Health
Minor sleep loss can put your job at risk
Losing just 16 minutes of sleep could be the difference between a clear-headed day at the office or one filled with distractions.
Apr 23, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Stressed? Take a 20-minute nature pill
Taking at least twenty minutes out of your day to stroll or sit in a place that makes you feel in contact with nature will significantly lower your stress hormone levels. That's the finding of a study that has established ...
Apr 4, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Belief in God or science does not help to alleviate acute stress, new study finds
Relying on a strong belief system – in either religion or science – cannot help alleviate acute, in-the-moment stress, a new study has found.
Mar 7, 2019
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Surgery
Stress-free training may enhance surgical skill
University of Houston and Methodist Hospital researchers are reporting in Scientific Reports that the best way to train surgeons is to remove the stress of residency programs and make surgery a hobby. Under relaxed conditions ...
Feb 11, 2019
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Overweight & Obesity
Children exposed to air pollution at school may be at greater risk of overweight and obesity
Exposure to air pollution, particularly at school, could be associated with a higher risk of overweight and obesity during childhood. This is the conclusion of a study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), ...
Feb 1, 2019
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Diabetes
Insulin deprivation leads to decreased ATP production in animal study
Despite the strong association between diabetes and dementia, how insulin deficiency affects brain function remains unclear. A recent study published in The FASEB Journal used a mouse model to investigate this mechanism.
Jan 24, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Men and women remember pain differently
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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Psychology & Psychiatry
How do we know service dogs help veterans with PTSD?
Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder say service dogs save their lives. The problem is, it's hard to show quantifiable research that proves it.
Jan 10, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Are workers who sing together happier employees?
(HealthDay)—It's a novel idea, but joining a choir at work might lower your stress levels while on the job, a new British study suggests.
Jan 9, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The far-reaching effects of antidepressants
When University of Ottawa biologists Marilyn Vera-Chang and Vance Trudeau began to study the effects of a popular antidepressant on reproduction levels in zebrafish, they stumbled across something that changed the course ...
Dec 11, 2018
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