Emotions
Thursday, May 08, 2008
HeartMath Webinar - The Power of Positive Emotions with guest Marci Shimoff - July 9
Marci Shimoff is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul. Ms. Shimoff is also a featured teacher in the Secret. Join us as we discuss the power of positive emotions and how you can bring more of them into your life.
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Monday, April 07, 2008
New Study Finds Anticipating A Laugh Reduces Stress
In 2006 researchers investigating the interaction between the brain, behavior, and the immune system found that simply anticipating a mirthful laughter experience boosted health-protecting hormones. Now, two years later, the same researchers have found that the anticipation of a positive humorous laughter experience also reduces potentially detrimental stress hormones.
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Friday, February 08, 2008
Misery is not Miserly: New Study Finds Why Even Momentary Sadness Increases Spending
How you are feeling has an impact on your routine economic transactions, whether you’re aware of this effect or not. In a new study that links contemporary science with the classic philosophy of William James, a research team finds that people feeling sad and self-focused spend more money to acquire the same commodities than those in a neutral emotional state.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Sports Fans’ Stress Can Be Heart Hazard
As football fans are gearing up for Super Bowl Sunday, The New England Journal of Medicine is playing spoilsport with a new study on the hazards of being a fan. The study, conducted in Germany, found that soccer fans had an increased risk of heart attack during championship games.
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
The Role of Stress in Just About Everything
You live in a majorly stressed out world. You’re never very far from a ringing cell phone or a guilt-inducing laptop. Traffic makes you flip out. And as if stressing out over lines, health, your job, your grades, or global terrorism wasn’t enough, along comes the APS Observer with one more thing in your life to stress out over: Stress.
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Women with irritable bowel syndrome unable to regulate pain effectively
UCLA researchers have found that women who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome are unable to effectively turn off a pain-modulation mechanism in the brain, causing them to be more sensitive to abdominal discomfort than women without the condition.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Empathy: Could It Be What You’re Missing?
A Washington Psychotherapist Suggests How to Tell . . . and How to Treat the Symptoms
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
Emotional Eaters Susceptible to Weight Regain
A new study finds that dieters who have the tendency to eat in response to external factors, such as at festive celebrations, have fewer problems with their weight loss than those who eat in response to emotions (internal factors). The study also found that emotional eating was associated with weight regain in successful losers.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
His Heart Whirs Anew
Peter Houghton is grateful for his artificial heart. After all, it has saved his life. He’s just a little wistful about emotions. He wishes he could feel them like he used to.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Stress, anxiety bring on irritable bowel
People who experience high levels of stress and anxiety appear to be more likely to develop irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) following a severe gastric infection, UK and New Zealand researchers report.
Friday, August 03, 2007
This is your brain on love
Science is just beginning to parse the inner workings of the brain in love, examining the blissful or ruinous fall from a medley of perspectives: neural systems, chemical messengers and the biology of reward.
Monday, July 30, 2007
American Institute of Stress Honors HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
HeartMath® is honored to have their handheld emWave Personal Stress Reliever® technology be the first recipient of the American Institute of Stress Award for Distinction and Innovation. This award is granted to products and services that have been formally evaluated and validated by the American Institute of Stress.
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A Mind for Sociability
Humans are highly social, but we don’t get pally with just anybody. Before forming relationships with other people, we normally size them up to see how trustworthy they are. A new study suggests that this behavior stems from an evolutionary reorganization in a part of the brain responsible for detecting other people’s emotions.
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Emotional recall is in your genes
Your ability to recall emotional events – such as meeting the love of your life, or the trauma of a painful car crash – is governed by a common variation in a single gene, according to a new study. We recall emotionally charged events far more than mundane ones because they tend to be advantageous in evolutionary terms. Remembering favourable or dangerous events helps our survival far more than recalling the daily commute to work, for example.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Joseph LeDoux’s heavy mental
The neuroscientist explains how music, emotion and memory shape our identities—and why he has donned a Stratocaster to keep the brain rollin’ all night long.