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Study identifies genes, pathways altered during relaxation response practice

A new study from investigators at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) finds that elicitation of the relaxation response ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 01, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cardiac medication may help reduce stiffness caused by certain muscle diseases

Preliminary research finds that for patients with nondystrophic myotonias (NDMs), rare diseases that affect the skeletal muscle and cause functionally limiting stiffness and pain, use of the anti-arrhythmic medication mexiletine ...

Cardiology created Oct 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chill therapy: Benson touts treatment potential of stress-control methods

In the 1970s, Herbert Benson’s book “The Relaxation Response” described a method for easing moments of great stress — the opposite of the “fight or flight” mechanism that causes ...

Health created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0