Your Brain Reveals Who Your Friends Are Summary: By looking at how the brain responds to video clips, researchers are able to determine who your friends may be, a new study reveals. Source: Dartmouth College. You may perceive the world the way your friends do, according to a Dartmouth study finding that friends have similarContinue reading “Your Brain Reveals Who Your Friends Are”
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Emotions and Disease
Cullen and Robert Whytt were two of the many physicians who turned to the nervous system to find a physiological connection between emotions and disease. These physicians hoped to find in nervous system physiology a compromise of sorts between traditional ideas linking emotions and disease and the new desire to extend the reach of localistic pathology. Since the nervous system was enormously complex and its functions were subtle and elusive, it could be the locus of “functional” disorders, which were characterized by disrupted activity but where no inflammation or “appreciable morbid change in the nervous structure” could be found. By the 1840s and 1850s, functional disorders of the nervous system (also called “neuroses”) and the emotional causes that precipitated them had become a major area of clinical study, as is clear in Austin Flint’s popular A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine.
Secret to Happiness May Include More Unpleasant Emotions
Secret to Happiness May Include More Unpleasant Emotions Summary: Researchers report happiness is linked to feeling desired emotions, even when those emotions may be negative. Source: American Psychological Association. Research contradicts idea that people should always seek pleasure to be happy. People may be happier when they feel the emotions they desire, even if thoseContinue reading “Secret to Happiness May Include More Unpleasant Emotions”
Negative emotions are bad for health, affecting more Americans than Japanese
By Tamara Sims, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Building 420, Jordan Hall, Stanford, CA 94305 How people interpret and respond to negative feelings (e.g., Boiger, Mesquita, Uchida, & Barrett, 2013; Diener & Suh, 2000; Matsumoto, 1993; Mesquita & Leu, 2007). Such culture-specific understandings of the nature and source of emotion can have powerful implications for mental and physical well-being. Indeed, multiple studiesContinue reading “Negative emotions are bad for health, affecting more Americans than Japanese”
Breaking the habit of being yourself by Dr Joe Dispenza
Joe Dispenza, D.C., studied biochemistry at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree with an emphasis in neuroscience. He received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Life University in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating magna cum laude. Dr. Dispenza’s postgraduate training and continuing education has been in neurology, neuroscience, brainContinue reading “Breaking the habit of being yourself by Dr Joe Dispenza”
Raising Inspired Children by Dr Joe Dispenza
Neuroscientist Dr Joe Dispenza, and father of three, marries science with spirituality (universal intelligence) in this presentation on Raising Inspired Children. “I want my kids to understand that the way they think, and the way they feel influences every single atom in their life. I want them to know that their thoughts create their life,”Continue reading “Raising Inspired Children by Dr Joe Dispenza”