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Self-harm, also known as self-injury, self-inflicted violence, self-injurious behaviour, or self-mutilation, can be defined as the deliberate, direct injury of one’s own body that causes tissue damage or leave marks for more than a few minutes and that is done in order to deal with an overwhelming or distressing situation.
Approximately 1% of the population has, [...]

Science Daily (Mar. 2, 2010) — Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Anderson has made much of his life’s work studying how violent video game play affects youth behaviour. And he says a new study he led, analyzing 130 research reports on more than 130,000 subjects worldwide, proves conclusively that exposure to violent [...]

A neuron is a nerve cell that receives, processes, and transmits information to other cells in the body. We each have a set number of neurons, so unlike other cells they don’t regenerate. Approximately 10,000 of the neurons in our bodies die everyday. Although this seems a very large number we each start out with [...]

Child run away syndrome describes a decision made by a child, whether it be pre-planned or sudden, to flee from the family home. The child may seek refuge in the home of a close friend or relative, but is also likely to chose other locations such as family holiday destinations. In some cases children have been known to [...]

Recent studies carried out at Duke University in the United States show that people living in western civilisations are becoming more socially isolated. In The United States alone nearly a quarter of the population have no meaningful social contact whatsoever. This figure has doubled since similar research was carried out in 1985. Over 50% of Americans also [...]

For decades researchers have been looking for a definitive answer as to the cause of addiction. Some believe the reasons are ‘nature’, in other words the genetic building blocks we are given at birth, others believe the reasons are ‘nurture’, or the social effects connected with our upbringing. 
In the 2009 addition of Nature Reviews Genetics, researchers at the [...]