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Men who are looking for short-term companionship are more interested in a woman’s body than those looking for a long-term relationship, who focused on a woman’s face, according to new research.

Playing video games for hours on end may prepare your child to become a laparoscopic surgeon one day, a new study has shown. Reorganisation of the brain’s cortical network in young men with significant experience playing video games gives them an advantage not only in playing the games but also in performing other tasks requiring visuomotor skills…

People are cautious in exchanging favours and items with other people in their community. Researchers, who studied an online gift exchange service, say that many people buy services because it does not occur to them that someone in their community could help them or they are too shy to ask for a favour…

Psychologists have known for a long time that after you make a choice, you adjust your opinion to think better of the thing you chose. Now a new study has found that this is true even if you don’t know the options that you’re choosing between. People change their minds about a choice after they make it. If you ask someone how he feels about Athens and Paris, he might rate them the same…

Holocaust survivors show remarkable resilience in their day-to-day lives, but they still manifest the pain of their traumatic past in the form of various psychiatric symptoms, according to an analysis of 44 years of global psychological research.

Feeling a little sluggish and having trouble concentrating? Hormones might be to blame according to new research. The study shows that high estrogen levels are associated with an inability to pay attention and learn — the first such paper to report how this impediment can be due to a direct effect of the hormone on mature brain structures.

Playing video games for hours on end may prepare your child to become a laparoscopic surgeon one day, a new study has shown. Reorganization of the brain’s cortical network in young men with significant experience playing video games gives them an advantage not only in playing the games but also in performing other tasks requiring visuomotor skills.

Scientists have found that high levels of a stress hormone in recovering alcoholics could increase the risk of relapse.

A new analysis finds that men whose partners have breast cancer are at increased risk of developing mood disorders that are so severe that they warrant hospitalization. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that clinicians should address the mental health of cancer patients’ loved ones…

The Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) issued a landmark report from a multi-state study on psychotropic medication oversight in foster care. Led by Laurel K…