Published: August 23, 2007
5 Year Study most ambitious of its kind, identifies effective strategies for decreasing aggressiveness and improving behaviour
Non-medicinal interventions are highly effective in preventing the behavioral and academic problems associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to a five-year study led by researchers at Lehigh University’s College of Education.
The study, titled “Project Achieve” and funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), was the largest of its kind focusing on children aged 3 to 5 who have shown significant symptoms of ADHD. It also involved researchers from Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa. [continue reading…]
Published: August 20, 2007
The devastation caused by a broken heart has been a dominant theme throughout the ages of great literature and pop culture alike.
But a new Northwestern University study shows that lovers, especially those madly in love, do much better — almost immediately — following a breakup than they imagined they would. [continue reading…]
Published: August 16, 2007
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It may be the height of the holiday season, but about a million people( in the U.K.) are about to get life-altering news. On Thursday, 300,000 school and college students will receive their A level results. A week later, another 700,000 will find out how they did in their GCSEs.And it is not just the students who have a lot riding on these high-stakes exams. For the schools they have attended and the teachers who work in them, poor results can mean bad headlines and professional damage. [continue reading…]
Published: August 16, 2007
Brain imaging has revealed a breakdown in normal patterns of emotional processing that impairs the ability of people with clinical depression to suppress negative emotional states. Efforts by depressed patients to suppress their feelings when viewing emotionally negative images enhanced activity in several brain areas, including the amygdala, known to play a role in generating emotion, according to a report in the August 15 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. [continue reading…]
