Mental & Behavioral News
Friday, January 09, 2004
 
By Sothy Eng
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Feb-28-05 (NewScientist): Gay men read maps like women

Jan-31-05 (NewScientist): Senses special: The art of seeing without sight

Jan-5-05 (NewScientist): Tsunami survivors need long-term psychological care

Dec-9-04 (Nature): Hungry monkeys can dig it

Dec-7-2004 (The New York Times): U.S. Students Fare Badly in International Survey of Math Skills

Dec-1-2004 (New Scientist): Humans can learn to be nice

Aug-4-2004 (Nature): Mothers who expect lengthy lives tend to produce sons.

Jun-07-04 (Sampan, Boston Globe): Study on Asians Shows Diversity.

May-4-04 (New York Times): Cracker Barrel Agrees to Plan To Address Reports of Bias
May-31-04 (Nature): Senses can make us remember the past

May-13-04 (ScienCentral): People Fear Excessive When They Cannot Control their Situation

Apr-29-04 (ScienCentral): People are less likely to tell lies in emails than in phone converstion.

Apr-27-04 (New Scientist): How girls choose husbands?

Apr-27-04 (AP, JAMA): Boys are more likely than girls to have reading difficulty.

Apr-5-04 (USA Today): Short attention span linked to TV Children show effects by age 7

Apr-5-04 (New Scientist): Teenage lesbians have worst rates of smoking

Mar-31-04 (Nature): Women look best once a month

Mar-16-04 (The New York Times): New Clue! Women are more vulnerable to depression than are men: Scientists say it is genetic stuff.

Mar-9-04 (Reuters): Teens Pledging Sex Abstinence Often Fail -Study

Mar-4-04 (Nature): Scientists Behaving Badly

Feb-22-04 (AP): Scientists Study How to Keep Brain Awake

Feb-18-04 (Nature): Women Compete each other for a Date?

Feb-6-04 (Nature): Mercury affects brains of adolescents

Feb-6-04 (NewScientist): Men inflict greater pain than women

Feb-6-04 (Nature): Do women clasp infants to their left to boost bonding?

Jan-19-2003 (The New York Time): Key to tackle poverty is to improve marriage condition.

Jan-15-2003 (Washington Post): US soldiers in Iraq suffer from mental health problems, suicide rate is up.

Jan-8-2004 (EurekAlert): Are Freud's repression concepts outdated? Memory Repression: Biological or Psychological?

Jan-8-2004 (BBC News): Are highly intellectual people such as Socrates, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein associated with Autism?

Jan-5-2004 (Research News): Girls, but not boys are at risk for suicide when they are isolated from friends or having terrible frienships.

Jan-1-2004 (APA, Monitor on Psychology): Women, but not men respond to stress with social interaction

Jan-1-2004 (NewScientist): Top ten stories of 2003 clicked by readers in the NewScientist

Jan-1-2004 (APA, Monitor on Psychology): Psychologists need to learn more about genetics?

Dec-30-2003 (Center for the Advancement of Health): Children who are exposing to violence are more likely to have behavioral problems.

Dec-26-2003 (Reuters): Laught is good for our psychological health; brian's reward system activated when we laught

Dec-21-2003 (Nature): Babies' tears may affect parents' brian

Journal of Adolescence 26 (2003): Teens with higher levels of religiosity tend to delay sexual involvement more than those with lower levels of religiosity.

Dec-12-2003 (Nature): Variations hint at how our lifestyle is reflected in our genes

Dec-10-2003 (Washington Post): Psychologist Challenged in Sniper Trial , Later Story

J Am Geriatr Soc 51(11):1554-1562, 2003. Treatment of Elderly and Other Adult Patients for Depression in Primary Care

Dec-10-2003 (Reuters Health): Family Strain Spurs Symptoms in Some Bulimic Teens

Dec-8-2003 (New Scientist): Teenagers face health timebomb

Dec-8-2003 (Nature): Stop being shy! Fear of entering new places or things may cut your age, thus you will die younger than those who are extroverts. Click here for details. For news in NewsScientist click here

Dec-3-2003 (EurekAlert): Social behavior among monkeys may be more nature than nurture

Nov-25-2003 (The New York Time): Young offenders should be viewed under the law as less guilty than adults.

(Oct-23-2003): Reducing poverty helps to decrease child behavior problem. Research published by the Journal of American Medical Association. Read more.

(Oct-24-2003): Don't worry for whom being late or early to reach puberty. Research published by New England Journal of Medicine found that late or early reaching puberty related to the certain type of gene called GPR54 which produces and regulate the protein in our bodies. From this discovery, scientists will be able to produce drug that can control the protein releasing. Read more details here. Reference: Seminara, S. B. et al. (2003). The GPR54 Gene as a Regulator of Puberty. New England Journal of Medicine. 349 (17):1614-1627

(Oct-9-2000--APA Monitor) The Internet and computer games reinforce the gender gap








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