1. Man dies in Huachuca Mountains: A Goodyear resident died while on a mountain hike after suffering an apparent heart attack, authorities reported. That situation was one of several missions over the Memorial Day weekend handled or supported by Cochise County Sheriff's Search and Rescue teams.
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May 31, 2009
4 industry elders, psychiatrist weigh in (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Hayden Kho Jr. recording his sexual encounter with Katrina Halili without the actress' consent was "tantamount to physical rape and betrayal of trust," according to psychologist Randy Dellosa, resident life coach and psychiatrist for the reality show "Pinoy Big Brother."
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Psychology: Tendency to generalize shows rift from reality (The Columbus Dispatch)
Q: One of my friends and co-workers has some problems that interfere with her ability to work with other people and keep her from enjoying relationships with her friends and family.
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Synaesthesia in Frankenstein
One of the new ideas in synaesthesia research is that affected people perhaps don't develop mixed senses as their brains develop, they just fail to lose them. It seems most children might start with naturally mixed senses before perception becomes segregated through pruning of the fuzzy neural pathways.I've just noted an interesting article in Cognitive Neuropsychology on how this idea actually h
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From Toy Story to Up: The Top 10 Pixar Voices (Time Magazine)
Pixar's Up hits theaters May 29, the latest project from the studio to arrive stocked with unusual vocal talent. TIME surveys Pixar's 10 feature films, and the peculiar voices that have helped these unforgettable stories take flight
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Griffiths: Cognitive Bias and Skill in Gambling
"… Rational choice theory predicts that people will not gamble, thus it is theorised that regular gamblers gamble because they make the wrong decisions - that cognitive bias (irrational thinking) distorts their reasoning. The aim of this study was to increase understanding of the cognitive processes and behaviour of persistent fruit machine gamblers."Almost 18 months [...]
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Hearing, Voice Problems Worsen Seniors’ Communication Skills
Hearing and vocal problems go hand-in-hand among the elderly more frequently than previously thought, according to researchers. Together, they pack a devastating double punch on communication skills and overall well-being.
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Psychologists are the least religious of American Professors
Fifty percent of professors of psychology at US universities and colleges do not believe in any god, and another 11% are agnostic. That makes them the least religious of a pretty heathen bunch.The data come from Politics of the American Professoriate study, a survey carried out in the spring of 2006 and published yesterday in the journal Sociology of Religion. The researchers, Neil Gross of the U
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May 30, 2009
Drug-Free Flipping Of The Brain’s Addiction Switch
When someone becomes dependent on drugs or alcohol, the brain's pleasure center gets hijacked, disrupting the normal functioning of its reward circuitry. Researchers investigating this addiction "switch" have now implicated a naturally occurring protein, a dose of which allowed them to get rats hooked with no drugs at all. The research will be published Friday in the journal Science.
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