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By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
Teenage boys with conduct disorder have trouble recognising emotions in facial expressions, research funded by the Wellcome Trust has revealed.
The study found that people diagnosed with conduct disorder before the age of ten have an impaired ability to recognise anger, disgust and happiness in facial expressions, while [...]

By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
Scientists have developed a new, automated way to collect blood samples, increasing the consistency of samples and reducing the need for multiple procedures.
Blood tests are common procedures in medicine and sometimes several are required over a prolonged period. Hormones, for example, fluctuate throughout the day and need multiple [...]

By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
Our short-term memory is configured to remember angry faces better than happy or neutral ones, Trust-funded researchers have found.
Our brains are thought to use emotional connotations as a way to recall information better. Long-term memory seems to favour positive information, but the new study shows that this is [...]

By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
Pregnant women experiencing high levels of anxiety run a higher risk of their child developing asthma, according to Trust-funded researchers.
A study by scientists at the University of Bristol has found that the higher the level of anxiety in an expectant mother, the higher the likelihood that their [...]

Feature article by Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
As recently as the late 1980s, clinicians mistakenly believed that newborn babies did not feel pain. We are now beginning to understand just how different pain processing is in infants, progress that promises tremendous clinical benefits for those in intensive care.
Pain, unpleasant though may be, is [...]