Policy Methods For Eliminating Child Labor
...olitical efforts to curb child labor are driven by emotions rather than the results of scholarly investigation and that their contribution helps fill the void of serious studies of child labor. "This is a field of study where prescription has outstripped analysis by a wide margin," they say in their paper. An...Program Developed At UF Enables Computer To "Emote" In Speech
...on on the screen. The program conveys some emotions better than others, Truluck's testsshowed. Of 30 randomly selected volunteers who listened to sentences read by thecomputer, nearly all identified the sad voice. Many also identified the angryand fearful voice, but the volunteers had trouble ...People With Brain Injury To Frontal Lobe Don't Get Punch Lines -- Prefer Slapstick Humor!
... role in higher cognitive functions such as humor, emotions andpersonality," says Dr. Stuss. "It receives information from almost all otherbrain regions and integrates multiple types of information." The ability to understand and produce humor requires the concerted functioningof several cognitive processes: ...Psychologist Detects Brain-Activity Changes In Maltreated Kids
...tement becauseit calls into question the idea that emotions are biologically hard-wired in thebrain. Much evidence suggests that the core emotions - happiness, anger, fear,surprise, disgust, and sadness - emerge in orderly and specific ways, as if...Stress Hormone Tied To Depression And Conduct Disorder In Pregnant Teens
...w have evidence that the hormone isassociated with emotions and behavior during pregnancy." The research is detailed in the current issue (April) of the Journal ofthe American Academy of Adolescent Psychiatry in a paper,"Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone and Cortisol: Longitudinal Associations withDepr......cting the prevailing influenceof fathers' negative emotions and stress-related social withdrawal on thefamily, and suggests other risk factors that seem to hamper parents' knowledgeabout their children's activities, including the indirect effect of a sibling onoverall awareness. "We found that fat...Hormone involved in reproduction may have role in the maintenance of relationships
...greater oxytocin increases in response to positive emotions thansingle women. The researchers speculate that a close, regular relationship mayinfluence the responsiveness of the hormone, said Turner These preliminary findings bring up some intriguing questions, said TeresaMcGuinness, MD, PhD, UCSF clinical p...UI study finds types of decision-making deficiencies depend on area of brain damage
...s have no trouble learning simpleassociations with emotions like the patients with amygdala damage. The problemsfor the patients with VMF cortex damage arise when they have to deal withconflict situations involving immediate reward and distant consequence. Supposea spy offered a bribe to sell government secre...Chill out: it does the heart good
... responsivity routinely experience awider range of emotions during the course of a typical day. The good news ... controlling for the levels of stress and negative emotions whichtrigger ischemia, we still found that these patients had significantly higherrisk for ischemia ...Injured elite athletes need team support
... Education and Health. "There is awhole barrage of emotions that goes along with an injury and the aftermath ofthe injury that affects not only the physical health but the social andpsychological health of an athlete." One of the most difficult aspects of being injured, apart from the injuryitself, is being ...Infants of depressed mothers show atypical brain activity
...n increasing thechild's threshold for experiencing emotions such as joy and interest." EEGs were used to record brain activity in 99 infants who were 13 to 15 monthsold. The infants' mothers included 59 depressed and 40 nondepressed adultwomen. The mothers were carefully assessed for depression and screened...University Of Wisconsin to launch center to study how emotions affect health
...er's goal is to gain a clearer understanding ofhow emotions are encoded in the brain and then influence other ...logical explanation for the widely-heldbelief that emotions can influence our physiology. CONTACT: Christopher Coe, a professor of psychology, (608) 263-3550, ...Female medical students more patient-centered
... found in attitudes toward understanding patients' emotions and life circumstances. Patient-centeredness also was associated with a desire to practice in the community and to enter primary care practice. The study results, published in the current issue of the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine,......funded centers to study how beliefs, attitudes and emotions affect different diseases and how those can be developed, maintained and changed." "The center has something in it for everyone - researchers, theorists and patients," added Michael F. Scheier, professor of psychology and co-principal investigator fr......t needs to be addressed. "The ability to recognise emotions is what makes us human, it is an essential attribute lost in schizophrenia. The next challenge is to see whether current treatments can reverse these deficits in social cognition."...How 'negative emotionality' can make you feel sick
...s study highlights," said Brown, "is that negative emotions and alcohol use disorders go hand in hand. What remains to sort out is when those negative emotions are substance/alcohol induced, as they can be in adults, and when they are a factor that could lead ...UNC researchers awarded $2.25 million to study link between arthritis, emotions
...ne the relationship between osteoarthritis and the emotions and coping strategies of people with the ailment, ...t just something they have imagined and that these emotions affect everyone to varying degrees, not just them. Most previous comparable studies have depended o...New medical school model sets out to create more competent, caring doctors
...lties including thinking, reasoning, judgment and emotions along with a technical skill. His ideas are part of a wider reform spearheaded by Hundert, who is the architect of Rochesters innovative medical school curriculum, which embodies many of the ideas discussed in the JAMA article. At Rochester, in a pr...Aftermath of September 11th on creativity: Psychoanalysts host major literary figures
...hiladelphia. Psychoanalysts understand the intense emotions of guilt, sorrow, and anxiety resulting from the trauma of September 11th and its aftermath as helping to motivate the tremendous outpourings of altruistic behavior after a disaster. The same emotions, however, can unconsciously be expressed as a fea......f the potential negative influence of reactions to emotions and to sudden exposure to familiar, but startling activities such as a ring of a doorbell or telephone. As a preventive step, the public should be informed of the various potential triggers for stroke. Stress and anger-coping programs could be of...