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Although the world thousands of people commit suicide each year, researchers and physicians lack a method for assessing the likelihood of approach or attempt suicide. An international group of scientists participating in the Research Institute Hospital del Mar (IMIM), has created the first index to prevent risk.
“It is important to identify suicidal ideation in people with a higher risk. The main contribution of our study is the development of an international risk index for estimating the probability of moving from conception to any of the following behaviors: plan or attempt suicide, “SINC Jordi Alonso, head of the Research Group Health Services IMIM.
Job data, which also involved Josep M. Haro, a researcher at the Health Park Sant Joan de Déu and publishes the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, From a survey conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health Survey between 2001 and 2007, in which 108,705 adults from 21 countries responded to the Composite International Diagnostic Interview.
The study examines suicidal behavior and suicide is not fatal, since it is based on interviews with adults. The variables associated with these behaviors are: female gender, younger age, less education, not living with a partner, being unemployed, suffering from some mental disorders, have experienced adversity in childhood and parental mental disorders.
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The performance of a computer would be linked to the difference in length between the ring finger and index finger.
Before hiring a computer, watch his hands! Researchers at the University of Bath, England, observed that people with the ring finger is much longer than the index are the most talented in informatics. Surprising finding, and whose interpretation relies on the influence of hormones on the brain. Testosterone, a hormone associated with male social dominance, plays a role. Not only it affects brain development in the embryo, but it also controls the respective lengths of the ring finger and index finger, as confirmed by various statistical studies!
According to Simon Baron-Cohen, a specialist in empathy and autism, the human brain deals with beings and the world in two ways: either he has empathy for others (human and emotional approach) or it seeks to understand how the world (instrumental approach and objective).
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The rate of preterm infants is maintained and even increased , over the years. This means there is neurological, sensory , respiratory, psychomotor intelligence or the small , both the short and medium term. These consequences also concern psychiatrists and child psychologists, and is currently known that the evolution of premature infant and the emergence of problems or not depends largely on the family environment , especially how the mother interacts with her son in his first months of life.
Dr. Fernando Gonzalez has defended at the UPV / EHU a thesis about it , entitled The development and early relationships in preterm infants. Comparative study with a control group at 2 years of age. In this study , culminating in theory, have been involved 90 preterm infants of very low birth weight ( less than 1,500 grams), no medium or severe sequelae , and their mothers.
Their results were compared with those of 96 healthy children at birth, with their mothers . It focused on assessing the psychological development of the baby after two years of life ( key moment in his maturity ), and especially to bring in knowledge of environmental factors surrounding it , especially that of mother-infant relationships .
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The system of healthy people dopamminergico highly creative and has some similarities with that of those suffering from schizophrenia
Genius and madness: this combination has frequently abused even though it seems even a partial biological root. The combination made from a recent study not so much about the possible recklessness of great talent, but the ability to create unusual associations of ideas which in the case of genius are creative.
Creativity can be defined as the ability to produce work that is both new and significant, that is so opposed to the banal as mere eccentricity. To assess individual differences in creativity are used to test for divergent thinking, which generally require you to find new answers to problem situations and sensible proposals.
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The effects of mobile phones on driving performance are well known, and resemble those of alcohol: increased reaction time, braking distance and risk of collision. This reality applies to everyone.
Or almost. The truth is that this rule is 97.5 per cent of drivers. For the remaining 2.5 percent, or one in 40, the mobile phone has no negative effect on driving performance. These whizzes with telephone line are called superconductors, and thwart all the predictions of cognitive models of attention while driving.
At the University of Utah, Jason Watson and David Strayer placed volunteers in a driving simulator and measured their reaction times and braking distances with or without a telephone conversation. They then noticed that very few drivers fared as well with a phone than without. Normally, we consider that the brain can only focus on one task at a time, because the conscious processing of information involves an area called the prefrontal cortex, which is a bottleneck of external stimuli. Superconductors are a challenge to psychologists, who now want to further their studies with fighter pilots, among whom we should find more people able both to take instructions via radio and carry out complex operations. Beware, however: the superconductors are rare, and you have the same chance to be part of that fire five times in a row “pile” to a game of heads or tails.
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Published in the electronic version of the journal Nature Methods May 9, 2010, a study by Jeffrey S. Mogil, Professor of Psychology at McGill University, shows that mice, like humans, expresses pain through facial expressions.
Professor Mogil and his colleagues in the Laboratory of Genetics of Pain at McGill University have photographed mice before and after subjected to stimuli of moderate pain. This type of stimulation, such as injection of an inflammatory substance diluted, is regularly used as part of research to assess pain sensitivity in rodents.
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A brain structure, the dorsal anterior cingulate, it shall assign the preparation of a hemisphere or the other depending on their importance to the subject dela
It is sometimes said ironically that a certain person can not do two simple things together, but actually to wait two different tasks simultaneously is the maximum that any person can reach, hoping to get acceptable performance. What is already known in psychology, but now a neurophysiological research conducted by two researchers at the University Pierre et Marie Curie and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Paris, Sylvain Charron and Etienne Koechlin and published Science gives a clear explanation. Each task to be performed, in fact, our brain dedicates one of the two hemispheres.
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Research shows that the emotional coloring stimulated by an event persists beyond the memory of the event
The experience of emotion persists well beyond the memory of the event which has aroused. It showed an experiment conducted by researchers at the University of Iowa, who report the results in an article published on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) before signing Justin Feinstein.
The researchers studied five patients suffering from a rare form of damage to the hippocampus, a brain structure critical for the transfer of information from short-term memory to long term, causing the same type of amnesia is usually found in patients with Alzheimer’s .
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A Spanish team has shown the usefulness of the short version of the WHO-DAS II, a tool for assessing disability in five minutes in patients with depression, “being even more advisable for the long version of the instrument for primary care.” In Spain, over 10% of the population suffers from severe depression.
The family doctor is often the first filter that passes a person who is depressed. That’s why training is so important and the tools to diagnose this disease and disability associated with it. Now a new study attests to the reliability and validity of the 12-item WHO-DAS II, the short version of the scale of the World Health Organization to assess disability in primary care patients.
The research team of Juan Vicente Luciano, Health Park Sant Joan de Deu, Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona), noted that the psychometric information available in Spain on the WHO-DAS II in patients with depression was insufficient: “A important limitation given the high prevalence of this disorder among patients consulting a family doctor ” explains to SINC.
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New research from the University of Bath shows that viewers pay less attention to the creative commercials, but this may make them more vulnerable to the advertiser’s message conveyed by the advertiser.
This finding contradicts an assumption considered valid for a long time in the advertising profession, that of the ads with high emotional content, encouraging viewers to pay more attention.
The study used a tracking device to measure eye real-time attention to several ads with different levels of emotional content.
The ads were inserted in an episode of a television series humorous, and participants were unaware that the ads were the subject of the investigation.
Results showed that viewers paid less attention to pleasing creative ads, and more to those who offered more specific information, even when they did not like.
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Before hiring a computer, watch his hands! Researchers at the University of Bath, England, observed that people with the ring finger is much longer than the index are the most talented in informatics. Surprising finding, and whose interpretation relies on the influence of hormones on the brain. Testosterone, a hormone associated with male social dominance, plays a role. Not only it affects brain development in the embryo, but it also controls the respective lengths of the ring finger and index finger, as confirmed by various statistical studies!