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Free Will Takes Flight: How Our Brains Respond To An Approaching Menace
Scientists have identified for the first time how our brain's response changes the closer a threat gets. Using a "Pac Man"-like computer game where a volunteer is pursued by an artificial predator, the researchers showed that the fear response moves from the strategic areas of the brain towards more reactive responses as the artificial predator approaches. (Read More)

Early Behavior Problems Appear To Lead To Peer Rejection And Friendlessness
Rejection and lack of friends in elementary school has been linked to behavior problems in the early grades. Rejection and lack of friends did not put children at risk for delinquency, but early disruptiveness did. Researchers used reports of children's level of anxiety and disruptiveness at ages 6 and 7, combined with measures of peer relationship several years later. These measures were then compared against depression, loneliness, and delinquency at ages 12 and 13. (Read More)

Distorted Body Image Could Be Linked To Abnormal Brain Function
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), or dysmorphophobia, is a hidden disease that affects nearly three million Americans. It is hidden because patients with the disease often go to great lengths to hide from the world, often altering their appearance through plastic surgeries, wrongly perceiving themselves to be ugly or having a hideous physical flaw. (Read More)

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