 leads to more aggressive behaviors at age...
Mental illness gets downplayed
A long-term study has found that people greatly under-report mental illness if asked years later – so the statistics on this could be way off.
Neuron integration method studied
EVANSTON, Ill., Sept. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say a new study of neurons supports one of several competing models that attempt to explain how neurons integrate synaptic inputs.
92% of Ontario drivers will obey cellphone ban: poll
A survey regarding Ontario's impending ban on the use of hand-held cellphones while driving finds that 92 per cent of respondents intend to obey the law.
Children under 3 can't learn action words from TV -- unless an adult helps
American infants and toddlers watch TV an average of two hours a day, and much of the programming is billed as educational. A new study finds that children under age...
Teacher support is key to self-esteem for Chinese and US youth
As children go back to school this fall, a new cross-cultural study finds that for both Chinese and American middle schoolers, students who feel supported by their teachers tend to...
The robot children
The brains of the snake robots are still no more advanced than that of a one-year-old, but scientists at SINTEF (Norway) want to bring them up to the level of...
Genes may explain why children who live without dads have earlier sex
Previous research has found that children raised in homes without a biological father have sex earlier than children raised in traditional nuclear families. Now a new study that used a...
Questions for a professor of denial
Ian Plimer is a purveyor of 24-carat bafflegab. So why are publications like the Spectator so keen to champion him?
The role of genetic factors in adult ADHD
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, is one of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood. Worldwide, 3% of children are affected with the disorder. Key symptoms of ADHD include age-inappropriate hyperactive...
Startup lets you play console video games remotely
(AP) -- As any a video game aficionado knows, it's easy to pop a game into your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and spend hours working your way from...
Study: Long hours affect what family eats at home
(PhysOrg.com) -- Irregular work schedules, long hours, job dissatisfaction and other such working conditions of parents in low-income families significantly impact family food choices, according to a new Cornell study.
How Do We Perceive Art?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists at the University of Leicester are to work with a renowned international artist in order to gain new insights into perception.
Vital Signs: Sickened by Brownies, but It Wasn’t Food Poisoning
When several preschool teachers fell sick after eating brownies, public health investigators suspected it wasn’t a typical case of food poisoning. The real problem was something a little different.
Mind: When a Parent’s ‘I Love You’ Means ‘Do as I Say’
Evidence is now available about the mainstream thinking on the disciplining of children.
New research analyzes the corporate attorney-client privilege
Due to the evolutionary legal landscape, corporate lawyers now find themselves relying on information and guidance from non-legal advisors like accountants, investment bankers, and public relations professionals. This aids the...