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.

You're about to leave work at the end of the day when your cell phone rings: it's your spouse, asking that you pick up a gallon of milk on the way home. Before you head out the door, though, your spouse calls again and asks you to stop by the hardware store too. Based on your knowledge of the area and rush-hour traffic, you decide to get the milk first and the toilet plunger second. But whoops! The phone rings again. This time, it's your boss, asking you to work late.

Plastic surgery is about more than good looks.

Windsor Medicare Extra announced plans to host a symposium in Little Rock on September 23, 2008. A diverse panel will meet to discuss emerging trends in treating those with mental health conditions in Arkansas. Windsor Medicare Extra is one of only two health plans in the nation contracted with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to provide special needs plans for those Medicare beneficiaries with mental health conditions.

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.

AScribe News August 18, 2008 DAVIS, Calif., Aug 18, 2008 (ASCRIBE NEWS via COMTEX) -- Following are psychology news tips from university of California, Davis.

Associated Press August 20, 2008 WASHINGTON - They survived war, but for some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans going to work back home isn't easy, either.

Sports psychology has become an increasingly popular area of concentration within psychology, and it probably comes as no surprise that this particular branch of psychology has played an important role...