All humans are synchronised to the rhythmic light-dark changes that occur on a daily basis. Rhythms in physiological and biochemical processes and behavioural patterns persist in the absence of all external 24-hour signals from the physical environment, with a period that is close to 24 hours...
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Circadian Rhythms: Their Role And Dysfunction In Affective Disorder
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By mining data from the 2000 Census, a sociologist figured out the rates at which kids raised by gay and straight couples repeated a grade during elementary or middle school. He found that children of same-sex parents have essentially the same educational achievement as their peers growing up in heterosexual households.
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Eye Movements Reveal Readers' Wandering Minds
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It's not just you...everybody zones out when they're reading. For a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, scientists recorded eye movements during reading and found that the eyes keep moving when the mind wanders-but they don't move in the same way as they do when you're paying attention...
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How good are we at estimating other people's drunkenness?
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Sloshed, trollied, hammered, plastered. We've done a sterling job of inventing words for the inebriated state, but when it comes to judging from their behaviour how much a person has drunk, we could do (a lot) better. That's according to a review of the literature by US psychologist Steve Rubenzer.We all have our trusted indices for judging other people's drunkenness. Perhaps it's when the eyebal
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Schizophrenia And Psychotic Syndromes
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Schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders are a chronic and often disabling condition. Despite modern treatment techniques they still present an enormous burden to the patients and their relatives and take a serious toll in terms of human suffering and societal expenditure...
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2 Heads Are Better Than 1 -- With The Right Partner
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In the new age of coalition governments, the question of whether two heads are better than one is more relevant than ever. A study published in the journal Science, neuroscientists from UCL (University College London) and Aarhus University, Denmark, shows that two heads can be better than one - but only if you have the right partner...
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Innovative Federal Partnership To Study Combat Related Substance Use And Abuse
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Eleven research institutions in 11 states will receive more than $6 million in federal funding from fiscal year 2010 to support research on substance abuse and associated problems among U.S. military personnel, veterans, and their families...
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Social isolation worsens cardiac arrest effects on heart regulation
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A new study in mice shows how social support can help minimize some of the worst physical damages to the brain caused by a heart attack. From cell death to depressive symptoms to regulation of the heart, mice that lived with a partner after a heart attack suffered less damage than did similar mice that were housed alone.
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