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Original Technorati articles tagged “psychiatry”

• in Technorati Women
  Study Focuses on Genetic Links to ADHD
  Medical research is shedding new light on the genetics associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
  by jenna3967 / on Dec 6, 2011
• in Film
  The Living Ghost (1942) Is Frightful
  The Living Ghost…’eh, it’s not as scary as The Dead Ghost.
  by missbobetier / on Oct 18, 2011
• in Film
  Netflix Noir: I Wake Up Screaming (1941), Shock (1946), and Fear in the Night (1947)
  That dream you had last night…are you sure it was only a dream?
  by missbobetier / on Feb 22, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “psychiatry”

 

• Research suggests short and frequent exercise key to feeling full

  
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  Short bouts of intermittent exercise throughout the day may be better than one vigorous workout in convincing your brain that you are full. The insight comes from a study done by Murdoch University and a group of American collaborators investigating how the appetite-regulating hormone Peptide YY (PYY) fluctuates ...
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• How Dangerous Is a Paranoid Schizophrenic?

  
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  Are you really at risk of attack by someone with schizophrenia? A violent attack by someone who is mentally ill quickly grabs the headlines. And it’s usually implied that mental illnesses are a preventable cause of violent crime. Tackle that and we can all sleep safer in our beds. But by pressuring mental ...
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• Witnessing Violence In Infancy Leads To Later Aggression In School

  
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  Aggression in school-age children may have its origins in children 3 years old and younger who witnessed violence between their mothers and partners, according to a new Case Western Reserve University study. "People may think children that young are passive and unaware, but they pay attention to whats happening around ...
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• You’re so vain: study links social media and narcissism

  
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  Facebook is a mirror and Twitter is a megaphone, according to a new University of Michigan study exploring how social media reflect and amplify the culture’s growing levels of narcissism. The study, published online in Computers in Human Behavior, was conducted by U-M researchers Elliot Panek, Yioryos Nardis and ...
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• New Software System Could Help With Social Interactions, Social Phobias

  
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  Social phobias affect about 15 million adults in the United States, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and surveys show that public speaking is high on the list of such phobias. For some people, these fears of social situations can be especially acute: For example, individuals with Aspergers ...
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• I bet it’s biased: one easy step to squash expert opinions

  
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  Accusations of scientific bias are the new catch-all weapon for anti-science commentators and climate deniers. Why are they effective? New research shows they may exploit part of our psychology. Climate sceptics have won, Martin Wolf lamented in the Financial Times, despite near-universal scientific consensus ...
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• How angry-face Lego study went from no-go to global phenomenon …

  
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  I pitched my idea for a LEGO Minifigure Catalog to both Lego and its preferred publisher several times. They were not interested, so I published it myself with some success. When looking at all those faces, I got curious about their change over time, so we conducted a little study on the topic. Again, we had ...
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• ADHD disorder: A nation of kids on speed

  
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  OPINION: Walk into any American high school and nearly one in five boys in the hallways will have a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 11% of all American children ages 4 to 17—over six million—have ADHD, a 16% increase since 2007. ...
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• IQ link to baby’s weight gain in first month

  
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  New research from the University of Adelaide shows that weight gain and increased head size in the first month of a baby’s life is linked to a higher IQ at early school age. The study was led by University of Adelaide Public Health researchers, who analysed data from more than 13,800 children who were born ...
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• Rethinking bipolar disorder

  
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  Im reposting the below post from about a year and a half ago and then following it with a collection of links to other posts from the Beyond Meds archives that look at that which gets labeled "bipolar disorder" from different perspective. That diagnosis did me nothing but harm and it tragically results in similar ...
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• Stop prescribing benzodiazepines for anxiety

  
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  As a physician in a rural health clinic, I frequently see patients who complain of anxiety. The majority of these patients are in their 20s to 40s. Some have never been evaluated by a mental health professional, and many of these patients take benzodiazepines on a chronic basis. After current review, I wonder if we as ...
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• Survive or thrive? Overqualified a matter of management

  
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  Overqualified workers are often seen as the pariah of human resources but these employees can be a constructive or a destructive influence on your business, depending on the way they are managed. In my research, I have found that while overqualified people may often engage in counterproductive work behaviours, they ...
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• Psychiatrists Explore Superman’s Emotional Issues in Man of Steel (And Beyond)

  
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  Some people say that Superman isnt the easiest character to identify with, either because he’s too much of a “Boy Scout” with an antiquated moral code, or because his omnipotence and alien origin make him less relatable compared to other ...        
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• School engagement predicts success later in life

  
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  Children’s interest and engagement in school influences their prospects of educational and occupational success 20 years later, over and above their academic attainment and socioeconomic background, researchers have found. The more children felt connected to their school community and felt engaged, rather than ...
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• Video Gamers Really Do See More

  
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  Hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a players hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, according to Duke University researchers. "Gamers see the world differently," said Greg Appelbaum, an assistant professor of ...
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• For cancer survivors, diet distresses while exercise inspires

  
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  While some cancer survivors feel distressed about diet and body weight, exercise helps them feel they are taking back control of their health, Cornell researchers report in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (May/June issue). “Cancer survivors’ feeling that they could be active – just getting up in ...
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• Study uncovers why women remember events better

  
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  Gender plays a strong role in how people remember, a new Cornell study confirms. Research – and many tales from real life – report that women are typically better at remembering past events than men. Why? “It appears that, compared with men, women may attend to and encode more information during ongoing events, ...
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• Reflection after attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting

  
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  I’m two weeks into my psychiatry clerkship, sitting quietly in the back of a crowded Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and watching a middle-aged man discuss his past struggles with alcoholism. He starts with his difficult childhood, describing his abusive father. When he was eleven years old, his parents divorced. ...
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• A way of thinking may enable battle but prevent war crimes

  
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  Combat troops must minimize the humanness of their enemies in order to kill them. They can’t be effective fighters if they’re distracted by feelings of empathy for opponents. But indifference to the enemy, rather than loathing, may help prevent war crimes and provide troops with a better path back to healthy ...
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• Autism speeds motion perception

  
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  Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are “markedly better” at perceiving the motion of certain objects than are typically developing children their age, according to researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Rochester. This finding, reported last month in the Journal of Neuroscience, ...
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