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            <title>Help for depressed cancer patients</title>
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                Evening News - Scotland July 04, 2008 RESEARCHERS have developed a treatment to help cancer patients who suffer from depression.
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            <title>Freed U.S. hostages resilient, reunited with families</title>
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                Associated Press July 04, 2008 FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas - Back on U.S. soil, three American hostages rescued from Colombia rebels are now in the process of reintegrating into a society they've been absent from for more than five years.
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                Nature, the outdoors, animals and fresh air: they're good for you. Don't take my word for it. Science says so. Hospital patients, for example, recover faster when their window looks out on a natural scene rather than a brick wall. Pet owners have lower blood pressure.The trouble is we're showing a worrying trend towards not only harming our natural world, but also experiencing what's left of it through the prism of manufactured technologies: Telegardens (planting seeds in a remote garden using a robotic interface), virtual walks and robot-pets are the future. Does this matter? As a first step towards finding out, Peter Kahn Jr. and colleagues compared the restorative effects of a real window to the benefits of a giant plasma screen linked to a live, high-definition camera recording of the exact same view visible through the window.Ninety students undertook a series of tasks including coming up with uses for a tin can and clever labels for ambiguous drawings. Heart rate was used to measure stress recovery during the rest periods between tasks, when a researcher gave instructions for the upcoming challenge.Some of the students completed the tasks at a desk opposite a window with views toward a pleasant natural scene beyond; others sat opposite a similarly-sized "plasma window" showing the identical scene, with the real window concealed behind; the remainder sat in the same position but with drapes entirely obscuring the real window.In terms of heart rate recovery, students who were sat opposite the plasma window showed no benefit at all relative to the students who performed with drapes covering the window. By contrast, the heart rate of the students sat opposite the real window recovered more quickly, consistent with past research showing the calming benefits of a natural scene.It's unlikely the results are simply an effect of daylight in the room. Recovery among the students sat opposite the real window was no faster on brighter versus duller days. However, time spent looking out of the real window was correlated with speedier stress recovery.So why didn't nature as displayed on the plasma window have any benefit? There are potential technical reasons to do with the limitations of the digital display, including issues of parallax, pixilation and 2-D depth perception. However the researchers think the reason is more likely to do with the participants knowing that the plasma view simply wasn't as "real"."Our results, even at this early stage, provide some cautionary thoughts," the researchers said._________________________________KAHNJR, P., FRIEDMAN, B., GILL, B., HAGMAN, J., SEVERSON, R., FREIER, N., FELDMAN, E., CARRERE, S., STOLYAR, A. (2008). A plasma display window?â€”The shifting baseline problem in a technologically mediated natural world. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28(2), 192-199. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2007.10.008
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            <title>Many graduates feel unprepared for work force</title>
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                The Hartford Courant, Connecticut July 03, 2008 Jul. 3--Stacy Lieberman hears the same thing from recent college grads all the time.
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            <title>New link between serotonin and sudden infant death syndrome</title>
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                Associated Press July 03, 2008 WASHINGTON - Scientists have new evidence that the brain chemical best known for regulating mood also plays a role in the mystifying killer of seemingly healthy babies, sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.
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                Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News July 03, 2008 Jul. 3--If pets can be frightened by thunderstorms and other loud noises, the sustained pandemonium of a fireworks show can not only terrify a dog or cat but alarm it into doing something it wouldn't normally do.
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                Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:We should recognise just how different human minds are from non-human minds, rather than emphasising the continuity between them, as Darwin mistakenly did.Relating to celebrities could be beneficial to some people with low self-esteem.Mondays aren't as bad as you think.Being happy could harm children's studies.
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                The Baltimore Sun, Maryland July 02, 2008 Jul. 2--Anne Arundel County yesterday became the first local jurisdiction in Maryland to offer free mental health and substance abuse programs to veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:15:00 -0000</pubDate>
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                To some people, cars are just a way of getting from A to B. To others they can become fully personalised shrines of the road.Red racing seats, shiny steel hub-caps, stickers, lots of them, celebrating surfing clubs, football teams or sharing a rude joke. According to William Szlemko and colleagues this kind of vehicular adornment is a sign of territoriality - these drivers are sending out a powerful signal that this hunk of metal is theirs.And yet roads are public, not private, places. Szlemko's team wondered if the combination of a highly territorial driver (as betrayed by their penchant for car stickers) on a public road could be a recipe for what they call "boundary confusion" - muddle over what's private and what's public, thus leading to a greater likelihood of road rage. Across a series of three studies, hundreds of undergraduates with their own cars reported on how many bumper and window stickers they had, plus other forms of personalisation, and also reported their tendency towards aggressive behaviour on the road.Drivers with more stickers and other forms of personalisation tended to be more attached to their cars, confirming the researchers' suspicion that vehicular adornment is a sign of territoriality. Crucially, drivers with more personalised cars also admitted to driving more aggressively, including tailgating and ramming. Sticker lovers also admitted that they were less likely to respond constructively to frustration on the road, for example by trying to drive more safely. Perhaps surprisingly, the content of stickers made no difference to these associations."The findings suggest that road rage and aggressive driving may be a result, in part, of misapplication of social norms for territorial defence when there is boundary confusion between the public territory of a road and the primary territory of a personal vehicle," the researchers concluded.Of course, as acknowledged by the researchers, these findings were correlational (so it's possible some other factor such as "hostility" predicts both love for stickers and aggressive driving). Also, personalisation of cars only explained a small portion of the difference in aggression between drivers._________________________________Szlemko, W.J., Benfield, J.A., Bell, P.A., Deffenbacher, J.L., Troup, L. (2008). Territorial Markings as a Predictor of Driver Aggression and Road Rage. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38(6), 1664-1688. DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00364.xLink to related Digest item.
