Women who constantly wear high heel shoes may suffer reduced balance, reduce ankle flexion and weaker muscle power in the calf.
The effect of bringing people with different political views has been toxic and negative.
In order to maintain a healthy life, a study suggests a 39-hour work week.
Working long hours is considered a virtue in the country. Around one in eight workers spends 80 hours or more in their work.
People who are really busy, for them work/life balance is a challenge. However, not same is the case with everyone. Some people are known to be really calm, cool and "in the moment" although they have sharper deadlines. How do they manage that?
Teenage years can sometimes be the most difficult time to deal with, for children as well as for parents. It's when they are neither considered adults nor a child. This could be confusing and adolescents find it very difficult to cope with the situation. The physical, psychological and hormonal changes could make them fussy or irritated, and this certainly reflects in their interpersonal and social relationships. A study by researchers from University of Missouri describes how adolescents......
A new study led by a UCSF researcher shows that poor sleep can reduce the effectiveness of vaccines and is the first performed outside a sleep laboratory to show that sleep duration is directly tied to vaccine immune response.
Psychological scientists, Tara Kraft and Sarah Pressman, from the University of Kansas studied the potential benefits of smiling by looking at how different types of smiling, and the awareness of smiling, affects individuals' ability to recover from episodes of stress.
A latest research by UC Irvine scientists claims that people who have excellent autobiographic memory have different brains and mental processes than those who cannot. The first person ever to have been documented for her extraordinary memory of the past was identified as "AJ." However, this latest study is the first scientific evidence of almost a dozen people with this uncanny ability.
Researchers from The Miriam Hospital's Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center say health coaches could play an important role in the battle of obesity.
A latest research warns parents that psychological abuse could be as damaging to a child's physical and mental health as physical abuse like slapping or punching. According to experts from American academy of pediatrics, even though its difficult to pinpoint or produce a figure, psychological abuse may be the most common type of child abuse. Psychological abuse includes the acts of belittling, denigrating, terrorizing, exploiting, emotional unresponsiveness, or corrupting a child to the point...
A recent study published on the journal Science states that remembering something old or noticing something new can bias how a person processes subsequent information. Can the simple act of recognizing a face as you walk down the street change the way we think? Or can taking the time to notice something new on our way to work change what we remember about that walk? The answer is Yes. Researchers from New Your University found, through an analysis, that recalling old memories of recognizing some...
Our action defines us and many of these things are taught to us by our parents or elders and there are many other aspects which are not taught. All these constitute social norms which govern our action and inaction. The observance of social norms helps us fit into the society. In a latest study by researchers Marco Schmidt and Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the authors have attempted to better understand the important concept of 'social glue' ...
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have found an association between childhood physical and sexual abuse and menstrual periods.
Researchers say shift workers are slightly more at risk of having a heart attack or stroke than day workers.