A large body of research has focused on the ability of oxytocin to facilitate social bonding in both marital and parenting relationships in human females.
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The researchers found that after oxytocin administration, fathers’ salivary oxytocin rose dramatically, more than 10 fold, but moreover, similar increases were found in the infants’ oxytocin. In the oxytocin conditions, key parenting behavior, including father touch and social reciprocity, increased but infant social behavior, including social gaze and exploratory behavior, increased as well.
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Why do top athletes suddenly develop “the yips,” a tendency to choke under pressure? Via Luis Valdes 
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May 20, 1:07 PM
Want to scare golfers. Two words, YIPS and Shanks. The thing is both issues can be helped. Takes some mental training though and that seems to be the issue. Why mentally train for a mechanical issue. Seems that has been the message for generations of golfers. Hit more puts, spend more time on the driving range. It's mechanical. Better technique, better results. Just ask Charles Barkley. Er maybe that's a bad idea. 
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Athletes need to spend time on their mental toughness as well as muscle memory. Visualization of the critical moments in a game and seeing the ball go where it's intended. a sport psychologist can help.
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A long-term study provides evidence that the genetic risk for schizophrenia is associated with lower IQ among people who do not develop this. The findings show that those with a higher genetic risk for schizophrenia had a lower IQ at age 70 but not at age 11.
Read more at: http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/05/18/schizophrenia-risk-linked-to-declining-iq/54979.html
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Counseling psychology is the application of psychology to the solving of the problems of everyday stresses, including career planning, learning difficulties, marriage guidance and family difficulties. A PhD in counseling psychology online gives you good career options. This page will help you if you want to take a counseling doctorate.
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New edition of psychiatry's dictionary of disorders sparks transatlantic row about alleged role of big pharma in diagnoses. Critics claim that the American Psychiatric Association's increasingly voluminous manual will see millions of people unnecessarily categorised as having psychiatric disorders. For example, shyness in children, temper tantrums and depression following the death of a loved one could become medical problems, treatable with drugs. So could internet addiction. Read more at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/12/medicine-dsm5-row-does-mental-illness-exist
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Substance abuse counselors (also called behavioral disorder counselors) help people who have problems with gambling, alcohol, drugs, substance abuse and eating disorders. They help individuals to identify behaviors and problems related to their addiction. Find out what it means to be a substance abuse (or behavioral disorder) counselor and locate suitable substance abuse online programs.
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"Minding Psychology: A Weekly Update", by Natalie Stewart: a free, online newspaper with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos for psychology professionals and students.
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Find out more about taking a developmental psychology masters degree, what's in the program, where to locate suitable programs, career prospects, and more ... Delete the scoop?
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A study published in February 2012 found that a region of the brain important for sensing texture through touch, the parietal operculum, is also activated when someone listens to a sentence with a textural metaphor. The same region is not activated when a similar sentence expressing the meaning of the metaphor is heard. As Annie Murphy Paul explained her fantastic March 2012 essayYour Brain on Fiction, “while metaphors like ‘The singer had a velvet voice’ and ‘He had leathery hands’ roused the sensory cortex, phrases matched for meaning, like ‘The singer had a pleasing voice’ and ‘He had strong hands’ did not.” Read more at: http://aerogrammestudio.com/2013/04/24/how-does-the-act-of-writing-affect-your-brain/ Via Douglas Eby Delete the scoop?
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The study of developmental psychology degree can be taken from a broad range of topics relating to the changes that occur throughout human life, i.e., in infants, children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Find out about PhD developmental psychology programs, what's in them, where to take them, what the prospects are after completion, and more ...
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The capacity to notice the distress of others, and to be moved by it, can be a critical component of what is called prosocial behavior, actions that benefit others: individuals, groups or society as a whole. Psychologists, neurobiologists and even economists are increasingly interested in the overarching question of how and why we become our better selves. Read more at: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/understanding-how-children-develop-empathy/Via Jim Manske, Marilyn Turkovich, Sarantis Chelmis, Informatics 
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I feel encouraged and grateful that articles addressing emapthy seem to be offered in the mainstream press with more frequency.
I appreciate the support for the idea that we are all born with the capacity for empathy and that we can support one another (especially our children) in awakening this capability.
I wonder how we can help folks to become liberated from the unconscious domination paradigm that seems to leak out of many of these discussions, for example "...Look, you hurt Johnny's feelings".
What I prefer is, "Look, Johnny feels hurt...I wonder if he wants to have more fun..."
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Psychology and Human Development us a fascinating and broad area of study. It is possible to specialize in development psychology as it relates to infantd and children, or to adolescents, or adults, or the elderly. Also, there are other specializations dependent on the approach taken such as cognitive development psychology or social development psychology. Find out more about psychology and human development, what's involved in studying it online, locate suitable degree programs, and more ...
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Today, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing: for us to stop thinking about "mental disorders" and start understanding them as "brain disorders." (Filmed at TEDxCaltech.) See video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeZ-U0pj9LI Delete the scoop?
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Leave it to Dove to crank out a powerful ad about beauty that you'll still be thinking about days from now. Dove posted on May 14 a three-minute ad on YouTube that teaches a vital lesson about how we view ourselves compared to how others see us. Trust us, it's worth your time.
