http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Children of depressed parents pick up on their parents' sadness—whether mom or dad realizes their mood or not. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-kids-boys-sadness-depressed-parents.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 17 May 2013 10:00:01 EST news287997819 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the U.K.'s University of Portsmouth have conducted a study with the aim of attempting to discern if the attractiveness of a person's face is impacted by facial expression. In their paper published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, the team describes how they asked volunteers to look at pictures of people with different facial expressions and found that most rated the same people as attractive regardless of the expression on their face. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-people-facial.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:09:05 EST news282305275 Retail therapy is often lamented as wasteful and irresponsible, but new research from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business indicates that it can help alleviate certain negative emotions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-retail-therapy-blues.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:20:01 EST news280056770 Your emotions can certainly impact your decisions, but you might be surprised by the extent to which your emotions affect your pocketbook. New research from psychological scientist Jennifer Lerner of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and colleagues Yi Le and Elke U. Weber of Columbia University explores how impatience brought on by sadness can in turn produce substantial financial loss. The study is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-exploring-financial-sadness.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:47:01 EST news272126814 (Medical Xpress)—Parents: Want to help ensure your children turn out to be happy and socially well adjusted? Bond with them when they are infants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-parent-behavioral-emotional-benefits-child.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:47:34 EST news269182045 More than 350 million people suffer from depression globally, the World Health Organization said, ahead of World Mental Health Day on Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-million-people-depression-world.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:57:04 EST news268991816 When you rear-end the car in front of you at a stoplight, you may feel a mix of different emotions such as anger, anxiety, and guilt. The person whose car you rear-ended may feel angered and frustrated by your carelessness, but it's unlikely that he'll feel much guilt. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-guilty-angrywho-difference.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:53:48 EST news267724419 New research has uncovered several factors which could explain why children with asthma are at an increased risk of being bullied. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-explores-children-asthma-bullied.html Health Sun, 02 Sep 2012 13:51:29 EST news265812682 (HealthDay) -- Sadness increases subjective pain ratings and affects pain-evoked cortical activity, according to a study published in the July issue of The Journal of Pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-sadness-subjective-pain.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:46:46 EST news260801122 (HealthDay) -- Some cancer doctors may build up emotional walls -- distancing themselves from the patients they can't save -- to avoid grief, sadness and even despair, new research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-cancer-docs-grief-patients-die.html Cancer Wed, 23 May 2012 13:50:01 EST news256998497 (Medical Xpress) -- For most of history, people have assumed that facial expressions are generally universal; a smile by someone of any cultural group generally is an expression of happiness or pleasure, for example. This whole line of thinking was backed up by Charles Darwin who proposed that all humans have six basic facial expressions, which correspond to six general types of emotions: anger, sadness, happiness, fear, disgust and surprise. Unfortunately, new research by a team looking into whether this common assumption is true has found, as they discuss in their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that such perceptions are likely distorted by the fact that most studies on the subject don’t look at the differences between cultures, and that when subjected to study, don't appear to hold up under scrutiny. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-group-facial-universal-thought.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:30:01 EST news253879179 (Medical Xpress) -- Comparing yourself to others with the same health problem can influence your physical and emotional health, according to researchers who conducted a qualitative synthesis of over 30 studies focusing on the relationship between social comparisons and health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-health-impacts.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:14:07 EST news247832027 Contrary to what many psychological scientists think, people do not all have the same set of biologically "basic" emotions, and those emotions are not automatically expressed on the faces of those around us, according to the author of a new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. This means a recent move to train security workers to recognize "basic" emotions from expressions might be misguided. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-darwin-wrong-emotions.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:32:49 EST news243012684 Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a severely debilitating illness characterized by sadness and an inability to cope. Not only does it affect a person's ability to concentrate and make decisions, it also alters their ability to experience pleasurable emotion, and instead prolongs negative thoughts and feelings. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to show aberrant connectivity in depressed brains. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-depressed-wires-brain.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:30:01 EST news242539097 Girls may be sugar and spice, but "everything nice" takes a back seat when friends let them down. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-girls-anger-sadness-boys-friends.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:13:17 EST news241157581 Depression is increasingly recognized as an illness that strikes repeatedly over the lifespan, creating cycles of relapse and recovery. This sobering knowledge has prompted researchers to search for markers of relapse risk in people who have recovered from depression. A new paper published in Elsevier's Biological Psychiatry suggests that when formerly depressed people experience mild states of sadness, the nature of their brains' response can predict whether or not they will become depressed again. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-depression-relapsers-front-brain.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:25:19 EST news233223892 Constant bitterness can make a person ill, according to Concordia University researchers who have examined the relationship between failure, bitterness and quality of life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-blaming-people-sick.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:50:01 EST news232105067 Depression affects 121 million people worldwide. In can affect a person's ability to work, form relationships, and destroy their quality of life. At its most severe depression can lead to suicide and is responsible for 850,000 deaths every year. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine compares social conditions with depression in 18 countries across the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-global-depression-statistics.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:37:10 EST news230870199 (Medical Xpress) -- A new study from the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh shows that even if a child isn't crying, frowning or displaying other negative emotions on a consistent basis, another warning sign is when a child shows fewer positive displays, like hugging a parent or smiling and laughing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-children-seldom-parent-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:45:16 EST news229329850 UC Irvine psychologist Karen Rook can trace her interest in how loneliness affects the elderly to her childhood, when she saw a much-loved, once-robust grandmother decline markedly after losing her husband. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-lonely-people.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:57:08 EST news226155417 A University of Toronto study shows that when formerly depressed people experience mild states of sadness, their brain's response can predict if they will become depressed again. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-brain-response-sadness-relapses-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 26 May 2011 12:51:36 EST news225633065 Even people who show a clear treatment response with antidepressant medications continue to experience symptoms like insomnia, sadness and decreased concentration, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found after analyzing data from the largest study on the treatment of depression. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-antidepressants-symptoms-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:42:39 EST news222579746