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Psychiatric Waiting Lists Must be Cut Down

...patients are ignored. Private psychotherapists and psychologists are available in the community. There is no reason, assuming that quality of care is assured, why we cannot buy eight or 10 sessions for the individuals concerned under the NTPF. Why should the treatment of varicose veins be more important than depre...

Study Finds Healthier Women Are Those Who Accept The Way They Look

Ohio State psychologists have found in a study that instead of dieting, which could create dissatisfaction with how one feels about their body shape and thereby a desire// to change it, women who accept their bodies the way they are end up with the lowest body mass index (BM...

Men Find Fleshy Women More Attractive When Hungry

...more weight means more resources. Evolutionary psychologists believe that this is a survival preference as the ... impact our perceptions and thought process. The psychologists have now planned to look at how hunger impacts female attraction to males....

Learning the Value of Prevention and Treatment in Oral Clefting

...of the study. Further, it is possible that too few psychologists and behavioral scientists were among the evaluators. Examples of using the HRQL in the future may include cost-effectiveness analyses of prevention strategies such as vitamin supplementation, or treatment strategies such as prenatal repair of oral ...

Medical Role In Interrogations Curtailed By Pentagon

... consultants, ‘may be so assigned’ when qualified psychologists are not available. The doctors are also permitted ...at anything short of a complete ban on the use of psychologists or physicians in interrogations would result in interrogators mis-using the service of the medical p...

Autism In Children is Mostly Diagnosed Only at Older Age

... a best-estimate diagnosis, made by two additional psychologists or psychiatrists who reviewed all three of these measures and discussed the diagnosis until they reached a consensus. Of the 172 children who were examined at age 9 years, 58 percent had a best-estimate diagnosis of autism, an increase from the 49 ...

Mental Hospitals Offer More Problems than Solutions

... departments for excluding professionals — such as psychologists and other therapists — from diagnoses and treatment decisions. The lack knowledge among nurses of mental health diagnoses and their frequent unit changes leading to unfamiliarity with individual patients was also a point of concern Investigators wer...

Medicare Benefits For Patients seeking Psychiatric Help

...luding new Medicare rebates for consultations with psychologists wining plenty of acclaim. He stated that there c...re would be a teamwork approach to treatment, with psychologists and mental health nurses able to work alongside GPs and psychiatrists. From November, the Medicare b...

Psychologists to Get a Hike

...ent should be offering big financial incentives to psychologists who are prepared to work in regional areas. // Ac... in Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong there are six psychologists but for every 10,000 people living in rural areas there is only one psychologist. He said that par...

Woman’s Degree of Sexual Freedo

According to the study conducted by psychologists from Sheffield University most women still believe one-night stands are immoral//. The study of women's attitudes towards sex revealed that women of all ages believe that sex outside marriage or a committed relationship is wrong. The women communit...

Reminiscing Into The Past Makes You Dissatisfied With The Present

...the happy moments they enjoyed in their youth, but psychologists warn// that such frequent reminiscing of the past could make you dissatisfied with the present. This phenomenon becomes a problem when an elderly relative starts living completely in the past and ignores the present. While some might welcome a break...

Hamster's Shows How Our Brains May Recognize Other Individuals

A team of Cornell University research psychologists have discovered, different areas of the brain react differently when recognizing// others, depending on the emotions attached to the memory, has found. The team, led by professor of psychology Robert Johnston, has been conducting experiments to study...

Cure For Autism Could Be Established Through Hamster Studies

...ychology and a team of Cornell University research psychologists have found that different areas of the brain react differently when recognizing others.// This mainly depends upon the emotions attached to the memory. The researchers did this study with the help of golden hamsters. They allowed these hamsters to ...

Distinct Brain Sections Are Activated While Making Risky Decisions

... of research in which neuroscientists, economists, psychologists and psychiatrists together work to better understand how the brain works when people make decisions, evaluate risk, and receive rewards. Jill Stowe, Ph.D., a decision scientist with Duke's Fuqua School of Business and co-author of the study said t...

Bond Exists Between Siblings In Spite Of Rivalries

... siblings more than with anyone else, according to psychologists Christine Kaniak-Urban and Andrea Lex-Kachel. Younger children closely observe which position the older children in the family have filled and which positions are still open. Whether a child has a sibling or not also affects the parents. A lengthy ...

Glucose Boosts Memory Retention

...s, which have increased sugar levels. A group of psychologists said that a single drink high in glucose content has found to increase memory levels by 20%. The researcher said that he instructs his students to go in for an energy drink before attending his lectures. This helps the students to take in more infor...

Rural Population Enjoys Better Mental Health

...and mental health than city-dwellers. A team of psychologists from Warwick Medical School and Portsmouth and Bristol universities studied data for 7,659 adults, and found higher rates of suicides and common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety in urban areas. There are small but statistically sign...

Mirrors An Enigma for Humans

...nd thought provoking research was conducted by the psychologists at the University of Liverpool. The research was mainly based on the people’s difficulty in understanding how the mirror reflects images//. The research was headed by Dr Marco Bertamini working at the University's School of Psychology. He designed ...

Dieting Makes People Miserable

...re far from being contented people,// according to psychologists at the Bristol University. The chances of slim people committing suicide appear to be greater than large people resorting to such extreme measures. The research was also extended to studying the European population, which confirmed that slim people...

Women With High Oestrogen Levels Have Prettier Faces

...e been found to have prettier faces. The team of psychologists photographed the faces of 59 young women aged between 18 and 25 and analyzed their sex hormone levels. A group of volunteers comprising of an equal number of males and females were then asked to rate the attractiveness of each of the faces. Surprisin...

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