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First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Out-Group Discrimination Fuels Anger, Risk-Taking and Vigilance

Discrimination originates in prejudice. It most often takes the form of social rejection, with racial- and gender-based discrimination being two of the most common types. A curious phenomenon about the effects of discrimination is reported in the journal ... [Published Brain Blogger - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Anger, Interaction, Discriminatory

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Understanding How Color Is Perceived in the Brain

Scientists have examined the effects of language on categorical color perception — the idea that color perception is affected by how it is described in language — with behavioral research. Meanwhile, other scholars have looked into this phenomenon using ... [Published Brain Blogger - May 17 2013]

Entities: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Field of Vision, Visual Cortex, Amygdala

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Psychopharmacological Drug Development in A Depression?

“If you are a mouse and suffer from depression, we can cure you!”. You may have heard similar statements for other diseases, which is a general reflection on the current state of drug development. After spending billions of dollars in pharmaceutical ... [Published Brain Blogger - May 14 2013]

Entities: Antidepressant, Drugs, Patient, Antipsychotic

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Teaching the Brain to Calm Itself

Estimates of combat-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in U.S. veterans since the Vietnam War ranges from approximately 2& to 17%. Additional studies of combat veterans of more recent wars places the range of Iraq War returnees who suffer ... [Published Brain Blogger - May 11 2013]

Entities: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, Memory, Teaching, Neuron

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Horror on Seymour Avenue

As we get ready to celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend, we have been greeted with news of the liberation of three young women who were held in captivity for nearly 10 years in a ramshackle house located in a rundown neighborhood of Cleveland. Michelle ... [Published Brain Blogger - May 11 2013]

Entities: Seymour Avenue, Ariel Castro, Elizabeth Smart, Sex, African-Americans

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Exercise for Depression – A Gold Standard Therapy

Depression has become a common medical issue worldwide. Conventional treatments, generally, have not been effective in preventing recurrence of this condition. SSRIs can take months to provide a beneficial effect. Adverse side effects of antidepressant ... [Published Brain Blogger - May 08 2013]

Entities: American College of Cardiology, Patient, Antidepressant, Epidemiology

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Is Obesity Linked to ADHD?

As more and more children consume high-fat diets and become increasingly overweight, the incidences of diseases like type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure have steadily grown among the population. However, these may not be the only health issues linked ... [Published Brain Blogger - May 05 2013]

Entities: Dopamine, Diet, Obesity, ADHD

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Do Not Ignore a Headache

A thunderclap headache. Post-partum cerebral angiopathy. Sub-arachnoid hemorrhagic headache. Posterior reversible encephalopathy. Primary and benign angiopathies of the central nervous system. Call-Fleming syndrome. I am not throwing the dictionary at ... [Published Brain Blogger - May 02 2013]

Entities: Megrim, Circle of Willis, Vessel, Angiography, Angiopathy

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Tackling Schizophrenia Using the Eriksonian Stages

Erik Erikson developed a psychosocial stage theory that illuminates how people progress through certain stages during their life spans. The stages in this theory of development may be negotiated poorly by people with chronic illness and schizophrenia, ... [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Schizophrenia, Erik Erikson, Mistrust, etiology, Psychotherapy

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

You Are What You Eat

Excess food intake makes you fat. High calorie foods make you gain excess fat. Excess carbohydrates and saturated fatty acids get taken up by fat cells and get converted into fatty acids stored within them. This is what we know of the straightforward ... [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Obesity, Calorie, Body Mass Index, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Cognitive Dissonance and Psychosis – Understanding Inconsistency

Cognitive dissonance is a state of tension that occurs when a person simultaneously holds two cognitions, thoughts or beliefs that are psychologically inconsistent with a person’s behavior. Cognitive dissonance occurs in terms of internal behavior wherein ... [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Hallucination, Psychosis, Delusion, Schizophrenia

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

Aging Successfully

Successful aging is an experience governed by gender, culture, personality, and health-related factors. For some, successful aging simply means freedom from disability, while for others it is a more comprehensive assessment of life satisfaction. With ... [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Disability, Resilience, Gerontology

