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Mystery behind Brain activity during recalling events disentangled

...he research is of great importance in the field on psychology and also in the better understanding the mental state of the Alzheimer patients. There were nine participants in the study who were shown three different categories of pictures. The first one being famous celebrities; secondly famous location and thi...

Parents Encourage Stereotype Body Images

...tudy. The study was coauthored by Thomas Joiner, a psychology professor, Ainhoa Otamendi, a post-doctoral student, and Jill Holm-Denoma, a graduate student. The parents in the study were interviewed through a questionnaire....

Are You Ill? Have A Hard Laugh!

... achieving their licenses, they studied the brain, psychology and other medical subjects, as well as how people deal with death, Takayanagi said. 'They are almost like missionaries,' she said. 'They are very determined to carry out their mission to infect everyone with laughter.' Applicants were screened thro...

Attention Breakdown Is The Harbinger Of Alzheimer's Disease

...lzheimer's disease.David A. Balota, a professor of psychology in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, said, "our results indicate that breakdowns in attention produce a clear change in the early stages of Alzheimer's-related dementia. “Because attention is prerequisite for memory, one migh...

Meditation Maintains And Thickens The Grey Matter Of The Brain

...nificant, said Jeremy Gray, assistant professor of psychology at Yale and co-author of the study led by Sara Lazar, assistant in psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital. "What is most fascinating to me is the suggestion that meditati...

Daily Jogging Helps To Reduce Symptoms Of Depression

...ot," said James Blumenthal, a professor of medical psychology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Blu...in young adults. Robert E. Thayer, a professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach, said while workouts probably affect key brain chemicals ...

Indian Psychiatrist in UK Accused of plagiarism

...ring of publications and has presented the Radio 4 psychology programme "All In The Mind". The alleged plagiarism came to light when Thomas Blass, professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, happened to read Persaud's article. The piece, entitled "Why The Me...

Alcohol is no tonic for sleep

...r an individual," adds David Hodgins, professor of psychology at the University of Calgary....

Teens Misusing Nicotine-Replacement Products

...intain their nicotine levels. But an expert on the psychology //of smoking says the students may have lied on the survey. And even if they weren't, that doesn't mean the products are putting them at risk, says Dr. John R. Hughes, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont. At issue are two over-the...

Abortion may cause mental illness

.... But a strong opposition came from a professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, who said psychiatric problems cause women who become pregnant to feel less capable of raising a child and to terminate their pregnancy, but the reverse may not be true....

Televisions ruling baby's world!

...ke decisions. Donna Mumme, assistant professor of psychology at Tufts University, and her team tested //babies, showing actors reacting on a videotape to objects such as a red spiral letter holder, a blue bumpy ball, and a yellow garden hose attachment. Babies aged 10 months or 12 months were later given the s...

Right side of the brain helps in awareness

...orker-morph. "One of the astonishing findings in psychology is that humans and the apes (including chimpanzees, orangutans, and some gorillas) are the only species that recognise their own faces in a mirror," says Keenan, who began researching self-awareness as a graduate student. "It has been thought that th...

The right is responsible

...orker-morph. "One of the astonishing findings in psychology is that humans and the apes (including chimpanzees, orangutans, and some gorillas) are the only species that recognise their own faces in a mirror," says Keenan, who began researching self-awareness as a graduate student. "It has been thought that th...

Hostility can hurt your heart

...e Stoney, associate professor in the department of psychology and co-author of this study// states that it is one possible reason that people with high hostility and anger tend to get heart disease. The study measured the levels of homocysteine related to behaviour and mood changes. Homocysteine is a byproduc...

Ginseng's efficacy debatable

...rofessor and co-director of the sport and exercise psychology lab at the Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon and his colleague, Hermann Engles, PhD, conducted the study and found that there was really no benefit in taking the ginseng supplement in relationship to taking a sugar pill. They also found th...

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