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Hate Crimes and Hate Speech
Although hatred is an emotion that need not to acted upon, it is rare that emotions do not eventually shape our actions, and obsessive emotions such as hatred, unreciprocated love , morbid jealousy and complicated grief are more likely to motivate wildly compulsive behavior than calmer and more controllable emotions such as, satisfaction, annoyance, and malaise . Physical abuse and domestic violen ...
Psychology Today - Wed. Dec 21
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5 Things Adults Unlearn about Disability
If my kids age 4 and nearly 2 and I woke up tomorrow morning and found a dragon in our living room, my son s top concern would be What should we name it and my daughter would probably try to hug it. I haven t yet taught them that if you see a dragon, proceed with caution, as we believe them to be fictional and quite likely dangerous. Every single thing we know today as grown-ups, we had to learn a ...
Psychology Today - Wed. Dec 21
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Why Love Exists
From an evolutionary perspective, something that is shared widely across a large proportion of a species begs to be explained in evolutionary terms. The nature of a finch s beak must speak to the evolutionary history of finches. The plumage of a peacock s tail must tell us something about how peacocks choose mates and how they ultimately reproduce. The length of a giraffe s neck must tell us somet ...
Psychology Today - Wed. Dec 21
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UTMB researchers develop first chikungunya vaccine from virus that does not af...
GALVESTON, Texas - Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed the first vaccine for chikungunya fever made from an insect-specific virus that doesn t have any effect on people, making the vaccine safe and effective. The newly developed vaccine quickly produces a strong immune defense and completely protects mice and nonhuman primates from disease when expos ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Dec 20
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Levels of DNA in blood test correlated with ovarian cancer outcomes
Levels of circulating tumor DNA ctDNA detected in a blood test are correlated with the size of ovarian cancers and can predict a patient s response to treatment or time to disease progression, according to a retrospective study of cancer patients blood samples published in PLOS Medicine by Nitzan Rosenfeld and James Brenton of Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and colleagues. Blood levels of ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Dec 20
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Trends in extracorporeal life support -- ASAIO Journal presents latest worldwi...
December 20, 2016 - For critically ill patients with heart or lung failure that does not respond to conventional treatments, extracorporeal life support ECLS can provide a bridge to survival. Updated analysis of a worldwide database finds that ECLS technologies are becoming more widely available and more frequently used at centers around the world, according to a report in the ASAIO Journal , publ ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Dec 20
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Given time, most women with anorexia or bulimia will recover
A study from Massachusetts General Hospital MGH investigators finds that, contrary to what is often believed, around two thirds of women with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa will eventually recover from their eating disorders. Recovery from bulimia tends to happen more quickly, but while less than a third of participants with anorexia were determined to have recovered an average of nine years ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Dec 20
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Perfectionism vs. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Contributed by Kristen Fuller, M.D., Sovereign Health
Psychology Today - Tue. Dec 20
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Maltreated Children Misbehaving
None of us are conceived or born as full adults we all need to grow and develop from single cells to fully-formed adults. Unfortunately - for the sake of development, anyway - the future world you will find yourself in is not always predictable, which makes development a tricky matter at times. While there are often regularities in the broader environment such as the presence or absence of sunligh ...
Psychology Today - Tue. Dec 20
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Why Our Coercive System of Schooling Should Topple
I ve been called a crazy optimist, a Pollyanna, a romantic idealist. How can I believe that our system of compulsory forced schooling is about to collapse People point out that in many ways the schooling system is stronger now than ever. It occupies more of children s time, gobbles up more public funds, employs more people, and is more firmly controlled by government and at ever-higher levels of g ...
Psychology Today - Tue. Dec 20
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Rare look at youth post detention is bleak
First study to document poor long-term outcomes of delinquent youth after detention Massive study addresses key omission in juvenile justice field Involvement in the juvenile justice system can lead to a downward spiral that is difficult to reverse Females functioned significantly better than males in nearly every domain CHICAGO --- A new Northwestern Medicine study offers a bleak assessment in a ...
EurekAlert - Mon. Dec 19
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Efforts are needed to optimize the use of biologics for treating patients with...
The use of biologics, which are generally made from human and or animal materials, has significantly changed the management of rheumatoid arthritis over the last decade, becoming the cornerstone treatment for many patients. Because the arsenal of biologics for rheumatoid arthritis includes numerous monoclonal antibodies with various mechanisms of action, it can be challenging to optimize treatment ...
EurekAlert - Mon. Dec 19
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