A new study conducted at IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, shows that the subjective feeling of well-being experienced by many people with the practice of meditation is correlated with specific changes in the brain. ...
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Insights from past failures can help boost performance on a new task—and a new study is the first to explain why. US researchers report that writing critically about past setbacks leads to lower levels of the "stress" hormone, ...
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The personality trait narcissism may have an especially negative effect on the health of men, according to a recent study published in PLoS ONE.
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Scientists increasingly believe that one of the driving forces in chronic pain—the number one health problem in both prevalence and burden—appears to be the memory of earlier pain. Research published today/this week in ...
Jan 10, 2019
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People with higher levels of antioxidants in their blood may be less likely to develop dementia, according to a study published in the May 4, 2022, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of ...
May 4, 2022
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A new study shows that while those adult coloring books can reduce stress, they're still not art therapy.
Dec 14, 2017
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Perfectionists are sometimes thought of as superheroes: people who are high achievers and seem to always have it all together.
Nov 29, 2022
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During the first years of their lives, children develop the cognitive, social and emotional skills that will provide the foundations for their lifelong health and achievements. However, exposure to environmental stressors ...
Jun 1, 2022
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Exposing newborn mice to vaginal microbes from stressed female mice may transfer the effects of stress to the newborns, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. These changes ...
Jul 9, 2018
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It may feel like an anvil hanging over your head, but that looming deadline stressing you out at work may actually be beneficial for your brain, according to new research from the Youth Development Institute at the University ...
Jul 28, 2022
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