With Christmas just around the corner, the festive fun can often be overshadowed by stress. The pressures of Christmas shopping, time, money, and social demands can often lead to anxiety, sleep disturbances, headaches, loss of appetite and even poor concentration, all of which are symptoms of stress. Over time, stress can contribute towards heart disease, [...]
In the wake of September 11, 2001, the government and the media have periodically alerted the American people to potential threats of bioterrorism. Now, a team of researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found that such messages measurably raise anxiety levels, which could pose adverse health effects. And, based [...]
The American Society of Plastic Surgical Nurses presented its Plastic Surgical Nurses (PSN) Editor’s Award to Marlene Rankin, a Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member, and her two co-authors, during its annual convention in Chicago Nov. 1.
Rankin, clinical associate professor at The College of Nursing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, [...]
Every brain has a soundtrack. Its tempo and tone will vary, depending on mood, frame of mind, and other features of the brain itself. When that soundtrack is recorded and played back — to an emergency responder, or a firefighter — it may sharpen their reflexes during a crisis, and calm their nerves afterward.
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In order to develop socially, emotionally and cognitively, children need plenty of free, unstructured play – in other words, lots of old-fashioned free playtime, says a report by the American Academy of Pediatrics, called “The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds.”
The American Academy of Pediatrics believes pediatricians [...]
A new study has found that the more a teenager is exposed to television and other electronic media the higher are his/her chances of developing depression symptoms in young adulthood – this is especially the case for young men, says a study published in Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA/Archives journal.
The authors explain [...]
Children who are more intelligent at age 6 may be less likely to experience trauma by age 17 and if they do, may be less likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a report in the November issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In contrast, children who have [...]
An in-class writing assignment designed to boost students’ sense of identity and personal integrity reduced the achievement gap between African-American and nonminority students by 40 percent, according to a new study by a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher.
The results suggest that targeted psychological interventions on a wider scale could potentially help [...]
Repeating mantrams can help control the symptoms post-traumatic stress disorder, have a calming effect in traffic and even ease the boredom of exercise, according to a study in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing.
83 per cent of veterans and hospital staff surveyed after a five-week mantram course told researchers from [...]
If you have a preoccupying fear of having a serious illness you most likely suffer from hypochondria or hypochondriasis. A person with hypochondria continues thinking he is seriously ill despite appropriate medical evaluations and reassurances that his health is fine.
A person with hypochondria will think such normal bodily functions as heart beats, sweating [...]
