More Studies!
Insomnia can be educational, I guess. Here are some interesting studies I've found while browsing sciencedaily...
Antidepressants Linked To Bone Loss, Study Suggests (June 27, 2007) -- Two new studies suggest older men and women taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class of antidepressants that includes Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft, are prone to increased bone loss. The ... > full story
Social Skills Programs For Children With Autism Are Largely Ineffective, Study Suggests (June 26, 2007) -- A meta-analysis of 55 published research studies reveals programs designed to teach social skills to children with autism are failing to meet their goals. The study found that outcomes for social ... > full story
Frog Molecule Could Provide Drug Treatment For Brain Tumors (June 26, 2007) -- A synthetic version of a molecule found in the egg cells of the Northern Leopard frog (Rana pipiens) could provide the world with the first drug treatment for brain tumors. Although it could ... > full story
Human-like Altruism Shown In Chimpanzees (June 25, 2007) -- Experimental evidence reveals that chimpanzees will help other unrelated humans and conspecifics without a reward, showing that they share crucial aspects of altruism with humans. The evolutionary ... > full story
Teenage Violence Linked To Later Domestic Violence (June 26, 2007) -- Adolescents who engaged in violent behavior at a relatively steady rate through their teenage years and those who violence began in their mid teens and increased over the years are significantly more ... > full story
Students With Symptoms Of Mental Illness Often Don't Seek Help (June 25, 2007) -- Studies show that the incidence of mental illness on college campuses is rising, and a new survey of 2,785 college students indicates that more than half of students with significant symptoms of ... > full story
Meditate To Concentrate (June 26, 2007) -- Researchers say that practicing even small doses of daily meditation may improve focus and performance. Even for those new to the practice, meditation enhanced performance and the ability to focus ... > full story
New Vaccines Help Kick Drug Habits (June 22, 2007) -- A pair of new vaccines designed to combat cocaine and methamphetamine dependencies not only relieve addiction but also minimize withdrawal ... > full story
Putting Feelings Into Words Produces Therapeutic Effects In The Brain (June 22, 2007) -- A new brain imaging study by psychologists reveals why verbalizing our feelings makes our sadness, anger and pain less intense. A second study combines modern neuroscience with ancient Buddhist ... > full story
Nurtured Chimps Rake It In (June 18, 2007) -- Human interaction and stimulation enhance chimpanzees' cognitive abilities, according to new research. The study is the first to demonstrate that raising chimpanzees in a human cultural environment ... > full story
Effect Of Removing TV, Games Consoles And Computers On Young Children (June 20, 2007) -- What happens if you deprive a group of 7 and 8 year olds of computers, television and games consoles for two weeks? Even after just two weeks, families found they began to interact more, even to ... > full story
Pride May Not Come Before A Fall, After All (June 18, 2007) -- The Bible got it wrong. Pride only goes before a fall when it's hubris -- excessive pride that veers into self-aggrandizement and conceit. But otherwise, this emotion is fundamental to humans and ... > full story
Blind People Are 'Serial Memory' Whizzes (June 22, 2007) -- Compared to people with normal vision, those who were blind at birth tend to have excellent memories. Now, a new study shows that blind individuals are particular whizzes when it comes to remembering ... > full story
Discriminating Fact From Fiction In Recovered Memories Of Childhood Sexual Abuse (June 18, 2007) -- How accurate are recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse? Researchers have found that spontaneously recovered memories were corroborated about as often as continuous ... > full story
The results, published in the July issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, showed that, overall, spontaneously recovered memories were corroborated about as often (37% of the time) as continuous memories (45%). Thus, abuse memories that are spontaneously recovered may indeed be just as accurate as memories that have persisted since the time the incident took place. Interestingly, memories that were recovered in therapy could not be corroborated at all.
