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Wii boosts exercise out in the real world
People who play on games consoles like the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox-Kinect are more likely to want to take more exercise, and just watching others play can encourage you to take exercise too.
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Does Facebook make you fatter?
Time spent on social networking sites comes at the expense of other activities – including physical activity.
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Psychology trumps anti-obesity drugs
Patients who fail to lose weight while taking anti-obesity drugs do so because of their beliefs about themselves and about the difficulty of losing weight.
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Strokes linked to chronic stress
Chronic stress may be linked to a greater risk of suffering a stroke, new research has suggested.
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Why telling the truth is good for your health
There are mental health benefits to telling fewer lies, new research has suggested.
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Psychology can help with skin conditions
Skin conditions could be prevented with the help of psychological interventions, new research has suggested.
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Altruistic organ donation explored
Dr Julianna Challenor CPsychol reviews “My Kidney and Me”, shown on More 4  on Monday 6 August
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Stress and lower life expectancy linked
There is a link between stress and lower life expectancy, new research has suggested.
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Behavioural therapies can help with ME
Behavioural therapies can help to successfully treat chronic fatigue syndrome, new research has suggested.
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Talking to the parents of overweight children
Parents take more offence when certain terms are used to describe their children than when others are, new research has found.
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Work stress puts strain on women's hearts
Dealing with stress at work could be putting women at risk of a serious medical problem.
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Is obesity linked to childhood abuse?
New research has suggested childhood abuse might be connected to obesity in later life.
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Loneliness in old age is a major health issue
Care Services Minister Paul Burstow will say that loneliness among older people is a major health issue and the government should do more to tackle the problem when he speaks at the Campaig
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New action against genital mutilation
The government is to produce a declaration against female genital mutilation (FGM) that will state that the practice is a criminal offence, including when a British citizen is outside the UK, and what the penalties are for anyone found committing
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Psychological hurdle for Liverpool star
An injured Liverpool footballer must overcome a psychological hurdle if he is to return to the level of performance he achieved prior to damaging his knee.
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Frightened women are in labour for longer
Labour can last a lot longer for women with a fear of childbirth than those who are not afraid of the prospect.
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First European psychology for health conference to take place in Brussels
The European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EFPA) will hold its first health psychology conference from 20 until 21 September 2012 in Brussels, Belgium.
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RCGP awards honour to a psychologist
Professor Fiona Patterson (University of Cambridge), a Chartered Psychologist, has been awarded an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), reports the Society's monthly magazine
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Health psychology and long-term conditions
If the government’s proposed strategy for helping people with long-term health conditions is to be a success then there will need to be more health psychologists and vastly enhanced training in psychological skills and interventions in the wider h
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Depression can cause daytime sleepiness
Depression is among the main causes of sleepiness during the daytime, new research has suggested.
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Should your relations see the doctor too?
The presence of a loved one at a doctor's appointment may be detrimental if the patient suffers from mental health issues.
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Women's faces reflect levels of healthiness
Perceptions of fatness in women’s faces correlate with their Body Mass Index (BMI), measures of their physical and reproductive health, and measures of their psychological functioning, research published in our
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Changing bad habits has a domino effect
People who attempt to change one of their bad habits may find the action helps to alter other tendencies they wish to rid themselves of.
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Are personality and lifespan linked?
An individual's personality could be associated with living longer, new research has suggested.
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Female athletes more affected by concussion
The memory of female and younger athletes is particularly affected by concussion.
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