Child prodigies may share certain genetic traits with people who have autism, new research suggests. They also looked at 39 other people who were all members of the children's families, including 10 family members who had autism, and four prodigies who also had autism...
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Young people think friends are more at risk of cyberbullying
Young people are aware of the risks of cyberbullying but perceive others as being more at risk than themselves. Young women are more vulnerable to this perception than young men...
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The Mindful Geek: A Radically New Way to Quit Smoking
Smoking kills. We all know it. The last 50 years have seen an explosion of anti-smoking campaigns as public health officials realize that smoking is a chief cause of cancer, cardiovascular illness and a host of other diseases...
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Reiki and psychotherapy
“Susan” walked into my office, shoulders slumped, clothes disheveled and hair unkempt. Eyes sunken, even the most mundane decision regarding where to sit challenged her on this day...
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Social factors may not be necessary to produce or explain conformity
Behavioral conformity has been studied extensively and is commonly explained in terms of social pressure or impact...
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Researchers trigger out-of-body illusion to unravel human perceptions of self-location
By inducing an out-of-body illusion in healthy adults, researchers have identified brain activity responsible for encoding our perceptions of body location...
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Higher levels of inattention at age seven linked with lower GCSE grades
New research has shown that children who display increasing levels of inattention at the age of seven are at risk of worse academic outcomes in their GCSE examinations...
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An apple a day brings more apples your way
We have all been told not to grocery shop on an empty stomach, but what other tips can help us shop, and consequently eat, healthier?...
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How to short circuit hunger
Anyone who has ever tried to lose weight knows that it's no fun to feel hungry. In fact, the drive to tame gnawing hunger pangs can sabotage even the best-intentioned dieter...
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How to stop songs from getting stuck in our heads? Chew some gum!
25An effective solution to get rid of earworms, those annoying tunes that keep on re-playing in never ending loops in our heads, has been found by a team of scientists at the University of Reading, UK...
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