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Researchers find strong link between mental health and ADHD
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
According to new research led by psychologists at the University of Bath in the UK, adults with high levels of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms are more likely to experience anxiety and depression than adults with high levels of autistic traits.
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Study explains how genetic changes are responsible for the evolution of ph
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
What genetic changes are responsible for the evolution of phenotypic traits? This question is not always easy to answer. A newly developed method now makes the search much easier.
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Study: Perfectionists are more prone to burnout
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A mental health and mood disorders expert has been carefully studying the phenomenon of burnout for a number of years. Based on a substantial study, the first thorough self-help book on burnout has been published.
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Perfectionists are more likely to burn out: Study
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The study highlights some of the warning signs of burnout and suggests that people who tend to be perfectionists are more likely to veer into burnout due to their own 'unrelenting standards'.
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Researchers develop new model to explain how autism arises
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
An explanatory model presented in a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, might prove to be helpful in understanding the development of autism.
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Short men have these shocking personality traits
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a report by US-based entertainment outlet The New York Post, Polish research claims that short men may be "evolutionarily hardwired" to more confrontational behaviour.
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Plant study hints evolution may be predictable
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, with the traits of species shaped by chance mutations and environmental events and therefore largely unpredictable.
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World's most unique birds are facing extinction
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A recent study found that bird species with uncommon or severe combinations of traits are more likely to become extinct.
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Neurotic personality trait might be caused by blood pressure: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Diastolic blood pressure, which is the lower of the two numbers in a blood pressure reading, is highly likely to cause neurotic personality traits.
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Planet's most unique birds at higher risk of extinction
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A new study finds that bird species with extreme or uncommon combinations of traits face the highest risk of extinction. The findings are published in the British Ecological Society journal Functional Ecology.
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Do you know blood pressure cause neurotic personality traits?
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers revealed neurotic personality traits are most likely to be caused by diastolic blood pressure and keeping it under control can help curb neurotic behaviours, anxiety, and heart and circulatory disease.
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Genetic links between traits often overstated: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Genetic correlation estimates typically assume that mating is random. But in the real world, partners tend to pair up because of many shared interests and social structures.
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