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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.
Yoga, the physical, mental, and spiritual discipline originating in ancient India has seen growing popularity worldwide in the last couple of decades. Regular practitioners report improved mental and physical health; researchers are now keen to know the effects of Yoga on the life of people who practice it. A latest study conducted by occupational therapists at Indiana University in the US, on a small group, has revealed that performing yoga can help people regain their balance after a stroke. ...
A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has revealed the nation's 10 airports that are most likely to spread diseases.
As women go through menopause, they may see a decline in their ability to carry groceries, climb stairs and get other routine tasks done, a new study suggests.
U.S. researchers in Africa will test a vaginal ring that's inserted once a month and slowly oozes an anti-AIDS drug into the surrounding tissue to see if it will work against the deadly virus.
A new research reveals that a quarter of the elderly have undiagnosed treatable heart problems. According to heart experts from Newcastle, the elderly in our society can be given simple heart treatments that could make them live longer with an improved quality of life as well. For the study, researchers from Newcastle University studied people aged 87 to 89 years old and found that a routine test conducted at home reveals that around one-fourth of the total numbers of the elderly in the soci...
Young Flesh-Eating Bacteria Victim Reveals Her $200,000 Bionic Hands 
Bras Make Breasts "Saggier", 15-year French Study Reveals 
Russian Gymnast Has the World's Strongest Vagina 
Cell Phones May Raise Blood Pressure, but Yoga May Lower It 
Skydiving Never Gets Less Stressful 
Star Trek Into Darkness: How Would Your Body Feel in Space? 
Study Finds Brain Dictates Which Ear Cell Phones Go To 
CDC Announces One in Five Children Has a Mental Illness in the U.S. 
Being Physically Fit in Mid-life Could Protect Men from Cancer 20 Years Later 
PTSD Linked to Diabetes Risk, Study 
