A New Method For Assessing Families
In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics a new formulation of a psychological questionnaire for assessing families is presented. The Family Assessment Device (FAD) [1] is a widely used...
View ArticleWhat Clinicians Assess Is Not What Patients Feel In Functional...
In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics a report attempts a correlation between clinician’s judgement and patient’s self-report in functional gastrointestinal disorders.
View ArticleA New Method For Going Back To Memories May Help Depression
A randomized controlled trial that has appeared in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics indicates that a new method for going back to memories may be of help in depression.
View ArticleThe appeal of extremist ideologies
Over the course of the last year, there have been a number of high-profile cases of young people leaving the UK and Europe to travel to Syria to support Islamic State. The overall numbers of people...
View ArticleGetting digital line-ups wrong can put innocents behind bars
Not altering distinguishing marks in police line-ups can affect witnesses’ ability to distinguish between innocent and guilty suspects. New research from the University of Warwick highlights why it’s...
View ArticleKetone Drink Gives Competitive Cyclists a Boost by Altering Their Metabolism
A drink developed for soldiers to generate energy from ketones rather than carbs or fat allowed highly trained cyclists to add up to 400 meters of distance to their workouts, a UK-led study reports...
View ArticleBlack Women’s Labor: Economics, Culture, and Politics
""Scholars who came of age after the 1997 publication of Tera Hunter’s To ’Joy My Freedom, entered a field of black women’s labor scholarship forever changed. Challenging traditional understandings of...
View ArticleSwitch from Observation Only to Active Treatment by Patients with Prostate...
Although active surveillance, or watchful waiting, for patients with low risk prostate cancer has become an increasingly acceptable strategy for disease management, many men opt for definitive...
View ArticleRecovery of Dopamine Function Emerges with Recovery from Smoking
A new study in Biological Psychiatry reports that smoking-related deficits in brain dopamine, a chemical implicated in reward and addiction, return to normal three months after quitting. The...
View ArticleNorth-South economic and social divide still growing, according to new LSE...
North-South economic and social divide still growing, according to new LSE and University of Manchester research. The research put to the test a statement by Cities Minister Greg Clark in January 2015...
View ArticleÜber die Definitionshoheit im Weltgesundheitsdorf
Dr. Tine Hanrieder vom Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) mit einem Freigeist-Fellowship der VolkswagenStiftung ausgezeichnet. Die Politologin ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in...
View ArticleWie sich Beziehungsstatus und Selbstwertgefühl beeinflussen
Erfahrungen in Partnerschaften und das Selbstwertgefühl von Menschen beeinflussen sich gegenseitig: Das Selbstwertgefühl einer Person trägt zu Erfolg und Misserfolg im Lebensbereich Partnerschaft bei,...
View ArticleLoughborough University research pinpoints most dangerous HGV designs
HGVs with high cabs have the most blind spots and pose the greatest risk to vulnerable road users, research by Loughborough University has found.
View ArticleCombining Medications Could Offer Better Results for ADHD Patients
Three studies to be published in the August 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) report that combining two standard medications could lead to...
View Article‘Pope Francis’s appeal for Poland to welcome refugees may remain unanswered’
Dr Simona Guerra from the University of Leicester discusses Polish attitudes towards the European migrant crisis and Pope Francis's views being 'at odds' with the local Church
View ArticleReal and artificially generated 3-D films are nearly impossible to distinguish
3-D technology is particularly interesting for action and horror films, less for documentaries
View ArticleEchte und künstlich erzeugte 3-D-Filme sind praktisch nicht zu unterscheiden
3-D-Technologie vor allem für Action- und Horrorfilme interessant, weniger für Dokumentarbeiträge
View ArticleBeyond Alphabet Soup: Helping College Health Professionals Understand Sexual...
“Beyond Alphabet Soup: Helping College Health Professionals Understand Sexual Fluidity” is now available from the Journal of American College Health (JACH), the official publication of the American...
View ArticleMobile Scan and Pay Technology could promote supermarket theft, study suggests
University of Leicester criminologists author new report on retail Mobile Scanning and Pay (MSP) technology
View ArticleWater - the office hero
The culture of grabbing something quick to eat amid a mounting pile of to-dos at work often leads to making the wrong decisions when searching for something to eat in the workplace. Unplanned cake...
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