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- Impact of movies on dog breed popularity
- Mosquito fact and fiction
- Even small stressors may be harmful to men's health, new OSU research shows
- Cyberbullying increases as students age, study finds
- Fish, fatty acid consumption associated with lower risk of hearing loss in women
- Algorithms reveal forecasting power of tweets, predicts individual's behavior
- Female baboons with male companions live longer
- Back pain killing your sex life? Study reveals best positions to save your spine
- Smartphones may aid in dietary self-monitoring
- Mothers' responses to babies' crying: Benefiting from and getting over childhood experiences
- Parents' separation found to boost children's behavior problems, but only in high-income families
- Pain tolerance levels between men, women are similar
- Brain structure could predict risky behavior
- Long-term use of pills for anxiety and sleep problems may be linked to Alzheimer's
- Frequent cannabis use in adolescence linked with reduced educational attainment, other problems in young adults
- Online mindfulness intervention reduces fatigue, negative work-related worry
- E-cigarette nicotine refill cartridges pose danger for toddlers
| Impact of movies on dog breed popularity Posted: 10 Sep 2014 12:25 PM PDT The effect of movies featuring dogs on the popularity of dog breeds can last up to 10 years and is correlated with the general success of the movies, according to new research. |
| Posted: 10 Sep 2014 11:09 AM PDT A mosquito researcher has collected interesting facts and stories about his research subjects, nature's ultimate bioterrorists. |
| Even small stressors may be harmful to men's health, new OSU research shows Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:25 AM PDT Older men who lead high-stress lives are likely to die earlier than the average for their peers, new research shows. The study looked at two types of stress: the everyday hassles of such things as commuting, job stress or arguments with family and friends; and significant life events, such as job loss or the death of a spouse. |
| Cyberbullying increases as students age, study finds Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:25 AM PDT As students' age they are verbally and physically bullied less but cyberbullied more, non-native English speakers are not bullied more often than native English speakers and bullying increases as students' transition from elementary to middle school. Those are among the findings of a wide-ranging paper just released. |
| Fish, fatty acid consumption associated with lower risk of hearing loss in women Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:25 AM PDT Consumption of 2 or more servings of fish per week was associated with a lower risk of hearing loss in women, researchers have found. "Acquired hearing loss is a highly prevalent and often disabling chronic health condition," stated one corresponding author. "Although a decline in hearing is often considered an inevitable aspect of aging, the identification of several potentially modifiable risk factors has provided new insight into possibilities for prevention or delay of acquired hearing loss." |
| Algorithms reveal forecasting power of tweets, predicts individual's behavior Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:24 AM PDT Researchers used 500 million tweets to develop algorithms that not only paint a picture of everyday human dynamics, but can predict an individual's behavior hours in advance. |
| Female baboons with male companions live longer Posted: 10 Sep 2014 06:32 AM PDT Numerous studies have linked social interaction to improved health and survival in humans, and new research confirms that the same is true for baboons. A long-term study of more than 200 wild female baboons finds that the most sociable females live two to three years longer than their socially isolated counterparts. Socializing with males gave females an even bigger longevity boost than socializing with other females, the researchers found. |
| Back pain killing your sex life? Study reveals best positions to save your spine Posted: 10 Sep 2014 06:32 AM PDT Contrary to popular belief, spooning is not always the best sex position for those with a bad back, according to new research. For the first time ever, scientists have successfully documented the way the spine moves during sex and discovered exactly why certain positions are better than others when it comes to avoiding back pain. |
| Smartphones may aid in dietary self-monitoring Posted: 10 Sep 2014 05:38 AM PDT Smartphones have seen wide adoption among Americans in recent years because of their ease of use and adaptability. With that in mind, researchers examined how smartphone use affected weight loss goals and determined that smartphones may offer users an advantage over traditional methods when tracking diet data. |
| Mothers' responses to babies' crying: Benefiting from and getting over childhood experiences Posted: 10 Sep 2014 05:38 AM PDT A study of 259 first-time mothers has found that mothers whose childhood experiences with caregivers were positive, and those who came to terms with negative experiences, respond more sensitively to their own babies' cries. Mothers in the study came from a wide range of racial and socio-economic backgrounds, and were followed from pregnancy until their babies were 6 months old. |
| Parents' separation found to boost children's behavior problems, but only in high-income families Posted: 10 Sep 2014 05:38 AM PDT A study examining a national sample of nearly 4,000 children has found that parents' separation increases children's behavior problems, but only in high income families. The study also found that moving from a single-parent family into a stepparent family improved children's behavior. It goes on to compare the effects of parents' separation, remarriage, or repartnering on children's behavior problems given the child's age. |
| Pain tolerance levels between men, women are similar Posted: 10 Sep 2014 05:33 AM PDT Resilience, a person's ability to overcome adverse circumstances, is the main quality associated with pain tolerance among patients and their adjustment to chronic pain. This is the result of a new study that shows that the effect of gender on this ability is not as significant as originally thought. |
| Brain structure could predict risky behavior Posted: 09 Sep 2014 04:21 PM PDT Some people avoid risks at all costs, while others will put their wealth, health, and safety at risk without a thought. Researchers have found that the volume of the parietal cortex in the brain could predict where people fall on the risk-taking spectrum. |
| Long-term use of pills for anxiety and sleep problems may be linked to Alzheimer's Posted: 09 Sep 2014 04:20 PM PDT Taking benzodiazepines -- widely prescribed drugs to treat anxiety and insomnia -- is associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, particularly for long-term users, suggests a new study. |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2014 04:20 PM PDT Individuals who are daily users of cannabis before age 17 are over 60% less likely to complete high school or obtain a degree compared to those who have never used the drug, new research shows. The large meta-analysis also indicates that daily users of cannabis during adolescence are seven times more likely to attempt suicide, have an 18 times greater chance of cannabis dependence, and are eight times as likely to use other illicit drugs in later life. |
| Online mindfulness intervention reduces fatigue, negative work-related worry Posted: 09 Sep 2014 04:19 PM PDT Brief online mindfulness interventions requiring only two hours of training and practice per week are effective at reducing fatigue and negative work-related rumination and at improving sleep quality, a study concludes. |
| E-cigarette nicotine refill cartridges pose danger for toddlers Posted: 08 Sep 2014 05:47 PM PDT The safety of nicotine refill cartridges used in electronic cigarettes needs to be improved to prevent toddlers accidentally swallowing the contents and potentially coming to serious harm, warn doctors. |
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