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Manganese in drinking water: Study suggests adverse effects on children's intellectual abilities | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “A team of researchers recently completed a study showing that children exposed to high concentrations of manganese in drinking water performed worse on tests of intellectual functioning than children with lower exposures.” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Introduction to Psychometric Theory | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “By Tenko Raykov, and George A. Marcoulides. This new text provides a state-of the-art introduction to educational and psychological testing and measurement theory that reflects many intellectual developments of the past two decades. The book introduces psychometric theory using a latent variable modeling (LVM) framework and emphasizes…ISBN: 97804158...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Mania and Artistic 'Surprise' Induced by Deep Brain Stimulation | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Fig. 2 (Haq et al., 2010). A painting made following initial ALIC-NA [anterior limb of the internal capsule/nucleus accumbens] DBS activation. It was produced after a night-long effort and was described as a 'surprise' for the staff. The religious tone is typical of the patient.Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is being tested as an experimental treatment for intractable obsessive-compulsive disord...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Drug combination may treat traumatic brain injury | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Currently, there are no drugs available to treat TBI: a variety of single drugs have failed clinical trials, suggesting a possible role for drug combinations. Testing this hypothesis in an animal model, researchers tested five drugs in various combinations. Their observations suggest a potentially valuable role for minocycline plus N-acetylcysteine to treat TBI.” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Children's brain development is linked to physical fitness, research finds | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Researchers have found an association between physical fitness and the brain in 9- and 10-year-old children: Those who are more fit tend to have a bigger hippocampus and perform better on a test of memory than their less-fit peers.” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Bipolar Disorder Quiz | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “What's the rate of bipolar spectrum disorder in children who have one parent with bipolar disorder? What methods are used to test for cognitive deficits in patients with bipolar disorder? These and more in thi...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Suicide Prevention Program To Be Tested In High Schools | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “With students returning to classes, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers are beginning a large, long-term study of the effectiveness of a unique suicide prevention program in high schools across New York and North Dakota. The study of the program called Sources of Strength, led by Peter Wyman, Ph.D...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Decision-making deficits related to driving under the influence are often undetected | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Driving under the influence of alcohol is a major public health problem. New findings show that people who had relapsed to DUI have subtle deficits in their decision-making abilities. These deficits tend to go undetected through conventional neuropsychological testing.” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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…The Big-5 and you: What others take from your personality scores | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “[Wherein our hero discusses the Big-5 personality traits, and how they correlate with other trait factors. Provided are links to Big-5 personality test so you can compare your own scores] I’m of the opinion free will doesn’t exist. The more I learn the more it appears that those things I consider to be ‘me’, are [...]... Petrides, K., Ve...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Video protects girls from the negative effects of looking at ultra-thin models | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “'No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted' - that's the concluding catchphrase of a one-minute video called 'evolution' made by Dove a few years ago to show how cosmetics and computer trickery are used to create the unrealistic portrayals of female models on advertising billboards. Now a team of researchers at the University of the West of England, led by Emma Halliwell, have tested whether...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Research Examines The Biomedical Diagnosis Of Pain | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Is the science of diagnosing pain causing a number of pain sufferers to defend their honor? Research out of the University of Cincinnati is examining the diagnosis of pain that evades scientific testing, and the additional emotional suffering that can result for the patient...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Some treatments work, some treatments do not: Why the confusion? | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. Research on mental health and psychotherapy provides us with remarkably helpful information on a daily basis. Over the past several decades, a number of treatments for specific diagnoses have been rigorously tested in scientific trials,...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Some treatments work, some treatments do not: Why the confusion? http://goo.gl/fb/3OY3v #psychologyarticles
Delayed Gratification = Success? | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Today we are going to step into the time machine and go back 21 years to 1989. It was in this year that the study to become known as the Marshmallow experiment was published. Performed by Walter Mischel at Stanford University this experiment showed an amazing thing, that testing a child’s self-control at 4yrs could [...]... Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., &...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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DeepBrain Study Shows That Thinking About God Reduces Distress - But Only For Believers | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Thinking about God may make you less upset about making errors, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The researchers measured brain waves for a particular kind of distress-response while participants made mistakes on a test...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Response To Medication For Schizophrenia Predicted By EEG | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “A commonplace electroencephalography (EEG) test may hold the key to predicting whether a person will respond to certain prescribed drugs, particularly those related to psychiatric conditions...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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