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·September 15, 2020·4 min read

People React Better to Both Negative and Positive Events With More Sleep

Shorter sleep duration causes people to react more emotionally to stressful events and find less joy in positive events the next day. Following a good night of rest, people's reaction to positive and negative events improves dramatically.

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·September 10, 2020·4 min read

Pain Tolerance Among Cannabis Users

Unlike long-term opioid use, frequent cannabis use does not increase sensitivity to pain.

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·July 8, 2020·4 min read

Hearing Persists at the End of Life

A new study provides evidence that hearing is the last sense to go during the process of active death. Many people become unresponsive during the final hours of life, however, EEG data revealed the dying brain responds to sounds throughout the final moments of life.

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·June 23, 2020·3 min read

Social and behavioral factors most commonly associated with death identified

Fifty-seven social and behavioral factors have been identified as the top contributors to increased mortality. Of those, smoking, divorce, and alcohol abuse are the top factors that are associated with a reduced lifespan.

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·February 13, 2020·2 min read

Smelling your lover’s shirt could improve your sleep

People exposed to the scent of their lover's overnight experience better quality sleep, even when their partner is not physically present.

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·February 4, 2020·4 min read

Light therapy holds promise for people with bipolar disorder

Daily exposure to bright, artificial light may help reduce symptoms of bipolar disorder.

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·January 23, 2020·4 min read

Living near major roads linked to risk of dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and MS

Living less than 50 meters away from a major road, or less than 150 meters away from a highway, increases the risks for dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis. However, living close to green spaces appears to have more of a protective effect against neurodegenerative diseases.

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·October 30, 2019·4 min read

Patients with mood, anxiety disorders share abnormalities in brain’s control circuit

Patients with mood and anxiety disorders have abnormally low activation in brain areas associated with cognitive and emotional control. Brain scans also revealed hyperactivity in brain areas linked to the processing of emotional thoughts.

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·August 28, 2019·3 min read

Teen birth control use linked to depression risk in adulthood

Women who used oral contraceptive pills during their teenage years are at increased risk of depression.

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·June 29, 2019·3 min read

Babies can learn link between language and ethnicity

By eleven months, infants hold language dependent expectations of a speaker's ethnicity. The study suggests babies make connections between languages based on the individuals they encounter in their environments.

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·June 24, 2019·5 min read

Music students do better in math than non-musical peers

Highly engaged instrumental music students were, on average, academically over a year ahead of their non-musical peers.

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·June 20, 2019·4 min read

Upbeat music can sweeten tough exercise

Listening to upbeat music while embarking on high-intensity exercise boost feelings of pleasure and motivation, even in those who are adverse to exercise.