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Reporting in the open-access journal PLoS ONE on August 20, researchers have discovered that our society can influence the way we recognise other people's faces. Because face recognition is effortlessly achieved by people from all different cultures it was considered to be a basic mechanism universal among humans.

The facial width-to-height ratio is larger in men than in women, and the sex difference emerges at puberty as testosterone concentrations increase. We investigated the extent to which this facial characteristic predicted aggressive behaviour, which also has been linked to testosterone. In the lab-based study, the facial ratio predicted the extent of aggression in men, but not in women.

Psychological War Deputy Interior Minister Alireza Afshar on Wednesday condemned the US psychological war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Addressing a local seminar, he said the US psychological...

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A report published by researchers at Albert Einstein College of medicine of Yeshiva University in the August 20 issue of JAMA suggests that measuring how much an individual's performance varies across several neuropsychological tests enhances the accuracy of predicting whether older adults will develop dementia. Developing strategies to improve the prediction and diagnosis of dementia has critical therapeutic and public health implications.

Posted on: Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 09:01 CDT Biovail Corporation (NYSE:BVF)(TSX:BVF) today announced the appointment of Dr. Neil M. Sussman as Vice-President, Neurologic and Psychiatric Developmen...

AJAX, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 20, 2008) - Despite paying out costly severance packages, the Rouge Valley health System is trying to hire back limited staff on a casual basis to try and keep mental...

A new report suggests that measuring how much an individual’s performance varies across several neuropsychological tests enhances the accuracy of predicting whether older adults will develop dementia. The study is published by researchers at Albert Einstein College of medicine of Yeshiva University in the August 20 issue of JAMA. Developing strategies to improve the prediction [...]

New imaging techniques have allowed researchers to study how our brain can switch from one plan to another on literally a moment's notice. And the new knowledge may lead to enhanced understanding of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention deficit disorder. As an example you’re about to leave work at [...]