Category: Mind-body

Physical stature as a teen could predict future stock choices

From the Cornell University media release: Social scientists have long studied the relationship between a person’s height and their success in life. Taller people, studies purport, tend to be better educated, earn… Read more »

Adverse events affect children’s development, physical health and biology

From the American Academy of Pediatrics media release: It’s known that adverse childhood experiences carry over into adult life, but a new study is focusing on the effect of these experiences in… Read more »

Early supplementation may help offset early-life stress on the adult brain

From the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology media release: Early-life stress has been shown to impair learning and memory in later life, but new research, published online in… Read more »

New insights into how the mind influences the body

From the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences media release: Neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh have identified the neural networks that connect the cerebral cortex to the… Read more »

Use of mindfulness-based stress reduction for chronic low back pain

From the The JAMA Network Journals media release: Among adults with chronic low back pain, both mindfulness-based stress reduction [MBSR] and cognitive behavioral therapy [CBT] resulted in greater improvement in… Read more »