News tagged with psychoneuroimmunology
Emotional response may predict how the body responds to stress
Your emotional response to challenging situations could predict how your body responds to stress, according to research published this month in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Starve a fever, feed a cold, don't be stressed
Whether it's getting a cold during exam time or feeling run-down after a big meeting, we've all experienced feeling sick following a particularly stressful time at work or school. Is this merely coincidence, or is it possible ...
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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Stress accelerates breast cancer progression in mice: study
Chronic stress acts as a sort of fertilizer that feeds breast cancer progression, significantly accelerating the spread of disease in animal models, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found.
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Stress gets under our skin
Everyone experiences social stress, whether it is nervousness over a job interview, difficulty meeting people at parties, or angst over giving a speech. In a new report, UCLA researchers have discovered that how your brain ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 09, 2010 |
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Study finds body's response to repetitive laughter is similar to the effect of repetitive exercise
Laughter is a highly complex process. Joyous or mirthful laughter is considered a positive stress (eustress) that involves complicated brain activities leading to a positive effect on health. Norman Cousins first suggested ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Study finds genetic link between misery and death
In ongoing work to identify how genes interact with social environments to impact human health, UCLA researchers have discovered what they describe as a biochemical link between misery and death. In addition, they found a ...
Feb 24, 2010 |
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Researchers Study Whether Psychosocial Interventions Ease Psoriasis
(PhysOrg.com) -- The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has awarded University of Rochester Medical Center researchers $2.5 million to investigate the impact of psychological interventions on attacks ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Researchers show how morphine can be given more effectively
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found a way to maintain the pain-killing qualities of morphine over an extended period of time, thus providing a solution for the problem of having to administer increasing ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Bad news for insomniacs: 'hunger hormones' affected by poor sleep
Insomnia has long been associated with poor health, including weight gain and even obesity. Now researchers at UCLA have found out why.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Teenage stress has implications for adult health
Most of us remember our teenage years with a mix of fondness and relief. Fondness for the good memories, and relief that all that teenage stress, angst and drama — first love, gossip, SATs, fights with parents — is behind ...
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Restless nights put older adults at risk for depression recurrence
Nearly 60 percent of the nation's elderly have trouble sleeping, whether it's a lot of tossing and turning or outright bouts of insomnia. While for most people sleeplessness can be annoying at best or unhealthy at worst, ...
Sep 30, 2008 |
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Mindfulness meditation slows progression of HIV, study shows
CD4+ T lymphocytes, or simply CD4 T cells, are the "brains" of the immune system, coordinating its activity when the body comes under attack. They are also the cells that are attacked by HIV, the devastating virus that causes ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 24, 2008 |
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