http://phys.org/health-news/psychology/ en-us Phys.org 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 2011-06-19T05:05:32-07:00 (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 2011-06-15T17:44:26-07:00 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 2011-06-02T10:23:37-07:00 "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 2011-05-25T15:40:01-07:00 (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 2011-05-20T11:05:49-07:00 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 2011-05-17T17:35:37-07:00 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 2011-05-17T11:26:22-07:00 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 2011-05-11T05:20:01-07:00 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 2011-05-09T09:55:24-07:00 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 2011-05-06T14:00:01-07:00 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 2011-05-04T05:05:52-07:00 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 2011-04-25T13:50:01-07:00 Does misery really love company? An intriguing new study suggests that may be the case. http://phys.org/news222948339.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry 2011-04-25T11:08:54-07:00 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 2011-04-20T12:32:41-07:00 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 2011-04-20T10:33:08-07:00 (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 2011-04-20T10:00:01-07:00 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 2011-04-18T14:10:03-07:00 (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 2011-04-18T08:14:03-07:00 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 2011-04-14T11:50:01-07:00 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 2011-04-07T13:02:11-07:00 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 2011-04-06T12:51:35-07:00 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 2011-04-05T15:34:58-07:00 (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 2011-04-05T10:04:53-07:00 (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 2011-04-05T09:57:15-07:00 (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 2011-04-05T07:34:27-07:00 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 2011-04-04T18:30:45-07:00 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 2011-04-04T18:00:04-07:00 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 2011-04-04T17:20:02-07:00 Mexican migrants to the U.S. risk "clinically significant" mental-health problems, study finds. http://phys.org/news221154050.html Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry 2011-04-04T17:00:34-07:00 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 2011-04-04T16:43:37-07:00