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Can Social Deficits of Autism and Schizophrenia Be Modeled in Animals?
May 5, 2011 Social deficits are common in several psychiatric disorders, including autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia. Individuals with severe social dysfunction can experience significant difficulties ... > full story -
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Schools Need Collaboration, Not Packaged Solutions, for Best Mental Health Programs
May 4, 2011 Experts in school mental health agree that a large investment of money, time and training has been made to develop and disseminate school mental health programs that have been tested and proven to ... > full story -
Researchers See a 'Picture' of Threat in the Brain: Work May Lead to New Model of Neuroinflammation
May 3, 2011 Researchers are beginning to see exactly what the response to threats looks like in the brain at the cellular and molecular levels. This new information, including the discovery that a model of ... > full story -
Screening Very Preterm Infants for Autism at 18 Months Often Inaccurate
May 1, 2011 Extremely premature infants who screen positive for autism spectrum disorder at 18 months of age may not actually have autism. Rather, they may fail screening tests due to an unrelated cognitive or ... > full story -
Newborns Exposed to Methamphetamine Before Birth Are Hard to Arouse, Hard to Calm Down, Study Suggests
May 1, 2011 A scale used to assess the behavior of newborns exposed to methamphetamine before birth might be able to identify those children who will develop problems later ... > full story -
Animal-Assisted Therapy Decreases Patient Anxiety in Pre-MRI Setting, Study Suggests
April 30, 2011 Patients who undergo MRI often suffer from elevated anxiety. Patient discomfort may cause poor image quality due to motion artifacts or early termination. Anxiolytic medications are currently used to ... > full story -
Through Unique Eyes, Box Jellyfish Look out to the World Above the Water
April 28, 2011 Box jellyfish may seem like rather simple creatures, but in fact their visual system is anything but. They've got no fewer than 24 eyes of four different kinds. Now, researchers have evidence ... > full story -
Adults With Arthritis Suffer With Poorer Health Related Quality of Life
April 28, 2011 A new study reports that the health-related quality of life for US adults with arthritis is much worse than for those without this condition. Both physical and mental health are affected by ... > full story -
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Genes Control Fruit Flies' Social Groupings
April 26, 2011 A new study reveals how a fruit fly's genes can influence the company it keeps. Using male flies that had been bred for varying levels of aggressiveness, researchers observed how the males formed ... > full story -
Brain Imaging Demonstrates That Former Smokers Have Greater Willpower Than Smokers
April 26, 2011 A new study compares former smokers to current smokers, and obtains insight into how to quit smoking might be discovered by studying the brains of those who have successfully managed to do ... > full story
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