Six Cues That Your Lover Is Selfish in Bed
Men can and often do finish through intercourse. Very few women can and do without external stimulation. So, it is in some ways easier to be a man in the sexual arena. In principle, men can finish without foreplay, fellatio or handjobs. Most women cannot finish without foreplay, cunnilingus or a handjob. Yet, anecdotally, too many men are either completely confused about this fact, or they are sel ...
Psychology Today - Mon. Oct 24
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Film and television often provide misleading information on brain death
Neurologists who examined how brain death and organ donation are portrayed in film and television found that only a small fraction of productions provide the public with a complete and accurate understanding of brain death. In addition, most productions do not provide professional discussions about organ donation. Because television and movies serve as a key source for public education, the qualit ...
EurekAlert - Mon. Oct 24
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Competing attitudes about the homeless complicate public policy
Research has shown that policies designed to help the homeless are more popular with the public than those aimed at helping other social groups, including immigrants. But that hasn t stopped policies that target the homeless and make their lives more difficult, such as banning lying down in public or making it illegal to feed the homeless. Scott Clifford, a political scientist at the University of ...
EurekAlert - Mon. Oct 24
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Iron-deficiency anemia in ulcerative colitis -- many patients don't get testin...
Oct. 24, 2016 - Many patients with ulcerative colitis don t receive recommended testing and treatment for the common problem of iron deficiency anemia, reports a study in the October issue of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases , official journal of the Crohn s Colitis Foundation of America CCFA . The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer . About one-third of ulcerative colitis patients with anemia are n ...
EurekAlert - Mon. Oct 24
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Researchers find zebrafish want to hang out with moving 3-D robotic models of ...
BROOKLYN, New York - Authenticity is an important trait, and zebrafish take it especially seriously. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering discovered that zebrafish engage more with 3D-moving robotic models of themselves than with other stimuli. The team, headed by Maurizio Porfiri, professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, devised the controllab ...
EurekAlert - Mon. Oct 24
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Study uncovers brain changes in offending pedophiles
New research reveals that certain alterations in the brain may be present in pedophiles, with differences between hands-on offenders and those who have not sexually offended against children. For the study, researchers conducted imaging tests of the brains of pedophiles with and without a history of hand-on sexual offences against children, as well as healthy non-offending controls, during an asse ...
EurekAlert - Mon. Oct 24
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Psychological Science Explores the Minds of Dogs Â
Dogs are one of the most common household pets in the world, so it s curious that we know relatively little about their cognitive abilities when we know so much about the abilities of other animals, from primates to cetaceans. Over the last couple decades, researchers have been aiming to bridge this gap in scientific knowledge, investigating how our canine companions behave and what they know and ...
Psychological Science - Mon. Oct 24
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Making Decisions About Screen Time
Before I became a parent, I had the same self-righteous attitude about my future son that a lot of people have before becoming a parent There would be absolutely no screen time in my house. I judged parents at restaurants for cramming an iPad in front of their 5-year-olds during dinner, and scoffed at my friends for buying a mini-van fully equipped with a TV and DVD player. In 2011, the American A ...
Psychology Today - Sat. Oct 22
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Election Stress Disorder
As I watched the third presidential debate, I realized just how anxious and depressed I had become over the last few months of this election cycle. The first debate was bad enough. My wife, Tracey, and I sat in a hotel lounge in Toronto, Canada, after we had finished running a training for therapists, and watched it on TV. Most of the people around us were Canadian. They laughed incredulously at D ...
Psychology Today - Sat. Oct 22
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Voracious Science: A Journey from Animal User to Advocate
A new book by Dr. John Gluck called Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals A Primate Scientist s Ethical Journey is a gem and a most timely work. Dr. Gluck is professor emeritus of psychology and a senior advisor to the president on animal research ethics and welfare at the University of New Mexico and also research professor at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. Voracious ...
Psychology Today - Sat. Oct 22
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Rare genetic condition may provide insights on Parkinson's and other late-onse...
A recent article suggests that an enzyme deficiency seen in the lysosomal storage disorder Krabbe s disease may point to new and contributing mechanisms underlying certain late-onset neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson s disease. Patients with Krabbe s disease lack galactosylceramidase, which is needed to maintain the protective myelin coating around nerve cells. Unfortunately, there is c ...
EurekAlert - Fri. Oct 21
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Glucose intolerance and insulin resistance link to unfavorable cardiac functio...
October 21, 2016 -- A study of U.S. Hispanics with diabetes mellitus showed a link between impaired glucose regulation and adverse measures of cardiac function and structure. Researchers at Columbia University s Mailman School of Public Health in collaboration with colleagues from Wake Forest Medical School and six other institutions extended previous knowledge regarding the concept of diabetic ca ...
EurekAlert - Fri. Oct 21
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