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Love hurts: Why emotional pain really affects us

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Have you ever felt overly upset by a social snubbing? Your genetics, not your friends, may be at fault.


Link Between Poor Sleep and Poor Learning in Older Adults Investigated

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are trying to decode why aging prevents sleep from enhancing memory. Rebecca Spencer, assistant professor of psychology, says she is trying to isolate ...


Don't ignore your emotions at work, professor says

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- “There’s no crying in baseball!” So said Jimmy Dugan, the manager portrayed by Tom Hanks in the movie “A League of Their Own.” Not so fast, says Vince Waldron, an Arizona State University professor of communication ...


Depression saps endurance of the brain's reward circuitry

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

A new study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that depressed patients are unable to sustain activity in brain areas related to positive emotion.


New study finds men and women may respond differently to danger

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study brain activation have found that men and women respond differently to positive and negative stimuli, according to a study presented today at the annual ...


Military children face more emotional challenges as parental deployments grow longer, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children in military families may suffer from more emotional and behavioral difficulties when compared to other American youths, with older children and girls struggling the most when a parent is deployed overseas, according ...


Loneliness can be contagious

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows.


Doulas may indicate failings in patient care, warns doctor

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The presence of doulas (paid birth assistants) during labour may alter the doctor-patient dynamic and can compromise communication and therefore patient care, warns a doctor in the British Medical Journal today.


Music and speech based on human biology (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pair of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech.


The deciding factor: Empathy distinguishes modern humans from their primate ancestors

The deciding factor: Empathy distinguishes modern humans from their primate ancestors

Biology / Other

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What, exactly, distinguishes humans from apes? It’s certainly more than just our genes, renowned anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy told a Harvard audience recently (Nov. 18).



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