Blogs May Help Teens Reduce Social Stress
January 5th, 2012
Blogging may help teens improve their self-esteem and enhance friendships, a new study suggests. Moreover, the online activity is especially helpful ...
Blogging may help teens improve their self-esteem and enhance friendships, a new study suggests. Moreover, the online activity is especially helpful ...
Evolutionary psychologists suspect that prejudice is rooted in survival. Our distant ancestors had to avoid outsiders who might have carried disease.
Research still shows that when people feel vulnerable to illness, they ...
While most appreciate the efficiency of our immune system -- a biological system that automatically responds to pathogens once they have entered our system -- few realize ...
Using mice as model, University of Virginia researchers discover light plays a role in reducing fear and anxiety.
This finding and application may augment the treatment of ...
The next time you're nervously prepping for an exam or a crucial job interview, consider this: taking a break to exercise may help you stay calm and focused ...
A new drug target for anxiety disorders -- and particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- is now possible due to a recent unexpected discovery by UCLA scientists. Their research ...
Some define fear as an emotional response to a perceived threat. We know fear increases heart rate, clenches the stomach, tightens the throat and freezes muscles in place.
New research finds that ...
A new study underway hopes to determine whether or not grabbing a child firmly by the arm, yelling and repeatedly punishing him or her ...
Although the number of new diagnoses of mood and anxiety disorders appear to decline with age, the conditions remain common in ...
Researchers frequently use animal models to study how an intervention influences behavior. Often, the value of the research depends on how well the animal behavior mimics or replicates ...
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