May 14th, 2013

Everyone has their own strategy to manage emotions. For some, when trouble approaches, they do everything they can to avoid confrontation, for others, they look to make lemonade out of the ...
May 11th, 2013

Individuals suffering from chronic pain should be evaluated for anxiety disorders, according to a new study published in General Hospital Psychiatry.
"I think [health care] providers are more aware of the ...
May 10th, 2013

People provided with a real-time readout of their brain activity can learn to control that activity and decrease their ...
May 8th, 2013

Among teens with substance use disorders, those who also have social anxiety disorder begin using marijuana at a mean age of 10.6 ...
May 7th, 2013

Teenaged boys who play violent video games three or more hours a day may be desensitized to the physiological and emotional effects of the ...
May 4th, 2013

In what may seem an unusual finding, teens with high blood pressure appear to be better psychologically adjusted and enjoy a higher ...
May 4th, 2013

New research shows that self-affirmation can protect against the damaging effects of stress on problem-solving.
According to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, self-affirmation is the process of identifying ...
May 4th, 2013

A new study reveals that practitioners of meditation experience changes in gene expression that are the exact opposite of what occurs during the "flight ...
May 2nd, 2013

New research finds that some people are better off not having a spouse than being in a poor relationship.
University of Michigan researchers found that ...
May 2nd, 2013

An international team of researchers has determined that child abuse leaves a distinct change in biological pathways.
Such discoveries have the ...