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Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

...eative potential they have, but you get a taste of mental freedom you want more of it. It's an explosion of creativity." says Schmidt, quickly adding, "I'm a workaholic, but it's the type of work that's the problem. Our society is focused on work that makes stuff that goes directly into landfills. Essential...

Resistance to Scientific Explanations By Children and Adults

...d that the brain is not involved for some sorts of mental activities, such as emotions and decision-making. Children also are drawn to creationist explanations for the origin of species and may find evolutionary accounts confusing and implausible. Other popular nonscientific beliefs, said Bloom and Weisbe...

Psychological Bullying Hits Just as Hard

...oncern for adolescent psychosocial development and mental health, according to Dr. Sara Goldstein from Montclair State University and her colleagues from the University of Michigan. Their study[1], published this month in Springers Journal of Youth and Adolescence, shows that adolescents exposed to high l...

Performance of Mental Tasks Affected by Sexual Orientation

...al orientation has a real effect on how we perform mental tasks such as navigating with a map in a car but ... of sexual orientations studied. For instance in mental rotation (a task where men usually perform better) they found that the table of best performance to ...

Circadian Clocks Triggered Chemical Reactions may Be Behind Jet Lag

...l reactions in cells, which may be behind jet lag, mental illness, and even some forms of cancer in humans. Circadian clocks in cells respond to differences in light between night and day and thereby allow organisms to anticipate changes in the environment by pacing their metabolism to this daily cycle. Th...

Watch Out for Signs of Autism in Babies!

...ere is a growing field in psychiatry called infant mental health. Doctors and scientists are increasingly lo...es of autism, attention deficit disorder and other mental problems that just a generation ago, scarcely anyone thought could appear in children so young. So...

Repeat of Heart Attack can Be Prevented by Fish Oil Supplements

...atty acids are important throughout adult life for mental well being but in particular help heart patients and those with arthritis by blocking the body's response to inflammation. They cut blood fats, reduce the chances of a blood clot and block dangerous heart rhythms that might otherwise prove fatal. H...

Researchers Have Found Reason Why Boys are Better at Maths Than Girls

...s as boys, tend to worry more, and this erodes the mental resources needed for problem solving. The study ...lso hinder success in other academic areas because mental abilities do not immediately rebound after being compromised by mathematics anxiety. The study was...

Researcher Studying Disease That Cripples Newborns

...ome increasingly weak and disabled and suffer from mental retardation. Children with CDM1 face a lifetime of physical and occupational therapy and require special educational programs. Currently, there is no treatment that either slows down or cures this disorder. Changing this prognosis is a goal of Dr...

Loss of Virginity Could Prove Traumatic If Relationship Falls Apart Subsequently

...eved non-marital sex adversely impacts on a teen's mental health. But a new study shows that the negative mental side effects of a teen's loss of virginity are confined to a specific group. Depression overtakes...

Attitude Determines How Much Exercise is too Much

...es how much exercise is too much for a person, say mental health experts at The Menninger Clinic. The res... trusted advisora coach or teacher, or a doctor or mental health professional....

Enriching Environment Stimulates Neurons: Hope For Fragile X Syndrome

...on, published by Cell Press. A type of inherited mental retardation; Fragile X syndrome affects 1 in 3600 ...y altered to match the defects in humans with this mental disorder. The scientists performed a detailed analysis of the electrophysiological properties of neu...

UK Nurses Complain of Stress, One Quits After Screaming at Heart Attack Patient

... Times magazine say they suffered from physical or mental health problems linked to work-related stress. Some 44% said their sex life was suffering as a result and a quarter said they had started drinking more. Nursing Times blamed the pressure of financial deficits and the threat of job cuts. The poll al...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...g out to be an ordeal. For others, the stigma of a mental health disorder keeps them from seeking help. Ar...p at Fort Sill, Okla. His wife, Stefanie, said the mental health facility there was understaffed and Michael was told he'd have to wait up to two months for a...

Personality Changes may Help to Identify a Form of Dementia

...portant because some medications used to treat the mental health symptoms of Alzheimer's disease can be potentially hazardous for people with dementia with Lewy bodies. The study found that even prior to diagnosis, people with dementia with Lewy bodies showed passive personality changes, such as diminishe...

Work-related Stress Restrains the Sex Lives of Nurses

... 70 percent said they experienced from physical or mental health problems linked to work-related stress. ...al lives and relationships, he added. Apart from mental and emotional stress, the nurses also faced physical assault at workplace. A RCN poll last year fo...

Indian Engineer Sentenced for Groping Women During Flight

...ean P. Whalen, said Boomaiah had not suffered from mental illness before, and that his behavior on the plane was an aberration. 'Boomaiah attended top universities in India and received a bachelor and master of engineering and a postgraduate diploma in management',the lawyers said in their filing to the cou...

Journal Sleep: Advanced Cancer Patients Have Less Quality Sleep

...uation of one's quality of sleep, quality of life, mental and physical component, and pain. The findings i...poor sleep quality and the functional performance, mental health, and pain status of cancer patients. "The current findings could be of clinical importance,...

Travolta Maybe Reluctant to Publicaly Discuss About Sons Autism

...ccording to the Church of Scientology, people with mental illnesses are 'degraded' and are capable of curing themselves by working harder on the church's teachings. However Travoltas lawyer Marty Singer asserted that such claims are false and offensive. 'The Travoltas are wonderful, loving parents, and...

Implanting Electrodes in the Brain Could Help Treat Severe Depression

... Germany and associate professor of psychiatry and mental health at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and his team are examining the prospects of deep brain stimulation, a therapy used to treat tremors associated with Parkinson's disease, to treat depression. The idea behind the st...

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