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    Older Adults In A Medical Or Research Setting Suffer A Stress Response That Reduces T

    Your mother had a doctor's appointment for a memory test. The results are conclusive: she presents with the first signs of Alzheimer type dementia. Now, to get to her appointment, your mother, who is no longer used to driving in town, took her car, looked for a parking space for 15 minutes, got...
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    Book Sheds New Light On Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder And Its Often Devastating Afte

    A new book by a University of New Hampshire researcher and Vietnam-era disabled veteran sheds new light on the long-term psychological trauma experienced by the coalition force in recent wars in the Gulf and Balkans that, when left untreated, can have deadly consequences... More...
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    Stress Increases 40% During Recessions

    According to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Nottingham and University of Ulster, work related stress increases by 40% during a recession, affecting 1 in 4 workers. Furthermore, researchers found that the number of workers who take time off, as a result of work-related...
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    Scientists Report Link Between Traumatic Brain Injury, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

    UCLA life scientists and their colleagues have provided the first evidence of a causal link between traumatic brain injury and an increased susceptibility to post-traumatic stress disorder. Their new study, published in the in the journal Biological Psychology, also suggests that people who...
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    Facebook Use Affects Mood Differently To Stress And Relaxation

    Researchers measured people's physical and psychological responses while they used Facebook, performed a stressful task, or just relaxed, and found each of these activities appears to have a different effect on mood and arousal. Dr. Maurizio Mauri of the Institute of Human, Language and...
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    Holiday Stress: 10 Things To Avoid Talking About At Christmas Dinner

    If your family is anything like mine, there are certain topics that just don't bode well at the dinner table--especially on a holiday when grandma and the long-lost relatives that you only see once a year are included. Bringing up certain topics is a sure-fire way to dampen the Christmas spirit...
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    Afternoon Links: Ways To Minimize Holiday Stress

    • The biggest breast cancer advance in over a decade? (HuffPost Women) • Yoga poses to relieve congestion. (fitsugar) • Minimize holiday stress. (Divine Caroline) • Cooking apps to make your holiday meals a success. (The Stir) • Why yawning is contagious. (HuffPost Fitness) • These things...
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    Stress Response In Police Officers May Indicate Risk For PTSD

    Stress-related disorders are often linked to people working in the line of fire. In a study led by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center in collaboration with the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, police recruits were assessed during academy...
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    Keeping One's Eyes On The Goal Despite Stress

    Stressed people fall into habits and their behaviour is not goal-directed. That the neurotransmitter norepinephrine plays a decisive role here is now reported in the Journal of Neuroscience by scientists from Bochum led by Dr. Lars Schwabe (RUB Faculty of Psychology). If the effect of...
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    Post-traumatic Stress Risk To Police Officers Lower Than Previously Thought

    Although police officers are at a high risk of experiencing traumatic events (TE) in their work, they are no more likely than the general population to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These are the findings from the second phase of an original and groundbreaking study...
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    How to Get Stress Level Down in Petz: Dpgz for DS?

    It has five hearts for stress and it's only the second day! I remember to feed it after school, I play with it, I am training it...what am I doing wrong? It's a golden lab, female. It's the DS version, not the GBA one.
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    Inhaling Low Levels Of CO Reduces The Impact Of Environmental Stress

    According to scientists, carbon monoxide (CO), a tasteless, colorless and odorless gas, is not only a danger to the environment but also highly toxic to human beings. Found in the exhaust of vehicles and generators, CO has been dubbed the "silent killer" because excessive inhalation is lethal...
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    Cardiac Stress Imaging More Frequent Among Patients Whose Physicians Provide, Bill Fo

    Patients treated by physicians who billed for both technical (practice/equipment) and professional (supervision/ interpretation) components of nuclear and echocardiographic stress imaging tests were more likely to undergo such tests after coronary revascularization compared with patients of...
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    The Blissology Project Might Just Get Me Through Thanksgiving Stress

    For me, the time period between now and about, oh, I'd say 2012 is usually filled with a crazed schedule, lots of un-fun "budget" problems, family drama, and better access to cookie platters than kale salads. Which leads to stress, erratic eating, missed workouts, bad sleep, and a compromised...
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    how do christianity and judaism stress tolorance?

    pleaseee answer! i need this for a huge assignment due tomarrow! ps. if you could include a link to where you got your information that'd be great thanks!!!
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    Poverty-Related Stress Affects Readiness For School

    Stress in the lives of poor children is one cause of the early achievement gap in which children from low-income homes start school behind their more advantaged classmates. That's the finding from a new study by scientists at Pennsylvania State University, New York University, and the University...
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    can post traumatic stress affect sexual judgment?

    im wondering because i had a car accident in 9th grade . im in 12th now and am having bi curious thoughts . the thing is tho that ive never had theese before and am wondering if it could be a pycological disorder , im so confused because when i was younger like 8-14 i hated gays at age 15-16 i...
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    Cortisone Injection Can Prevent PTSD In 60% Who Experience Traumatic Stress

    As soldiers return home from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, America must cope with the toll that war takes on mental health. But the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is becoming increasingly expensive, and promises to escalate as yet another generation of veterans tries to heal...
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    A good way to release stress and vent your anger/frustration? Picketing on

    the streets & yelling that God...? ... hates f*gs? I sometimes feel like joining the WBC. I want to yell at strangers and tell them they're going to burn in hell.
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    An Increasing Health Hazard Is Workplace Stress

    Job-related stress is catching up with workers. A new study by Concordia University economists, published in BMC Public Health, has found that increased job stress causes workers to increasingly seek help from health professionals for physical, mental and emotional ailments linked to job stress...
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