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News • Role model in surgery and more

Barbie should explore more medical and scientific professions, say experts

Barbie should expand her medical and scientific careers into areas where women and other under-represented groups remain a minority, suggests a study published in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.

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News • Medical communication

Research shows why doctors should listen more to their patients

Clinicians tend to disregard patient self-assessments for their diagnostic decisions, new research suggests – a mistake that might cause those patients unnecessary harm.

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News • Insights into rivalry, aggression, social affiliation

Brain MRI reveals what it means to be a fan

The brain of soccer fans is wired in a special way. Now, new research looks into how these MRI insights translate into fanaticism - if you prefer the full term - in other areas, such as politics.

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News • Out-of-body experience

Virtual reality in therapy: from treating phobias to rehabilitating abusers

In the last few years, virtual reality has become a very significant tool in therapeutic applications, for example, to overcome deep-seated fears or the lack of empathy in abusers.

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News • Predictive psychiatry

Brain imaging finds biomarkers of mental illness

In a new study, researchers use a very large dataset to identify predictive brain imaging-based biomarkers of mental illness in adolescents.

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News • Playkits ahead of medical scan

Reducing kids' MRI anxiety with papercraft and VR

Giving children a virtual/augmented (mixed) reality playkit to use ahead of an MRI scan seems to ease both their and their parents’ anxieties about this procedure, a new study suggests.

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