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High stress-levels among college students are an issue of concern since they may predict academic functioning and performance. High drop-out rates, especially at the early stage, call for the need for intervention. In a recent study, David B. Feldman et al. (2012) address the topic from a salutogenic perspective. It is the difference in Sense of coherence, Self-efficacy and Hope that predict students’ perceptions of academic stress and their reactions to it, the researchers argue. Based on these constructs the authors derived a successful 90-min. intervention program called ‘Hope Workshop’ to help students set - and achieve – academic goals. The authors report details in the new publication “Exploring Mental Health – Theoretical and Empirical Discourses”. [more...]
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Even bacteria have a kind of “immune system” they use to defend themselves against unwanted intruders – in their case, viruses. Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany, were now able to show that this defense system is much more diverse than previously thought and that it comes in multiple versions. Their goal is to use the various newly discovered versions of the CRISPR-Cas gene for the targeted manipulation of genetic information, particularly for medical purposes. [more...]
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Research from the University of Adelaide suggests that mothers who eat junk food while pregnant have already programmed their babies to be addicted to a high fat, high sugar diet by the time they are weaned. [more...]
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Hard of hearing people who have a high sense of coherence (sensu, Salutogenesis, Antonovsky) show significant less emotional stress experiences, and they also show more proactive, assimilative coping behaviors and at the same time less defensive, accomodative coping behaviors, Professor Dr. Manfred Hintermair and Katrin Wälder (Heidelberg/Germany) in a new research found. [more...]
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Belief in God may significantly improve the outcome of those receiving short-term treatment for psychiatric illness, according to a recent study conducted by McLean Hospital investigators. [more...]
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A study published in Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, reports that donor mortality is about 1 in 500 donors with living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Research of transplant centers around the world found that those with more experience conducting live donor procedures had lower rates of aborted surgery and life-threatening "near-miss" events. [more...]
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Addiction is the continued or compulsive use of a substance, despite negative and/or harmful consequences. Over the years, addiction has come to be re-defined to include behaviors, as well as substances, and the term is now used to describe significant problems with alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling, internet use, and sex. The 'major' addictions, like alcoholism and drug abuse, stimulate significant amounts of research and are now largely well characterized, but others, like pathological gambling and internet addiction, are much less understood. [more...]
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A target article recently published in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (JARMAC) reviews various high-profile false convictions. It provides an overview of classic psychological research on expectancy and observer effects and indicates in which ways forensic science examiners may be influenced by information such as confessions, eyewitness identification, and graphical evidence. [more...]
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"Managing healthy transcultural organisations is based on the strength and the sense of coherence (SOC) of individuals, to comprehend, manage and create meaning in challenging work situations. To cope with these challenges, managers need to activate their individual resources and increase their transcultural and conflict management competences," Dres. Claude-Helene Mayer and Christian Boness emphasize. [more...]
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An excess of the brain neurotransmitter glutamate may cause a transition to psychosis in people who are at risk for schizophrenia, reports a study from investigators at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) published in the current issue of Neuron. [more...]
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