News tagged with physiological response
Negative, localized online news garners more attention, study finds
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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According to the "hardwired for news" theory, people devote more attention to information that is deviant or threatening. To test the theory, University of Missouri researchers examined the physiological effects of reading ...
Physiological response may explain why some severely obese patients overeat
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Don't feel like you are getting full when eating a large meal? New research from The Miriam Hospital suggests that a physiological response may partially explain why severely obese individuals may not feel satisfied after ...
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Sour comes after a lemon has gone
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 06, 2008 |
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The research group led by Professor Makoto Tominaga and Research Assistant Professor Hitoshi Inada (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan) found that a sour taste receptor, PKD1L3-PKD2L1 channel complex, ...
Surprising discovery: Multicellular response is 'all for one'
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May 08, 2008 |
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Real or perceived threats can trigger the well-known “fight or flight response” in humans and other animals. Adrenaline flows, and the stressed individual’s heart pumps faster, the muscles work harder, the brain sharpens ...
Witnessing violence affects kids' health
Apr 21, 2009 |
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School-aged children who witness violence in urban communities show symptoms of post-traumatic stress. They also suffer physiological effects with a disruption to their normal cortisol production pattern during the day, which ...
Better tools needed for assessing infant pain
Jun 24, 2008 |
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Currently used pain assessment tools may be underestimating the pain response in infants according to a study published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine this week. Dr Slater and colleagues (University College London ...
Tadpoles Used to Rapidly Detect Water Pollution
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research conducted by University of Wyoming Professor Paul Johnson and others demonstrates that genetically modified tadpoles work well as sensitive monitors for rapidly detecting water pollution.
Importance of sex-specific testing shown in anxiety study
Oct 15, 2008 |
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An Australian study has flagged an important truth for the medical research community. Like their human counterparts, male and female mice are not only different, their respective genetic responses can often be the reverse ...
Newly launched study to probe women's response to male odor
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 05, 2008 |
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A single gene determines whether a whiff of androstadienone smells pleasant or foul, or like nothing at all. But researchers who last year discovered this genetic peculiarity were left wondering about its social implications.
Study shows how using mental strategies can alter the brain's reward circuitry
Jun 29, 2008 |
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The cognitive strategies humans use to regulate emotions can determine both neurological and physiological responses to potential rewards, a team of New York University and Rutgers University neuroscientists has discovered. ...
ATP is a key to feel warm temperature
Oct 08, 2009 |
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A Japanese research group led by Prof. Makoto Tominaga and Dr. Sravan Mandadi (National Institute for Physiological Sciences: NIPS) found that ATP plays a key role in transmitting temperature information from skin keratinocytes ...
Low lead levels in children can affect cardiovascular responses to stress
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Apr 17, 2009 |
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Even low levels of lead found in the blood during early childhood can adversely affect how the child's cardiovascular system responds to stress and could possibly lead to hypertension later in life, according to a study from ...
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