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The Colorful Personality: Another Face of the Dark Side?
The colorful personality is a subclinical form of histrionic personality disorder , which refers to a pattern of attention-seeking behavior featuring exaggerated, even theatrical displays of emotion and shallow relationships. Personality disorders were once thought to be categorically distinct from normal personality, but nowadays many psychologists prefer to view personality disorders as being on ...
Psychology Today - Sat. Sep 26
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People with autistic traits may be more creative, study suggests
New research suggests individuals with autistic traits may have more advanced creativity skills than those without such traits.
Medical News Today - Sat. Sep 26
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Link found between throat microbes and schizophrenia
A link between the tiny organisms found in the throat and schizophrenia could lead to ways of identifying the causes and potential treatments of the neuropsychiatric disorder, according to new research.
Medical News Today - Sat. Sep 26
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Gene may amplify impact of life events on mental health
A new study suggests that while a certain gene variant may predispose people to depression following a history of bad life events, such as childhood abuse, that same gene may also enhance happiness when bad life events are absent.
Medical News Today - Sat. Sep 26
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Romantic opportunities appear to influence women's sexual identities, but not ...
CHICAGO -- Romantic opportunities appear to influence women s sexual identities -- but not men s, suggests a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association ASA . This indicates that women s sexuality may be more flexible and adaptive than men s, said study author Elizabeth Aura McClintock, an assistant professor of sociology at the University ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Sep 26
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Few gay teenage boys get tested for HIV
Only one in five gay and bisexual teen boys have been tested for HIV HIV infections are on the rise for young men who have sex with men Text messages, online program can identify nearby confidential testing sites Testing in schools would normalize the process. CHICAGO --- Young men who have sex with men have the highest risk for HIV infection, but only one in five has ever been tested for HIV, a m ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Sep 26
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Information handling by some health apps not as secure as it should be
Some health apps that have been clinically-accredited may not have been complying with principles of data protection, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Medicine . In some instances health apps were found to be sending unencrypted personal and health information, which means users of these apps may have had their privacy put at risk. Use of smartphone health apps is now ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Sep 26
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Female genital cutting is based on private values rather than social norms
Worldwide an estimated 125 million girls and women are cut despite the fact that female genital cutting leads to serious health problems throughout life. Development agencies spend millions of dollars every year on interventions promoting the abandonment of cutting. Researchers at the University of Zurich and their collaborators in Sudan have collected new data that challenge the assumptions on wh ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Sep 26
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Rapidly assessing the next influenza pandemic
Influenza pandemics are potentially the most serious natural catastrophes that affect the human population. New findings published in PLOS Computational Biology suggest that with both timely and accurate data and sophisticated numerical models, the likely impact of a new pandemic can be assessed quickly, and key decisions made about potential mitigation strategies. Novel strains of influenza emerg ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Sep 26
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Do patients with age-related macular degeneration have trouble with touch scre...
September 24, 2015 - Older adults with central vision loss caused by age-related macular degeneration AMD have no problem with accuracy in performing touch screen tasks, according to a study in the October issue of Optometry and Vision Science , official journal of the American Academy of Optometry . The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer . But their performance is slower--especially during th ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Sep 26
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Medications to treat opioid use disorders -- new guideline from the American S...
September 24, 2015 - Medications play an important role in managing patients with opioid use disorders, but there are not enough physicians with the knowledge and ability to use these often-complex treatments. New evidence-based recommendations on the use of prescription medications for the treatment of opioid addiction are published in the October November Journal of Addiction Medicine , the offi ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Sep 26
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Breaking the anxiety cycle
A woman who won t drive long distances because she has panic attacks in the car. A man who has contamination fears so intense he cannot bring himself to use public bathrooms. A woman who can t go to church because she fears enclosed spaces. All of these people have two things in common they have an anxiety disorder. They re also parents. Each of these parents sought help because they struggle with ...
EurekAlert - Sat. Sep 26
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