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Be happy: live long

...cades and decades, people that turn these negative emotions on and off several times daily are hurting themselves and are more likely to fall victim to heart disease and stroke." These findings were published in the journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Since 1986, Snowdon has carefully tracked part...

Emotional trigger to smoke

According to a study, emotions trigger the desire to smoke.Researchers at the University of California have studied the effect your emotional state has upon the urge to smoke. They had 25 women and 35 men record their location, activity and mood states every 20 minutes during waki...

Waking during surgery

...people. They found they remembered many unpleasant emotions and sensations: terror, pain, paralysis and a profound feeling of betrayal by medical staff.// For half of these patients, waking during surgery led to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a long-lasting psychological reaction that is more common...

Control of anger disorder connected to Brain Dysfunction

...ty to learn from social cues." When asked to gauge emotions in photos of people's faces, IED patients showed problems in recognizing "anger," "disgust" and "surprise." And compared with other test subjects, they tended to label neutral expressions as "disgusted" and disgusted expressions as "angry," according...

A boon for smokers to quit

...smoking as the chemical plays with an individual's emotions and feelings of pleasure.Infact, a group of smokers who tried the new drug smoked less than when they took a dopamine blocker.This effect of the drug is believed to be due to nausea induced by it.However the efficacy and safety of the drug has to be ...

Televisions ruling baby's world!

...ildren as young as 12 months old are influenced by emotions displayed on television. They also use emotional information picked up from adults around them to make decisions. Donna Mumme, assistant professor of psychology at Tufts University, and her team tested //babies, showing actors reacting on a videotap...

Anger Hard on the Heart

...earchers say this is the first study to show these emotions increase the risk for this condition. Researchers conducted a study looking for an association between atrial fibrillation and psychological stress. Participants completed psychological surveys around 48 years old. None of the participants showed si...

Will Your Baby Grow Up To Be A Future Einstein ?

...kids. Researchers say we need to realize that our emotions are the fuel that gives rise to social behavior but also to different levels of intelligence. Genetics also plays a role, but its future is not written in his DNA. Besides parent-child interaction, there are other ways to increase baby brain power ...

The Significance Of A Laugh

...pists did laugh showed they felt validation of the emotions they were expressing. Laughter also showed to produce physiological responses in patients and therapists, with arousal strongest when both laughed together. Researchers say their findings suggest that the patient who is laughing is trying to say mor...

Negative Emotions Could Lead To Stroke

...Thus it was observed that anger or strong negative emotions could increase the risk of stroke by about 14-times and a sudden change in body position after a startling event was linked to a 24-fold increased risk , however researchers say the increased risk is only for the two hours after the event occurs. In...

Treat depression and pain separately

...ciated with chronic pain and those associated with emotions and depressive feelings. Researchers feel that these results stress the fact that chronic pain and depression may be two different things, not associated with each other at all....

Strong emotions can cause heart problems

... the right rhythm. The patients were to record the emotions they felt and how strongly, in a scale of 1 to 5, immediately before they felt an electric shock from the implanted device. Out of the 56 shocks recorded during the study, the arrhythmias that lead to shocks had begun from heart flutters were preced...

Placebo for relief from emotions

...ative experiences by controlling the expression of emotions generated through the exposure. Research shows tha...ports that showed reduced activity in the seats of emotions in the brain with the placebo treatment. Reference: Neuron, June 2005...

Gender difference in Pain Experience - Women feel More Pain than men

...rience more pain as a result, possibly because the emotions associated with pain are negative.” Researchers believe that it is the fear of anxiety-related sensations and an increased tendency to negatively interpret such sensations, both of which are more predominant in women than men that influences women’s...

Anger can cause health problems

... had tried to relate to various health factors and emotions through studies, have found out that hostility may be one of the major health risks and can even cause death from cardiac related issues. In one study, reserachers had found that for men with a history of cardiovascular disease and postmenopausal wom...

Strong Magnetic Stimulation Can Help Treating Severe Depression

...x the region underneath the forehead regulates the emotions and steers the psychomotor reflexes of a person. ECT has a bad image. Movies like 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' has shown how actor by Jack Nicholson – an inmate of a psychiatric clinic is subjected to electro-shock to curb his rebellious behavi...

The anxiety gene

... emotions. It might be that this tendency leads to emotions being bottled up until a panic attack is their only release. Often the critical factor was not the panic attack itself, but the way the sufferer responded. Secondary factors such as misinterpreting the attack as a heart attack or impending madness,...

Anger and exercise set off irregular heartbeats

...fter having a shock. Then they also recorded their emotions a week after having the shock to compare the two times. The patients rated their anger level and exercise level on a scale of one to five. Researchers report anger levels were rated as a three or higher in 20 percent of the shock events vs. 5 percen...

Brain scans show why we always have room for dessert

...-- the area of the brain best known for processing emotions -- and the orbitofrontal cortex. Something must tell the brain when to respond and when not to, and this does not necessarily stop at food.Whether we are talking about food or sex or even things on the aversive scale such as dangers and threats and ...

Gene Activity connected to Schizophrenia

...der that alters a person's perceptions of reality, emotions and thought processes. Symptoms of the disorder, which affects about 1% of the world's population, typically surface during the late teens and 20s.In this study, Dr. Maria Karayiorgou of Rockefeller, University in New York and colleagues identified t...

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