Psychology

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

Want To Be Happy? Get Some Danish DNA

They say money can't buy happiness. Can genetics? Some people seem to be happy no matter what. If you visit many places in Africa, even when the existence may seem hard to Europeans or Americans, a lot of people are quite happy. The key could be gene ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2014 - 11:18am

Shape Program: Less Weight, Less Depression With New Intervention

It's a common trope among Hollywood celebrities; media is alarmed at weight gain, celebrity says they are proud of their body, they feel better than ever, people clap, celebrity appears two months later and lost 25 lbs. and is on magazine covers with ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2014 - 9:34am

With Asthma, Thinking They Might Smell Something Harmful Causes Inflammation

A new paper finds that asthmatics who believe that an odor is potentially have increased airway inflammation for at least 24 hours following exposure, which highlights the role that expectations and psychology can play in health-related outcomes. Asthma i ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 6:30pm

Obese Preschoolers Lose Weight When Parents Do

It's no surprise when obese preschoolers have obese parents. It's actually expected. So it's not a surprise when obesity treatment is more effective when it targets both parent and child compared to when only the child is targeted. Children ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2014 - 2:30am