November 30, 2009 CHICAGO - The first rigorous study of behavior treatment in autistic children as young as 18 months found two years of therapy can vastly improve symptoms, often resulting in a milder diagnosis.
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November 30, 2009
Study: Autism treatment effective in toddlers
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Mind Looks To The Future Of Wellbeing And Mental Health, UK
Today hundreds of people with mental health problems will attend Mind's annual conference in Brighton to help the charity launch a fresh debate around 'wellbeing' and discuss how we can improve the mental health of the nation.
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Uncertainty doesn’t make people more religious if you first make them feel good about themselves
A series of studies over recent years have found that if you make people feel uncertain or anxious, they'll respond by turning up the intensity of their religious faith.Quite why this happens isn't known. It might be that unhappy people turn to their gods. Or it might be the implicit threat to their well being that's triggering the response.Enter a new study by Aaron Wichman at Western Kentucky U
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Psychosurgery: new cutting edge or short sharp shock
The New York Times has an excellent article on how the development of new and more focused brain surgery techniques for the treatment of mental illness are leading to a tight-rope situation where doctors are trying to balance enthusiasm for a potential new treatment while avoiding its inappropriate use and bad publicity.The use of neurosurgery for treatment of psychiatric disorders has a bad name
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November 29, 2009
Men and women may respond differently to danger
Researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging to study brain activation have found that men and women respond differently to positive and negative stimuli, according to a new study.
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Insecure adolescents experience more pain
November 27, 2009 MONTREAL, Nov 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Insecure adolescents experience more intense pain in the form of frequent headaches, abdominal pain and joint pain, researchers in Canada found.
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Five today
Mind Hacks is five years old today. The first post announced the arrival of the Mind Hacks book and the two posts the next day are still some of the best articles on the site.I make this the 3,453rd post so I hope some of them have been of interest to you.
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Encephalon 78 saunters in
The 78th edition of the Encephalon psychology and neuroscience writing carnival has recently appeared on the Providentia blog with the latest in mind and brain writing from the blogosphere.A couple of my favourites include a piece on The Mousetrap about the self in the eyes of the founding father of cognitive psychology - Ulrich Neisser, and a post that review robots controlled by brain simulatio
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Reflected glory
PsyBlog covers a study that explored the phenomenon of 'reflected glory' where sports fans will psychologically associate themselves with their team more closely if they are successful, but will distance themselves if the team loses.The post discusses a classic 1976 study that looked at the 'basking in reflected glory' effect: In the first of three experiments they compared what people wore when
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