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Medicine/Pharmacology - Psychology - 2.05
Mental health network aims to promote brain disorder discoveries
A team of academics from the University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde have formed a network designed to drive forward mental health breakthroughs. - The Glasgow Psychosis Research Network will bring together expertise from a range of organisations, with the aim of improving the diagnosis and treatment of mental health condition.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Psychology - 19.04
Early cognitive behavioural therapy reduces risk of psychosis
19 Apr 2013 - Young people seeking help who are at high risk of developing psychosis could significantly reduce their chances of going on to develop a full-blown psychotic illness by getting early access to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), new research shows.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Psychology - 27.03
Seeing happiness in ambiguous facial expressions reduces aggressive behaviour
Encouraging young people at high-risk of criminal offending and delinquency to see happiness rather than anger in facial expressions results in a decrease in their levels of anger and aggression, new research from the University of Bristol has found.

Psychology - Computer Science/Telecom - 20.03
Expression of emotion in books declined during 20th century, study finds
The use of words with emotional content in books has steadily decreased throughout the last century, according to new research from the Universities of Sheffield, Bristol and Durham. - The study, published today in PLOS ONE , also found a divergence between American and British English, with the former being more 'emotional' than the latter.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Psychology - 21.02
The long shadow cast by childhood bullying on mental health in adulthood
A new study shows that children who are exposed to bullying during childhood are at increased risk of psychiatric disorders in adulthood, regardless of whether they are victims or perpetrators. - William E. Copeland of Duke University Medical Center and Dieter Wolke of the University of Warwick led a team in examining whether bullying in childhood predicts psychiatric problems and suicidality in young adulthood.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Psychology - 8.01
Mums may influence babies’ pain at routine vaccinations
Babies of first-time mums express more pain during routine vaccinations than those of experienced mothers, according to new research.

Psychology - 20.11.2012
Happy youngsters more likely to grow into wealthy adults, study finds
The first in-depth investigation of whether youthful happiness leads to greater wealth in later life reveals that, even allowing for other influences, happy adolescents are likely to earn more money as adults.

Psychology - 12.11.2012
Fearlessness in juvenile offenders
Juvenile offenders have impairments in emotional learning and punitive measures to control their behaviour are unlikely to be effective, new research by a team from the University suggests. - Led by Stephanie van Goozen of the School of Psychology and Simon Moore from the School of Dentistry, the team set out to establish whether a lack of fear was linked to juvenile offending, and if rates of criminal offending were linked to the severity of this emotional learning impairment.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Psychology - 12.11.2012
Why watching someone itch makes you scratch
Have you ever experienced the feelings of itchiness while watching someone else scratch? - Scientists University of Sussex and the University of Hull have found the part of the brain responsible for ‘contagious' itching – and discovered why some people are more prone to it than others.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Psychology - 7.11.2012
Study provides new evidence that more plus size models could change women’s obsession with thin bodies
British women's obsession for thin bodies could potentially be changed if advertising showed more plus size models, suggests a new preliminary study. - The Durham University researchers, who studied over 100 women, provide evidence to back calls for models in adverts to be more representative of the actual population.  This move could ultimately help girls and women to develop a healthier attitude to eating, the researchers say.

Psychology - 18.10.2012
Study of Afghan children seeking asylum in the UK
A new study indicates that about one-third of asylum-seeking Afghan children who arrive in the UK without their parents or a guardian are likely to be experience symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Psychology - 28.09.2012
Therapy over the phone as effective as face-to-face
Providing therapy over the phone will not only help individuals gain much-needed access to mental health treatment, it will provide a more cost effective way of providing these services at a time when we have to be innovative and efficient." - —Professor Peter Jones - A new study reveals that cognitive therapy over the phone is just as effective as meeting face-to-face.

Psychology - 5.09.2012
Study questions whether children consider merit when sharing with others
What is a fair way to distribute goods? Should someone who worked more also receive more compensation? New research, published online PLoS One [29 Aug] and led by Patricia Kanngiesser from the University of Bristol's School of Experimental Psychology and Felix Warneken from Harvard University, suggests that young children already take merit into account when sharing things with others. - In the study three- and five-year-old children played a game with a puppet partner in which both partners collected coins.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Psychology - 3.07.2012
Emotionality in adolescent males is driven by hormonal changes
Researchers led by a team from the University of Glasgow and Oslo University Hospital, Norway have discovered that while changes in the emotions of adolescent females are directly related to age those from young males are influenced by the changing patterns of reproductive hormones that occur as individuals become more sexually mature.

Life Sciences - Psychology - 16.05.2012
How horses use memory, sight and sound to recognise humans
How horses use memory, sight and sound to recognise humans - A new University of Sussex study published online today (16 May 2012) shows that domestic horses use a sophisticated cognitive system to identify individuals of species other than their own.