http://medicineworld.org/news/psychology-news.html MedicineWorld.Org brings daily psychology news from various sources to keep you updated on the latest events in the world on this topic. Medicineworld psychology news service is the most comprehensive psychology news service on the internet. We keep an archive of previous few days of news on this site. Please go down through the list to find the older news items. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/psychology-news.jpg http://medicineworld.org/news/psychology-news.html 107 77 http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2012/autism-redefined.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2012/autism-redefined.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT Getting an autism diagnosis could be more difficult in 2013 when a revised diagnostic definition goes into effect. The proposed changes may affect the proportion of individuals who qualify for a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, as per preliminary data presented by Yale School of Medicine scientists at a meeting of the Icelandic Medical Association........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2011/morning-people-and-night-owls.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2011/morning-people-and-night-owls.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT It's true. The daily grind dealing with bosses, colleagues and repetitive work sours people's moods. But scientists say the cause appears to be something more than the work itself; people's biological clocks appears to be sending a message. "Though it might seem intuitive to suggest that the decrease in mood level during the midday hours is a result of workday-related stress," said Scott Golder, lead researcher for a study appearing today in the journal Science, "it turns out we see the same rhythmic shape on the weekends, when people typically are not working. This suggests to us that something more enduring is going on, such as the effect of biological processes and sleep"........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/7-2011/distract-yourself-or-think-it-over.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/7-2011/distract-yourself-or-think-it-over.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT A big part of coping with life is having a flexible reaction to the ups and downs. Now, a study which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people choose to respond differently depending on how intense an emotion is. When confronted with high-intensity negative emotions, they tend to choose to turn their attention away, but with something lower-intensity, they tend to think it over and neutralize the feeling that way........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/routine-screening-for-autism-not-needed.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/routine-screening-for-autism-not-needed.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT Proposals recommending routine screening of all children for autism gets a thumbs down from scientists at McMaster University. In a study in the online edition of the journal Pediatrics, the scientists say there is "not enough sound evidence to support the implementation of a routine population-based screening program for autism"........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/single-moms-entering-midlife-may-lead-to.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/single-moms-entering-midlife-may-lead-to.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT Unwed mothers face poorer health at midlife than do women who have children after marriage, as per a new nationwide study, which appears in the June 2011 issue of the American Sociological Review Scientists observed that women who had their first child outside of marriage described their health as poorer at age 40 than did other moms........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/children-of-divorce-fall-behind.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/children-of-divorce-fall-behind.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT Divorce is a drag on the academic and emotional development of young children, but only once the breakup is under way, as per a research studyof elementary school students and their families. "Children of divorce experience setbacks in math test scores and show problems with interpersonal skills and internalizing behavior during the divorce period," says Hyun Sik Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "They are more prone to feelings of anxiety, loneliness, low self-esteem and sadness"........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/5-2011/a-better-mouse-model-to-study-depression.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/5-2011/a-better-mouse-model-to-study-depression.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have developed a mouse model of major depressive disorder (MDD) that is based on a rare genetic mutation that appears to cause MDD in the majority of people who inherit it. The findings, which were published online today in the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics EarlyView, could help to clarify the brain events that lead to MDD, and contribute to the development of new and better means of therapy and prevention. This report also illustrates an advance in the design of recombinant mouse models that should be applicable to a number of human diseases........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/5-2011/positive-effects-of-depression.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/5-2011/positive-effects-of-depression.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT Sadness, apathy, preoccupation. These traits come to mind when people think about depression, the world's most frequently diagnosed mental disorder. Yet, forthcoming research in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology provides evidence that depression has a positive side-effect. As per a newly released study by Bettina von Helversen (University of Basel, Switzerland), Andreas Wilke (Clarkson University), Tim Johnson (Stanford University), Gabriele Schmid (Technische Universit�t M�nchen, Gera number of), and Burghard Klapp (Charit� Hospital Berlin, Gera number of), depressed individuals perform better than their non-depressed peers in sequential decision tasks........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/alcohol-mood-and-me.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/alcohol-mood-and-me.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT Thanks in part to studies that follow subjects for a long time, psychology experts are learning more about differences between people. In a new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, the author describes how psychology experts can use their data to learn about the different ways that people's minds work........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/missing-the-gorilla.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/missing-the-gorilla.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT University of Utah psychology experts have learned why a number of people experience "inattention blindness" � the phenomenon that leaves drivers on cell phones prone to traffic accidents and makes a gorilla invisible to viewers of a famous video. The answer: People who fail to see something right in front of them while they are focusing on something else have lower "working memory capacity" � a measure of "attentional control," or the ability to focus attention when and where needed, and on more than one thing at a time........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/mums-the-word.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/mums-the-word.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT As part of the study, which will follow 40,000 UK households over many years, young people aged between 10 to 15 years have been asked how satisfied they are with their lives. The findings indicate that a mother's happiness in her partnership is more important to the child than the father's. The findings are based on a sample of 6,441 women, 5,384 men and 1,268 young people........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/antidepressants-linked-to-thicker-arteries.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/antidepressants-linked-to-thicker-arteries.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT Antidepressant use has been associated with thicker arteries, possibly contributing to the risk of heart disease and stroke, in a study of twin veterans. The data is being presented Tuesday, April 5 at the American College of Cardiology meeting in New Orleans. Depression can heighten the risk for heart disease, but the effect of antidepressant use revealed by the study is separate and independent from depression itself, says first author Amit Shah, MD, a cardiology fellow at Emory University School of Medicine. The data suggest that antidepressants may combine with depression for a negative effect on blood vessels, he says. Shah is a researcher working with Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/a-womans-blues-bring-a-relationship-down.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/a-womans-blues-bring-a-relationship-down.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT Depression erodes intimate relationships. A depressed person can be withdrawn, needy, or hostile�and give little back. But there's another way that depression isolates partners from each other. It chips away at the ability to perceive the others' thoughts and feelings. It impairs what psychology experts call "empathic accuracy" �and that can exacerbate alienation, depression, and the cycle by which they feed each other........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/some-women-worry-too-much-about-breast.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/some-women-worry-too-much-about-breast.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT Most women face only a small risk of breast cancer coming back after they complete their therapy. Yet a newly released study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds that nearly half of Latinas who speak little English expressed a great deal of worry about recurrence. "Some worry about cancer recurrence is understandable. But for some women, these worries can be so strong that they impact their therapy decisions, symptom reporting and screening behaviors, and overall quality of life," says study author Nancy K. Janz, Ph.D., professor of health behavior and health education at the U-M School of Public Health........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/psychiatric-symptoms-in-children-with-epilepsy.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/psychiatric-symptoms-in-children-with-epilepsy.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT A newly published report reveals that children with epilepsy are more likely to have psychiatric symptoms, with gender a determining factor in their development. Findings showed that girls had more emotional problems, while boys had more hyperactivity/inattention problems and issues regarding peer relationships. Details of this study in Norwegian children are now available online in Epilepsia, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International League Against Epilepsy........ ]]>