News tagged with emotional stability

Is there a seat of wisdom in the brain?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Apr 06, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (6) | 0

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have compiled the first-ever review of the neurobiology of wisdom - once the sole province of religion and philosophy. The study by Dilip V. Jeste, ...

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Study links propensity toward worry to early death

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Apr 04, 2007 | 4.3 / 5 (12) | 0

As reported in the May issue of Psychological Science, men who increased over time in neuroticism died earlier, mostly from cancer and heart disease.

Naps with rapid eye movement sleep increase receptiveness to positive emotion

Medicine & Health / Health

Jun 10, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Naps with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep refresh the brain's empathetic sensitivity for evaluating human emotions by decreasing a negative bias and amplifying recognition of positive emotions.

Internet search process affects cognition, emotion

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 04, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (8) | 0

Nearly 73 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis, according to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey. Half of these adults use the Web to find information via search ...

Two brain structures key to emotional balance especially in threatening situations

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Oct 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Researchers have discovered that a primitive region of the brain responsible for sensorimotor control also has an important role in regulating emotional responses to threatening situations. This region appears to work in ...

Close relationships can perpetuate individual health problems

Medicine & Health / Health

Mar 11, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Human problems rarely occur in a vacuum, but persist as part of ongoing social interaction in which causes and effects are interwoven. One person's behavior can set the stage for what another does. A new study in the journal ...

Family stability may be more crucial than two parents for child success

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Aug 31, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

The advantage that children get from living in two-parent families may actually be due to family stability more than the fact that their parents are married. A new study finds that children who who are born and grow up in ...

Are teenagers wired differently than adults?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Parents have long suspected that the brains of their teenagers function differently than those of adults. With the advent of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, we have begun to appreciate how the brain continues to develop ...

Regulating emotion after experiencing a sexual assault

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Oct 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

After exposure to extreme life stresses, what distinguishes the individuals who do and do not develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? A new study, published in the October 1st issue of Biological Psychiatry, sugges ...

Possible link studied between childhood abuse and early cellular aging

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Nov 20, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Children who suffer physical or emotional abuse may be faced with accelerated cellular aging as adults, according to new research from Butler Hospital and Brown University.