Daddies' Girls Choose Men Just Like Their Fathers (June 13, 2007) -- Women who enjoy good childhood relationships with their fathers are more likely to select partners who resemble their dads, research suggests. In contrast, the team of psychologists revealed that ... > full story
Fathers Have Great Impact On Their Children's Lives, Even When Not At Home (June 13, 2007) -- Far exceeding the stereotypical fatherly role of the guy who reads the paper, mows the lawn and takes out the trash, the part a father has in his child's life is a powerful one. Researchers said a ... > full story
Paternal Skin-to-Skin Contact Offers Cesarean-Born Baby Same Calming & Development Benefits As Mom (June 12, 2007) -- A father providing skin-to-skin contact with his newborn immediately after a cesarean birth offers the same calming and comforting benefits as a mother, according to a new ... > full story
Poor Sibling Relationships During Childhood Could Predict Major Depression (June 11, 2007) -- Although children spend a large amount of their time with their brothers and sisters, most research on the connection between childhood relationships and later depression focuses on children's ... > full story
Sun Exposure Early In Life Linked To Specific Skin Cancer Gene Mutation (June 11, 2007) -- Early life sun exposure, from birth to 20 years old, may specifically increase the risk of melanomas with BRAF gene ... > full story
'Cultured' Chimpanzees Pass On Novel Traditions (June 8, 2007) -- The local customs that define human cultures in important ways also exist in the ape world, suggests a new study. Indeed, captive chimpanzees, like people, can readily acquire new traditions, and ... > full story
PG-13 Films Not Safe For Kids, Researchers Say (June 8, 2007) -- PG-13 films have lots of "happy violence," say researchers. Borrowing from the late communications theorist George Gerbner, happy violence is that which is "cool, swift and painless." PG-13 films ... > full story
It's Not All The Parent's Fault: Delinquency In Children Now Linked To Biology (June 8, 2007) -- A unique study shows that, in children, a highly reactive autonomic nervous system paired with a stressful family environment leads to increased instances of maladaptive personality ... > full story
High Self-esteem May Be Culturally Universal, International Study Shows (June 8, 2007) -- The notion that East Asians, Japanese in particular, are self-effacing and have low self-esteem compared to Americans, may describe a surface view of personality, but a new study indicates that ... > full story
Did you find any of these studies particularly surprising? Did any stand out to you, specifically?
I found the Love Me, Love My Jokes one very interesting. My husband is always making me laugh. When we are more in "friends" (the norm) mode than "lovers/married partners" mode, I find I crack a lot more jokes, too.
I liked the altruism and culture in Chimps one. :)
The "spontaneously-recovered" memory findings of sexual abuse was very interesting as well...
And of course, one of my favorite topics: meditation. Cool to see the beneficial effects. I only do/did it for about 10 mins/day (not a half hour) and saw significant improvements in my anxiety and concentration.
- Father-Daughter Relationship Crucial To When Girls Enter Puberty, Researchers Say
- Study Finds Changes In Hormone Levels In Men Who Become Fathers
- How Dads Influence Their Daughters' Interest In Math
- Family Favorite? Parents And Siblings See Imbalances In Parents' Attention Differently When parents treat their children differently, siblings and parents often have very different ideas about what's happening and why, says a University of Illinois study. And there can be as many points of view as there are family members.
- Love Me; Love My Jokes--That sought-after trait in a mate -- "good sense of humour" -- is more complex than originally thought. In fact, men and women define it differently.
Antidepressants Linked To Bone Loss, Study Suggests (June 27, 2007) -- Two new studies suggest older men and women taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class of antidepressants that includes Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft, are prone to increased bone loss. The ... > full story
Social Skills Programs For Children With Autism Are Largely Ineffective, Study Suggests (June 26, 2007) -- A meta-analysis of 55 published research studies reveals programs designed to teach social skills to children with autism are failing to meet their goals. The study found that outcomes for social ... > full story
Frog Molecule Could Provide Drug Treatment For Brain Tumors (June 26, 2007) -- A synthetic version of a molecule found in the egg cells of the Northern Leopard frog (Rana pipiens) could provide the world with the first drug treatment for brain tumors. Although it could ... > full story
Human-like Altruism Shown In Chimpanzees (June 25, 2007) -- Experimental evidence reveals that chimpanzees will help other unrelated humans and conspecifics without a reward, showing that they share crucial aspects of altruism with humans. The evolutionary ... > full story
- The Age of Autism: Study sees vaccine risk (Jun. 26) (Kids who were vaccinated were more than twice as likely to develop autism or asthma...)
