First Sister Study Results Reinforce The Importance Of Healthy Living Women who maintain a healthy weight and who have lower perceived stress may be less likely to have chromosome changes associated with aging than obese and stressed women, according to a pilot study that was part of the Sister Study. The long-term sister study is looking at the environmental and genetic characteristics of women whose sister had breast cancer to identify factors associated with dev
Writing After Terrorist Attack Has Positive Medium Term Effects A new study has analyzed the expressive writing of terrorism victims to analyze their psychosocial processes following the terrorist attacks in New York and Madrid. Despite the cultural differences of the people involved, the results show that the feelings and thoughts experienced following this type of traumatic event are universal.
First Neuroimaging Study Examining Motor Execution In Children With Autism Reveals New Insights In the first neuroimaging study to examine motor execution in children with autism, researchers at have uncovered important new insight into the neurological basis of autism. The study compared the brain activity of children with high functioning autism and their typically developing peers while performing a simple motor task -- tapping their fingers in sequence.
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