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Out-Group Discrimination Fuels Anger, Risk-Taki... [Published Brain Blogger - 22 hours ago]
Understanding How Color Is Perceived in the Brain [Published Brain Blogger - May 17 2013]
Psychopharmacological Drug Development in A Dep... [Published Brain Blogger - May 14 2013]
Teaching the Brain to Calm Itself [Published Brain Blogger - May 11 2013]
Horror on Seymour Avenue [Published Brain Blogger - May 11 2013]
Exercise for Depression – A Gold Standard Therapy [Published Brain Blogger - May 08 2013]
Is Obesity Linked to ADHD? [Published Brain Blogger - May 05 2013]
Do Not Ignore a Headache [Published Brain Blogger - May 02 2013]
Tackling Schizophrenia Using the Eriksonian Stages [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 29 2013]
You Are What You Eat [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 26 2013]
Cognitive Dissonance and Psychosis – Understand... [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 23 2013]
Aging Successfully [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 20 2013]
Child IQ – Why Confidence Matters [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 17 2013]
Telecommunication in Healthcare [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 13 2013]
Ketogenic Diet for Epilepsy and Other Neurologi... [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 10 2013]
The Tongue – A Portal for Neuromodulation [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 07 2013]
The Brain’s Stopwatch – Emotions and Time Perce... [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 04 2013]
Neuroeconomics – Hype or Hope? [Published Brain Blogger - Apr 01 2013]
Bilingualism May Be Neuroprotective [Published Brain Blogger - Mar 29 2013]
Can Age-Related Forgetfulness be Overcome? [Published Brain Blogger - Mar 26 2013]
On the Path to Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease [Published Brain Blogger - Mar 23 2013]
Laughter is the Best Medicine, Really [Published Brain Blogger - Mar 20 2013]
Medicare Reimbursement – What’s the Latest? [Published Brain Blogger - Mar 17 2013]
The Developing Developmental Biology of Childho... [Published Brain Blogger - Mar 14 2013]
This Is Your Brain… This Is Your Brain on Chemo... [Published Brain Blogger - Mar 11 2013]
Obama Says “BAM” – The Brain Activity Map [Published Brain Blogger - Mar 08 2013]
Legislative Changes in Research [Published Brain Blogger - Mar 05 2013]
The Autistic Child – More Than Meets the Eye [Published Brain Blogger - Mar 02 2013]
Physical Therapy In Autism Spectrum Disorders [Published Brain Blogger - Feb 27 2013]
Humanistic Theory and Therapy, Applied to the P... [Published Brain Blogger - Feb 24 2013]

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Out-Group Discrimination Fuels Anger, Risk-Taki... [Published Brain Blogger - 22 hours ago] Discrimination originates in prejudice. It most often takes the form of social rejection, with racial- and gender-based discrimination being two of the most common types. A curious phenomenon about the effects of discrimination is reported in the journal ...
Understanding How Color Is Perceived in the Brain [Published Brain Blogger - May 17 2013] Scientists have examined the effects of language on categorical color perception — the idea that color perception is affected by how it is described in language — with behavioral research. Meanwhile, other scholars have looked into this phenomenon using ...
Psychopharmacological Drug Development in A Dep... [Published Brain Blogger - May 14 2013] “If you are a mouse and suffer from depression, we can cure you!”. You may have heard similar statements for other diseases, which is a general reflection on the current state of drug development. After spending billions of dollars in pharmaceutical ...
Teaching the Brain to Calm Itself [Published Brain Blogger - May 11 2013] Estimates of combat-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in U.S. veterans since the Vietnam War ranges from approximately 2& to 17%. Additional studies of combat veterans of more recent wars places the range of Iraq War returnees who suffer ...
Horror on Seymour Avenue [Published Brain Blogger - May 11 2013] As we get ready to celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend, we have been greeted with news of the liberation of three young women who were held in captivity for nearly 10 years in a ramshackle house located in a rundown neighborhood of Cleveland. Michelle ...