Teenage Violence Linked To Later Domestic Violence (June 26, 2007) -- Adolescents who engaged in violent behavior at a relatively steady rate through their teenage years and those who violence began in their mid teens and increased over the years are significantly more ... > full story
'Segregated' Schools Hinder Reading Skills (June 21, 2007) -- Children in families with low incomes, who attend schools where the minority population exceeds 75 percent of the student enrollment, under-perform in reading, even after accounting for the quality ... > full story
Students With Symptoms Of Mental Illness Often Don't Seek Help (June 25, 2007) -- Studies show that the incidence of mental illness on college campuses is rising, and a new survey of 2,785 college students indicates that more than half of students with significant symptoms of ... > full story
Meditate To Concentrate (June 26, 2007) -- Researchers say that practicing even small doses of daily meditation may improve focus and performance. Even for those new to the practice, meditation enhanced performance and the ability to focus ... > full story
New Vaccines Help Kick Drug Habits (June 22, 2007) -- A pair of new vaccines designed to combat cocaine and methamphetamine dependencies not only relieve addiction but also minimize withdrawal ... > full story
Putting Feelings Into Words Produces Therapeutic Effects In The Brain (June 22, 2007) -- A new brain imaging study by psychologists reveals why verbalizing our feelings makes our sadness, anger and pain less intense. A second study combines modern neuroscience with ancient Buddhist ... > full story
Nurtured Chimps Rake It In (June 18, 2007) -- Human interaction and stimulation enhance chimpanzees' cognitive abilities, according to new research. The study is the first to demonstrate that raising chimpanzees in a human cultural environment ... > full story
Effect Of Removing TV, Games Consoles And Computers On Young Children (June 20, 2007) -- What happens if you deprive a group of 7 and 8 year olds of computers, television and games consoles for two weeks? Even after just two weeks, families found they began to interact more, even to ... > full story
Pride May Not Come Before A Fall, After All (June 18, 2007) -- The Bible got it wrong. Pride only goes before a fall when it's hubris -- excessive pride that veers into self-aggrandizement and conceit. But otherwise, this emotion is fundamental to humans and ... > full story
Blind People Are 'Serial Memory' Whizzes (June 22, 2007) -- Compared to people with normal vision, those who were blind at birth tend to have excellent memories. Now, a new study shows that blind individuals are particular whizzes when it comes to remembering ... > full story
Discriminating Fact From Fiction In Recovered Memories Of Childhood Sexual Abuse (June 18, 2007) -- How accurate are recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse? Researchers have found that spontaneously recovered memories were corroborated about as often as continuous ... > full story
The results, published in the July issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, showed that, overall, spontaneously recovered memories were corroborated about as often (37% of the time) as continuous memories (45%). Thus, abuse memories that are spontaneously recovered may indeed be just as accurate as memories that have persisted since the time the incident took place. Interestingly, memories that were recovered in therapy could not be corroborated at all.
Daddies' Girls Choose Men Just Like Their Fathers (June 13, 2007) -- Women who enjoy good childhood relationships with their fathers are more likely to select partners who resemble their dads, research suggests. In contrast, the team of psychologists revealed that ... > full story
Fathers Have Great Impact On Their Children's Lives, Even When Not At Home (June 13, 2007) -- Far exceeding the stereotypical fatherly role of the guy who reads the paper, mows the lawn and takes out the trash, the part a father has in his child's life is a powerful one. Researchers said a ... > full story
Paternal Skin-to-Skin Contact Offers Cesarean-Born Baby Same Calming & Development Benefits As Mom (June 12, 2007) -- A father providing skin-to-skin contact with his newborn immediately after a cesarean birth offers the same calming and comforting benefits as a mother, according to a new ... > full story
Poor Sibling Relationships During Childhood Could Predict Major Depression (June 11, 2007) -- Although children spend a large amount of their time with their brothers and sisters, most research on the connection between childhood relationships and later depression focuses on children's ... > full story
Sun Exposure Early In Life Linked To Specific Skin Cancer Gene Mutation (June 11, 2007) -- Early life sun exposure, from birth to 20 years old, may specifically increase the risk of melanomas with BRAF gene ... > full story
'Cultured' Chimpanzees Pass On Novel Traditions (June 8, 2007) -- The local customs that define human cultures in important ways also exist in the ape world, suggests a new study. Indeed, captive chimpanzees, like people, can readily acquire new traditions, and ... > full story
PG-13 Films Not Safe For Kids, Researchers Say (June 8, 2007) -- PG-13 films have lots of "happy violence," say researchers. Borrowing from the late communications theorist George Gerbner, happy violence is that which is "cool, swift and painless." PG-13 films ... > full story
It's Not All The Parent's Fault: Delinquency In Children Now Linked To Biology (June 8, 2007) -- A unique study shows that, in children, a highly reactive autonomic nervous system paired with a stressful family environment leads to increased instances of maladaptive personality ... > full story
High Self-esteem May Be Culturally Universal, International Study Shows (June 8, 2007) -- The notion that East Asians, Japanese in particular, are self-effacing and have low self-esteem compared to Americans, may describe a surface view of personality, but a new study indicates that ... > full story
Did you find any of these studies particularly surprising? Did any stand out to you, specifically?
I found the Love Me, Love My Jokes one very interesting. My husband is always making me laugh. When we are more in "friends" (the norm) mode than "lovers/married partners" mode, I find I crack a lot more jokes, too.
I liked the altruism and culture in Chimps one. :)
The "spontaneously-recovered" memory findings of sexual abuse was very interesting as well...
And of course, one of my favorite topics: meditation. Cool to see the beneficial effects. I only do/did it for about 10 mins/day (not a half hour) and saw significant improvements in my anxiety and concentration.