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Does it matter that young children are spending increasingly more time in day care, as more women than ever before are choosing to return to work soon after giving birth? Yes, according to Jay Belsky in his round-up of the main findings from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care in America – “a unique and massive collaborative enterprise”, in which over 1200 children from 10 communities were followed from [ Read More ]
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No wonder they’re man’s best friend. Deborah Wells of the Canine Behaviour Centre at Queen’s University Belfast has surveyed the literature and found widespread evidence for the benefits that dogs can bring to our physical and psychological well-being. While acknowledging the methodological weaknesses of research in the area, Wells writes that “…the domestic dog may be able to prevent us becoming ill, facilitate our recovery from ill-health and predict certain [ Read More ]
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People with Tourette’s syndrome can’t stop themselves from making sudden repeated movements or noises, so you might infer that they have an impairment in their mental control processes. On the contrary, according to a new study they actually have greater cognitive control than healthy people, suggesting the cause of their symptoms lies deeper, in their subcortical inhibitory mechanisms. To test cognitive control, Sven Mueller and colleagues at the University of [ Read More ]
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Not thinking about a problem for a while doesn’t just give you a fresh perspective when you come back to it. It also allows your more creative unconscious to get to work as it “…ventures out to the dark and dusty nooks and crannies of the mind”. That’s according to Ap Dijksterhuis and Teun Meurs at the University of Amsterdam, who were keen to show that the benefits of taking [ Read More ]
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Don’t mention this at the World Cup, but interviews conducted in the year 2000 revealed 17.3 per cent of German people who lived through the Second World War were still experiencing war-related dreams 55 years after it ended. Michael Schredl and Edgar Piel interviewed representative samples of thousands of people in 1956, 1970, 1981 and 2000 about the content of their dreams. Participants had to indicate whether their dreams featured [ Read More ]
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Things seem so much more predictable once they’ve happened – a flaw in our thinking that’s been dubbed the ‘hindsight bias’. It’s a particular problem in legal cases where jurors are asked to judge the extent to which a defendant should have known what was likely to happen when they took a certain decision (for example, when they decided to overtake on a bend). Now for the first time, Neal [ Read More ]
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Studies that didn’t make the final cut this fortnight: How children develop an understanding of the dangers of crossing roads. Treating a woman with Down’s Syndrome whose fear of her feet being touched was impeding vital physiotherapy. Is chronic fatigue syndrome associated with perfectionism? What is an anger attack?
Posted by dyab on مارس - 26 - 2006 with
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صـــــور لـــمـــا بـــعـــد الــنــهــاروظـــــــلال امــــــــراة غــريـــبـــةوطــــــنـــــــي حـــقـــيــــبــــةولــــــكــــــن .. لارصــــــيــــــفولاجـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــدارولاارض تـحـتـي كـــي امـــوت كـمــا اشـــاءولا ســــــــــــــمــــــــــــــاءحـــــــــــــــولـــــــــــــــيلأثقـبـهـا وادخـــل فــــي خــيــام الانـبـيــاءظــــهــــري الــــــــى الــحـــائـــطالــــحــــائـــــط/ الــــســــاقـــــطوطـنــي حقـيـبـة وحقيـبـتـي وطـــن الـغـجــرشـكــرا لــكــل سـحـابــة غــطــت يــــديوبــــلــــلـــــت شــــفـــــتـــــيحـتــى اعـطــت الااعـــداء بـابــا .. او قـنـاعـاشـكــرا لـكــل مــســدس غــطــى رحـيـلــيبــــــــــــالارز وبــــالــــزهــــوروكــــــــــــــان يــــبـــــكـــــياو يــــــــــــــزغــــــــــــــردمـــــااســـــتــــــطــــــاعــــــايـادمـعــة هــــي مـاتـبـقـى مــــن بــــلاداســنــد الــذكـــرى عـلـيـهــا والـشـعـاعــايــــااهــــل لــبـــنـــان الــــوداعــــااليوم اكملة الرسالـة فانشرونـي ان اردتـم فـي القبائـل توبـةاو ذكــــــــــــــريــــــــــــــاتاو شــــــــــــــراعــــــــــــــاالــيـــوم اكـمــلــت الـرســالــة فــيــكــمفتطـفـئـوا لـهـبـي اذا شـئـتــم عــــن [ Read More ]
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عـــجــــل لاعــــــــرف جــــيــــدا:عـــــن كـــنـــت حـــيـــا ام قــتــيــلابــــــيــــــروت/ ظــــــهـــــــرا:يـسـتـمــر الـفــجــر مـــنـــذ الــفــجــرتنـكـسـر الـسـمـاء عـلــى رغــيــف الـخـبــزينكسر الهواء على رؤوس الناس مـن عـبء الدخـان ولاجديـدلـــــــــــــدى الــــعــــروبـــــة:بعد شهر يلتقي كل الملـوك بكـل انـواع الملـوك مـن العقيـدالـى الشهيـد ليبحثـوا خطـر اليهـود علـى وجـود الله امــاالان فالاحوال هادئة تمام مثلما كانـت وان المـوت يأتينـا بكـلسلاحه الجوي والبري والبري والبحري .. مليون انفجار في المدينةهــيــروشــيــمـــا هــيــروشــيـــمـــاوحـدنـا نصـغـي الــى رعــد الحـجـارة هيروشيـمـاوحدنا نصغـي لمـا فـي الـروح مـن [ Read More ]
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“Dear Boss – Really? You’d like me to attend the Hawaii meeting?! Hang on, I might have something on, let me just check my diary…” you email sarcastically – obviously you’d drop anything to be there. But then the reply comes back “Don’t worry, if you’re likely to be busy, I’ve asked Sarah instead”. Disaster! Another message misinterpreted because of the ambiguity of email communication, stripped as it is of [ Read More ]