Emotions in Medical News

Musicians' Brains Tuned to Emotions in Sound

Finding suggests children with language disorders may benefit from tonal training FRIDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- Musical training enhances the ability to recognize emotion in speech and other sounds, a finding that suggests that musical training might benefit people with language...

University of Kansas research finds human emotions hold sway over physical health worldwide

LAWRENCE A researcher from the University of Kansas has spearheaded a new investigation into the link between emotions and health. The research proves that positive emotions are critical for upkeep of physical health for people worldwide, above all for those who are deeply impoverished. The s...

Negative Emotions About Pain Increase Pro-Inflammatory Response

HONOLULU, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Research presented today at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 25th Annual Meeting showed a strong correlation between 'catastrophizing' about pain during the experience of pain, and an increase in the pro-inflammatory response, sensitizing parts of the c...

Music Therapy Helps Relieve Anxiety, Emotions of Cancer Diagnosis

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- One day Gisele Bigras was a college student finishing up another year of school. The next day, she was a cancer patient faced with having one of her fingers removed. The diagnosis: epithelioid sarcoma in her middle finger. Bigras, 19, wa...

Brain-injured patients can relearn emotions

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The visitor in Barry Willer's office at the University at Buffalo was frustrated and deeply depressed. The man's wife had sustained a relatively mild traumatic brain injury, and he was doing all he could to support her. But despite his best efforts, the man's wife described him ...

A Happy Pet for the Holidays: Natural Remedies to Treat Animals' Complex Emotions

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Does your pet misbehave when you leave the house? Whether you're entertaining or traveling for the holidays, the change in schedule can negatively affect your pet's behavior. Recent research shows that upwards of 10.7 million pets in the United States ...

New Jersey Author Uncovers the Secret to Well-Being Is the Connection Between Health and Emotions

LEONIA, N.J., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Renowned psychotherapist and Leonia, New Jersey author Dr. Harriet Haberman is announcing the publication of her new book -- Emotional Wisdom: A Compassionate Guide to the Messages Hidden in Your Feelings. Dr. Haberman notes, "In these uncertain times, t...

Natural Remedies to Treat Animals' Complex Emotions

All-natural, Safe Alternative to Pharmaceutical Drugs NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Does your pet misbehave when you leave the house? Recent research shows that upwards of 10.7 million pets in the United States suffer from separation anxiety, resulting in inappropriate,...

Kids connect alcohol odors with mom's emotions

PHILADELPHIA (June 24, 2008) -- How children respond to the smell of alcoholic beverages is related to their mothers' reasons for drinking, according to a new study from the Monell Chemical Senses Center. When asked to choose between the odor of beer and an unpleasant odor, children of mothers cla...

Personal Convictions May Control Both Behavior and Emotions

Distinct brain regions activated by beliefs and human feelings, study shows TUESDAY, Dec. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Belief, disbelief and uncertainty activate distinct areas of the brain, says a University of California, Los Angeles study published online in the Annals of Neurology . The stud...

Negative Emotions Affect Old and Young Differently

Negative emotions such as the fear of losing money affects young and old people differently, suggests a new study based on brain scans. While scans showed more activity in the insula and caudate areas of the brain, which are involved in processing emotions, in young adults there was less a...

Negative Emotions Affect Old and Young Differently

Negative emotions such as the fear of losing money affects young and old people differently, suggests a new study based on brain// scans. While scans showed more activity in the insula and caudate areas of the brain, which are involved in processing emotions, in young adults there was less ac...

Managing Emotions to Prevent HIV

A new study reveals that helping adolescents manage their emotions is just as important as providing them with information on the practical side of safe sex// in order to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), adolescents and...

Positive Emotions lead To Life Longevity

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have reported in the Journal Psychological bulletin that having positive emotions and being happy protects from chronic illness and gives better health and long life.// This research study was led by Professor Sheldon Cohen team who found that emotions ha...

