In a recent piece on the television show 60 Minutes, Oprah Winfrey discussed childhood trauma —shining a public spotlight on the lasting effects of abuse and adversity in childhood. Oprah herself is a survivor of childhood ...
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Older adults who were physically abused as children were significantly more likely to develop chronic pain and chronic physical illness in later life according to a newly-released study by University of Toronto researchers. ...
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Sharing a home with a pet appeared to act as a buffer against psychological stress during lockdown, a new survey shows.
Sep 25, 2020
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger—that claim is so universally accepted that it's a common truism in contexts from everyday conversations to Top 40 pop charts.
Jun 11, 2020
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"We already have significant evidence on the associations between nutrition and mental well-being, and there is also preliminary evidence showing that some people with depression will have fewer symptoms when they improve ...
Apr 7, 2022
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Adults who have suffered childhood trauma exhibit a higher degree of somatization (i.e., mental suffering expressed through physical complaints that may lead them to consulting a physician). What happens in the parent-child ...
Mar 29, 2022
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In women with heart disease, constriction of peripheral vessels during mental stress affects the heart circulation more than men's, potentially raising women's risk of heart-related events and death, according to new research ...
Dec 21, 2017
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Long shifts working in intensive care and the risk of catching COVID and passing it on to his wife and children left Joan Pons Laplana exhausted.
Jan 21, 2022
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A study in the International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, has looked at the psychological health benefits of adopting "mindfulness" as an intervention to help health care workers reduce their personal stress ...
Jun 28, 2022
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Some argue that hypnosis is just a trick. Others, however, see it as bordering on the paranormal – mysteriously transforming people into mindless robots. Now our recent review of a number of research studies on the topic ...
Apr 21, 2017
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