Category: Studies
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The Blue and the Gray
Read more: The Blue and the GrayScienceDaily: Why does everything look gray when you feel blue? Regardless of culture, language, era, or individual artist, the arts consistently depict depression using darkness. Scientific findings now lend empirical support to this representation of depression that everything looks gray when you feel blue.
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Brain Pushups
Read more: Brain PushupsScienceDaily: Brain training reverses age-related cognitive decline. In rats. But still… “The neurons looked young again. They were full and robust. It’s like a hose without water going through it appears collapsed. Run the water and it expands to its original size. Recovery happens.”
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Botox Feeback
Read more: Botox FeebackA study finds delayed reaction times to unpleasant emotion in people who’ve had Botox treatment, supporting something called the “facial feedback hypothesis.” [A]fter Botox treatment, the subjects took more time to read…angry and sad sentences…“Normally, the brain would be sending signals to the periphery to frown, and the extent of the frown would be sent…
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Sibling Harmony
Read more: Sibling HarmonyScienceDaily: Essential ingredients of supportive sibling relationships. [A new paper] urges parents to think about the relationship they want their kids to have with each other–now and as adults–and to be intentional in helping them create that positive, supportive bond. How-to suggestions included in the article.
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Less Net, Less Depression?
Read more: Less Net, Less Depression?UPI: Fighting depression by logging off. A recent study by researchers at Stony Brook University in New York found that online forums and chat sites can aggravate symptoms of depression. Over the course of a year, 13-year-old girls were found to become increasingly depressed and anxious when they participated in online chat sites allowing the…