http://phys.org/health-news/psychology/ en-us Phys.Org provides the latest news on psychology, psychological disorders, psychological condition, psychological diseases and psychological science. Choi Hyun-Min loses all track of time when he sits down to play computer games, but the sessions usually last at least 10 hours. http://phys.org/news227678554.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:05:32 EST news227678554 (AP) -- Married men sometimes behave badly. They covet. They flirt. They philander. And when they get caught, they occasionally adopt the insanity defense, telling spouses that an inner demon made them lose control. http://phys.org/news227378648.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:44:26 EST news227378648 Recently, actress and writer Carrie Fisher told Oprah Winfrey that she receives electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) regularly to treat depression caused by her bipolar disorder. Taken aback, Winfrey asked, "They still do that?" http://phys.org/news226228991.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:23:37 EST news226228991 "Where are we going to put the narcissists?" It was a question asked urgently by one of the hundreds of psychiatrists gathered here last week for their professional society's annual meeting. With doctors in the thick of a years-long effort to rewrite the essential textbook for diagnosing mental illnesses, questions like these came up time and again in meeting rooms, over drinks sipped from coconut shells, and in other venues during the five-day conference. http://phys.org/news225553144.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 25 May 2011 15:40:01 EST news225553144 (AP) -- Hassan Qasim lies shackled to a wall in a hallway with 25 other patients at a clinic for the mentally ill. He whispers under his breath and spits at his neighbors. Torn and dirty clothes hang off his skinny frame. http://phys.org/news225108333.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 20 May 2011 11:05:49 EST news225108333 Fifteen years ago, Dr. Lawrence H. Diller, a pediatrician from Walnut Creek, Calif., ignited a national debate over the steep rise in children being diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and treated with stimulant medication. http://phys.org/news224872520.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 17 May 2011 17:35:37 EST news224872520 French politician and International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, arrested in New York Saturday for attempted rape, has long trailed a reputation among France's cognoscenti as an ardent womanizer. http://phys.org/news224850362.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 17 May 2011 11:26:22 EST news224850362 When they were investigating the series of attacks on women in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, police stopped dozens of black or Latino men who were thought to resemble a face in a forensic sketch. The image of a guy in a hoodie, drawn by a trained artist who interviewed one of the victims, was a high-profile use of an investigative technique that dates back more than a century. http://phys.org/news224308120.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 11 May 2011 05:20:01 EST news224308120 Some clothing firms in the United States are marketing sexy garments for pre-teen girls, reinforcing a destructive stereotype of female attractiveness, research released on Monday said. http://phys.org/news224153705.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 09 May 2011 09:55:24 EST news224153705 People who continually change gears to do different tasks may find it reduces their concentration and self-control in other areas of their lives. http://phys.org/news223906880.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 06 May 2011 14:00:01 EST news223906880 A mentally ill New Zealand man who cut off and ate his own finger in a rare case of self-cannibalism has described his action as a cry for help but "ultimately, a very stupid idea". http://phys.org/news223704330.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 04 May 2011 05:05:52 EST news223704330 Women, being from Venus, have a reputation for being the first to spring "I love you" in romantic relationships. http://phys.org/news222955354.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:50:01 EST news222955354 Does misery really love company? An intriguing new study suggests that may be the case. http://phys.org/news222948339.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:08:54 EST news222948339 Queen's University professor Kate Harkness has found that a history of physical, sexual or emotional abuse in childhood substantially increases the risk of depression in adolescence by altering a person's neuroendocrine response to stress. http://phys.org/news222521529.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:32:41 EST news222521529 A new study from the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry finds that mothers who feed their babies breast milk exclusively, as opposed to formula, are more likely to bond emotionally with their child during the first few months after delivery. The breastfeeding mothers surveyed for the study showed greater responses to their infant's cry in brain regions related to caregiving behavior and empathy than mothers who relied upon formula as the baby's main food source. This is the first paper to examine the underlying neurobiological mechanisms as a function of breastfeeding, and to connect brain activity with maternal behaviors among human mothers. http://phys.org/news222514374.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:33:08 EST news222514374 (PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you're dating, job seeking, or running for office, an attractive face can get you far. But what makes a face attractive? Most studies have found we’re drawn to “average” faces, as well as those whose features fit conventionally with one gender or the other -- “masculinity” in men, “femininity” in women. http://phys.org/news222510278.