https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bbc-bosses-unaware-stars-sex-crimes-culture-flawed-100519222.html BBC bosses unaware of star’s sex crimes, but culture flawed – report Reports were made by staff, but these were never escalated due to a culture of “not complaining about anything”. Employees were reluctant to say anything to management which might “rock the boat”, for fear it might damageContinue Reading
Films showing smoking scenes should be rated to protect kids from tobacco addiction https://t.co/s9nnrO4Jx7 #Oscars pic.twitter.com/ksO2EGYgat — WHO (@WHO) February 28, 2016 1 FEBRUARY 2016 | GENEVA – WHO is calling on governments to rate movies that portray tobacco use in a bid to prevent children and adolescents from startingContinue Reading
What is driving an apparent crackdown by #IRD on rebates for charitable donations? We ask @CreativeNZ & @_ArtsFoundation — RNZ – Nine To Noon (@ninetonoon) February 28, 2016Continue Reading
Beyond Weight and Thinness: Exploring What You Really Want https://t.co/9EyHPkuifK #mhsm #mentalhealth pic.twitter.com/zrLQxad4KR — PsychCentral (@PsychCentral) February 28, 2016 Instead of waiting until we lose weight, I think a more helpful and supportive approach is to explore what really underlies our desire to be thin, and how we can bypassContinue Reading
http://www.medicaldaily.com/art-therapy-child-sex-abuse-trauma-levels-374744 Artistic self-expression may be the best therapy for victims of childhood sexual abuse, finds a new study from the Universities of Bristol and Durham in the United Kingdom. The study analyzes the impact of a program offered by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC),Continue Reading
This is what happens to your body when you’re heartbroken https://t.co/nSt3eTZDRh pic.twitter.com/TzWOAxRzzc — HuffPost Living (@HealthyLiving) February 24, 2016 2. Once the shock subsides, major emotional stress sets in (What did I do wrong? Am I going to be alone forever? Is it time to start adopting cats?). That stressContinue Reading
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/risk-taking-teenagers-may-be-better-at-learning-study-finds-a6892651.html The study, published in The Journal of Research on Adolescence, found that subjects who played with other adolescents watching them took more risks early on than the solo group by playing cards more often than passing. But the peer-observed group was also faster to learn which decks were luckyContinue Reading
Disappointing image and caption on this image @radionz Anti-prohibition does not equal pro-drugs… https://t.co/R51t8niPFv – Kyle MacDonald (@kylemacd) February 24, 2016 He said that even though many indigenous communities around the world had a long history of using different kinds of psychoactive substances without abuse, poor people and people ofContinue Reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/76927041/sugar-may-be-as-damaging-to-the-brain-as-extreme-stress-or-abuse–study We found that chronic consumption of sugar in rats who were not stressed produced similar changes in the hippocampus as seen in the rats who were stressed but not drinking sugar. Early life stress exposure or sugar drinking led to lower expression of the receptor that binds the majorContinue Reading
http://www.medicaldaily.com/cognitive-function-sexual-violence-female-brain-374508 Traditionally, lab models used to measure stress in animals have focused on males and failed to accurately reflect ways females respond to stress. There’s no established lab animal model for studying the effects of sexual violence and behavior on brain function in females, yet sexual aggression and violence isContinue Reading
