The challenges in providing psychotherapy to individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) who also are struggling with their gender identity are explored in two case studies of high-functioning…
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Autism and gender nonconformity combined present unique challenges
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How are CTE and behavior linked? The answer requires more in-depth research, scientists say
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Media reports routinely link chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the neurodegenerative brain disease, with behavioral symptoms in former football players. But just how CTE and behavioral changes are related is poorly understood, researchers write.
Wireless brain sensor could unchain neuroscience from cables
December 4, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Neuroscience research has been constrained by the cables required to connect brain sensors to computers for analysis. Scientists have now described a wireless brain-sensing system to acquire high-fidelity neural data during animal behavior experiments.
The social brain: does guessing others’ intentions make a difference when we learn?
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People regularly engage in sophisticated ‘mentalizing’ (i.e. guessing the intentions or beliefs of others) whenever they convince, teach, deceive, and so on.
Rule will allow high school athletes to pick their sports gender
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Proponents say transgender athletes will feel more welcome to participate in sports; while those opposed bring up potential safety issues in the case of girls facing off with boys.
Psychological problems in men experiencing cancer
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Some key markers for vulnerability to psychological problems in men experiencing cancer have been identified by researchers. A group of 127 men aged 18 and over with a cancer diagnosis were recruited through the National Health Service in England and c…
Clasado and University of Oxford demonstrate effect of advanced prebiotics on anxiety in clinical study
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Clasado Biosciences Limited, the producers and suppliers of the second generation prebiotic Bimuno(R) (B-GOS), a unique trans-galactooligosaccharide, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of…
Psychological problems in men experiencing cancer
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Hannah Dale and colleagues from the University of St Andrews have found some key markers for vulnerability to psychological problems in men experiencing cancer.
Brain research reveals new hope for patients with anorexia nervosa
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Researchers from the Translational Developmental Neuroscience Lab led by Professor Stefan Ehrlich at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University Hospital…
Altered ‘thought-markers’ of autism identified by new tool
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Psychiatric disorders — including autism — are characterized and diagnosed based on a clinical assessment of verbal and physical behavior.
