Category: Studies
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Tourette’s Therapy
Read more: Tourette’s TherapyFrom the Los Angeles Times: Behavioral therapy effective in treating Tourette syndrome: The therapy, called comprehensive behavioral intervention for tics, has several elements. The key component, habit reversal training, helps patients become more aware of the urge to tic, then teaches them to engage in a voluntary behavior — rhythmic breathing, perhaps — that competes…
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The Exercise Gene
Read more: The Exercise GeneA European twin study finds the desire to exercise runs in the family–deep: Using complicated statistical formulas, the scientists concluded that differences in exercise behavior were about 60 percent attributable to genes. In other words, your parents influence your decision about whether to be active, not just by signing you up for soccer camp when you’re…
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Imagining Food
Read more: Imagining FoodFrom PsychCentral: Food Cravings, Explained: Results of one study showed that the strength of participants’ cravings was linked to how vividly they imagined the food. […] Studies have shown that when subjects are imagining something, they have a hard time completing various cognitive tasks. In one experiment, volunteers who were craving chocolate recalled fewer words…
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Enemies Good for Kids?
Read more: Enemies Good for Kids?Enemies can be good for a child’s growth, say researchers. Almost everyone picks up a tormentor or two while growing up, and until lately psychological researchers have ignored such relationships — assuming them to be little more than the opposite of friendship. Yet new research suggests that as threatening as they may feel, antagonistic relationships…
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Testosterone and Sleep
Read more: Testosterone and SleepFrom ScienceDaily: Could Dwindling Testosterone Levels Decrease Sleep? In young men, deep sleep represents 10 to 20 percent of total sleep. By age 50, it decreases to five to seven percent. For men over 60, it can disappear altogether. Sound familiar…?