» How Do We Decide When to Persevere and When to Quit?

Perhaps next time I will be successful... Perhaps it will only take once more.... How would you feel if you stopped just before you were going to be successful and so robbed yourself of what you had been hoping for...?

Tags: mindful awareness, responsibility, work-life

» Cold Blooded Criminals Use Violence Indiscriminately, UK
Psychopaths are more likely to use violence in a cold blooded, calculated way than non-psychopathic violent offenders. This is the finding of a study being presented today, Thursday 25th June 2009, at the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston.

» Measuring Intellectual Disability
Researchers from the University of California, Davis have developed a specific and quantitative means of measuring levels of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) protein (FMRP), which is mutated in fragile X syndrome. The related report by Iwahashi et al, "A quantitative ELISA assay for the fragile X mental retardation 1 protein," appears in the July 2009 issue of the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.