Psychopaths tend to have poor olfactory sense
September 21st, 2012 - 2:25 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Sep 21 (IANS) People with psychopathic tendencies seem to have a poor sense of smell, which points to inefficient processing in the brain's front part, says a study.Psychopathy covers ... Read more...
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Rihanna unhappy with size zero body
June 14th, 2012 - 4:49 pm ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, June 14 (IANS) Pop star Rihanna is unhappy with her size zero body and wants to get back to her curves."I'm a size zero and not happy ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Indian-Australian doctor case: Attackers appeal sentence
June 2nd, 2011 - 2:59 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, June 2 (IANS) Four Australian men who attacked an Indian-origin doctor in 2008 - and were all sentenced to a combined prison term of 65 years - have now ... Read more...
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Headley may write book about role in Mumbai attacks
June 1st, 2011 - 2:35 am ICT by IANS
Chicago, June 1 (IANS) Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley testified Tuesday that he has talked to relatives about writing a book or movie script about his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai ... Read more...
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Ex-RAW official, who disrobed in court, suffering from paranoia
February 28th, 2011 - 9:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) A former employee of India's spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), who created a stir in the Delhi High Court last month when she partially stripped ... Read more...
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Zee TV’s ‘Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo’ Goes Bhul Bhulaiya Way!
January 28th, 2011 - 9:48 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
Zee TV’s popular show ‘Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo’ is undergoing a crucial phase where the lead character Laali (Ratan Rajput) has lost her mental balance and is suffering ... Read more...
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Psychopaths lack empathy just like patients with frontal head injury
January 26th, 2011 - 5:28 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 26 (ANI): A University of Haifa study has suggested that people diagnosed as psychopathic have difficulty showing empathy, just like patients who have suffered frontal head injury."Our findings show that ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
School mistress says she gave sex education to abused boys
December 2nd, 2010 - 11:53 am ICT by IANS
Sydney, Dec 2 (IANS) A house mistress in an Australian school sexually abused boys aged 11 and 12 and rationalised her behaviour as providing sex education, a court has been told.The unnamed ... Read more...
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Pathological gamblers ‘more likely to commit suicide than non-betters’
November 24th, 2010 - 1:44 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 24 (ANI): A new Montreal inter-university study has shown that pathological gamblers are three times more likely to commit suicide than non-betters.The study also indicated that these gamblers are also ... Read more...
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Indian-origin woman kills son fearing separation
November 16th, 2010 - 9:47 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 16 (IANS) An Indian-origin woman in Britain has killed her 12-year-old autistic son because she feared he will be taken into care, a media report said Tuesday.As her son Ajit ... Read more...
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Scientists propose new way to classify personality disorders
October 13th, 2010 - 4:00 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 13 (ANI): A new study is playing a key role in the effort to change the way mental health clinicians classify personality disorders.The study, led by Michigan State University psychologist ... Read more...
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Personality disorders raise risk of ulcers
October 3rd, 2010 - 3:23 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 3 (IANS) Those with a personality disorder are up to five times more likely to develop stomach ulcers, a study suggests."Manifestations of peptic ulcer disease are influenced by mind-body interactions," ... Read more...
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Man admits raping, assaulting over 1,000 women
September 29th, 2010 - 2:35 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 29 (IANS) A man in Germany has admitted to raping or sexually assaulting more than 1,000 women by copying a trick from the movie "The Silence of the Lambs".Forty ... Read more...
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‘Flesh-eating’ Brit rapist-murderer sentenced to 21 years imprisonment
September 18th, 2010 - 5:38 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 18 (ANI): A "sadistic" Broadmoor patient, Graham Fisher, has been jailed for 21 years after admitting killing two women in East Sussex in 1998 and eating flesh from one of ... Read more...
