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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.


Active older adults live longer, have better functional status

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Older adults who continue or begin to do any amount of exercise appear to live longer and have a lower risk of disability, according to a report in the September 14 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/A ...


Few friends combined with loneliness linked to poor mental and physical health for elderly

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Although not having many close friends contributes to poorer health for many older adults, those who also feel lonely face even greater health risks, research at the University of Chicago suggests. Older people who are able ...


Researchers shed new light on connection between brain and loneliness

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created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 7

Social isolation affects how people behave as well as how their brains operate, a study at the University of Chicago shows.





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Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

You are what you eat. You're also how you feel, how you exercise, how you sleep, how you handle money, how you relate to people, and what you value.


Personalities judged by physical appearance alone

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Observers were able to accurately judge some aspects of a stranger's personality from looking at photographs, according to a study in the current issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSBP), the official monthl ...


In cancer-ridden rats, loneliness can kill

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Socially isolated female rats develop more tumors -- and tumors of a more deadly type -- than rats living in a social group, according to researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago.


MU researchers develop digital solutions to support divorced families

MU researchers develop digital solutions to support divorced families

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Conflict between parents, before and after divorce, is associated with feelings of anger, helplessness, loneliness and guilt in children. Now, an online program created by University of Missouri researchers ...


Intel Reader Transforms Printed Text to Spoken Word

Intel Reader Transforms Printed Text to Spoken Word (w/ Video)

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Intel Corporation today announced the Intel Reader, a mobile handheld device designed to increase independence for people who have trouble reading standard print.


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Amazon delivers Kindle books to PCs

Technology / Software

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Amazon.com on Tuesday released free software that lets people read the online retail titan's electronic Kindle books on personal computers.


First impressions count when making personality judgments, new research shows

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

First impressions do matter when it comes to communicating personality through appearance, according to new research by psychologists Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University and Sam Gosling of The University of Texas at ...


Solitude contributes to a person's imagined intimacy with a TV character

Solitude contributes to a person's imagined intimacy with a TV character

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If your best friend is a guy from "The Office" or a young doctor on "Grey's Anatomy," you may be relying too much on TV shows to fill a social void in your life.


UCLA historian attempts to revive reputation of Union general, Reconstruction president

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new book, UCLA historian Joan Waugh argues that Ulysses S. Grant deserves to be remembered with as much reverence and gratitude as Abraham Lincoln.


New study examines benefit of internet access, social media networking on seniors' health

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many elderly adults are increasingly isolated and grapple with depression, loneliness and declines in physical health. The UAB Department of Sociology and Social Work will use a five-year, $1.9 million National Institute ...



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