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Understanding the Anxious Mind - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • But some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe. For the past 20 years, Kagan and his colleagues have been following hundreds of such people, beginning in infancy, to see what happens to those who start out primed to fret. Now that these infants are young adults, the studies are yielding new information about the anxious brain.
  • Four significant long-term longitudinal studies are now under way: two at Harvard that Kagan initiated, two more at the University of Maryland under the direction of Nathan Fox, a former graduate student of Kagan’s. With slight variations, they all have reached similar conclusions: that babies differ according to inborn temperament; that 15 to 20 percent of them will react strongly to novel people or situations; and that strongly reactive babies are more likely to grow up to be anxious.
  • In the brain, these thoughts can often be traced to overreactivity in the amygdala, a small site in the middle of the brain that, among its many other functions, responds to novelty and threat. When the amygdala works as it should, it orchestrates a physiological response to changes in the environment. That response includes heightened memory for emotional experiences and the familiar chest pounding of fight or flight. But in people born with a particular brain circuitry, the kind seen in Kagan’s high-reactive study subjects, the amygdala is hyperreactive, prickly as a haywire motion-detector light that turns on when nothing’s moving but the rain. Other physiological changes exist in children with this temperament, many of them also related to hyperreactivity in the amygdala. They have a tendency to more activity in the right hemisphere, the half of the brain associated with negative mood and anxiety; greater increases in heart rate and pupil dilation in response to stress; and on occasion higher levels of the stress hormones cortisol and norepinephrine.
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  • The physiological measurements led them to believe something biological was at work. Their hypothesis: the inhibited children were “born with a lower threshold” for arousal of various brain regions, in particular the amygdala, the hypothalamus and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, the circuit responsible for the stress hormone cortisol.
  • At age 4, children who had been high-reactive were four times as likely to be behaviorally inhibited as those who had been low-reactive. By age 7, almost half of the jittery babies had developed symptoms of anxiety — fear of thunder or dogs or darkness, extreme shyness in the classroom or playground — compared with just 10 percent of the more easygoing ones. About one in five of the high-reactive babies were consistently inhibited and fearful at every visit up to the age of 7.
  • By adolescence, the rate of anxiety in Kagan’s study subjects declined overall, including in the high-risk group. At 15, about two-thirds of those who had been high-reactors in infancy behaved pretty much like everybody else.
  • PEOPLE WITH A nervous temperament don’t usually get off so easily, Kagan and his colleagues have found. There exists a kind of sub-rosa anxiety, a secret stash of worries that continue to plague a subset of high-reactive people no matter how well they function outwardly. They cannot quite outrun their own natures: consciously or unconsciously, they remain the same uneasy people they were when they were little.
  • Teenagers who were in the group at low risk for anxiety showed no increase in activity in the amygdala when they looked at the face, even if they had been told to focus on their own fear. But those in the high-risk group showed increased activity in the amygdala when they were thinking about their own feelings (though not when they were thinking about the nose). Once again, this pattern was seen in anxiety-prone youngsters quite apart from whether they had problems with anxiety in their daily lives. In the high-risk kids, even those who were apparently calm in most settings, their amygdalas lighted up more than the others’ did.
  • Behaviorally inhibited children were much more likely to have older siblings: two-thirds of them did, compared with just one-third of the uninhibited children. Could having older siblings, he and his co-authors wondered, mean being teased and pushed, which becomes a source of chronic stress, which in turn amplifies a biological predisposition to inhibition?
  • high-reactive babies who went to day care when they were young were significantly less fearful at age 4 than were the high-reactives who stayed home with their mothers.
  • The predictive power of an anxiety-prone temperament, such as it is, essentially works in just one direction: not by predicting what these children will become but by predicting what they will not. In the longitudinal studies of anxiety, all you can say with confidence is that the high-reactive infants will not grow up to be exuberant, outgoing, bubbly or bold. Still, while a Sylvia Plath almost certainly won’t grow up to be a Bill Clinton, she can either grow up to be anxious and suicidal, or simply a poet. Temperament is important, but life intervenes.
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    This is a good article that looks at how anxiety happens- it is more or less something you are born with, but you learn to live with, if you are intelligent about it. Liked it. Good writing.
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Health Psychology Online | Online and Distance Learning - 0 views