Strong emotions can cause heart problems

Although it has been dramatized in cinema and television that anger causes// the cardiac arrest of people, there may be truth in those gross dramatizations. Yale University researchers have found out that sudden strong emotion, like anger or anxiety, may cause the muscles in the heart to twitch. Th...

Negative Emotions Could Lead To Stroke

Experiencing anger, strong negative emotions, or a sudden change in body position may increase an individual’s chances of having a stroke//, say researchers based on findings of a recent study . The research is based on a survey conducted by 200 people who suffered an ischemic stroke or a transi...

Cartoons Superimposed With People's Faces Help Autistic Children Learn Emotions

Scientists at Autism Research Center at Cambridge University have designed a program involving cartoons to help autistic children identify emotions better. // Alex Murphy, mother of an autistic child, said, "I've noticed that when we read stories, if a character's sad, he'll perk up and explai...

Placebo for relief from emotions

Researchers have shown that placebo treatment can reduce the nature of emotional experience// the patients can have from uncommon experiences. Placebo treatment consists of dummy medication or intervention. This can be in the form of harmless tablets, saline water injections etc. In the...

Autism May Hinder Ability to Read Body Language

...ness, while watching short video clips of body movements. The videos had no images of faces or sound. Those who had the most difficulty identifying emotions also did poorly on a task in which they had to determine the direction of a group of dots on a computer screen. Adults without autism generally perfor...

Leave Worries Behind When Packing for Vacation

... Absence of negative emotions contributes to a great trip, survey finds SATURDAY, Aug. 1 (He...t leisure travel affects an individual's life satisfaction through positive emotions related to health and safety, [such as] feeling relaxed, rested and mentall...

Study finds acceptable levels of anxiety among men living with early, untreated prostate cancer

...ment, it could also cause psychological harm in patients because they must live with untreated cancer. Data on the levels of such potentially negative emotions among men on active surveillance are lacking, however. Roderick van den Bergh, (MD), of the Erasmus Medical Center, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, ...

Five Eating Patterns That Worsen Stress

...your mouth and your body. Mindless eating tends to lead to overeating or bingeing; by staying focused on what you're eating, you're less likely to let emotions or stress control how much and what you eat. 3. Losing your appetite, only to have it come back later with a vengeance. Although you m...

New e.p.t.(R)/BabyCenter(R) Fertility Report Reveals 70 Percent of Moms Want Tighter Regulation on In-Vitro Fertilization

...hen it comes to fertility treatments." "The e.p.t((R)) /BabyCenter ((R)) Fertility Report is significant because it captures so many of the emotions women feel about their own fertility, as well as their excitement to start a family," says Amanda Trautmann, Brand Manager for the e.p.t((R) )brand. "...

Bottle-Feeding Moms Ignored

...ommon themes: Some mothers who bottle-fed -- either because they couldn't breast-feed or because they prefer to bottle-feed -- experienced negative emotions such as guilt, worry about the impact on their baby, concern about health professionals' opinions, uncertainty about how to proceed, a sense of failu...

Savoring Happy Moments Helps Build Emotional Strength

... Cultivating positive emotions can help ward off stress and depression, study say...aily on the small moments and cultivating positive emotions is the way to go," she said. "Those small moments let positive emotions blossom, and that helps you become more open. That...

Brain Quickly Detects Happiness in Others

... on the right cerebral hemisphere as the brain's center for processing emotional signals from other people. Not only does the right hemisphere process emotions faster than the left hemisphere, it's particularly eager when it comes to happy vibes, they found. "Positive expressions, or expressions of approac...

Sad Dads May Lead to Crying Infants

...ers can be related to excessive crying or colic, a common problem with newborns, but the researchers said that little was known about whether fathers' emotions and behavior also have an effect. "Up to now, almost all attention went to the prenatal effects of maternal depression on child development, leadin...

Stay Upbeat, Active to Keep the Mind Young

...ervational studies suggest people who are more intellectually active, socially integrated, physically active and who are relatively free from negative emotions like depression and anxiety all seem to be associated with aging better cognitively." As the U.S. population ages, being able to keep mental declin...

