Six months after the deadline for a final rule, 3 federal departments published an interim final rule that leaves a number of questions open about the application of the expanded mental health parity law passed by Congress in October 2008. But the penultimate version of the implementing regulations—changes will undoubtedly be made based on comments—won mostly praise from psychiatrists and psychia
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Questions About Expanded Mental Health Parity Law
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Who retires gracefully, who adjusts to retirement easily and who doesn’t. Which personality traits play a part in successful retirement?The five factor model of personality or the Big Five can be used to see how personality traits are linked to how people adjust to retirement. It has been done in the past for other life [...]No related posts.Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Relat
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Classroom Problems Reduced By Teaching Self-Control Skills To Children
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Children taught skills to monitor and control their anger and other emotions improved their classroom behavior and had significantly fewer school disciplinary referrals and suspensions, according to a study by University of Rochester Medical Center researchers...
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Repeated anesthesia can affect children's ability to learn
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There is a link between repeated anesthesia in children and memory impairment, though physical activity can help to form new cells that improve memory, reveals new research.
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Brain Change Patterns in Developing Children
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Accessibility Level: Intermediate-AdvancedWhat changes in the brain as children mature? Are there patterns in the way the changes occur? Do some regions mature more quickly than others?Last time, we talked about a paper by Schlaggar et al that examined brain differences between children and adults during a word generation task. A study published in Cerebral Cortex by Brown and colleagues...
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The life and death of online communities
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The more heterogeneous the community of an online chat channel, the more chances the channel has to survive over time.
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Sociology Professor Reveals That It's Who You Kill That Matters
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A defendant is much more likely to be sentenced to death if he or she kills a "high-status" victim, according to new research by Scott Phillips, associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver (DU)...
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New light shed on how retina's hardware is used in color vision
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Biologists have identified, in greater detail, how the retina's cellular hardware is used in color preference. The findings enhance our understanding of how eyes and the brain process color.
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