Early Tests Indicate Motor Skills Unharmed In Consumers Of Tainted Fish
...of Human Medicine at Michigan StateUniversity; and psychologist Robert J. McCaffrey of the State Universityof New York at Albany....At-Risk Women Want Breast Cancer Gene Test--If 'Pros' Outweigh 'Cons'
... breastcancer susceptibility." Jacobsen, a psychologist at the Moffitt Cancer Center and the Universityof South Florida, said counseling is needed to help women know how to use theirnewfound knowledge to their advantage, as well as to prevent adversepsychological reactions and to assist them in evaluating...Brain-Activity Data Clarify Contradictions In Earlier Anxiety Research
...ight hemispheres. The new findings, said U. of I. psychologist Wendy Heller,may clear up the confusion. "Worry seems to be associated more with verbal ruminating, obsessingor making up stories in your head," she said. "Panic is muchmore a physiological state of alertness in which a person responds to aperceive...Genetics Debate Suffers From Misinterpretation, Scholar Says
...nd the best-selling 1994 book by HarvardUniversity psychologist Richard J. Hernstein (who has since died) and politicalscientist Charles Murray, Hirsch said. It is a criticism of the field ofgenetics and of much of academia for shoddy quality control in the literature."The misunderstanding of genetics has been al......oung childrenabout science, says a Carnegie Mellon psychologist who is conducting a four-yearfield study in public schools in Pittsburgh, Pa. The field study could lead to a new kind of science curriculum forelementary schools. CVS is the skill that allows scientists to design unco...Biologist Wins Simon Fraser University Controversy Prize For 'Silent Spring' Of The '90s
...that the Sterlingprize is meant tohonor," says SFU psychologist Barry Beyerstein, chair of the committee. "Howthese issues are ultimately decided will have important health, nutritional,political and economic consequences for us all." In making its selection, the committee noted how Winston criticized bot...Researchers Find Genetic Connection To Cigarette Smoking
... of Specific GeneticFactors in Cigarette Smoking," psychologist Caryn Lerman, Ph.D., of theGeorgetown University Medical Center and her co-authors demonstrated for thefirst time that a link exists between smoking behavior and the dopaminetransporter gene (SLC6A3-9). In their study of 289 smokers and 233nonsmokers...Should Great Apes Be Given Legal Rights?
..."You get sucked in by them," says Ronald Nadler, a psychologist andemeritus professor at Yerkes. "They're wonderful animals. It's hard not to thinkof them as little people." And that, he contends, leads researchers and lay people alike tooveremphasise the similarities between humans and other great apes, ...Reinventing Humans Is Focus Of Virginia Tech Program
...y and ThePolitics of Heredity; Gail S. Ross, chief psychologist for several children'sprograms at New York Hospital; Anita Silvers, author of Disability, Difference,Discrimination; and LeRoy B. Walters, author of The Ethics of Human GeneTherapy. The PBS Adult Learning Satellite Service will broadcast an e......our mind," saysMichael Gilewski, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist with Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter, and an active runner who has completed the Los Angeles, Honolulu andother marathons. When planning to train for a major event such as the LosAngeles Marathon, athletes need to start by first "training" their brain.Res...Women With Low Cholesterol May Be At Risk For Depression And Anxiety
... In a study of 121 healthy young women, Duke psychologist Edward Suarezfound that those with low cholesterol levels -- below 160 mg/dl -- were morelikely to score high on measures of depression and anxiety than women withnormal or high cholesterol levels. Normal cholesterol levels are considered tofall with...... California, Irvine. According to USC experimental psychologist Zhong-Lin Lu, research inneurophysiology has discovered two independent brain pathways for visualinformation in the brain. One pathway is sensitive to color but not sensitiveto motion; the other is sensitive to motion but not sensitive to color. Int...Change your diet and it may make you brighter
...th dietary supplements. Howard Gardner, a psychologist at Harvard University warns that othersupposed biochemical indicators of intelligence have proved unreliable. And headds that performance in IQ tests can be affected by many factors, such as thesubject's health and their motivation. He suggests that ...PCB exposure is bad news for the female sex drive
...c what humans areexposed to," adds Paul Stewart, a psychologist who is researching the effects ofPCBs on rats' behaviour at the State University of New York in Oswego. He pointsout that PCBs are normally found in humans at much lower levels than those usedin Chung's experiments. He also questions whether PCBs wer...Changing children's diets today could reduce bone problems 70 years from now
...based on a similar program by Lori Stark, Ph.D., a psychologist fromCincinnati Children's Hospital, who is a consultant to the project. Dr. Starkfound an intervention program succeeded in getting children with cystic fibrosisto increase their needed intake of calories. Dr. Zemel's program will testwhether similar...Duke study: Exercise may be just as effective as medication for treating major depression
...r certain patients,"said the lead researcher, Duke psychologist James Blumenthal, who published theresults of his team's study in the Oct. 25 issue of The Archives of InternalMedicine. The research is supported by a number of grants from the NationalInstitutes of Health. "While we don't know why exercise confe...Cocaine use while pregnant may cause ADHD
...ostdoctoral fellow with Strupp), David Levitsky, a psychologist and nutritionist at Cornell; and psychologist Charles Mactutus and neurobiologist Rosemarie Booze, both of the University of Kentucky....Study links impulsive violence with brain's inability to regulate emotion
...e July 28 issue of the journal Science, UW-Madison psychologist Richard Davidson and colleagues analyzed brain imaging data from a large, diverse group of studies on violent subjects and those predisposed to violence. The studies focused on people diagnosed with aggressive personality disorder, those with childho......ical imbalances. The previous Duke studies, led by psychologist James Blumenthal, found that exercise was just as effective as the most common anti-depressive medication in reducing the symptoms of major depression. "This new trial is intended to answer some of the whys' posed by those original studies," Blu...