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Investigators in Sweden propose in a new research paper that the role of free radicals in the human body, and the chemicals' negative effects, may have been exaggerated over the past few years. The scientists say that these snippets of material may in fact play an important role in supporting the normal, regular... |
28 February 2011
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Scientists believe they may have found one of the reasons why military personnel returning home from wars have such a high incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They say it's all connected to the way the brain returns to normal after a person has been exposed to a traumatic experience.Our brains ha... |
10 February 2011
04:50 GMT |
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A new study found that stress and substance abuse – alcohol or drugs, is associated with some fathers spanking their children, and biological fathers are more prone to do so.Also, boys are more likely than girls to be physically punished by their dads.This research is among the first to focus on paternal stress... |
11 January 2011
07:19 GMT |
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Video game developer PopCap, well known for such titles as Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled and Peggle, has polled the citizens of Britain to find out their New Year's Revolutions and suggests that playing its games is a good way of reducing the stress which is associated with failure to meet the resolutions.
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4 January 2011
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People react differently to stress – some deal with it and once it's gone they go back to a normal life, while some are so affected by it that they develop psychiatric illnesses like depression or PTSD.It looks the individual resistance to stress is determined by the biological building of each and every o... |
22 December 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Men and women get along just fine in everyday life but, usually, when it comes to shopping, most men would rather go alone, make their choice in under five minutes and get out.And since Christmas is just around the corner and there are many of you out there, who still haven't found the perfect gift, this new res... |
22 December 2010
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A team of neuroscientists has found that stress enhances ordinary, unrelated memories and therefore it could increase the pathological effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other anxiety disorders.They carried out their study on rats, hoping that this could help them understand the disorder a little be... |
22 December 2010
04:18 GMT |
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A PhD candidate at the Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft) announces the development of a new device shaped like a pen, which is capable of detecting elevated stress levels in its users. It can also help reduce those levels, according to its creator. Researcher Miguel Bruns Alonso, who will receive his PhD degre... |
21 December 2010
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A new review led by Joke Bradt of the Department of Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University in Philadelphia and former researcher at Temple University's Arts and Quality of Life Research Center, concluded that patients who need assistance to breathe through mechanical ventilation, can benefit from listening... |
8 December 2010
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A new thesis, successfully defended at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, concluded that neck pain is more common in women than men, regardless of occupation or age.Neck pain can be really stressful and the irony is that stress is one of its main causes, especially in women.Another important factor is the women&... |
7 December 2010
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The latest research from the University of Bristol, concluded that a dietary supplement of the synthetic derivative of vitamin B1, could help prevent heart disease in people suffering from diabetes.Since vitamin B1 can help the body get rid of its toxins, it can also protect the cells of the heart from being damaged.... |
6 December 2010
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What is it with aged care that scares medical staff and what is causing the chronic lack of personnel in this field?A new study conducted by the University of Melbourne may have found the answer to this: aged care workers are much more stressed, they report lower levels of resident care, make more medication errors a... |
1 December 2010
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Waiting for a diagnosis can be one of the most stressful things in life, even more stressful that knowing you have a serious disease, concluded a study led by researchers from the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.Elvira V. Lang, MD, associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, ... |
29 November 2010
05:57 GMT |
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The duration of a surgery and the amount of blood loss are increasing surgeons' stress level, while night shifts are linked to reduced stress arousal scores, a small study on Japanese surgeons suggests.The study was carried out by Koji Yamaguchi, MD, PhD, and colleagues at University of Occupational and Environm... |
16 November 2010
06:12 GMT |
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A new investigation has determined that pleasurable activities such as eating and having intercourse do not only provide pleasure, but also a means of reducing stress, by inhibiting neural pathways in the brain. These effects last for up to seven days, so they can be considered long-term. Experts have known for a lon... |
11 November 2010
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Stress has a major role in Parkinson's disease, because it seems that exhausted neurons die prematurely and trigger the symptoms of the disease, according to Northwestern Medicine study.Stress is what makes us age faster and become more sensible to viruses and bacteria around us, and it looks like it is doing th... |
11 November 2010
05:35 GMT |
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Back in the 1970s, the general conception was that stress was a killer, and that people needed to avoid it at all costs. But an expert managed to change that idea, showing the it can be beneficial to us, if only we treat it as a challenge. Salvatore R. Maddi, a professor of psychology and social behavior at the Unive... |