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    Are you interested in a career in the health and wellness field?  If so, then might like to consider taking a health psychology online or campus-based program.  This page tells you more about health psychology study, helps you to locate suitable university degree programs, and provides information on career prospects.
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The Dark Side of Perfectionism Revealed | Perfectionists and Health | LiveScience - 0 views

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    Perfectionists, by definition, strive for the best, trying to ace exams, be meticulous at their jobs, and raise perfect children. So one might assume this drive for the ideal translates over to their health as well, with perfectionist being models for physical and mental well-being.
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Health is Wealth - 0 views

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    Health care and beauti tips, Healthy foods,useful exercise tips, fitness, symptoms treatment, cure,etc... For complete Health advice and guidance.. visit: http://www.Health-guidence.blogspot.com
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NextErgo Smart Standing Desk Introduces AI To Your Working Culture - 0 views

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    Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken an entry into our every field of living. Smart technologies get the power of AI and help people to achieve a better lifestyle. Now, NextErgo introduces AI to your working culture through smart standing desks. These desks are different from your regular desks that have just a height adjustment option. With our smart standing desks, you can correct your posture, can improve your health, enhance your health goal, and more. You will get AI-powered health reminders for your happy life. From posture correcting technology to desk exercise, you can improve your working culture with NextErgo Smart Standing Desk. Preorder your desk today and get up to $700 off. Reserve your desk before it's taken. Please visit us for more details.
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Brighten up your health - 0 views

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    Brighten up your health
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Health Psychology Tips for Better Living - 0 views

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    Health Psychology Tips for Better Living. Life can become so much cruel for any people. Especially in the aspect of working and business activity
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Why Online Marketing For Healthcare? - 0 views

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    Although the Internet has long been the go-to source for health and wellness information, most hospitals are notably absent in the online arena, often treating the web as an afterthought to traditional media. Here are seven key statistics that suggest that a smart web presence is more important than ever for every hospital and health system:
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Healthcare Training Programs | CNA Training Classes in Flint Michigan - 1 views

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    Charter Health Care Training Center provides a variety of programs and training to prepare students to care for individuals in diverse Health care settings. These programs are designed to give the student both the technical skills and knowledge to succeed in the workplace.
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Top 5 Biggest Health Risks of Sedentary Lifestyle - 0 views

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    A sedentary lifestyle can cause many health problems, including heart disease, diabetes, and more. Using a standing desk will help you beat the inactivity and enjoy a health-friendly working environment. Read on to know more.
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Top 5 Biggest Health Risks of Sedentary Lifestyle - 0 views

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    A sedentary lifestyle can cause many health problems, including heart disease, diabetes, and more. Using a standing desk will help you beat the inactivity and enjoy a health-friendly working environment.
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Online Medical Advice Can Be a Prescription for Fear - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    NYT column comparing WebMD to the Mayo Clinic's consumer health site. Emphasizes WebMD's (to me, obvious) "hypochrondria fearmongering" as well as Mayo's reliability. These characteristics certainly apply to the entries for psychological problems on both sites. As a medical librarian, I also recommend medlineplus.gov.
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    Good column on WebMD versus Mayo's consumer health site.
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YouTube - Jon Kabat-Zinn: Coming to Our Senses - 0 views

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    Uploaded by UCtelevision on Feb 15, 2008 Renowned mindfulness meditation teacher and best-selling author Jon Kabat-Zinn speaks at UCSD Medical Center on the topic of "Coming to Our Senses", which is also the name of his new book, subtitled "Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness". A pioneer in the application of ancient Buddhist practices to healing in modern medical settings, Kabat-Zinn expounds upon the value of "resting in awareness" not only to facilitate clarity in ourselves, but also as a means of relating to and healing the "dis-ease" in politics, society and the world. Series: "Health Sciences Journal" [11/1999] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 9375]
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On a diet? Try mind over milkshake - health - 05 June 2011 - New Scientist - 0 views