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Personality can tell who’s more likely to cheat
September 8th, 2010 - 12:25 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 8 (ANI): A couple of studies have established a link between psychopathy and cheating habit in students.It has found that students who cheat are more likely to fit the profile ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Lindsay Lohan wrongly diagnosed with addiction, claim docs
August 20th, 2010 - 2:30 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 20 (ANI): Doctors who evaluated Lindsay Lohan at UCLA are urging for her early release from UCLA, after concluding that she was misdiagnosed with drug or psychiatric problems.Sources familiar ... Read more...
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Shocking disclosure by US Army: Hundreds of soldiers misdiagnosed with PTSD
August 16th, 2010 - 8:55 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Washington DC, Aug 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) New data has emerged confirming that many US soldiers lost their jobs in the heat of the Iraq war when they were wrongly diagnosed with PTSD, ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
PTSD Soldiers Likely Misdiagnosed and Denied Benefits
August 16th, 2010 - 8:24 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Aug 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Hundreds of soldiers were relieved of duty from the Army, after being diagnosed with “personality disorders”, and denied benefits when it was more likely that their issues ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
PTSD Soldiers Misdiagnosed, Discharge Data Hints
August 16th, 2010 - 6:37 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Washington, Aug 16, (THAINDIAN NEWS) In what has come as a shocking revelation, a discharge data has brought into focus that large number of soldiers who were dismissed during the ... Read more...
Posted in World, World News |
Autism underdiagnosed in women, say Brit boffins
February 6th, 2010 - 5:46 pm ICT by ANI
London, February 6 (ANI): Autism and related conditions were underdiagnosed in women and teenage girls, UK researchers have observed.Experts due to speak at Britain's first academic conference on the issue noticed that ... Read more...
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Victorian Fritzl threatened to kill daughter
January 29th, 2010 - 3:47 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 29 (ANI): The woman, who became a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of her Victorian father, told the court she feared if she fled he would hunt her ... Read more...
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Pope gunman proclaims Apocalypse, wants Dan Brown to tell his story
January 19th, 2010 - 2:16 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 19 (ANI): Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II, walked out free from a Turkish prison yesterday.And he has promised to tell the true ... Read more...
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Steven Dale Green Gets Life Imprisonment; Barred From Parole
September 5th, 2009 - 8:47 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Former U.S.Army soldier Steven Dale Green, of Midland Texas, who was indicted for rape and murder of 14 year Iraqi, Abeer Kassem Al-Janabi, has been sentenced to life imprisonment ... Read more...
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Significant psychological impact of child abuse seen in inpatients
May 22nd, 2009 - 4:05 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 22 (ANI): Mayo Clinic researchers have found that a history of child abuse significantly impacts a wide range of challenges facing depressed inpatients-an increase in suicide attempts, prevalence of substance ... Read more...
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Fritzl tried to make dungeon tourist attraction to raise funds”
November 16th, 2008 - 1:53 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 16 (ANI): Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl wanted to make the windowless dungeon a tourist attraction where he imprisoned his daughter and fathered seven children by her, according to ... Read more...
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Dungeon dad fears he could be jailed with brain-eating cannibal
November 16th, 2008 - 1:27 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 16 (ANI): Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl, who first raped his daughter Elisabeth when she was just 14, fears that he will be locked up in a psychiatric prison ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Dungeon dad to be charged within days
November 11th, 2008 - 1:42 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 11 (ANI): Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl is to be formally charged this week following authorities announcement that the case against him was complete.The 73-year-old, who imprisoned daughter ... Read more...
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Carla Brunis childhood was filled with lies
August 7th, 2008 - 3:47 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 7 (ANI): Shes the epitome of exotic style, self-assurance and sophistication today, but Carla Bruni-Sarkozys past was from far from being a pleasant experience.Raised by Turin tyre magnate Alberto ... Read more...
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Police from three states may probe priestess’s murder
April 18th, 2008 - 12:20 am ICT by admin
Agartala/Kolkata, April 17 (IANS) Police forces from three states may probe the murders in Kolkata of a prominent Hindu priestess and one of her associates, allegedly by an expelled devotee, the police ... Read more...
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