Anger
Verrier RL, Hagestad EL, Lown B. Delayed myocardial ischemia induced by anger. Circulation.1987 5:249-254. Verrier, RL, Mittelman MA. Cardiovascular consequences of anger and other stress states. Baillieres Clin Neurol. 1997 Jul;6(2):245-59.
Allergy
Swiss team at Basle University taught 66 people with hay fever the art of hypnosis and found it helped them alleviate symptoms such as runny nose. The volunteers also took their regular drugs, reduced the doses they needed. The Institute of Social and Preventative...
Adrenals
Pawlow LA, Jones GE. The impact of abbreviated progressive muscle relaxation on salivary cortisol and salivary immunoglobulin A (sigA). Appl Psychophsiol Biofeedback. 2005 Dec;30(4):375-87. Tafet GE, Feder DJ, Abulafia DP, Roffman SS. Regulation of...
chronic illness
Being diagnosed with a chronic illness involves the loss of one’s identity and there is grief that comes with the loss. The intensity of emotional pain usually corresponds to how much your lifestyle is compromised. Small losses are frustrating, larger ones...
meditation
In a laboratory tucked away off a noisy New York City street, a soft-spoken neuroscientist has been placing Tibetan Buddhist monks into a car-sized brain scanner to better understand the ancient practice of meditation...
meditation
Researchers at Mass General in Boston and University of Mass Medical School in Worcester documented brain changes occurring over time in people learning how to pay attention to what a person experiences from moment to moment. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging (Jan 30,...
meditation
April 6. 2011 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience published the recent results of research that shows an hour of meditation instruction on focused attention reduced pain intensity by about 40% and reduced how the person experienced that pain by 57%. It should be...
