The current study advances our understanding of the impact of one’s personal attitudes (evaluative judgments of various aspects of a person’s life and experience) on…
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Too many times in the last decade, millions of people with Alzheimer’s disease and their families have had their hopes dashed by failures of clinical…
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“Going cold turkey” and “kicking the habit” are familiar idioms, but their origins are not. Some (and perhaps many) heroin addicts quit on their own…
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The study focused on examining the use of “Protective Behavioral Strategies (PBS)” among young female university students. The body of research assessing PBS has been…
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It is no secret that the printed newspaper industry is facing a crisis. This is due to the fact that people can now get news…
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In the past years, mindfulness-based treatment has attracted substantial clinical and scientific interest. Defined as bringing one’s complete attention to the experiences occurring in the…
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The anterior prefrontal cortex is the most anterior part of the human brain. It is supposed to be at the top of the brain’s hierarchical…
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As living standards increase and health provisions become better and more accessible to all, we can look forward to living longer. Yet one of the biggest…
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The concept of compulsion is ubiquitous in scientific theorizing, professional practice, and lay understandings of addiction, and it forms the cornerstone of the disease view…
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For years, many scholars and clinicians have considered addictive behavior to be a brain disease that eliminates free will. If addiction is a disease, then…
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As residential buildings can account for up to 50% of the total energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in an economy, there is a…
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