10 November 2010
05:41 GMT |
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The way that stock markets seem to react to crisis is just like plants and animals do, a new major study that could one day predict future financial events, suggests.The research was carried out by a team of academics led by Alexander Gorban, a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leicester, and incl... |
3 November 2010
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A new research carried out by the University of Montreal, concluded that a dog might not be just a man's best friend, but it can also play an amazing role in the lives of children with special needs.Sonia Lupien, senior researcher and a professor at the University of Montreal Department of Psychiatry and Directo... |
20 October 2010
10:59 GMT |
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A new research carried out by Tel Aviv University found out that stress levels of individuals within a social group are equally high.Until recently, it was generally accepted that every individual responded differently to stress, but this new research contradicts everything scientists thought they knew.To test the wa... |
15 October 2010
09:06 GMT |
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A new research carried out by a team led by psychiatrists at Brown University and Butler Hospital, found out that adults that look completely healthy, could be suffering from a high inflammatory response to stress, if they were abused or neglected during their childhood.Before getting to this serious conclusion, the ... |
8 October 2010
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A team of Japanese researchers, writing in BioMed Central's open access journal BioPsychoSocial Medicine, carried out a research that concluded that stressed out mothers can worsen the gravity of their children's asthma symptoms, especially if the children are very young.The scientists focused on 223 mother... |
7 October 2010
06:23 GMT |
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A research carried out by Dr. Klaus Hansen's group at BRIC, University of Copenhagen, shows that external factors can stress our cells by controlling our genes.Stress is one of society's major problems and sooner or later it affects everyone, and not only at a psychological level.Body cells can be affected ... |
25 September 2010
06:30 GMT |
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A Dutch-German medical research team made an incredible breakthrough by finding the enzyme responsible for the death of nerve cells after a stroke.The team led by Harald Schmidt from Maastricht University, Netherlands, and Christoph Kleinschnitz, University of Würzburg, Germany, has found that the NOX4 enzyme pr... |
22 September 2010
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According to a groundbreaking new research, it would appear that being subjected to chronic stress makes women a lot more susceptible to experiencing an increase in the speed at which breast cancer tumors form and develop. Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) say that stress essentially ac... |
18 September 2010
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In a very interesting finding, researchers discovered that females in a study group appeared to prefer calmer, chill guys over their more active and on-the-go peers. The conclusion comes as a surprise for many scientists, as it contradicts some past investigations, but the new conclusions actually make a lot of evolu... |
15 September 2010
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For the first time, a biological marker shows that chronic stress plays a very important role in heart attacks, and researchers from The University of Western Ontario have found a way to measure it.It is well known that stressors like job, marriage and financial problems favor the development of cardiovascular diseas... |
3 September 2010
03:23 GMT |
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Going to college is a happy but also stressful moment in life, for many young people, and it can lead some into dangerous battles with eating disorders.Mary Boggiano, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, shares some experience from her college years, when she fought again... |
24 August 2010
05:10 GMT |
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In the past, summer jobs were the very definition of a young American adult's life. They would work half-time during the summer vacation, earning money and independence, but that trend is now declining fast.Official statistics estimate that at least 26 percent of all young adults in the country are unemployed. T... |
23 August 2010
04:15 GMT |
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A team of experts from the University of Gothenburg managed to discover an incredible correlation between the amount of stress people are subjected to, and their chances of developing various forms of dementia. The investigation was based on results obtained from studying about 1,415 women, all of which were tracked ... |
16 August 2010
09:17 GMT |
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The roots of behavior may be deeply entrenched inside every person's genetic code, but researchers say that analyzing the human mind, and its relations to the gene pool, is a lot more difficult than it looks. Social sciences experts have some time ago began collaborating with geneticists on a series of studies m... |
16 August 2010
06:06 GMT |
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A team of investigators at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) has recently determined that exposure to large amounts of social stress can make the brain respond by modifying the way the immune system responds to threats. These modifications can open the way for numerous diseases or infections to set i... |
7 August 2010
05:02 GMT |
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A new study of video games suggests that playing actively can lead to a reduction in stress levels and in hostility for players. The new data comes from the Texas A&M International University and Doctor Christopher J. Ferguson, who is a an associate professor.The study was performed with the help of 103 young adults ... |
27 July 2010
13:41 GMT |