The Chopra Center Press Set to Release New Book this June 25

...r. David Simon is a trailblazer of the new paradigm of physiology, in which emotions are understood as the molecular basis of thought, health, and disease,"...ns. "In this groundbreaking book, David gives us the tools to heal our emotions and heal our lives," Dr. Pert said. "Free to Love, Free to H...

Vets Who Repress Traumatic Memories May Not Be Worse Off

...use the concept that talking about your trauma and analyzing your fears and emotions is always the best policy goes back to Sigmund Freud, and for decades it's ...ve personality trait," and had coped with their PTSD by internalizing their emotions and repressing their traumatic memories. Boscarino and Figley found no e...

Brain detects happiness more quickly than sadness

...ds that the pattern of cerebral asymmetry depends upon the emotion in question, in other words that each hemisphere is better at processing particular emotions (the right, withdrawal, and the left, approach). "Today there is scientific evidence in favour of both these theories, but there is a certain cons...

Measuring brain atrophy in patients with mild cognitive impairment

...s have focused only on measurements of the brain's hippocampus. The extent to which volumes of the amygdala the section of the brain associated with emotions and the nearby temporal horn could predict cognitive decline was unknown. In addition, methods to measure these parts of the brain relied on subje...

Naps with rapid eye movement sleep increase receptiveness to positive emotion

... WESTCHESTER, Ill. Naps with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep refresh the brain's empathetic sensitivity for evaluating human emotions by decreasing a negative bias and amplifying recognition of positive emotions, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Wednesday, J...

Botox injections can significantly improve quality of life for people with overactive bladders

... Incontinence impact from 100 to 65 Role limitations from 83 to 50 Physical limitations from 75 to 42 Social limitations - from 72 to 39 emotions from 100 to 65 Severity measures from 67 to 34 Sleep/energy from 83 to 58 Personal relationships from 67 to 50. Symptom severity in the Bo...

Easing the Pain of Father's Day Without Dad, Highmark Caring Place Helps Children Cope With the Death of a Parent

... about the upcoming day in advance," said Vorsheck. "Deciding how to spend the day ahead of time might help families avoid getting caught off-guard by emotions that are difficult to anticipate. Sharing your feelings with one another, along with a little bit of planning, can help you find ways of honoring and ...

Aurora St. Luke's Dedicates Rooftop Healing Garden and Conservatory

...m the outset," Dr. Staller says. "This will be very uplifting for patients and families. Good care is not just about healing the body, but healing the emotions and spirit." A quiet refuge within a bustling hospital environment will be particularly meaningful for those with lengthy hospital stays. Julie C...

Brain Scans Show Differences in Cocaine Addicts

...on, like sadness, anxiety or drug craving, activity in this brain region is supposed to decrease, possibly to tune out the background 'noise' of these emotions so you can focus on the task at hand," said Goldstein, adding that thoughts of past drug use or using more drugs would be the "noise" in this scenario...

HeartMath Launches a Certification Program for Health Professionals that Targets Patients' Stress and Anxiety

...linical situations. This user friendly HRV technology engages patients and clients allowing them to observe and better understand the immediate impact emotions have on their heart rhythm patterns. Emotional self-regulation techniques help an individual to switch their emotional state consciously. Researc...

Eye Related Symptoms Bring More Than Tears to Allergy Sufferers, New Survey Reveals

...performance at work, school, and when playing sports. "Having to stop wearing their contacts or wear them less frequently creates a wide range of emotions among allergy sufferers," says Mike Tringale, Director of External Affairs, AAFA, the leading patient advocacy organization for people with asthma and...

If You Could Travel to Mars, Would You Go?

.... Visitors also explore some of the potential psychological and emotional stresses that astronauts may face on their journey, examining how contagious emotions can be and discovering where their own personal space threshold lies. "The passion and curiosity of the engineers and scientists who contributed ...