Psychology

25 Minutes Of Mindfulness Meditation Alleviates Stress

Mindfulness meditation is all the rage in meditation circles but does it work? Most research claiming benefits have focused on lengthy, weeks-long training programs using people who already like meditation. A new paper in Psychoneuroendocrinology is about ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 6:31am

To Become An Expert, Practice Is Not Enough

People have been debating whether experts are "born" or "made" since the mid-1800s. In recent years, deliberate practice has received considerable attention in these debates, while innate ability has been pushed to the side, due in par ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 4:41pm

PNES: Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures Benefit From Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are seizures that resemble epilepsy but are instead a psychological condition. It is not the result of abnormal brain electrical activity. Because it looks like epilepsy, but isn't, it can be made worse by ant ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 5:58pm

Your July 4th Science Resolution- Start Taking Power Naps

For hibernating mammals, the pre-winter months are a race to accumulate enough energy reserves to last until spring. But what about offspring born late in the year? They have less time to store energy. Austrian scientists have discovered that power-nappin ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2014 - 2:30am

Long-Term Effects Of Psychotherapy On Borderline Personality Disorder

A new study analyzed the long-term effects of psychotherapy on borderline personality disorder. Authors report the effect of  Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) versus treatment-as-usual (TAU) on inpatient service use, and a follow-up 6 months after the en ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 10:03am

This Personality Type Is Mostly Likely To Get A Heart Attack

A new study addresses the relationship between personality and heart attacks. Distressed (type D) personality (TDP), characterized by high negative affectivity and social inhibition, along with depression, anxiety and other negative affects (such as demora ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 11:42am

Asperger Depressing Double Edged Sword

    Many high IQ Asperger sufferers think that their rationality is ultimately superior. Their moralizing provides judgments; their “honesty” blurts them out. Such behavior is usually felt to be inappropriate. Rationalizing such as a somehow more upstandin ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 8 2017 - 7:31pm

All Summer Jobs Are Good For Kids

In the US, there is constant discussion about minimum wage and little recognition that those jobs are just that- a minimum wage and not a career. They are for young people and people starting out, it isn't expected that minimum wage is the goal. Inst ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 3:06pm

Neuroeconomists Retrospectively Confirm Warren Buffett's Wisdom

Warren Buffett, billionaire invested, says that investors should try to "be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy only when others are fearful."  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 3:30pm

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