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In a new study, scientists managed to identify a type of stress hormone in creatures that lived more than 500 million years ago. The sea lamprey is a jawless animal that could help investigators gain new insight into how corticosteroid hormones came to be, and also into how the human body evolved the 30+ hormones of ... |
26 July 2010
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Nature with its forests and other green environments can reduce stress, anger and aggressiveness, can improve moods and increase happiness. People feel better after spending time in a forest and this is also because of the positive effects on the body's immune system by multiplying the number and the activity of... |
24 July 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Back when some of us were growing up or even as recently as 5 years ago, going on a summer holiday was still seen as a perfect opportunity to break off from work completely and just use the time to recharge one’s batteries, as much of a cliché as that may sound. Times have changed, though, with a new sur... |
22 July 2010
15:31 GMT |
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Professor Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu, head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Tel Aviv is recruiting people suffering from colon cancer for a new study. This research will test several drugs that prevent negative stress response after a surgery. The Professor hopes that this will help strengthen the immune... |
22 July 2010
04:21 GMT |
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The fact that nature has a marked influence on our bodies and the way we feel is undeniable. This is obvious during warm and sunny days, when people feel like going out or socializing. When it's cold and rainy, or on the contrary too hot, we stay indoors, and generally feel a bit down. But, overall, spending tim... |
4 June 2010
08:59 GMT |
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In a new study, Australian researchers reveal that they have uncovered a new series of factors that impair driving. They say that analysis suggest being stressed or full of anxiety while behind the wheel can have the same devastating effects on driving skills as talking on cell phones. The research, led by experts at... |
1 June 2010
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Marine iguanas living in the Galapagos Islands are considered to be vulnerable species, and are currently the object of various protection and conservation programs. Researchers say that, other than human poaching, the creatures are also subjected to tremendous influences from the El Nino weather phenomenon, which ha... |
26 May 2010
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In our quest for preventing aging, we may find help in the most unlikely of places. This is the conclusion of a new study conducted in the United Kingdom, which determined that stress proteins may be playing a role in preventing aging from setting in. The research was conducted on the Heat Shock Protein (HSP10), whic... |
24 May 2010
10:37 GMT |
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Scientists discovered in a new study that people aged over 50 tend to be happier, and also less stressed out, than younger individuals. The differences are clearly visible when comparing seniors with those in their 20s, the researchers say. It would appear that older age indeed makes things look brighter, and that it... |
18 May 2010
06:48 GMT |
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Former “Married with Children” star Christina Applegate has fought a brave and very public battle with cancer, which culminated with her having to undergo surgery for double mastectomy. Since then, she’s learned to appreciate more what life has to offer and not focus on negativity, she reveals in a ... |
12 May 2010
16:31 GMT |
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It's an accurately established fact that men tend to prefer women that are similar to them. While this may be the norm in general, researchers have now discovered that, when placed under stress, males would rather select mates that are dissimilar to them, contrary to their own rules. The investigation that led t... |
10 March 2010
06:11 GMT |
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Researchers always believed that people excited about their upcoming vacations tended to remain happier about it some time after they returned. Investigations had revealed that people with upcoming days off were a lot more positive than those whose vacations were still months away. But a new study has revealed that t... |
19 February 2010
08:46 GMT |
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In the past few years, researchers have been trying to bring the goal of personal electricity generation closer and closer to reality. What they are essentially trying to do is reduce the strain that personal, portable electronic devices place on the world's electric grid. Despite its already-massive levels, thi... |
29 January 2010
01:28 GMT |
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Even if shoe companies advertise their latest footwear as including a host of modern technologies, you may still be better off running with normal shoes, or no shoes at all, a new study seems to suggest. Excessive cushioning, arch support and motion-control technologies may all sound well and good, but the paper show... |
13 January 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Jamie Oliver has traveled the world and has done what many thought to be impossible, promoting a healthy lifestyle by healthy eating habits, but even he, an experienced cook, knows that preparing Christmas dinner can be quite a difficult task to accomplish. Experience, Oliver says in a Daily Mail column, has nothing ... |
8 December 2009
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Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) College of Letters, Arts and Sciences say that they have just finished developing a new tool for forecasting large earthquakes. While plagued with uncertainties, just like all the other warning methods, the new one is also a lot more specific, in that it focus... |
4 December 2009
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Susan Boyle, the Scottish singing sensation that made international headlines once she auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent and stunned judges and audiences with her clear and very strong voice, is en route to another breakdown, friends believe. As of late, under the stress of the release of her first album, &ld... |
1 December 2009
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