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    IF YOU want to lose weight, convince yourself that everything you eat is highly calorific. It could lower your levels of a hunger hormone, potentially suppressing your appetite. Alia Crum at Yale University and her colleagues gave 46 healthy volunteers the same 380-calorie milkshake but were told it was either a sensible, low-calorie choice or an indulgent, high-calorie one. The team also measured levels of ghrelin - a hormone released by the stomach when we are hungry - before and after participants drank the shake. Ghrelin levels have been shown to spike half an hour before mealtimes and return to normal after eating. Volunteers who thought they had indulged showed significantly greater drops in ghrelin levels than those who thought they had consumed less. The authors suggest that merely thinking that one has eaten something unhealthy can quell hunger pangs and perhaps help curb overeating (health Psychology, DOI: 10.1037/a0023467). The study shows that food labels can affect consumption in unexpected ways, says David Cummings, an endocrinologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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What Is A Standing Desk Good For? - 0 views

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    Introducing a standing desk to your office environment will help you boost your energy, reduce pain and discomforts, maintain your health, and improve your productivity. The benefits of standing desks are so huge that every office is now turning to the desks for the sake of employees' health. Read on to learn more.
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What Is A Standing Desk Good For? - 0 views

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    Introducing a standing desk to your office environment will help you boost your energy, reduce pain and discomforts, maintain your health, and improve your productivity. The benefits of standing desks are so huge that every office is now turning to the desks for the sake of employees' health. Read on to learn more.
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Oct 2 - Minding Psychology: A Weekly Update | Psychology Update | Scoop.it - 0 views

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    This weekly newspaper brings updates on what's happening in psychology, in particular sharing resources designed to increase our knowledge of the field. Read and subscribe free at: http://paper.li/NattyStewart24/1327249950
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The kids aren't all right | Society | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Thousands of under-16s are on antidepressants, and mental health problems in the young are on the rise. John Crace asks why 
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PsyBlog: How to Improve Your Self-Control - 0 views

  • It never ceases to amaze just how different two people's views of exactly the same event can be: one person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist.
  • why they maintain good physical health
  • Research reveals that people find it much easier to make decisions that demonstrate self-control when they are thinking about events that are distant in time, for example how much exercise they will do next week or what they will eat tomorrow (Fujita, 2008). Similarly they make much more disciplined decisions on behalf of other people than they do for themselves. People implicitly follow the maxim: do what I say, not what I do.
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  • how they maintained their physical health. Naturally they responded with things like: "Go exercise". In other words they focused on means rather than ends, the actual process.
  • low-construal thinking condition (thinking about means rather than ends
  • Those participants who had been encouraged to think in high-level, abstract terms demonstrated greater self-control in enduring the discomfort of the handgrip in order to receive more accurate personality profiles.
  • Participants tended to put answer such as: "To do well in school." This got them thinking about ends rather than means - the ultimate purpose of physical health.
  • Global processing. This means trying to focus on the wood rather than the trees: seeing the big picture and our specific actions as just one part of a major plan or purpose. For example, someone trying to eat healthily should focus on the ultimate goal and how each individual decision about what to eat contributes (or detracts) from that goal.
  • Abstract reasoning. This means trying to avoid considering the specific details of the situation at hand in favour of thinking about how actions fit into an overall framework
  • Someone trying to add more self-control to their exercise regime might try to think less about the details of the exercise, and instead focus on an abstract vision of the ideal physical self, or how exercise provides a time to re-connect mind and body.
  • Categorising tasks or project stages conceptually may help an individual or group maintain their focus and achieve greater self-discipline.
  • avoid thinking locally and specifically and practice thinking globally, objectively and abstractly, and increased self-control should follow.
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    avoid thinking locally and specifically and practice thinking globally, objectively and abstractly, and increased self-control should follow.
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