Oncology & Cancer
I've just been diagnosed with cancer, now what?
In one pivotal instant your life has changed and there will be no turning back. How will you accept, adjust and adapt to being "someone who has cancer"?
Sep 21, 2023
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News tagged with emotional state
Psychology & Psychiatry
At which age are we happiest?
An evaluation of over 400 samples shows how subjective well-being develops over the course of a lifespan.
Sep 19, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Studying well-being of caregivers for patients with functional seizures
Shannon Guinard had finally booked an appointment with Johns Hopkins Medicine, and she wasn't going to let it go to waste.
Jul 19, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Female athletes and sports injuries: Psychology matters
If the goal of sports medicine is to promote sports participation, the state of an injured athlete's musculoskeletal system is part of a larger puzzle. In fact, a growing body of research suggests that psychological factors ...
Jul 17, 2023
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Health
Montana adds protections for kids in private residential treatment programs
As a teenager attending Chrysalis Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls, a private, alternative therapeutic program in Eureka, Montana, from 2001 to 2004, Meg Applegate was subjected to emotional abuse and not given medical ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Neuroscience
Neurotransmitter orexin influences pupil size, research shows
The way the brain regulates pupil size is different from previously thought: fundamentally responsible is the neurotransmitter orexin, as researchers at ETH Zurich have now shown. This discovery could well alter our understanding ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Mindfulness meditation could mitigate the adverse effects of fatigue on emotional processing
Fatigue, which can be defined as lacking energy and the motivation to do things during the day, is a very common symptom that most humans will experience at least once in their life. While it is sometimes linked to medical ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
A new model for predicting patterns of persistent negative thinking based on brain connectivity
Our minds often get trapped in repetitive thoughts, such as past mistakes, regrets, insecurities or unresolved conflicts. This pattern of persistent negative thinking, called rumination, can have detrimental effects on mental ...
Jun 29, 2023
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Reaching a 'century' in cricket: Nervous nineties or nerves-of-steel nineties?
If you've been watching the Ashes, you would've seen Australian cricketing superstar Ellyse Perry fall agonizingly short of her third Test century. She was caught out for 99 in the Women's Ashes at Trent Bridge.
Jun 28, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers identify neural signature for Borderline Personality Disorder
A new study of a brain region called the rostro-medial prefrontal could potentially advance diagnosis and therapies for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Entitled "Rejection Distress Suppresses Medial Prefrontal Cortex ...
Jun 27, 2023
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