Medical students are reporting faults in their own professional conduct in the medical field directly related to personal distress and depression. This is commonly called “burnout.” In an issue dedicated to professional education, a study in the September 15 JAMA states: Professionalism is a core competency for all physicians…
Okay, something does not make sense here. Why do med students, who are obviously in a stressful and competitive environment for several years, have a high rate of depression and suicidal tendencies? For some reason, one would think that with all that medicine, therapy and peer training surrounding them, persons would have more outlets and methods to ease depression and anxiety…
Daily tablets of certain B vitamins can halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people who suffer from mild memory problems, a new study has shown.
Unlike adults, children are able to keep information from their senses separate and may therefore perceive the visual world differently, according to new research.
A new study sheds light on the brain mechanisms that allow us to make choices and ultimately could be helpful in improving treatments for the millions of people who suffer from the effects of anxiety disorders.
This study examined the effects of epistemic motivation composition in negotiation. Results from Experiment 1 revealed that dyads in which at least one member had high epistemic motivation (measured by personal need for structure) reached higher joint outcomes than dyads in which both members had low epistemic motivation. In Experiment 2, epistemic motivation was manipulated and negotiators were provided with full information or incomplete information about their counterpart’s preferences. Two competing sets of hypotheses were developed and tested. Negotiation behavior was coded, and mediation analysis established that the presence of one negotiator with high epistemic motivation helped negotiators overcome information insufficiency and benefited the dyad as a whole because of increased information search rather than heuristic trial and error. Theoretical implications are discussed.
A study of patients dying of cancer and their caregivers has found that individuals who die in the hospital or intensive care unit (ICU) had a worse quality of life at the end of their lives compared to those cancer patients who died at home with hospice services. In addition, their caregivers were more likely to develop psychiatric problems while grieving…
A new look at tests of mental aging reveals a good news-bad news situation. The bad news is all mental abilities appear to decline with age, to varying degrees. The good news is the drops are not as steep as some research showed, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association…
A blood test which identifies biomarkers in blood serum may help clinicians accurately classify individuals with Alzheimer’s disease as well as identifying people who do not have the disease, researchers have revealed in an article published in Archives of Neurology…
New research on the children of LGBTQ people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) has unequivocally revealed that they are not only psychologically healthy, but often appear to exhibit better social and academic adjustment and a significantly lower incidence of social problems than their peers…
