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Brain emotion circuit sparks as teen girls size up peers
What is going on in teenagers' brains as their drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Study to see if video games can boost thinking skills in elderly
Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study whether and how video games can boost ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Engineering autism: Mice with extra chromosome region show many autistic signs
Mice who inherit a particular chromosomal duplication from their fathers show many behaviors associated with human autism, researchers report in the June 26th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press Publication. The duplic ...
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Changes in brain architecture may be driven by different cognitive challenges
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists trying to understand how the brains of animals evolve have found that evolutionary changes in brain structure reflect the types of social interactions and environmental stimuli ...
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Beating the bullies -- changing real-world behaviour through virtual experience (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Social problems like bullying and stereotyping involve thoughts, feelings and reactions that resist change. New research shows that when students play active roles in virtual dramas their attitudes and behaviour ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Close social ties make baboons better mothers
Baboons whose mothers have strong relationships with other females are much more likely to survive to adulthood than baboons reared by less social mothers, according to a new study by researchers at UCLA, ...
Jun 10, 2009 |
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MU Study Finds Connection Between Evolution, Classroom Learning
Over thousands of years, humans have evolved to naturally understand things like facial expressions and social interactions. But a University of Missouri researcher has found there is an ever-widening gap between what humans ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Asthma rates and where you live
A new study shows how neighborhood characteristics play a significant role in childhood asthma.
Jun 05, 2009 |
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Going for broke
(PhysOrg.com) -- Natasha Schull recalls how in the late 1990s she began observing people in Las Vegas transfixed for hours at video poker and slot machines. What, she wondered, kept them glued to machines ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 20, 2009 |
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Scientists discover neurons that 'mirror' the attention of others
Whether a monkey is looking to the left or merely watching another monkey looking that way, the same neurons in his brain are firing, according to researchers at the Duke University Medical Center.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 18, 2009 |
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Oxytocin: Love potion #1?
Relationships are difficult and most of us probably think at some point that communicating positively with our partner when discussing stressful issues, like home finances, is an impossible task. What if there was a safe ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 29, 2009 |
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A warm TV can drive away feelings of loneliness and rejection
Not all technology meets human needs, and some technologies provide only the illusion of having met your needs.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Boy's story sparks hope, skepticism in autism community
The twiggy boy who greets strangers at his Cedar Hill, Texas, home with a handshake and an impish grin bears no resemblance to the toddler who shied away from contact, screamed when he had to walk down the stairs and spent ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 16, 2009 |
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A 'hands-on' approach to computers
(PhysOrg.com) -- At a time when ever more aspects of our lives are moving toward the virtual, online world -- stores, newspapers, games and even social interactions -- Hiroshi Ishii seems to be swimming against ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 06, 2009 |
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The secret life of frogs
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Notre Dame biologist Sunny Boyd's research is a little like "Match.com" for amphibians. Say you're a female tree frog looking for a mate--how do you choose among a number of ...
Mar 24, 2009 |
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