Psychology

Varenicline With Nicotine Patch Improves Smoking Cessation

Combining the smoking cessation medication varenicline with nicotine replacement therapy was more effective than varenicline alone at achieving tobacco abstinence at 6 months, according to a study in the July 9 issue of JAMA. The combination of behavioral ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 2:30am

Eating After Exercise: Fool Your Brain And You Fool Your Stomach

If you are having fun rather than doing exercise because you are worried about your health, you'll eat less, according to a new paper which delves into how to market to your brain. Some people really like to run, or they look forward to exercise. The ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 8:24am

Why Millennials Eat Tofu

Tofu is prized by vegetarians as an alternate source of protein, if they don't mind highly processed food that will make men sterile. But Dr. Oz, the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and others swear by it. Yet Tofu is not a food fad for Millennial women b ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 1:30am

Kids With Pacemakers Need A Physical Competence Boost

No one worries about children like parents, and having a child with a pacemaker is even more worrisome. But kids who are worried over too much develop a low sense of self-competence which can contribute to decreased quality of life, according to a paper i ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 2:18pm

Women Who Kill Their Children Are Not So Bad, Says Psychologist

Neonaticide and infanticide are horrible crimes to most people but in psychology it's all relative.  Dr. Helen Gavin, a psychologist at the University of Huddersfield, and Dr. Theresa Porter, a clinical psychologist based at a hospital in Connecticut, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2014 - 10:16am

DSM-5 Age Change For ADHD Onset Criterion Validated

 In the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5, the age of onset criterion for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was changed from 7, where it was placed in DSM-IV, to 12. The writers said they changed the ag ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2014 - 11:25am

Teenage Boys: Hey, We Like To Cuddle Too- Except With Teenage Girls

Teenage boys are often considered aloof and distant by parents and driven by desire by teenage girls, but they are not so simple, say scholars at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.  Teenage boys desire intimacy and sex in the cont ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 4:02pm

Mental Health Patients At Highest Risk Of Suicide Just After Leaving Hospital

The University of Manchester's National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness found that mental health patients are at their highest risk of suicide in the first two weeks after leaving hospital. Around 3,225 pa ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2014 - 4:00am

Prisoners Dilemma: Cooperation Among Humans Varies By Age

A new research paper analyzed how cooperative attitudes evolve in different age ranges.   ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2014 - 9:50am

Smoking Linked To Higher Suicide Risk- Psychiatrists

Cigarette smokers are more likely to commit suicide than people who don't smoke. People with psychiatric disorders have higher suicide rates and tend to smoke, so the connection is so simple an epidemiologist could make it. But psychiatrists now say ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 6:02am