Teenagers who experienced childhood adversity (abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, exposure to violence) were more prone to generalizing fear and had a reduced ability to distinguish between threatening and safe cues.
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Weight loss drugs (GLP1-RAs) like semaglutide may also improve emotional wellbeing in overweight users without an increased risk of psychiatric adverse events, finds an analysis of 80 double-blind placebo-controlled randomised control trials representing 107,860 patients.
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The most powerful known outburst from the Sun hit Earth in 12,350 BC during the end of the last Ice Age, according to scientists. It was an event known as a 'solar particle storm', during which charged particles from the Sun fire through space and smash into our planet.
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Scientists discover new antibiotic, saarvienin A, from a strain of bacteria found in a rare earth mine in China. It shows strong activity against drug-resistant bacteria and appears to act through a different, yet to be determined, mechanism which may avoid common bacterial resistance mechanisms.
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Scientists use brain activity to predict StarCraft II skill in l new neuroscience research. The results suggest that efficient attentional processing and underlying neural traits can facilitate skill development in fast-paced gaming environments.
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ADHD could contribute to obesity by reducing physical activity, and this relationship could also be influenced by where you live. Kids with more severe ADHD symptoms were less physically active and more likely to be obese — supporting the idea that impulsivity contributes to obesity.
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Conservatives privately support several firearm policies, but don’t publicly demand them. The findings demonstrate that the majority of Americans support a range of firearm policies. The issue is that more conservative communities tend to support these policies in private.
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World’s first personalized CRISPR therapy given to baby with genetic disease. Little KJ Muldoon, now nearly ten months old, is doing well after receiving three doses of a gene-editing treatment to mend a mutation that had impaired his body’s ability to process protein.
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Women with symptoms of ADHD—especially the inattentive type—may experience less consistent orgasms during partnered sex. The researchers found that women with inattentive ADHD symptoms reported lower orgasmic consistency than those without ADHD symptoms or with other subtypes.
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Feelings of frailty can set in at 40. Loneliness, feeling older than your age and a negative attitude to ageing are all associated with early stages of frailty, even in people as young as 40. Many people assume frailty is something that happens when we get much older.
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Newborns who are deficient in vitamin D have a higher chance of developing autism, schizophrenia and ADHD, finds the largest study of its kind of more 70,000 people in Denmark.
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Newborns who are deficient in vitamin D have a higher chance of developing autism, schizophrenia and ADHD, finds the largest study of its kind of more 70,000 people in Denmark.
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The reasons why romantic couples move in together may matter. Those who do it in order to spend more time together had a better relationship well-being over time. But those who do it to "test" their relationship had worse relationship health over time.
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The reasons why romantic couples move in together may matter. Those who do it in order to spend more time together had a better relationship well-being over time. But those who do it to "test" their relationship had worse relationship health over time.
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In a new study, US doctors frequently experienced incomplete team staffing, which was associated with significantly greater odds of burnout. Nearly half (47.9%) worked with an incompletely staffed team more than 25% of the time. Among respondents, 47.9% met criteria for burnout.
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Learning biographical details—such as someone’s job, mental health history, or political views—can significantly change how their face is rated in terms of attractiveness. Faces described as having a psychiatric history or a lower-status job tended to be rated as less attractive.
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Men are more likely to die of 'broken heart syndrome,' study says. The condition is usually brought on by the stress of an event like losing a loved one. The syndrome is formally called takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Men die from it at more than twice the rate.
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Men are more likely to die of 'broken heart syndrome,' study says. The condition is usually brought on by the stress of an event like losing a loved one. The syndrome is formally called takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Men die from it at more than twice the rate.
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Conservatives are more likely to prefer dominant-looking leaders. In contrast, people with more liberal views—especially those who value equality and oppose rigid hierarchies—may prefer leaders who signal cooperation rather than dominance.
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Narcissism may be fueling political polarization, according to new psychology research. People with narcissistic personality traits—especially those who feel entitled and antagonistic—are more likely to display extreme loyalty to their political in-group and hostility toward their opponents.
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When doctors dismiss symptoms, patients suffer lasting harm. Psychological damage and health care avoidance may occur when doctors dismiss, minimize or ignore patients' symptoms, a phenomenon medical scientists call "symptom invalidation” and patients often call “medical gaslighting.”
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When doctors dismiss symptoms, patients suffer lasting harm. Psychological damage and health care avoidance may occur when doctors dismiss, minimize or ignore patients' symptoms, a phenomenon medical scientists call "symptom invalidation” and patients often call “medical gaslighting.”
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Most leading chatbots routinely exaggerate science findings
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Most leading AI chatbots exaggerate science findings. Up to 73% of large language models (LLMs) produce inaccurate conclusions. Study tested 10 of the most prominent LLMs, including ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude, and LLaMA. Newer AI models, like ChatGPT-4o and DeepSeek, performed worse than older ones.
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Moral insights from Reddit’s “r/AITA?”: Relational obligations were the most common dilemma - eg. spouses worried about being disloyal. Over 80% of posts involved an identifiable relationship. Violations of trust, such as lying and cheating, were evaluated more negatively than acts of harm.
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