Gender preferences in 'comfort' foods stem from childhood
... many men; tofu isn't). Whatever the trigger, the emotions evoked by food are powerful factors in the human drive to eat -- and overeat. Wansink will discuss comfort foods on "Top Five," a broadcast of the Food Network, on Monday, July 14, at 10 p.m. Eastern Time. The show was filmed in Wansink's lab and in...Happy people may have more immunities to common cold
... people who typically report experiencing negative emotions are at greater risk for disease and those who report positive emotions have less risk, says Cohen. After their assessment, each volunteer got a squirt in the nose of a rhi......y to match the full positive and negative range of emotions experienced by medical trainees with the events th... trigger these feelings. The five most prevalent emotions felt by residents and medical students in this study were gratitude, anxiety, happiness, sadness, an...Physicians' emotional responses to patients' deaths increase with care length, says Pitt
... that patient dies but doctors often suffer these emotions in silence. These findings from a study by Univers...ician response, and how these physicians deal with emotions that arise over the death of a patient. "Physicians form bonds with their patients, and when a patie...Study: Stereotypes prevail in media coverage of depression
...en's roles as fathers or husbands -- or even men's emotions -- received nowhere near as much coverage as did the 'depression' of not performing on the job or the playing field." Metzl notes that this trend is important for patients and their doctors, because it may influence the way they communicate with each...Empowerment in cyberspace - Electronic discussion helps cancer patients cope
...of treatment, but also to share their feelings and emotions about having cancer." Women took the opportunity to ask each other about such questions as how to tell their children of their diagnosis, or how to cope with a daughter's fears that she might also have breast cancer. Such posts would start a wider ...Duke study links forgiveness to less back pain, depression
...related to the chronicity of their condition - are emotions that are salient features of many persons' chronic pain experience. Anger can be a major complicating factor in the treatment of persistent pain, and also negatively impact patients' interactions with family members, co-workers, and health care provi...Rejection really hurts, UCLA psychologists find
...refrontal cortex is associated with thinking about emotions and with self-control. "The folks who had the mos...thinking in words and controlling behavior, urges, emotions and thought. So researchers theorize that the prefrontal cortex may inhibit the cingulate as opposed...New drug-and-psychotherapy program for bipolar disorder in children
...ive behavioral therapy, which modifies undesirable emotions and behaviors by working on the thoughts that motivate them. RAINBOW is an acronym to help families recall strategies for coping with the symptoms of the disease. Its letters stand for Routine; Affect (or emotional) regulation; "I can do it!" (promo...Gay, lesbian couples can teach heterosexuals how to improve relationships
...ss domineering and show considerably more positive emotions than heterosexual couples. "The way a discussion ...ked by what Gottman calls "the triumph of positive emotions over negative emotions." "Negative emotions have more impact in heterosexual relationships," he sai...Could you suffer from psychosis? The nose knows
...y linked to the area of your brain that deals with emotions and related non-language functions. "It is the only sense that passes straight to this area of the brain, and so any vulnerability involving these neural circuits can affect our labeling of smell," says Brewer. "This area of the brain deals with the ...Gender differences in brain response to pain
...d Women's Health studies how the brain, stress and emotions impact the development of disorders that affect mainly women. Irritable bowel syndrome affects 15 to 20 percent of Americans and causes discomfort in the abdomen, along with diarrhea and/or constipation....New studies show factors responsible for enhanced response to music
...peaking and singing. One study finds that positive emotions induced by pleasant music can have an analgesic ef...versity of Montreal has demonstrated that positive emotions induced by pleasant music can have an analgesic effect on people, helping reduce their perception of...Brain's 'daydream' network offers detection for Alzheimer's diagnosis
...s monitoring the environment, registering internal emotions and other forms of largely undirected thought and reflection. Brain areas thought to be included in this network are the medial frontal, the lateral parietal and the posterior cingulate regions of the cortex. "The posterior cingulate cortex was the s...Nov/Dec 2003 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...s. Stemming from these unique illness beliefs are emotions of shame, guilt and fear, which are often not adequately addressed during a brief or one-sided consultation with their physician. The authors suggest that to relieve distress and increase satisfaction with care, physicians delivering news of abnormal...Study questions benefits of costly schizophrenia drug
...ation or focusing on a task, and usually show flat emotions and a lack of interest in life. They are more likely to die early, because of a higher suicide risk and other issues that arise from their mental state, such as automobile accidents, medical problems or homelessness. VA provides health care for abou...Self-management improves course of low back pain
...lf-management group coping mechanisms for negative emotions such as depression and frustration. Dr. Damush, who is a health psychologist, said many study participants had deep fears of disability. All participants were counseled to communicate regularly with their physician rather than being a passive partici...Distress-prone people more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease
...he study, those who most often experience negative emotions like depression and anxiety were twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as those who were least prone to experience negative emotions. The study was part of a larger study of older Catholic nuns, priests and brothers. In the study, 797 people...Physicians can help family members caring for dying loved ones
...orting home care, demonstrating empathy for family emotions and relationships, and attending to family grief a...ursing home admissions. 4) Have empathy for family emotions and relationships. In particular physicians must recognize that adult children frequently assume res...OHSU researchers hope to prevent childhood asthma with new eczema drug
...anges in temperature, chemicals, scratchy fabrics, emotions or stress, and infections -- can cause children's immune systems to overreact and produce symptoms. To participate in the study (IRB No. 7899), infants must be aged 3 to 18 months, have been diagnosed with eczema within the last three months, have ...