Saturday, May 31, 2008
Energy therapy: Where mysticism meets science
Anne Broderick believes she can use her hands to alter the energy fields of others to help them heal, taking away fatigue, stress and nausea. A clinical trial at Stanford University aims to prove it. The university is testing whether an energy therapy called Healing Touch can reduce the debilitating effects of chemotherapy on breast cancer patients.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Number of troops with PTSD up 50 percent
The number of troops with new cases of post-traumatic stress disorder jumped by roughly 50 percent in 2007 amid the military buildup in Iraq and increased violence there and in Afghanistan. Records show roughly 40,000 troops have been diagnosed with the illness, also known as PTSD, since 2003. Officials believe that many more are likely keeping their illness a secret.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Suicides linked to work-related stress up in Japan
The number of people who committed suicide or tried to in Japan because of work-related stress has doubled in the last five years, a government report said, illustrating the growing anxiety many here feel from increased workloads and competition.
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Study Finds High Ground Zero Stress
A new study by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine suggests that the percentage of ground zero workers who suffered post-traumatic stress is roughly the same as for airline crash recovery workers and returning Afghanistan war veterans.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Free HeartMath Webinar - The science and research behind the HeartMath system
Dr. Rollin McCraty, Director of Research, Institute of HeartMath, will present the science and research behind the HeartMath system and the emWave technologies on Saturday, June 7th from 11:00am to 12:00pm (PST).
Looking Inside Kids’ Minds Can Open the Future
Two million American children have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. It’s so common now that one child in a classroom of 25 or 30 will have the disorder. But parents often struggle a long time to figure out exactly what’s going on in their child’s head. Dr. Fernando Miranda, a neurologist at the Bright Minds Institute in San Francisco, says diagnosing children with behavioral disorders like ADHD and autism without looking at their brains is like trying to diagnose heart problems without actually looking at the heart.
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Successful dieters distinguish hunger from emotions
Overeating is often fueled by a wide range of turbulent emotions. It’s not always a simple matter of being hungry. Boredom, loneliness, anxiety, anger, stress, sadness and even happiness can have more to do with what and when we eat.
Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain
When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing number of studies suggest that this assumption is often wrong. Instead, the research finds, the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sift through a clutter of information, often to its long-term benefit.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Spillover Effects Of Family And School Stress Linger In Adolescents’ Daily Lives
Teenagers today face increasing pressures and demands from school and home. New research has found that stress at home affects adolescents’ school life, and vice versa. What’s more, that stress lasts for two days and affects academic performance across the high school years.
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Low cortisol levels found in kids whose mothers show signs of depression
A new study of young children living in extreme poverty found that those whose mothers showed symptoms of depression had low levels of cortisol, a hormone activated during times of stress, compared with children whose mothers did not exhibit depressive symptoms.
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Stress At Work Increases The Progression Of Arteriosclerosis
Work stress, resulting from great pressure at the work place, may increase the progression of atherosclerosis by 46% in people who have highly reactive personalities to stress.
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Mother’s Prenatal Stress Predisposes Their Babies To Asthma And Allergy, Study Shows
Women who are stressed during pregnancy may pass some of that frazzlement to their fetuses in the form of increased sensitivity to allergen exposure and possibly future asthma risk.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Foreclosures take an emotional toll on many homeowners
The housing crisis is wrenching the emotional lives of legions of homeowners. The escalating pace of foreclosures and rising fears among some homeowners about keeping up with their mortgages are creating a range of emotional problems, mental-health specialists say. Those include anxiety disorders, depression and addictive behaviors such as alcoholism and gambling. And, in a few cases, suicide.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Men are more likely than women to crave alcohol when they feel negative emotions
Women and men tend to have different types of stress-related psychological disorders. Women have greater rates of depression and some types of anxiety disorders than men, while men have greater rates of alcohol-use disorders than women. A new study of emotional and alcohol-craving responses to stress has found that when men become upset, they are more likely than women to want alcohol.
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Depression diversity: Brain studies reveal big differences among individuals
Depressed people may have far fewer of the receptors for some of the brain’s “feel good” stress-response chemicals than non-depressed people, new University of Michigan Depression Center research shows.