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Nandigram Killings Lead to Depression Among Many

... appetite in the human body. Other city-based psychologists have the same view. "Common people feel stressed after seeing the incident on television. Many cases of psychological disorders have been due to reactions after watching the news," said psychologist Priyanka Bhattacharya. "But unfortunately,...

Ireland’s ‘Forgotten’ Patients To Be Given Better Cre

...social workers, speech and language therapists and psychologists to care for the patients' many needs. Yet says Dr Finnerty that only two of Ireland's 32 catchment areas are staffed sufficiently to be in a position to offer a core multidisciplinary team in each of its sub-sectors. Lack of staff impacts most l...

Combination of Depression and Type-2-diabetes Lethal for Heart Patients

...ary artery disease, Duke University Medical Center psychologists found that those with both type 2 diabetes and symptoms of depression were more likely to die than heart patients without those conditions. The study showed that among type 2 diabetes patients, having high depression scores increased the risk of d...

A New Drug That Could Help Alcoholics

...t, any medical aid to check them would be welcome, psychologists say. However, further research has to be conducted on the efficacy of the new compound. The researchers say that, in addition to alcoholism, MTIP might be useful in the treatment of depression or anxiety disorders, which also report increased CRF l...

Skimpily Dressed Dolls Send Wrong Cues to Young Girls

A team of psychologists have expressed concern over the influence of scant...This could be sending wrong cues to young minds, psychologists say. The APA felt strongly that the presence of such dolls in the market could create an urge amon...

New Hope for Women With Eating Disorders

...tive thoughts and emotions. Griffith University psychologists Michelle Hanisch and Angela Morgan said women who binged were often high-achievers and perfectionists. When such women perceived they didn't measure up to self-imposed standards or were not in control of situations, they indulged in secretive eating ...

In Search of Truth - 'Lie Detector

...ated when the person is telling the truth. Several psychologists believe that both these tests lack scientific basis. The Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT) on the other hand has scientific strength and is based on studying the physiological responses to multiple-choice questions, posed to the candidate, about the cri...

Intervention Can Cut Job Stress While Protecting the Heart

...ogical pressure, but they don't want to hear about psychologists because they are feeling real, clinical symptoms," Pagani said. After baseline assessment, the workers were offered the opportunity to participate in weekly, one-hour stress management sessions during lunch breaks or in a passive program that offer...

Paying Attention Sets Off Symphony of Cell Synchronization

...y how attention alters brain activity. The team of psychologists and neuroscientists used a new strategy for understanding the mechanisms whereby sustained attention makes us process things more effectively, literally making the world come into sharper focus. “When you pay attention cells aren't only responding ...

Psychological Treatments Improve Outcomes for Back Pain Sufferers

... was somewhat surprising, Kerns said, because when psychologists first began developing interventions for chronic p...e effective and cost-effective is a challenge that psychologists will have to tackle head-on, Kerns said. “We need to specifically target health care system admin...

Who are ‘Tweens’? Read o…

Doctors and social psychologists have observed an alarming trend in the kids, even those between the ages of 8 to 10 who seem to behave like teenagers. The physical and// behavioral changes which marks the teenage years , seems to be showing up in kids between the age of 8 to 12; so...

Memories Linked To Their Packaging In The Brain

...'This study provides a neurological basis for what psychologists have been telling us for years,' said Michael Rugg, director of UCI's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and senior author of the paper. 'You can't get out of memory what you didn't put into it. It is not possible to remember things l...

Depression Symptoms Less Likely in Kids with Accurate Self-Perceptions

...s liked them or not. That’s important because some psychologists have theorized that people who have a positive bias — meaning they think others like them more than they actually do — are protected against developing symptoms of depression, while those who have a negative bias are prone to maladjustment and depres...

Mental Health Package Regrettably Undervalues the Role of the GP

...s outcomes for patient access to psychiatrists and psychologists in team-based care, there are still major concerns about how the Government sees the role of GPs in mental health care. Dr Haikerwal said the Government fails to understand that GPs are the main source of expert care for patients with mental illnes...

Hepatitis C : By No Means Lily-livered! Beware

...rs to employ the services of additional nurses and psychologists to give undivided attention to Hepatitis C cases. The staff will be recruited by December this year. Gastroenterologist and heptologist associate professor Graeme Macdonald explained that, out of the many types of Hepatitis C, nearly 10 to 20% may ...

Detention, Uncertainty take their Toll on the Mental Health of Refugees

...ent protection visas (PPVs) // , specialist trauma psychologists and psychiatrists have revealed. Anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression are much more severe for TPV holders than for PPV holders, mental health professionals from the Sydney-based Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation...

Stereotypes Contribute to Older Men Seeking, Receiving Depression Care Less Frequently

... men “just do not think that tough guys go talk to psychologists or psychiatrists, and fool around with that type of monkey business.” The association of depression with severe mental illness, or “craziness,” was another barrier to care, although it was cited less frequently than the other obstacles. One depress...

Designer babies

According to a recent study by psychologists at the University of East Anglia, the concept of “designing” babies is notably more acceptable to the learned than the// poorly educated. Dr. Simon Hampton presented the findings at the BA Festival of Science on Setpember 5. If given a chance, w...

Greater g factor in men responsible for sex differences in general mental ability

...ce was missed for so long. For decades, however, psychologists have accepted that men and women differ in their t...ssumed to average out. The authors of the study, psychologists Douglas N. Jackson and J. Philippe Rushton at the University of Western Ontario, conducted the study...

Anticipation Could Have An Intense Effect On Memory

...ain. Like for example, it has always been known by psychologists that memories of disturbing emotional events such as an act of violence or the unexpected death of a loved one are more clear and deeply imprinted in the brain than dull and routine recollections of everyday matters. The findings of the brain-imagi...

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