Effect of exercise on reducing major depression appears to be long-lasting
...ler risk of relapsing," said lead researcher, Duke psychologist James Blumenthal, who published the results of his team's study in the October issue of the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. The research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Duke researchers are now using a new ...How much of the world do we really see?
... It sounds impossible, but when Daniel Simons, a psychologist at Harvard University, and his colleague Daniel Le...eads. Back in 1992, Kevin O'Regan, an experimental psychologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris put forward what later became ...Violence and aggression: University of New Orleans researchers offer provocative insights
...n Girls In another area of study, clinical child psychologist Dr. Persephanie Silverthorn, roughly one of a dozen psychologists in the nation whose research focuses primarily on violence and aggression in girls ages 12 to 18, suggests that puberty serves as a triggering mechanism for anti-social, adolescent gir...Social scientists and biologists collaborate to address human dimensions of biodiversity
...ogist from Case Western University and Paul Stern, psychologist and Program Officer of the National Research Councils Human Dimensions of Global Change Committee. "We hope the panel and discussion will build capacity for understanding interactions between humans and biodiversity, and ultimately for producing scie...Age at first drink: What does it really mean?
...nd/or problem drinking," said Carol A. Prescott, a psychologist and associate professor of psychiatry at the Virginia Commonwealth University. "Yet this and other research indicate that early AFD is also associated with other problem outcomes. This will not be a surprise to alcohol researchers and other readers...Two Hopkins faculty members receive 'genius' awards
...three other Hopkins faculty members. Jamison, a psychologist and best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind (1995), was recognized for her efforts to enhance mental health treatment, to improve patient support and advocacy, and to increase public awareness of psychiatric disorders. The author of numerous scientif...... challenges," says Johns Hopkins Children's Center psychologist Amy Wisniewski, Ph.D., lead author of the study. "But we were pleased with the successful outcome of some of the males. All men who were compliant with their testosterone replacement attained a final penile length within the normal range." The res...Predictive testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer: its effect on women
...east and ovarian cancer (HBOC), a Belgian clinical psychologist reported at the 3rd European Breast Cancer Confere...or non-carriers, according to Ms Claes, a clinical psychologist at the Psychosocial Genetics Unit in Leuven, Belgium. Instead the carriers took practical measures, ...Some animals can recognize degree of kinship by scent
...f helping do not outweigh the costs of help? The psychologist is reluctant to extend the squirrel behavioral stu...er use for scent-based discrimination, the Cornell psychologist says. Animals that tend to avoid incestuous mating with close kin (and the increased likelihood of ...Strange signals from breastfeeding
...ll has any impact on fertility. Richard Brown, a psychologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, notes that these are only preliminary findings. But he points out that breastfeeding women have higher than normal progesterone levels. "Maybe the high progesterone acts like an androgen," he speculate...Rats depleted of salt become sensitized to amphetamine, show unusual growth of brain cells
...he researchers, headed by University of Washington psychologist Ilene Bernstein, discovered that nerve cells in the nucleus accumbens of sensitized rats have more branches and were 30 percent to 35 percent longer than normal. The nucleus accumbens, located in the forebrain, is involved in the reward and motivati......stain from using condoms," says Gordon Gallup, the psychologist at the State University of New York who led the te...e evolved," says Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. But Gallup counters that men whose semen promotes long-te...New clinical trials explore treatment to restore sexual desire
...hip issues," says Sheryl Kingsberg, PhD., clinical psychologist at MacDonald Women's Hospital at UHC. "Since no medications currently are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of diminished sexual desire, these clinical studies are an important step in the development of new therape...Gene may protect abused kids against behavior problems
...social behavior, says Terrie Moffitt, a UW-Madison psychologist who contributed to the study. Children who have suffered physical or sexual abuse are twice as likely to develop conduct disorders as adults, yet, as Moffitt explains, which of them will have behavior problems later on greatly varies. The new finding...Questionnaire identifies depressions in children
Developmental psychologist Jessica van Mulligen from the University of Nijmegen has compiled a questionnaire to detect depressions in children aged six to eight years. The questionnaire is more attuned to the typical symptoms of young depressive children than a much used Ameri...Natural or synthetic secretin does not reduce symptoms of autism, study shows
...ado center and JFK Partners; and Robin Gabriels, a psychologist at the Colorado center and JFK Partners....Toy choice among boys, girls a matter of monkey business
...d like based solely on society's expectations, but psychologist Gerianne Alexander's work with vervet monkeys is challenging that notion. Alexander, whose research focuses on sex differences in behavior and the biological factors that influence them, examined the monkeys as they interacted with toys. She and her...Essay on genes and behavior prompts culture clash in academic journal
...a point of view popularized in recent years by MIT psychologist Stephen Pinker and others. In response, the editor...tory,'' said the authors, is the idea put forth by psychologist Bruce Ellis that women are genetically programmed through natural selection to seek a mate who is de...Dad's coochy coos leave baby guessing
...er than the actual words, says Gerald McRoberts, a psychologist at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. But it is still unclear precisely how adults use various acoustic properties in their voice, such as rhythm, pitch and stress, to communicate different meanings to infants. So McRoberts, and Malcolm Sl......turned to Michael Cuccaro, Ph.D., a clinical child psychologist at Duke with extensive experience diagnosing and treating autism. Cuccaro noticed that some but not all autistic children exhibit repetitive compulsions and extreme difficulty with changes to their daily routine. This character trait -- defined by Cu...