Psychology & Psychiatry
Children's Asthma Affected By Parental Expectations
Asthmatic children whose parents have high expectations for their ability to function normally are less likely to have symptoms than other children dealing with the condition, according to a new study. Children also are more likely to use asthma controller medications appropriately if they have a routine for taking medicine and if their parents clearly understand how well symptoms can be controlled. The study, which appears in the Oct. 2008 issue of
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Soothing Music Reduces Stress, Anxiety And Depression During Pregnancy Says Study
Music therapy can reduce psychological stress among pregnant women, according to research just published in a special complementary and alternative therapy medicine issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing. Researchers from the College of Nursing at Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, randomly assigned 116 pregnant women to a music group and 120 to a control group.
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PHR Salutes APA Policy Banning Psychologists From Illegal U.S. Interrogations
"APA's (American Psychological Association's) announcement today is a historic victory for medical ethics and human rights," said Physicians for Human Rights CEO Frank Donaghue.
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Efforts To Appear Unbiased Lead To Misunderstandings Between The Races, Studies Find
White people-including children as young as 10-may avoid talking about race so as not to appear prejudiced, according to new research. But that approach often backfires as blacks tend to view this "colorblind" approach as evidence of prejudice, especially when race is clearly relevant. These results are from two separate sets of experiments led by researchers from Tufts University and Harvard Business School.
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Landmark Victory: Mental Health Parity Is Now Law, USA
President Bush signed mental health parity into law today, taking a great step forward in the decade-plus fight to end insurance discrimination against those seeking treatment for mental health and substance use disorders. This historic legislation requires that health insurance equally cover both mental and physical health. Congress passed the legislation as part of a new bill that also includes tax extenders, changes to FDIC and the controversial financial rescue plan.
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American Public Health Association Applauds Congress For Passing Long-Overdue Mental Health Legislation, USA
Statement from Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP (E) Executive Director, American Public Health Association. "The American Public Health Association (APHA) praises Congress for passing historic legislation that will require health insurers to provide the same level of coverage for mental illness and substance abuse as they do for physical illness. Today our nation took a step toward eliminating disparity and moved closer to equality in care.
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Medical Student Gender And Self-Confidence - Females Underestimate Their Abilities And Males Tend To Overestimate Theirs
Despite performing equally to their male peers in the classroom and the clinic, female medical students consistently report decreased self-confidence and increased anxiety, particularly over issues related to their competency. A new study published in the September 2008 issue of
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Experts Find Loss Of Control Leads People To Seek Order, Answers
New research published in the journal Science explains why individuals seek to find and impose order on an unruly world through superstition, rituals and conspiratorial explanations by linking a loss of control to individual perceptions. The research finds that a quest for structure or understanding leads people to trick themselves into seeing and believing connections that simply don't exist.
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Electromagnetic Biomarker Could Minimize Trial-And-Error Prescribing For Depression
Images of the brain's fastest signals reveal an electromagnetic marker that predicts a patient's response to a fast-acting antidepressant, researchers have discovered. "Such biomarkers that identify who will benefit from a new class of antidepressants could someday minimize trial-and-error prescribing and speed delivery of care for what can be a life-threatening illness," said Carlos Zarate, M.D.
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Psychological Impact Of Gene Test For Breast Cancer
Personal beliefs about inconclusive DNA testing for hereditary breast cancer are associated with cancer-related worry, and such beliefs are an especially strong predictor of whether women had been able to leave the period of DNA-testing behind, reports a study in the October issue of Genetics in Medicine, official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG). The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
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Musicians Use Both Sides Of Their Brains More Frequently Than Others
Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally trained musicians more effectively use a creative technique called divergent thinking, and also use both the left and the right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily than the average person.
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Temple Psychologists Honored For Contributions To Psychology
Demonstrating the world class reputation of Temple's psychology department and faculty, Laurence Steinberg, Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Campbell Professor of Psychology, and Lauren Alloy, Professor and Joseph Wolpe Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Psychology, have been recognized for their career achievements by the two leading professional organizations in psychology.
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Tribal Culture In The Workplace
The way male managers power dress, posture and exercise power is due to humans' evolutionary biology, according to research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Prehistoric behaviours, such as male domination, protecting what is perceived as their "turf" and ostracising those who do not agree with the group is more commonplace in everyday work situations than many of us want to accept, according to the research which was carried out in hospitals.
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Are Patients Who Often Go To The Doctor Different From The Others?
There has been a considerable amount of research trying to characterize the patients who often see their doctors as actually suffering from a psychiatric disorder. The results have varied across studies. This new investigation attempts to characterize these patients according to psychosomatic characteristics (as assessed by the Diagnostic Criteria for Use in Psychosomatic Research, DCPR). The results are quite impressive.
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Self-Confidence Of Medical Students Varies By Gender
Despite performing equally to their male peers in the classroom and the clinic, female medical students consistently report decreased self-confidence and increased anxiety, particularly over issues related to their competency. A new study published in the September 2008 issue of Patient Education and Counseling found that female medical students also appeared less confident to patients.
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Bullying Common In Cyberspace
A new study in the Journal of School Health reveals that cyberbullying is common among teens who are frequent internet users, with 72 percent of respondents reporting at least one incident during the past year. Online bullying was associated with increased distress, as well as with in-school bullying, with 85 percent of respondents who reported at least one online incident also reporting being bullied in school.
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How Civil War Refugees Cope With The Unknown
A new study in the journal Family Relations focuses on the experiences of the Sudanese refugees who were separated from their parents during the Sudanese civil war. Often called the Lost Boys of Sudan, these children faced multiple traumatic events and chronic hardships. In addition to being violently expelled from their homes and having to live in displacement camps, these children also struggled with uncertainty regarding the fate of their parents and siblings.
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Presence Of Safety Measures Affects People's Trust In The Safety Of Tourist Destinations
According to the asymmetry principle of trust, information on negative events decreases trust to a much higher extent than information on positive events increases trust. A new study in the journal Risk Analysis examined whether this notion holds true with respect to trust in the safety of tourist destinations.
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Under Certain Conditions Religion Makes People Helpful And Generous
Belief in God encourages people to be helpful, honest and generous, but only under certain psychological conditions, according to University of British Columbia researchers who analyzed the past three decades of social science research.
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Are You A Binge Drinker? BMA Scotland Calls For Compulsory Labelling Of Alcoholic Drinks
BMA Scotland today (Friday 3 October 2008) called on the Government to legislate for the introduction of compulsory labelling on all alcoholic products to help people understand and manage their drinking habits. The call comes in light of Scotland's Alcohol Awareness Week (5 - 11 October 2007). Because of a lack of consistent advice and information on alcohol content and what constitutes a recommended unit, people are confused as to the amount of alcohol they actually drink.
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