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  Can You 'Train' Yourself to Have More Willpower?

  January 24, 2013 — Researchers say that with a little practice, it may be possible to strengthen and improve your self-control -- and lose more ... > full story
• Alzheimer's
  Alzheimer's Research
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  First Brain Pacemaker Implanted to Treat Alzheimer's

  January 23, 2013 — During a five-hour surgery last October at Kathy Sanford became the first Alzheimer’s patient in the United States to have a pacemaker implanted in her brain. She is the first of up to 10 ... > full story
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  Stimulator Device Offers Treatment Option for Children With Incontinence

  January 23, 2013 — Incontinence is typically a condition associated with adults; however, many children also struggle with incontinence – bladder, bowel or both. In order to help these children, doctors have ... > full story
• Alcoholism
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  Alcohol Use from Adolescence to Adulthood Follows Different, Complex Pathways

  January 22, 2013 — Adolescence is often a time of novelty seeking and risk taking, including the initiation of drinking. Other risk factors are also involved in trajectories of alcohol use that may develop over time. A ... > full story
• Mice
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  How Repeated Aggression Triggers Social Aversion in Mice

  January 18, 2013 — One of the mechanisms involved in the onset of stress-induced depression has been highlighted in mice. Scientists have determined the role of the corticosterone (stress hormone) receptor, in the ... > full story
• Children's Health
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  New Study Challenges Links Between Daycare and Behavioral Issues

  January 17, 2013 — Researchers from the US and Norway studied 75,000 Norwegian children and found no evidence that time spent in child care leads to behavioral ... > full story
• Mental Health Research
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  Adolescent Stress Linked to Severe Adult Mental Illness, Mouse Study Suggests

  January 17, 2013 — Working with mice, researchers have established a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence -- a critical time for brain development -- and genetic changes that, in young ... > full story
• Educational Policy
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  Portrayal of Spring Break Excess May Be Stereotypes Gone Wild

  January 16, 2013 — The popular perception that college students are reaching new levels of self-indulgence and risky behavior during spring break excursions may be based on media coverage and scholarship that ... > full story
• Intelligence
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  Scanning the Brain: Scientists Examine the Impact of fMRI Over the Past 20 Years

  January 16, 2013 — The development of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) opened up an exciting new landscape for exploration of the human brain. Now, twenty years after the first fMRI study was published, a ... > full story
• Apes
  Social Psychology
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  Chimpanzees Successfully Play the Ultimatum Game: Apes' Sense of Fairness Confirmed

  January 14, 2013 — Researchers have shown that chimpanzees possess a sense of fairness that has previously been attributed as uniquely human. Biologists played the Ultimatum Game with the chimpanzees to determine how ... > full story

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