With evidence growing that meditation can have beneficial health effects, scientists have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body. A new study by researchers in Wisconsin, Spain, and France reports the first evidence of specific molecular changes in the body following a ...
Date Posted: December 11, 2013
Categories: Mindfulness Meditation
GO
Giving of yourself -- whether it be your time, energy or money -- isn't just a boon to those you're helping. A wealth of research shows that generosity can also have benefits for the receiver, ranging from a better outlook at your job, to more years ...
Dec 11
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues
GOA habit, either good or bad is an automatic behavior that we engage in without thinking. So how do we change it?
Dec 10
Categories: Addictions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Control Issues, Mindfulness
GO
My husband and I are incredibly lucky to be able to give our son what he needs and often what he wants, and we are raising him in a wonderful town in which many families do the same. Yet he’s growing up in a bubble, and that terrifies me. If he ...
Dec 10
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
GO
Across three studies, Anouk Festjens and her colleagues led over a hundred female undergrads to believe they were taking part in customer research for a clothing manufacturer. The women handled a pair of men's boxer shorts or a t-shirt and rated it ...
Dec 10
GO
Almost every language in the world uses an expression similar to ‘hurt feelings’ to describe the emotional response we have to being rejected. The question is, why are rejections so painful?
Among the various kinds of psychological injuries we ...
Dec 9
GO
Research from North Carolina State University shows that working a job that doesn’t keep 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. hours can hurt the relationships between parents and adolescents, increasing the likelihood that children will engage in delinquent ...
Dec 9
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
GO
A new brain connectivity study from Penn Medicine published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found striking differences in the neural wiring of men and women that's lending credence to some commonly-held beliefs about ...
Dec 7
GO
Depression is a serious mental illness that has many negative consequences for sufferers. But depression among pregnant women may also have an impact on their developing babies.
Children of depressed parents are at an increased risk of developing ...
Dec 7
Categories: Depression, Pregnancy & Birthing
GO
Even with today’s technology, it still takes both a male and a female to make a baby. But is it important for both parents to raise that child? Many studies have outlined the value of a mother, but few have clearly defined the importance of a ...
Dec 6
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
GO
While a majority of children in Singapore have better material comforts than their counterparts elsewhere, studies on their mental health are not so encouraging.
When some international surveys [read Gallup] proclaim that Singapore is the least ...
Dec 6
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
GO
Sleep is an evolutionary paradox. In pre-historic times, periods of sleep would have been windows of opportunity for predators and periods of susceptibility to dangerous natural calamities. The chances of losing life for early humans during sleep ...
Dec 5
Categories: Sleep Disorders
GO
Fear of being single is a meaningful predictor of settling for less in relationships among both men and women, a new University of Toronto study has found. The results are published in the December edition of the Journal of Personality and Social ...
Dec 5
Categories: Fear, Relationships & Marriage
GO
You are hardly alone if you believe that humanity is divided into two great camps: the left-brain and the right-brain thinkers — those who are logical and analytical vs. those who are intuitive and creative. For years, an industry of books, tests ...
Dec 5
GO
In the fall of 1992, a twentysomething college dropout and former juvenile offender named John Carmack was hard at work in Mesquite, Texas, on a new concept for a video game. It would merge the first-person perspective of a game like Myst with the ...
Dec 4
Categories: Addictions
GO
Children who experience profound neglect have been found to be more prone to a behavior known as "indiscriminate friendliness," characterized by an inappropriate willingness to approach adults, including strangers.
Dec 4
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
GO1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
New evidence shows the calming power of reminiscing about happy times
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.