A German study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics explores what is behind binge eating. Several studies have suggested that negative emotions may have a causal impact on the occurrence of binge eating in binge eating disorder (BED)...
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May 19, 2010
What Is The Desire Behind Binge Eating?
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October 20, 2009
Distracted By A Cell Phone? Some Cell Phone Users Fail To See Unicycling Clown Passing Them
Everyone tends to float off into space once in a while and fail to see what is sitting there right in front of them. Recently researchers decided to put the theory of "inattentional blindness" to the test: the unicycling clown test. They documented real-world examples of people who were so distracted by their cell phone use that they failed to see the bizarre occurrence of a unicycling clown pass
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September 22, 2009
Lifetime blindness prevents schizophrenia?
Rather mysteriously, no one can find anyone who has been blind from birth and has later been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I found this interesting snippet from a short article from Behavioral and Brain Sciences:Five independent searches, varying considerably in scope, methods, and population, failed to identify even one well-defined co-occurrence of total blindness and schizophrenia (Abely & Car
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August 18, 2009
Negative family interactions impact relapse rates in bipolar disorder: Defining “expressed emotion” and attempting to reduce its occurrence
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. Few people would disagree that living with bipolar disorder is extremely difficult. Even though most individuals experience manic episodes as exhilarating while they last, the repercussions of these episodes tend to result in extremely negative...
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July 29, 2009
Those From Homeless Families More Likely To Suffer Mental Health Problems
A new multisite study by UCLA and RAND Corp. researchers and colleagues has found that 7 percent of fifth-graders and their families have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives and that the occurrence is even higher - 11 percent - for African American children and those from the poorest households.
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