News tagged with emotional tears
Tear research focused on contact lens risks, benefit
May 06, 2009 |
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Contact lenses are great for sight, but do they have an impact on general eye health? Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Optometry are working to answer that question by analyzing tears.
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Trust in a teardrop: Researcher says tears can help build, strengthen personal relationships
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Medically, crying is known to be a symptom of physical pain or stress. But now a Tel Aviv University evolutionary biologist looks to empirical evidence showing that tears have emotional benefits and can make interpersonal ...
Mending meniscals in children, improving diagnosis and recovery
Nov 02, 2009 |
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The meniscus is a rubber-like, crescent moon-shaped cartilage cushion that sits between the leg and thigh bone. Each knee has two menisci: one on the inside of the knee joint and one on the outside. In recent years, more ...
Antibiotics can prevent wound complications of childbirth
Jun 09, 2008 |
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A single dose of antibiotics can significantly aid healing of the severe tearing that occurs in vaginal tissues during many births, according to researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, the Stanford ...
Cry me a river: The psychology of crying
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 17, 2008 |
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We've all experienced a "good cry"—whether following a breakup or just after a really stressful day, shedding some tears can often make us feel better and help us put things in perspective. But why is crying beneficial? And ...
Internet search process affects cognition, emotion
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 04, 2009 |
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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 |
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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 ...
Children with emotional difficulties at higher risk for adult obesity
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Previous research has shown that low self-esteem and emotional problems are found in people who are overweight or obese- but not which influences which. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Medicine, sheds ...
Are teenagers wired differently than adults?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 17, 2009 |
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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 ...
Researchers Find Alcoholics Display Abnormal Brain Activity When Processing Facial Expressions
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that individuals who have a long history of alcoholism, but who have been abstinent for at least a month up to many years, showed abnormal ...
Regulating emotion after experiencing a sexual assault
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
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