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

... strategies used by men helped increase their pain threshold and tolerance of pain, it was unlikely to have any benefit for women”. He further said: “omen who concentrate on the emotional aspects of their pain may actually experience more pain as a result, possibly because the emotions associated with pain are...

Colic in babies may be related to maternal depression and stress

... The researchers have termed colic as the parental threshold for infant crying spells. Mothers who come from dysfunctional families with poor communications, role confusions, poor handling of emotions, and lack of interaction between the family members are often unable to cope with the scene and maternal respo...

Brain cells associated with insomnia and obesity

... body undergoes on a routine basis, lower goes the threshold for excitability of these cells. The cells, which have hypocretin neurons that correlate with the arousal and alertness, have been found in a excitable condition in mice with a unique organization of inputs that make the excitatory nerve junctions ...

Excess physical activity can induce stress fracture in adolescent girls

...ne building, especially at adolescence, there is a threshold beyond which such kinds of activities can cause more harm than good. In fact adolescent girls seem to be more at risk from some form of rigorous activities than many others, as proved by the research. Reference: Journal Pediatrics, issue April 2005...

Weight Loss An Indicator Of Dementia In The Elderly

...e two to four years prior to reaching the clinical threshold of dementia. The association was similar in Alzheimer's disease and vascular disease say researchers. Researchers conclude that poor nutrition and frailty frequently complicate later stages of dementia, causing falls, poor wound healing, and increas...

Lifestyle Linked To Depression

...diagnosable mental disorder, those above a certain threshold of sad, blue or depressed days might be at increased risk for mental and physical illnesses....

Sense of smell impaired in alcoholics

...il at a time.// The subjects were tested for odour threshold (sensitivity), the lowest concentration of an odour where a faint presence is reliably detected, the ability to distinguish between smells and the ability to recognize the name of an odour with the help of response clues. Researchers found that sense...

Lumbar bone mineral density affected by daily physical activity

...h researchers has stated that there is a metabolic threshold that occurs in young adulthood, at which long-term...ysical activity became ineffective for LBMD at the threshold point. However, physical activity causing mechanical loading on the skeleton had a small positive in...

Dealing heart disease risk in ethnic minorities

...e and stroke. So doctors should maybe take a lower threshold blood pressure in ethnic minorities before beginning treatment....

Unpredictable Premature Birth

...omen who went on to give birth prematurely, but no threshold frequency could be defined in order to allow effective prediction of premature labour. Dr Nancy Green, acting director of the US-based March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, said, "Once again, we see that it’s nearly impossible with the technolog...

Noise tampers hearing

...is still loud enough to create atleast a temporary threshold shift, which will cause muffled hearing and ringing in one's years. So it's always better to wear a pair of throw-away ear plugs in such situations....

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