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A new study of telephone customer service representatives shows just how important it is for employees to start the workday in a good mood. Researchers found that employees’ moods when they clocked in tended to affect how they felt the rest of the day. Early mood was linked to their perceptions of customers and to how they reacted to customers’ moods…

Parts of the brains of people with autism are more active in areas that deal with visual detection and identification and less in areas for decision making, planning and execution, and cognitive control, researchers from the University of Montreal revealed in the journal Human Brain Mapping. Dr…

Stressed out? Spend some time with Mother Nature. Pick up any self-help manual and you’ll likely find sage advice about the restorative effects of spending time in natural surroundings. Research shows that people who spend time in natural environments are more likely to realize long-term physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits…

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, is widely recognized by the medical community, and there are a number of therapies in place. But as many as six percent of all children suffer from the less familiar Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)…

In the public debate on a possible ban on the wearing of the niqab (face veil) and burqa (garment covering entire body) in schools, workplaces and in public places, we have rarely heard from the women who actually wear these garments…

Some people really are addicted to foods in a similar way others might be dependent on certain substances, like addictive illegal or prescriptions drugs, or alcohol, researchers from Yale University revealed in Archives of General Psychiatry…

A new report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI) shows that psychiatric liaison services are highly valued by both the service users they see and by their colleagues in general hospitals…

Stress from social isolation, combined with a high-fat diet, increases levels of a brain neurotransmitter – neuropeptide Y, or NPY – in mice that then promotes obesity, insulin resistance, and breast cancer risk, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, a part of Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC)…

Two studies have shown some encouraging results in reducing a number of behaviors in children with autism, including aggression, self-injury, hyperactivity and emotional distress, researchers at the Vanderbilt Evidence-based Practice Center in Nashville, Tennessee revealed in the journal Pediatrics…

TA identifies twelve key injunctions which people commonly build into their scripts. These are injunctions in the sense of being powerful “I can’t/mustn’t …” messages that embed into a child’s belief and life-script:…