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Internet users in countries with greater socio-economic health are more likely to use Google to search for information about the future than about the past, according to a new study published online in Scientific Reports on 5 April. The researchers say their findings suggest there may be a link between online behavior and real-world economic indicators…

Awakening from anesthesia is often associated with an initial phase of delirious struggle before the full restoration of awareness and orientation to one’s surroundings. Scientists now know why this may occur: primitive consciousness emerges first. Using brain imaging techniques in healthy volunteers, a team of scientists led by Adjunct Professor Harry Scheinin, M.D…

People with severe depression are constantly despondent, lacking in drive, withdrawn and no longer feel joy. Most suffer from anxiety and the desire to take their own life. Approximately one out of every five people in Germany suffers from depression in the course of his/her life – sometimes resulting in suicide. People with depression are frequently treated with psychotherapy and medication…

April 08, 2012 CHICAGO – New research says obesity during pregnancy might increase chances for having a child with autism.

Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies demonstrates. The study is the first to document the role…

People who are excluded by others online, such as on Facebook, may feel just as bad as if they had been excluded in person, according to researchers at Penn State and Misericordia University. “If you’ve ever felt bad about being ‘ignored’ on Facebook you’re not alone,” said Joshua Smyth, professor of biobehavioral health and of medicine at Penn State…

Depressed individuals with a tendency to ruminate on negative thoughts, i.e…

April 05, 2012 April 05–LIMA — With the state’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit righted and revenues growing, mental health and recovery services advocates have launched a campaign to restore funding that was cut.

April 05, 2012 April 05–Scientists took one more step Wednesday toward unraveling the genetic causes of autism.

Baseball fans exhibit a high moral tolerance for a form of revenge not otherwise practiced in most of contemporary society: avenging a teammate who has been hit by a pitch by aiming a pitch at an opposing batter who was not previously involved. New res…