Smoking cessation delivered at-home proves effective
...seases," says lead author Belinda Borrelli, PhD, a psychologist at The Miriam Hospital and associate professor at Brown Medical School. Ninety-eight home health care nurses from the Visiting Nurses Association of Rhode Island were randomly assigned to deliver one of two counseling techniques to 273 patients durin...Gladstone Institutes ranks #1 in The Scientist survey of Best Places for Postdocs to Work
...nment. Training workshops led by an organizational psychologist focused on scientific management issues through case studies, best-practices information, and strong participant interaction. More recently, the Postdoctoral Fellow Leadership and Laboratory Management Workshop Series was established. Courses in thi...NJIT environmental psychologist offers tips on how elderly can stay home
Environmental psychologist Richard Olsen, PhD, and research architect Lynn Hutchings are people on a mission. The researchers, based in the architecture school at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), would like to see older people and people with dementia live better, sa...Seniors look on the bright side
...tional keel and feel good," explained lead author, psychologist Derek M. Isaacowitz. "By focusing more on positive things and avoiding negative ones, older adults are able to maintain emotional resilience, which becomes acutely important in the face of dwindling time." In a novel application, eye-tracking technol...Fetuses cannot feel pain, says expert
...necessary risk, argues Stuart Derbyshire, a senior psychologist at the University of Birmingham. He examined the neurological and psychological evidence to support a concept of fetal pain. Although still immature, the neural circuitry necessary for processing pain can be considered complete by 26 weeks' gestation...Pitt study offers new hope for people trying to quit smoking
... first study of its kind, University of Pittsburgh psychologist and professor Saul Shiffman has discovered that people who are trying to quit smoking by wearing the nicotine patch are less likely to spiral into a total relapse if they keep wearing the patch, even if they've "cheated" and smoked a cigarette. The g...Successful treatment of alcoholism found in the doctor's office
... with thisdisease." Richard Longabaugh, a clinical psychologist and professor of research in theDepartment of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, served as co-investigator atthe Brown site. Longabaugh, who has researched treatments for alcoholism for25 years, is also an author of the JAMA report. "The finding that alc...Moderate stress during pregnancy does not harm child development
...ead author Janet A. DiPietro, PhD, a developmental psychologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "Mild to moderate stress has been proposed to be important to successful adaptation to the environment after birth and necessary for optimal brain development." She notes, however,...Telephone counseling improves lung transplant quality of life
...r lives as they await a lung transplant, said Duke psychologist James Blumenthal, Ph.D., who led the research team. He added that such counseling also may be useful for helping other patients who have chronic and debilitating diseases but are unable to benefit from face-to-face counseling because they cannot trav...Manchester academic to tell conferences: Child abuse can cause schizophrenia
...tious theory, co-presented by New Zealand clinical psychologist Dr John Read, has been described as "an earthquake...ically change the psychiatric profession. Clinical psychologist and writer Dr Oliver James commented: "The psychiatric establishment is about to experience an earth...Helping children handle stress, emotions may help stuttering
... or challenging situations," Vanderbilt University psychologist Tedra Walden, a co-author of the research, said. "Stuttering, as it continues, can impact a child's academic, emotional, social and vocational potential and development. Therefore, if we know more about how emotions influence stuttering and then use ...New HIV study identifies high-risk subgroups of adolescents
...avior, says lead author, Christopher Houck, PhD, a psychologist with the Bradley Hasbro Childrens Research Center. The study appears in the July 2006 issue of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. Researchers identified three patterns of risk behavior among 1,153 high-risk boys and three patterns among high-risk g...Link between income and happiness is mainly an illusion
...rinceton professors, economist Alan B. Krueger and psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, collaborated with colleagues from three other universities on the study, being published in the June 30 issue of Science. The new findings build on their efforts to develop alternative methods of gauging the well-b...Eating habits of successful weight losers shift
...zanne Phelan, PhD, lead author of the study, staff psychologist at The Miriam Hospital and assistant professor at Brown Medical School. "When the National Weight Control Registry was created 10 years ago, members reported consuming a low-calorie, very low-fat diet and engaging in high levels of physical activity ...University of Leicester produces the first-ever 'world map of happiness'
...h and then education. A University of Leicester psychologist has produced the first ever 'world map of happiness.' Adrian White, an analytic social psychologist at the University's School of Psychology, analysed data published by UNESCO, the CIA, the New Econom...Checklist improves assessment of aggressive boys' needs
...s and environment are evaluated. Dr. Pia Enebrink, psychologist and researcher at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, is one of the first to investigate how well EARL-20B works for boys between the ages of six and twelve. "The results show that EARL-20B is reliable and useful in evaluating different risk factors an...Breast cancer survivors change lifestyle after diagnosis
...diagnosis," says lead author Carolyn Rabin, PhD, a psychologist at The Miriam Hospital's Centers for Behavioral an...e cancer," says co-author Bernardine Pinto, PhD, a psychologist at The Miriam Hospital's Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine. Given the role of health ...Wear and tear of stress: the psychoneurobiology of aging
...f studies on how stress hormones affect the brain, psychologist Bruce McEwen, PhD, of the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University, finds more evidence that biological and behavioral stress responses can be adaptive in the aftermath of stress, but can also cause damage when they are over- or...Two-thirds of pregnant women with depression aren't getting treatment for it
...on symptoms ease. Heather Flynn, Ph.D., the U-M psychologist who led the study, calls the result very troubling. "These are women who meet the formal clinical criteria for the most severe form of depression. No one would argue that these women would benefit from some form of intervention, but only 33 percent o......ir lives," said Christopher Recklitis, PhD, MPH, a psychologist and director of research in the Perini Family Survivors' Center at Dana-Farber. He is lead author of the paper. The senior author is Lisa Diller, MD, chief medical officer of Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Care and clinical director of Pedi...