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:00:01 EST news222510278 Psychologists are offering new insight and solutions to help counter climate change, while helping people cope with the environmental, economic and health impacts already taking a toll on people's lives, according to a special issue of American Psychologist, the American Psychological Association's flagship journal. http://phys.org/news222348958.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:10:03 EST news222348958 (PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment by researchers at the University of Warwick has found the first real evidence that men tend to make black-or-white judgements when women are more prone to see shades of grey in choices and decisions. http://phys.org/news222333229.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:14:03 EST news222333229 More Americans have killed themselves in times of financial hardship than in times of prosperity, said a US study of suicide rates and the business cycle from 1928 to 2007 released Thursday. http://phys.org/news221999151.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:50:01 EST news221999151 We all know that people at opposite ends of the political spectrum often really can't see eye to eye. Now, a new report published online on April 7th in Current Biology reveals that those differences in political orientation are tied to differences in the very structures of our brains. http://phys.org/news221400104.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:02:11 EST news221400104 Learning how babies communicate can teach us a lot about the development of human social interactions. Psychologist Daniel Messinger, from the University of Miami (UM), studies infants' interactions and has found that babies are not simply living in the moment. Instead, infants seem to have particular interests that create historical footprints reflected in the infants' visual engagement over time. The findings were published today, in a study titled, 'Are You Interested, Baby?' Young Infants Exhibit Stable Patterns of Attention during Interaction." in the journal Infancy. http://phys.org/news221313085.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:51:35 EST news221313085 You win some, you lose some. You get the perfect job—the one your heart is set on. Or you get snubbed. You win the girl (or guy) of your dreams—or you strike out. Such are life's ups and downs. http://phys.org/news221236031.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:34:58 EST news221236031 (PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some people tend to make inappropriate comments in social situations? Why do some people misread cues about how others feel about them? http://phys.org/news221216668.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:04:53 EST news221216668 (PhysOrg.com) -- When presented with images of faces depicting various emotional states, people who look briefly at fearful expressions are more vulnerable to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) than those who look at the images longer, a finding of particular concern for U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, University of Texas at Austin researchers say. http://phys.org/news221216217.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:57:15 EST news221216217 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new, non-invasive treatment for depression that delivers barely perceptible electric currents to the scalp has had promising results in a Sydney trial, and researchers are now looking for participants for a follow up study. http://phys.org/news221207558.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:34:27 EST news221207558 Like a jab in the arm with a red-hot poker, social rejection hurts. Literally. A new study finds that our brains make little distinction between the sting of being rebuffed by peers - or by a lover, boss or family member - and the physical pain that arises from disease or injury. The new findings are published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://phys.org/news221160435.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:30:45 EST news221160435 Persons with an addictive-like eating behavior appear to have greater neural activity in certain regions of the brain similar to substance dependence, including elevated activation in reward circuitry in response to food cues, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the August print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. http://phys.org/news221154269.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:00:04 EST news221154269 Adolescents who spend more time listening to music are far more likely to have major depressive disorder, while young people who spend more time reading books are far less likely to have such a diagnosis, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study published in the April edition of the journal Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. http://phys.org/news221153970.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:20:02 EST news221153970 Mexican migrants to the U.S. risk "clinically significant" mental-health problems, study finds. http://phys.org/news221154050.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:00:34 EST news221154050 Low levels of household income are associated with several lifetime mental disorders and suicide attempts, and a decrease in income is associated with a higher risk for anxiety, substance use, and mood disorders, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. http://phys.org/news221154182.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:43:37 EST news221154182