Read more at: http://mashable.com/2013/04/15/dove-ad-beauty-sketches/
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There’s a reason why being kind to others is good for you — and it can now be traced to a specific nerve.
When it comes to staying healthy, both physically and mentally, studies consistently show that strong relationships are at least as important as avoiding smoking and obesity. But how does social support translate into physical benefits such as lower blood pressure, healthier weights and other physiological measures of sound health? A new study published in Psychological Science suggests that the link may follow the twisting path of the vagus nerve, which connects social contact to the positive emotions that can flow from interactions.
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May 20, 11:33 AM
I find is fascinating that these studies keep proving what we've always known to be true. I know I feel better when there' s more kindness in my life. 
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A new study published in Psychological Science suggests that the link may follow the twisting path of the vagus nerve, which connects social contact to the positive emotions that can flow from interactions. 
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Meditation that promotes social connection increases vagal tone with positive emotional and health benefits.
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TalkSession aims to provide intuitive, low-cost mental health treatment. The best part? You won't even have to leave your laptop. One in five Americans will suffer from a mental health challenge or neurological disorder at some point in their lives. But two-thirds of those people will never seek treatment, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. TalkSession aims to lower those barriers to entry by presenting intuitive, low-cost treatment tools within reach. Simply put, the startup's goal is to make accessing mental health information and treatment as streamlined and simple as possible.
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Chris J. Rudge, from Sydney, writes about literature, drugs, science-fiction, computers, language and philosophy. ...
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"What will become of our autistic children, who will surely age but never grow up? Delete the scoop?
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What motivates Nate Robinson? (Sports Psychology: Bulls’ Nate Robinson: Jeff Zillgitt's USA Today's newspaper story on Chicago Bull's player ... Via Luis Valdes Delete the scoop?
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Stephen is a Senior Directing major at Carnegie Mellon. He is also the current President of Carnegie Mellon's Film Club. He recently completed his Thesis Project within the School of Drama: a production of Mac Wellman's "A Murder of Crows." He is currently working on creating a collective of Film Enthusiasts across Carnegie's Campus as well as other colleges and universities around Pittsburgh. You can find out more about Stephen and his talk on his website: www.stephentonti.com or follow his blog "Caffeine, Nicotine, and ADHD: a guide to maintaining sanity." See video at: http://youtu.be/uU6o2_UFSEY Via Lon Woodbury Delete the scoop?
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New techniques are letting researchers look at the activity of the whole brain at once. Most brain areas multitask, and the brain is dynamic. It can respond differently to the same events in different times and circumstances. Via Sandeep Gautam 
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A lot of treatment for mental health concerns is focused on the disorder. Medications for the symptoms, cognitive-behavioraltherapy for the irrational thoughts. Professionals always asking “How’re you doing?” “How’s the week been?” “How’s your depressive mood this week?” They look at your eye contact, monitor your lithium levels. Read more at: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/04/28/where-is-the-self-in-treatment-of-mental-disorders/ 
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I've always been concerned that mental health professionals tend to treat the diagnosis instead of the person - which is along the same lines of this article. -Lon 
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There are some interesting & thoughtful views expressed here about the way in which, following a mental health diagnosis such as Bipolar, a loss of self identity can be a very real component of some people’s mental illness and subsequent treatment. The writer proposes that this aspect of the individual's experience should be addressed as a regular component of mental health treatment, especially when the loss is acutely felt. Delete the scoop?
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Megan Daalder‘s Project Eureka is a shape-shifting and multidimensional narrative about life, science, and technology after the end of the world. At her work-in-progress exhibition at the UCLA Art|Science gallery, which opened this week, she invites us to visit Eureka’s future, set in the year 2050. In this future “the ‘Naturals’ have won,” and society aggressively defends an idea of Nature and Natural Selection that is full of conflict, with room only for the naturally genetically fit. In this world, Daalder’s Eureka is an outcast on the run from a society that resists all technological interventions in Nature’s plan. She is the world’s first and last designer baby, engineered to be “futureproof” in a world wracked by climate change.
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Doctor's told Gina Incandela's parents that she had autism so severe she might never speak...but God performed a miracle! Watch her bravely sing the National Anthem before an NBA game in front of thousands of spectators.
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The ability to short-circuit debilitating tremors in disease states with implantable stimulators is nothing short of remarkable. The same can be said for cochlear prosthetics which restore hearing, and more recently, retinal implants which give some rudimentary light-sensing capability to the blind. The logical extension of these sensorimotor restorative devices converges upon something a bit more extravagant—a purely cognitive implant—namely, the memory prosthetic. Delete the scoop?
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Mental exercises may prevent mental decline in seniors (CBC News): “A review released by the Canadian Medical Association Journal on the prevention of cognitive decline said that medicinal and non-medicinal products, and physical exercise did nothing to prevent the decline in healthy seniors, but mental exercises have been shown to be beneficial…The report was written to help aging Canadians make more informed decisions when faced with deteriorating mental faculties and the preventative therapies available to them…In some cases there was evidence of harm with certain pharmacological therapies such as estrogen and anti-inflammatory drugs.”
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Could this have implications for autism spectrum disorders?
Perhaps one of the most important discoveries from brain science. More engaged fathers have a dramatic effect on healthy child development.