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A study led by the University of Western Australia has found that teenage girls who lose their virginity when they are not ready; often at an earlier age, are more likely to feel disappointed and regret the experience.
The study, led by Dr Rachel Skinner, from UWA’s School of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, interviewed 68 teenage girls aged 14 to 19, with the aim of better understanding the factors that influence sexual behaviour, including the first sexual experience in teenage girls. [continue reading…]
English footballer David Beckham has confessed to OCD and says his obsessiveness helps keep him training. Image :Wikimedia Commons
looks at how many athletes feel obliged to perform bizarre rituals before competing,
Ten sports stars and their bizarre pre-game rituals Experts say that sometimes these behaviours can
stray into obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and can even force players out of competition.
A number of sports stars have confessed to the odd habits that help them stay focused. Here are 10 famous examples compiled by psychiatrist Thomas Newmark of Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, and New Scientist staff. Link to continue reading
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Now, just-published research from scientists at the University of Georgia is offering new insights into how one kind of memory works. The study, published this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that laboratory rats have “episodic-like memory” and could open novel ways to study life-robbing loss of memory in humans.
Memory loss is love’s great thief. Those who suffer aren’t just the ones who can’t remember—family, friends and loved ones agonize over how to react when the disorder begins its often inexorable progress. Now, just-published research from scientists at the University of Georgia is offering new insights into how one kind of memory works. The study, published this week in the online edition of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that laboratory rats have “episodic-like memory” and could open novel ways to study life-robbing loss of memory in humans [continue reading…]
Chinese researchers have unlocked the mechanism of an emerging mind-body technique that produces measurable changes in attention and stress reduction in just five days of practice.
The practice — integrative body-mind training (IBMT) — was adapted from traditional Chinese medicine in the 1990s in China, where it is practiced by thousands of people. It is now being taught to undergraduates involved in research on the method at the University of Oregon. [continue reading…]
