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• Fantasizing about your dream vacation could lead to poor decision-making
  Summer vacation time is upon us. If you have been saving up for your dream vacation for years, you may want to make sure your dream spot is still the best place to go. A new study has found that when we fantasize about such trips before they are possible, we tend to overlook the negatives -- thus influencing our decision-making down the line.
• Fantasizing about your dream vacation could lead to poor decision-making
  Summer vacation time is upon us. If you have been saving up for your dream vacation for years, you may want to make sure your dream spot is still the best place to go. A new study has found that when we fantasize about such trips before they are possible, we tend to overlook the negatives -- thus influencing our decision-making down the line.
• Analysis: Greeks count mental health cost of a country in crisis
  Flowers, toys and notes are seen at the site where pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas shot himself in the head because of poverty brought on by the crisis that has put millions out of work, in Athens' Syntagma square April 27, 2012.
• May In Review
  School might be out for many of our student readers, but that doesn't mean that it's time to stop learning. Now that you have finally finished all those finals and turned in your research papers, you can relax a little and spend some time exploring some topics that interest you....Read Full Post
• Top 25 List: May 2012
  The results are in! Here are this month's most popular posts.
• Questioning Techniques
  Asking the right questions is at the heart of good communication. Learn effective questioning techniques with this short video.
• Genes May Influence Quitting Success
  A person's genetic make up may influence their chances of successfully giving up smoking, according to an NIH-funded study published in the 30 May online issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. The authors say their findings support the idea there should be more individualized treatments to help people quit smoking...
• Neurological Illusions
  While optical illusions are fun and familiar, we are discovering other illusions within our own minds that have the power to amaze and upset some of our dearest beliefs about ourselves.Tags: brain, decision making, meaning, neuroscience
• Medicating Mental Illness for Life
  I wake up at the same time every single day. It is 6 a.m. The birds sing outside my single-paned window, and my partner sleeps beside me. I close my eyes and work to will myself back to sleep: It would be nice to sleep until 8 a.m., maybe even 9 a.m. But I get frustrated and I get anxious and soon I have made my way to the kitchen where I make myself strong […]
• World No Tobacco Day 2012: EU-wide survey shows that a majority of EU citizens supports stronger tobacco control measures
  On the eve of World No Tobacco Day, the European Commission publishes an EU study on attitudes towards tobacco.