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            <title>U.S. judge blocks autism funding plan</title>
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            <title>Could sex save your life?</title>
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                The Independent - London July 01, 2008 Making love doesn't just help you feel good. It also burns calories, boosts your immune system - and can even reduce the risk of cancer. By Dan Roberts
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:09:00 -0000</pubDate>
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                The New York Review of Books has published a fascinating review of two books that deal with the history and philosophy of laughter: Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes by Jim Holt and Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture by John Clarke. Both books were positively received.The overriding mystery, the review tells us, is that humans in all societies laugh (making a very similar noise in the process) but that what we all laugh at varies hugely between cultures and across history, thus making it extremely difficult to say what the function of laughter is.Several theories have apparently been espoused, but none of them are entirely successful in explaining all that we find funny and when. There's the notion of laughter as an expression of superiority, in which the laugh is a form of mocking sneer. It's easy to see how racist and sexist jokes fall into this category. Incongruity theory claims we laugh at odd combinations, or the unexpected. There's Freud's relief theory - which, you guessed it. And finally there's the idea of laughter as a social survival mechanism for escaping awkward situations.Of course, psychologists too have covered this territory - the work of Richard Wiseman and his search for the world's most popular joke comes to mind.My favourite part of the review comes when Mary Beard, the reviewer, provides a (most probably) unique example of an instance from Roman Times "when we can follow in detail the story of a laugh, and share something of its physical experience.""The laugher in question," Beard explains, "is Dio Cassius, historian and Roman senator. During the reign of the emperor Commodus (180–192 AD), the terrible son of Marcus Aurelius, Dio attended the games in the Colosseum, where (not wholly unlike the scenes recreated in the movie Gladiator) the emperor himself was performing. He had scored a number of victories against animals (comparatively safely, since the particularly fierce ones were presented to him in nets), and had just succeeded in decapitating an ostrich. Dio himself was sitting with the other senators in the front row and gives an eyewitness account of what happened next:'He came up to where we were sitting, carrying the head in his left hand and in his right hand holding up his bloody sword. He spoke not a word, yet he wagged his head with a grin, indicating that he would treat us in the same way. And many would indeed have perished by the sword on the spot, for laughing at him (for it was laughter rather than indignation that overcame us), if I had not chewed some laurel leaves, which I got from my garland, myself, and persuaded the others who were sitting near me to do the same, so that in the steady movement of our jaws we might conceal the fact that we were laughing.'"The story captures an intriguing aspect of humour, which is that laughter can feel all the more irresistible when you know you shouldn't be doing it. And from that situation, whether in the headmaster's study or the chief executive's office, cheeky pupils or errant employees can find themselves descending from laughter into a disabling state of hilarity at just the moment when they really ought to be conveying an air of sombre reflection. I agree with Beard that there is something rather touching about a Roman senator experiencing such a recognisable sensation when sat before the emperor, revealing as it does how the universality of human experience stretches through the millennia.Link to review of books about laughter in New York Review of Books.
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            <title>Lawmakers in Missouri outlaw cyberbullying</title>
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                Associated Press June 30, 2008 O'FALLON, Missouri - Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill Monday outlawing cyberbullying, just miles from where a 13-year-old girl committed suicide nearly two years ago after being harassed on the Internet.
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                When we witness other people undergoing a painful experience, our brains respond as though we are experiencing that pain ourselves. We're simulating their trauma in our own pain pathways. This is pretty handy when it comes to empathy but could be a problematic distraction for people, such as dentists and acupuncturists, who have to dish out pain as part of the help they provide to their clients.Yawei Cheng and colleagues wondered if medical professionals learn to suppress their emotional brain response to the sight of other people's pain, thus allowing them to plough on with their professional handiwork undeterred.Fourteen professional acupuncturists and 14 controls had their brains scanned while they watched needles being inserted into mouths, hands and feet, or less eye-wateringly, while blunt 'Q-tips' were touched against the same areas.Consistent with past research, when the control participants watched the needle insertions, the pain regions of their brains leaped into action, as though they themselves were experiencing the pain. By contrast, there was barely a flicker of pain-related activity in the brains of the acupuncturists. Instead, their brains showed activity in frontal regions, known to be involved in emotional control, as well as memory-related areas. (When it came to the pain-free images featuring blunt Q-tips, the brains of the acupuncturists and controls responded in the same way).The behavioural data fitted well with these brain imaging results: the control participants reported finding the needle images far more unpleasant and painful than did the acupuncturists.It's not that the acupuncturists are a sadistic bunch: personality scales showed they were just as sensitive and empathetic as the control group. Instead, the researchers said their results show that rather than "responding on the basis of automatically activated stimulus-response linkages...humans regulate their emotions by relying on higher cognitive processes involving knowledge in working memory, long-term memory and meta-cognition."The researchers said that, in the case of doctors, such emotional control was necessary for "successful professional practice", allowing medical professionals to "regulate their feelings of unpleasantness generated by the perception of pain in others."_________________________________CHENG, Y., LIN, C., LIU, H., HSU, Y., LIM, K., HUNG, D., DECETY, J. (2007). Expertise Modulates the Perception of Pain in Others. Current Biology, 17(19), 1708-1713. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.09.020
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                Newsday, Melville, N.Y. June 27, 2008 Jun. 27--More than 40 percent of underage drinkers nationwide were provided free alcohol by adults 21 or older, a finding that validates the social host laws on Long Island, supporters of the legislation in both counties said yesterday.
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