Anger
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Teen Aggression May Really Be a State of Mind
For parents of emotionally combative teens, new research offers a powerful biological reason for all the family feuding—adolescent brain size. A team of Australian scientists has found that when key regions of the brain known for controlling emotions are bigger, boys and girls tend to be more aggressive and more persistent during their fights with Mom and Dad.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
‘Anger control’ key to recovery
The Brain Behavior and Immunity study indicates stress has a major impact on the body’s ability to repair itself. Nearly 100 participants were asked to rate how well they could control their temper, and the speed at which they recovered from a blister was monitored. Hotheads were more than four times likely to take more than four days to heal than mild-mannered counterparts.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
APA: Dealing Well With Stress Linked to Higher HDLs
The ability to cope with stress may be linked to HDLs, researchers said here. Among older men, negative coping strategies, such as hostility and social isolation, were significantly associated with lower HDL levels compared with men who had more positive ways of dealing with stress. The findings suggest that better coping mechanisms can serve a protective role in cardiovascular health.
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Friday, August 03, 2007
Hostile Men Could Have Greater Risk for Heart Disease, Study Finds
Men who are hostile and prone to frequent intense feelings of anger and depression could be harming their immune systems and putting themselves at risk for coronary heart disease as well as related disorders like type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, a new study finds.
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Sunday, July 15, 2007
Why so angry? How rage can make you ill
According to a 2006 Harvard study, 10 million adult men in the United States are so angry, they’re sick. In fact, their disease has a name: intermittent explosive disorder, or IED. The condition has been on the books since 1980, but the Harvard study claims it’s far more common than anyone believed. Few people see psychiatrists because they can’t control their tempers. If the Harvard researchers are correct, almost 1 in 10 adult men routinely display wildly disproportionate aggression, and are so angry that they’re likely to damage property, or threaten or injure others. (The researchers estimate that only half as many women suffer from IED.)
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Biofeedback Reinvented - New Discoveries Show that the Heart Pulses Messages that Reveal Feelings
HeartMath essentially reinvented biofeedback in 1999 when they introduced the first affordable consumer stress-reduction product using their patented heart rhythm feedback. Their focus on heart rhythm feedback provided a refreshing departure from conventional biofeedback practices, and has since been adopted by more than ten thousand health professionals worldwide as an effective and invaluable tool for patients suffering from stress-related issues. Internationally respected for their research-based stress solutions, HeartMath peer-reviewed studies have demonstrated the critical link between emotions, heart function, and cognitive performance.
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Thursday, July 05, 2007
Most middle-school boys and many girls play violent video games
Many children are playing video games to manage their feelings, including anger and stress. Children who play violent games are more likely to play to get their anger out.
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Harboring Hostility May Be Linked to Unhealth Lungs Says New Study
Young adults with a short temper or mean disposition also tend to have compromised lung function, says a recent study published in the journal Health Psychology, by the American Psychological Association (APA). The results indicated that the more hostile one’s personality—characterized by aggression or anger, for example—the lower levels one’s of lung function even after controlling for age, height, socioeconomic status, smoking status and presence of asthma.
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Research Demonstrates Link Between Domestic Violence and Asthma
The link between environmental exposures and asthma has been clearly described, but a new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health finds a strong association between domestic violence and asthma. The study raises questions about the role of stress in the development of this common respiratory condition.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
Our emWave Personal Stress Reliever is on sale until the end of the April for $20.00 off. If you’re interested in realtime stress reduction and peak performance, please take a look at the two-minute demo.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Anger linked to illness
It’s obvious that feelings of anger and frustration negatively affect psychological health, and that care and compassion do the opposite. Not so well known are the studies over the last decade or so which have shown that the same is true of our physical health—specifically, resistance to disease.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
The Flavor Of Memories
Two crucial facts that neurologists have come to understand in the past few years about the workings of human memory--facts that have important implications for the treatment of a variety of mental disorders, from post-traumatic stress to obsessive-compulsive disorder. The first is that, despite its movie-like clarity, my memory of J.F.K.’s assassination is almost certainly wrong in some details, and maybe even some significant ones. That’s because I’m not simply calling up the original memory laid down in November 1963. I’m recalling the last time I thought about it. Each time we retrieve and re-store a memory, it can be subtly altered by all sorts of factors. What goes back into our brains is like the new version of a text document, overwriting the old. The second fact: memory and emotion are intimately linked biochemically, with hormones like adrenaline actively involved in forming the neurological patterns we call memories.
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Monday, January 15, 2007
Living with the scars of war
Thousands have come home from Iraq injured, sometimes severely. Here are the stories of three Marines’ struggle to heal.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
An Appreciative Heart is Good Medicine
Psychologists once maintained that emotions were purely mental expressions generated by the brain alone. We now know that this is not true — emotions have as much to do with the heart and body as they do with the brain. Of the bodily organs, the heart plays a particularly important role in our emotional experience. The experience of an emotion results from the brain, heart, and body acting in concert. The Institute of HeartMath, a research center dedicated to the study of the heart and the physiology of emotions, has conducted numerous studies identifying the relationship between emotions and the heart. A number of their studies have provided new insight into understanding how the activity of the heart is indeed linked to our emotions and our health, vitality and well-being.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Study: Violent video game effects linger in brain
Teens who play violent video games show increased activity in areas of the brain linked to emotional arousal and decreased responses in regions that govern self-control, a study released on Tuesday found. Those who played the violent video game showed more activation in the amygdala, which is involved in emotional arousal, and less activation in the prefrontal portions of the brain associated with control, focus and concentration than the teens who played the nonviolent game.