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• Rescued Hostage Describes Mental Abuse During Hamas Captivity

  14-07-2024 18:26 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthAfter being kidnapped by Hamas at a music festival on October 7, Andrey Kozlov, a 27-year-old Russian-Israeli citizen, said he was tied up for "three days with rope, then until the middle of December with chains." During eight months of captivity, he was also subjected to psychological abuse—being told that his death would be filmed, that his family had forgotten him, and that Israel wanted to kill him. Then, on June 8, Israel rescued him.
  
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• "Familicide" Rarely Happens Without Warning Signs, Say Researchers

  14-07-2024 18:26 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsThe Walsh family in Ontario, Canada, appeared to be the picture of domestic bliss, making the murder-suicide event that destroyed them all the more shocking. But while the devastating tragedy was unthinkable to the community, it's unlikely that it occurred arbitrarily, according to researchers. "These cases don't happen out of the blue. Someone doesn't wake up one day and decide to kill their family members," said Peter Jaffe, a domestic...
  
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• AI Outperforms Clinical Tests at Predicting Alzheimer's Disease

  14-07-2024 18:26 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top HealthScientists have developed an artificially-intelligent tool capable of predicting in four cases out of five whether people with early signs of dementia will remain stable or develop Alzheimer's disease. The team say this new approach could reduce the need for invasive and costly diagnostic tests while improving treatment outcomes early when interventions such as lifestyle changes or new medicines may have a chance to work best.
  
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• How returning to competitive sport after 25 years taught me resilience – and the joy of new friends

  14-07-2024 15:00
  
  Jenny Knight, an author who was a teen world rowing champion, is rediscovering the benefits of exercise after joining a local netball teamWhen I was 17, my rowing coach announced that taking a day off was unnecessary. That one time of the week that I left school at 4pm and watched Neighbours was now gone. I think that’s probably why, when I gave up rowing, I stopped doing any exercise at all. I’d had enough. Exercise for me equated to diehard commitment and someone shouting at me all
  
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• How much would you pay, honestly, to get back with your ex? | Eva Wiseman

  14-07-2024 07:00
  The breakup rehabilitation industry is in high demand but the truth is you can’t force someone to love you againI got angry yesterday, which is unlike me, a lady of peace and careful breaths. I felt like that guy who kicked in his telly when the Sex Pistols swore and I may have done similar had this not been a work laptop and had I not been a little bit sleepy after lunch. The thing that got me, the thing that threatened to push me over the edge, was an article about the rise of “get
  
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