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		<title>HIV Prevention Measures Must Include Behavioral Strategies to Work, says APA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 05:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON—A drug that has been shown to prevent HIV infection in a significant number of cases must be combined with behavioral approaches if the U.S. health care establishment is to succeed in reducing the spread of the virus, according to the American Psychological Association. “Exclusive reliance on a drug to prevent HIV or any sexually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study finds psychopaths have distinct brain structure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Male College Students Believe Taking Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Sports is More Unethical than Using Stimulants to Improve Grades, According to New Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON—In the eyes of young college men, it’s more unethical to use steroids to get an edge in sports than it is to use prescription stimulants to enhance one’s grades, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. And students who had themselves used stimulants without a prescription were more inclined to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antipsychotics for Elderly Vary in Mortality Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 19:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nursing-home patients are typically excluded from randomized clinical trials, but a cohort study of antipsychotics in this population reveals frightening results. Do elderly residents who receive antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes have a greater risk of dying than their nonmedicated neighbors? Yes, and the severity of the risk depends on which drug they are taking. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prenatal SSRI Use Can Affect Fetal Growth, Lung Function</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 19:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leslie Sinclair Clinicians must weigh the risks of untreated depression during pregnancy and possible adverse effects of SSRIs. Do the risks of antidepressant therapy during pregnancy outweigh the advantages? Does a pregnant woman’s use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) do harm to her baby? Those are questions researchers based at the Department of Psychiatry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awake Mental Replay of Past Experiences Critical for Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 19:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awake mental replay of past experiences is essential for making informed choices, suggests a study in rats. Without it, the animals’ memory-based decision-making faltered, say scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health. The researchers blocked learning from, and acting on, past experience by selectively suppressing replay – encoded as split-second bursts of neuronal activity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide rate in Connecticut at 20-year high</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Agent Reduces Autism-like Behaviors in Mice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health researchers have reversed behaviors in mice resembling two of the three core symptoms of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). An experimental compound, called GRN-529, increased social interactions and lessened repetitive self-grooming behavior in a strain of mice that normally display such autism-like behaviors, the researchers say. GRN-529 is a member of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video game helps teenagers battling depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Brain fog: Ways to combat short term memory loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Gilliam</dc:creator>
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