Category: Studies
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Knowledge v. Pain
Read more: Knowledge v. PainWebMD: Attitude, Knowledge Can Relieve Back Pain. “For most patients, psychological factors as well as beliefs, attitudes, and health literacy will also come into play,” he says. “We can tell patients to stay active, for example, but if they don’t believe exercise will help or if they fear activity will make their condition worse, they aren’t going…
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Breakup Predictor
Read more: Breakup PredictorA study finds a new way t o predict whether or not a couple is going to stay together–word matching. The researchers found that volunteers who found it easy to associate their partner with bad things and difficult to associate the partner with good things were more likely to separate over the next year.
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Ending Relationship Like Kicking Drugs
Read more: Ending Relationship Like Kicking DrugsPsychCentral: Relationship Breakup Similar to Addiction Withdrawal Rejection by a romantic partner is a bitter pill. New research suggests the trauma is severe because love rejection affects primitive areas of the brain associated with motivation, reward and addiction cravings…
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Friends Good for You (Baboon Edition)
Read more: Friends Good for You (Baboon Edition)ScienceDaily: For female baboons, too, it’s good to have friends: Female baboons that maintain closer ties with other members of their troop live substantially longer than do those whose social bonds are less stable, a recent study has found. The researchers say that the findings add to evidence in animals from mice to humans that…
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Exercise and Mental Health
Read more: Exercise and Mental HealthNYT reports study about Activity and Mental Health in Women: People who are physically active appear to be at lower risk for cognitive impairment late in life, and for women, a new study suggests, physical activity during the teenage years may provide the greatest benefit.