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Results Improved For Those With Persistent Anorexia By Rethinking Treatment Goals A new, multinational randomized clinical trial has found that patients with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa will not only stick with treatments but also make significant improvements with just a slight modification of the standard goals and methods o
Medical News Today | May 10, 2013 08:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Cerebral Connectivity Patterns Differ Based On Auditory, Social Information In Laughter A laugh may signal mockery, humor, joy or simply be a response to tickling, but each kind of laughter conveys a wealth of auditory and social information...
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'We know that kids come home': Families feel renewed hope Read full story for latest details.
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Tickling Laughter Produces Different Brain Response To Social Laughter When we hear someone laughing because they are being tickled, the connections in our brains respond differently to when we hear social laughter, such as that which expresses joy or accompanies mocking behavior...
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The Ability To Beat Built-In Bias Reflected By Theta Brainwaves Vertebrates are predisposed to act to gain rewards, and to lay low to avoid punishment. Try to teach chickens to back away from food in order to obtain it, and you'll fail, as researchers did in 1986. But (some) humans are better thinkers than chickens...
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Psychological Factors That May Hinder Women's Earning Power And Career Progress Working on a team is always a challenge, but a new study highlights a particular challenge to women: how much they credit themselves in a joint success. Women will devalue their contributions when working with men but not with other women, according to th
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Problems Processing Everyday Events Linked To Older Adults' Memory Lapses Some memory problems common to older adults may stem from an inability to segment daily life into discrete experiences, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science...
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'Nocebo Effect' - Expectation Of Negative Effects Can Increase Likelihood Of Experiencing Symptoms Media reports about substances that are supposedly hazardous to health may cause suggestible people to develop symptoms of a disease even though there is no objective reason for doing so. This is the conclusion of a study of the phenomenon known as electr
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Mothers Traumatized In Childhood Avoid Emotional Talk With Their Children Mothers who have experienced childhood abuse, neglect or other traumatic experiences show an unwillingness to talk with their children about the child's emotional experiences, a new study from the University of Notre Dame shows...
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Revealing The Cross-Cultural Implications Of Suicide Just over a month ago, a young high school student from Halifax committed suicide after photos of her being raped were posted on the Internet. Her story wasn't just about bullying. It was also about the complex feelings her friends and family faced with h
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