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I feel your pain - no really
'I feel your pain' is one of the most widespread - and some might say nauseating - cliches of the C21st. However, researchers from the University of Birmingham (U.K.) have found - that for some people at least - it may have an element of truth...
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Tue, Dec 22 2009 7:34 AM
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Pleasure, depression and neuroscience
Anhedonia is the inability to experience pleasure and is one of the main symptoms of depression. A brain-scan study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been looking into the neuroscience of anhedonia. The researchers studied 46 people...
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Tue, Dec 22 2009 7:09 AM
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Getting to grips with earworms
An earworm is a song, or fragment of a song, that gets stuck in your head and continually repeats itself. When the mountaineer Joe Simpson, for instance, was near death in the Andes all he could think about was the Boney M song 'Brown Girl in the...
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Tue, Dec 22 2009 6:51 AM
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Autism on the rise in the U.S. - nearly 1% of eight-year-olds affected
A study of 300,000 eight-year-olds in the U.S. has found that 1 in 110 has autism, a 57% increase in cases since four years ago. The study was carried out by researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Centers for Disease Control...
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Tue, Dec 22 2009 6:28 AM
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Ladies worse than ladettes for heavy drinking
'Ladies' are more at risk from their drinking than 'ladettes.' Researchers from the U.K., including Dr Fiona Measham from Lancaster University have been looking at women's drinking patterns. They found that 'ladette' drinking...
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Mon, Dec 21 2009 7:22 AM
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Daily cannabis use and psychosis risk
People who increase their cannabis consumption from occasional to daily use could hasten the onset of psychosis. Researchers from Emory University in Atlanta analyzed data from 109 hospitalized patients who were experiencing their first psychotic episode...
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Mon, Dec 21 2009 7:03 AM
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Nearly one in seven women binge eat
Researchers from the Universite de Montreal and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute have been surveying problem eating in a telephone survey of over 1,500 women. None of the women had been classified as anorexic before the start of the study...
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Mon, Dec 21 2009 6:35 AM
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Twins, genes and cannabis and alcohol dependence
The genes that predispose people to become addicted to alcohol could also play a part in cannabis dependence. Roughly 8-12% of cannabis users are considered to be dependent and, just like alcohol, the severity of symptoms increases with heavier use. A...
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Mon, Dec 21 2009 6:18 AM
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Depression, diabetes and ethnic minorities
Rates of depression in people with diabetes are double those in the general population and even higher among minority groups who have worse blood-sugar control, more diabetes complications and more severe depression. However, few studies have looked at...
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Fri, Dec 18 2009 7:42 AM
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Antidepressants and adolescents
In 2003 the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration issued a warning that some antidepressants could increase the risk of suicidal behaviour in children and adolescents. Since then the prescription of the drugs has gone down but a new study, by researchers...
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Fri, Dec 18 2009 7:13 AM
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Cannabis and teenagers' mental health
A study by researchers at McGill University has been looking into the effects of smoking cannabis on teenagers. The study found that smoking cannabis on a daily basis can lead to depression and anxiety. Cannabis was found to lead to a decrease in serotonin...
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Fri, Dec 18 2009 7:03 AM
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British drinkers underestimate how much they actually put away and the gap between what they think they drink and what they actually do drink could be as much as an average of a bottle of wine a week. Researchers from Liverpool John Moores University...
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Fri, Dec 18 2009 5:50 AM
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The benefits of doodling
Far from being a distraction doodling could help people concentrate on mundane tasks. Jackie Andrade from the University of Plymouth asked 40 participants to listen to a dull two-and-a-half minute telephone message about a party. Half the participants...
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Fri, Dec 18 2009 3:57 AM
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Self-help groups for binge eaters
Binge-eating disorder can lead to obesity, other mental-health problems and problems at work and with friends, families and partners. Several psychological treatments have been found to be helpful in treating binge eating including cognitive behaviour...
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Thu, Dec 17 2009 2:12 AM
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Eating disorders and death rates
People with eating disorders are more likely to die early either from the effects of their eating disorder or because they kill themselves. There is evidence that people with eating disorders are more likely to kill themselves than people with other mental...
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Thu, Dec 17 2009 1:46 AM
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