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2 hrs ago | EurekAlert!

UC Riverside announces science research grants related to immortality

The Immortality Project awards $2.3 million to study near-death experiences, beliefs in an afterlife and the ageless hydra RIVERSIDE, Calif.

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Related Topix: Riverside (Riverside, CA), UC Riverside, Science, Grand Valley State University

7 hrs ago | Scientific American

Psychologists Find New Ways to Steel Minority Students against Fear of Failure

Stereotype threat, the fear of failing in a way that reinforces derogatory stereotypes of one's social group, undermines performance in school, sports and the workplace.

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Related Topix: Science

8 hrs ago | The Daily Beast

Cover StoryThe Suicide EpidemicWhy are we killing ourselves? How can we stop it?

WHEN THOMAS Joiner was 25 years old, his father-whose name was also Thomas Joiner and who could do anything-disappeared from the family's home.

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Related Topix: Science, Florida State University

10 hrs ago | Psychology Today

The Real Trouble With DSM-5

Let us take a little break from the discussion of the historical development of modern emotions and modern mental disease-that is, of the modern mind--pursued in the previous posts of this blog, and instead focus on the present.

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Related Topix: Science

Tue May 21, 2013

Medical News Today

Cancer Survivors Suffer Physical & Emotional Impairments Which Often Go Untreated

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy ; Psychology / Psychiatry Article Date: 21 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT A new review finds cancer survivors suffer a diverse and complex set of impairments, affecting virtually every organ system.

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Related Topix: Oncology, Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Science, Nursing

The Telegraph

Special care hub for rape victims

Jharkhand does care for its women. The state has become the first in eastern India to boast a crisis management centre for victims of rape and sexual assault.

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Related Topix: Science

Joannejacobs.com

Why so few French kids have ADHD

At least 9 percent of U.S. children are medicated for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, compared to less than .5 percent of French children, writes Marilyn Wedge in Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD in Psychology Today.

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Related Topix: Medicine, ADHD, Health, Family, Kids, Science

EurekAlert!

Fueling fitness on the final frontier

Think keeping in shape is an uphill battle? Try staying fit in space, where living quarters are cramped and prolonged weightlessness withers muscle and bone.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Michigan State University, NASA, Medicine, Kinesiology, Science

Channelnewsasia.com

New voluntary programme to train public to provide care services to victims

The Singapore Police Force will be piloting a new voluntary Victim Care Cadre Programme, where members of the public will be trained by police psychologists to provide care services to crime victims.

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Related Topix: Science

Psychology Today

Criticism of the DSM-5 and a Suggestion, II

The new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5, suffers from a scientific lack of validity, according to Professor Allen Frances , author Gary Greenberg , Dr.

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Related Topix: Genetics, Medicine, Science

Mon May 20, 2013

Science Daily

How bilinguals switch between languages

The research, to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science , a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, addresses enduring questions in bilingual studies about how bilingual speakers hear and process sound in two different languages.

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Related Topix: University of Arizona, Science

Philly.com

Why men really do need their 'cave'

Don't dismiss cars, bars and the kegerator - a man space of some kind is important for emotional well-being at home Calm down, ladies.

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Related Topix: University of Texas at Austin, Science

WTMA-AM North Charleston

Sleep and Couples: For Better or Worse, Day AND Night?

Sleep. It occupies about one-third of our lives. We need it for our mental and physical health, and for our survival.

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Related Topix: Sleep, Medicine, Health, Science, Non-Profit, University of Pittsburgh

Canada.com

Infighting, boycotts, resignations: Psychiatry faces another crisis of confidence

In the early 1970s, psychologist David Rosenhan set out to answer a simple question: Can psychiatrists tell the sane from the insane? Rosenhan and seven other perfectly rational "pseudopatients" went to a dozen U.S. hospitals complaining that they were hearing voices.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Psychiatry, Science

Journal Gazette

Former provost takes reins at Grace College

WINONA LAKE, IND. The faculty, staff, and board of trustees of Grace College and Seminary are excited to welcome former provost Dr.

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Related Topix: Winona Lake, IN, Grace College & Seminary, Science, Purdue University, Michigan State University

GNIF Brain Blogger

Out-Group Discrimination Fuels Anger, Risk-Taking and Vigilance

Discrimination originates in prejudice. It most often takes the form of social rejection, with racial- and gender-based discrimination being two of the most common types.

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Related Topix: Science, UC San Francisco

Scientific American

China's One-Child Policy Affects Personality

In 1979 China instituted the one-child policy, which limited every family to just one offspring in a controversial attempt to reduce the country's burgeoning population.

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Related Topix: Science

BroadwayWorld.com

'Power Communication: Secrets of the Alpha Male Book 2' Now Available as iBook

Internationally acclaimed author Drawk Kwast presents a combination of street smarts, neuro-linguistic programming and evolutionary psychology, with an overdose of testosterone, entitled, "Power Communication: Secrets of the Alpha Male Book 2. This book, the second in a series of nine, offers a systematic approach to gaining the communication ... (more)

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Related Topix: Science

National Public Radio

Bans Of Same-Sex Marriage Can Take A Psychological Toll

As the country awaits two important Supreme Court decisions involving state laws on same-sex marriage , a small but consistent body of research suggests that laws that ban gay marriage - or approve it - can affect the mental health of gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Medicine, Psychiatry, Science

The Modesto Bee

Polygraph device can easily produce errors

Police departments and federal agencies across the country are using a certain type of polygraph despite evidence of a technical problem, McClatchy Newspapers has found.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, University of Minnesota, Science