Thursday, January 21, 2010
A new year and the start of a new decade… it’s a natural time to make resolutions for the future.
If you want to change your eating habits, relationships with others, work situation or something else as the new year begins, experts have ten common sense suggestions that will help you set goals that are realistic, [...]
Resisting temptation isn’t easy for anyone… especially when you’ve gotten into the habit of indulging yourself, as many of us have.
But a new study by researchers out of the University of Texas at Austin looked for ways to help us to resist temptation and suggests the key to doing so is to exaggerate the threat.
So [...]
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
During times of heightened health worries, simple things like sneezing or clearing of the throat often act as a subtle reminder of the threat of illness.
But that’s not all they do. A single sneeze brings the flu to conscious awareness, while also raising fears such as dying as the result of a early heart attack, [...]
Monday, November 30, 2009
You may have heard, from your mother or another well-meaning family member, that eating slowly is good for you.
Now new research appearing in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism suggests that there is more than a bit of truth to this time honored wisdom
Wolfing down your food makes you far more likely to eat [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
Cognitive Therapy Techniques, more commonly known as Cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT for short, has been found to help insomnia in older patients suffering with the pain (not to mention the disturbed sleep) of osteoarthritis according to new work appearing in the August 15, 2009 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
Cognitive behavioral therapy emphasizes [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
In this new look at Social Interaction Psychology, copying the motions, expression and mannerisms of people you meet appears to have a whole lot to do with promoting social bonding.
New research appearing in the August 14, 2009 issue of Science suggests that the way to get others to like you is to mimic their behavior.
Imitation [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Dreary, dismal days without the sun may do more than dampen our spirits. They might just impact the cognitive skills of those who battle depression, according to some new work that appears in the July 28 online issue of Environmental Health.
This is the first research to try and link light exposure and cognition, though earlier [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
You’ve probably heard that “you learn from your mistakes” but a new study in the journal Neuron disputes this, finding that enhanced learning comes more from our successes than our failures.
Research on monkeys out of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that neurons of the brain involved [...]
Why are we attracted to one person over another? Science is working to answer this question with some intriguing new research. It may be that unexpected (and some unseen) factors like biochemical odors and the women’s voices may add to the visual appeal of the face that makes your heart pound and your palms sweat.
Scent [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
New evidence published online in the January 2009 issue of the journal Psychological Science shows in a brain study that the brains of older women process negative images in a different way than do the brains of younger women.
This is a physical sign that the brain is able to learn to cope [...]
