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Children who suffer physical or emotional abuse could be faced with accelerated cellular aging as adults, according to new research published by Elsevier in Biological Psychiatry. It's an easy fact to forget - the aging process begins at birth... Read More »
Children who use violence usually come from conflict-ridden families; as has been shown by a number of research studies. Read More »
Funding is now available to residents who wish to run community projects, but hurry as there are less than 40 days left to apply and competition is tight. Grants scheme Ecominds is offering up to £20,000 to help fund initiatives that improve the local environment and involve people with mental health problems... Read More »
Chronic feelings of loneliness take a toll on blood pressure over time, causing a marked increase after four years. A new study shows, for the first time, a direct relation between loneliness and larger increases in blood pressure four years later -- a link that is independent of age and other factors that could cause blood pressure to rise, including body-mass index, smoking, alcohol use and dem Read More »
Children who have asthma are at high risk for separation anxiety, but a new study has found a home remedy that parents can use - regular family mealtimes. "It makes sense that children who have difficulty breathing might be anxious and prefer to keep their parents, who can help them in an emergency, close by," said Barbara H... Read More »
Scientists at the University of Liverpool argue that anti-obesity drugs fail to provide lasting benefits for health and wellbeing because they tackle the biological consequences of obesity, and not the important psychological causes of overconsumption and weight gain... Read More »
Everybody can make himself better at creating ideas. People can increase their creativity by improving their knowledge about the topic ideas should be generated about, practising a range of idea-generation methods, making efforts to create a lot of ideas and having the right attitude, says Lassi Liikkanen, a researcher from Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT... Read More »
Normal individuals who scored high on a measure of impulsive/antisocial traits display a hypersensitive brain reward system, according to a brain imaging study by researchers at Vanderbilt University. The findings provide the first evidence of differences in the brain's reward system that may underlie vulnerability to what's typically referred to as psychopathy... Read More »
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