In nearly every discussion, debate or lawsuit about gay marriage, the talk at some point turns to family values...
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Study Finds Children Raised By Same Sex Couples Show Good Progress Through School
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Rural hospitals are concerned that a proposed change in Medicare policy will put a crimp in their use of psychiatrists via telemedicine.
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Diabetes-Related Risk Factors and Cognitive Aging
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Focus on Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and the Metabolic Syndrome
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Resilience, Stress, and the Neurobiology of Aging
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The Association Between Well-Being and Aging
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by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. I am not particularly well-versed in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). I've read outcome studies, seen Steve Hayes give a demonstration of cognitive diffusion at the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) conference, written...
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Reading Arabic Ain't Easy
Posted by admin 22 hours ago (http://mnt.to)
The brain's right hemisphere is not involved in the initial processes of reading in Arabic, due to the graphic complexity of Arabic script. Therefore reading acquisition in Arabic is much harder in comparison to English. This has been shown in a series of studies that were carried out at the Department of Psychology and the Edmond J...
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The Stress Symphony a Prelude to Neurogensis et Stress
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Hi there! Been a long time eh? Not sure what happened there, but I blame Harry. Somehow, somewhere he was involved. So let’s just jump right into it Stress. Your reason for not calling your mother, a graduate student’s excuse for overeating, not sleeping, forgetting to hand in an abstract, walking into walls and lying [...]... Bruce S. McEwen. (2007) Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress
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Self-Righteousness and Kink: Perfect Together?
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Props to my colleague Lindsay Beyerstein for this great catch yesterday: Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle's campaign received a donation from someone who listed her employer as "husband" and her occupation as "slave." Maybe it's just a joke (boring). Or maybe this couple is in one of those Christian "submitted wife" relationships (unlikely, given that "slave" isn't the sort of rhetoric that cult
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