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• A wife's happiness is more crucial than her husband's in keeping marriage on track
• Favoritism linked to drug use in 'disengaged' families
• Gray matter matters when measuring risk tolerance: May explain why risk tolerance decreases with age
• Potential link between assisted reproduction, autism: No link found
• Meditation may mitigate migraine misery
• High protein diets lead to lower blood pressure, study finds
• Babies born in winter start crawling earlier than those born in summer
• Role of emergency contact is mistaken for advance directive
• Students take note: Evidence that leaving essays to the last minute ruins your grades

A wife's happiness is more crucial than her husband's in keeping marriage on track Posted: 12 Sep 2014 10:48 AM PDT When it comes to a happy marriage, a new study finds that the more content the wife is with the long-term union, the happier the husband is with his life no matter how he feels about the nuptials.

Favoritism linked to drug use in 'disengaged' families Posted: 12 Sep 2014 08:25 AM PDT In families, the perception that parents have a favorite is linked with the less-favored children being twice as likely to use alcohol, cigarettes or drugs. For parents worrying about keeping score and managing perceptions of fairness, one expert has some very simple advice. "Show your love to your kids at a greater extent than you currently are. As simple as it sounds, more warmth and less conflict is probably the best answer."

Gray matter matters when measuring risk tolerance: May explain why risk tolerance decreases with age Posted: 12 Sep 2014 08:24 AM PDT The gray matter volume of a region in the right posterior parietal cortex is significantly predictive of individual risk attitudes, new research has found. Using a whole-brain analysis, scientists found that the grey matter volume of a region in the right posterior parietal cortex was significantly predictive of individual risk attitudes. Men and women with higher grey matter volume in this region exhibited less risk aversion.

Potential link between assisted reproduction, autism: No link found Posted: 12 Sep 2014 08:22 AM PDT Over the past five years, several studies have focused on infertility treatment, partly because of the coincidental rise in both the diagnosis of autism and the use of assisted reproduction. A recent study examined a potential link, and concluded that there is none.

Meditation may mitigate migraine misery Posted: 11 Sep 2014 01:31 PM PDT Meditation might be a path to migraine relief, according to a new study. "For the approximate 36 million Americans who suffer from migraines, there is big need for non-pharmaceutical treatment strategies, and doctors and patients should know that meditation is a safe intervention that could potentially decrease the impact of migraines," one author said.

High protein diets lead to lower blood pressure, study finds Posted: 11 Sep 2014 09:59 AM PDT Adults who consume a high-protein diet may be at a lower risk for developing high blood pressure, concludes a study that found participants consuming the highest amount of protein -- an average of 100 g protein/day -- had a 40 percent lower risk of having high blood pressure compared to the lowest intake level.

Babies born in winter start crawling earlier than those born in summer Posted: 11 Sep 2014 06:23 AM PDT The season of a baby's birth influences its motor development during its first year of life, researchers report. "The difference in crawling onset of four weeks constitutes 14 percent of a seven-month-old's life and is significant," the researchers note.

Role of emergency contact is mistaken for advance directive Posted: 10 Sep 2014 03:59 PM PDT More than 95 percent of patients treated in an Emergency Department mistake their emergency contact as the designated medical decision maker for end-of-life care, according to a new study. As a result, practitioners are reinforcing the emergency contact as "having more importance" than the medical decision maker in an advance directive.

Students take note: Evidence that leaving essays to the last minute ruins your grades Posted: 09 Sep 2014 11:45 AM PDT Students that hand in assignments at the last minute face a five per cent drop in marks, a study has shown. The academics who authored this study believe spotting 'procrastinators' who hand in work at the last minute early on and warning them of the dangers of the habit could help students achieve higher grades.

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