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Cognitive effects of Parkinson’s disease: Automated tasks easier, but task switching difficult
Researchers have found that people with Parkinson's disease can perform automated tasks better than people without the disease, but have significant difficulty switching from easy to hard tasks.
Acting selfish? Blame your mother!
The fact that our female ancestors dispersed more than our male ancestors can lead to conflicts within the brain that influence our social behavior, new research reveals.
More Work Needed To Implement Evidence Base In Psychooncology In Cancer Care, Australia
An integrated approach to cancer care needs to be developed in Australia that incorporates psychosocial and biological interventions, according to an article published in a Medical Journal of Australia supplement. The Anxiety, Depression and Cancer supplement is the product of a partnership between beyondblue and the Cancer Council Australia...
State News: Ohio, Florida Take Advantage Of Federal Health Funds; Mass. Psychiatrists Win Court Case
The Columbus Dispatch: "Gov. Ted Strickland's administration announced today that nearly $200 million in recently freed up state funds will go to Ohio hospitals, community mental health services, and a program which provides medication to low-income residents with HIV/AIDS. ...
New Data Reveals How Romantically Separated People Give Spoken Clues To How They’re Coping
A new study from the University of Arizona shows that people in the midst of a divorce typically reveal how they are handling things - not so much by what they say but how they say it. In fact, data revealed that even complete strangers were able to figure out how people were coping ...
Insight Into Superstitious Behavior Offered By K-State Research Project
People who believe that fate and chance control their lives are more likely to be superstitious -- but when faced with death they are likely to abandon superstition altogether, according to a recent Kansas State University undergraduate research project...
Psychiatrists Call For Northern Ireland Executive To Follow Scottish Lead On Minimum Price For Alcohol
The Royal College of Psychiatrists in Northern Ireland has called on the Executive to take the advice of the Health and Social Development Ministers and follow Scotland's lead in proposing a minimum price for alcohol of 45 pence a unit...
MSD Receives European Approval Of Its Atypical Antipsychotic Medication SYCREST(R) For The Treatment Of Manic Episodes In Bipolar I Disorder
MSD (MSD is a tradename of Merck & Co., Inc., with headquarters in Whitehouse Station, N.J., U.S.A). announced today that the European Commission has approved the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for SYCREST® (asenapine) sublingual tablets for the treatment of moderate to severe manic episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in adults...
Are shame and poverty closely linked?
A major international study is to examine whether shame is a key part of the experience of being poor. It will look at whether being poor necessarily results in low self esteem or feelings of shame and whether welfare policies are counterproductive when claimants are stigmatized.
Verbal snippets offer insights on well-being amid separation, divorce
A new study of romantically separated people shows they offer clues to their emotional status in just a few seconds of conversation.