laughter is linked to healthy function of blood vessels

cause the tissue that forms the inner lining of blood vessels, the endothelium, to dilate or expand in order to increase blood flow.

opposite effect occurred on the blood vessels when the subjects watched suspenseful films

link between mental stress and the narrowing of blood vessels

The speakers “laughed almost 50% more than their audiences

Even banal questions and statements like “Where have you been?” and “It was nice meeting you, too” provoked laughter, which “suggests that the critical stimulus for laughter is another person, not a joke.”

was 30 times more frequent in social than solitary situations

students were much more likely to talk to themselves or even smile when alone than to laugh

females laugh more than males

medication taken regularly

brain surgery

ketogenic diet

Investigational treatments

the brain's normal pattern of neuron activity is disturbe

loss of consciousness

physical convulsions

if their seizures consistently begin in only one of their two temporal lobes

Surgery may be an optio

portion of the lobe is removed

ersons with TLE (about 20-25%) exhibited poorer cognitive performance at their retesting. Most persons with TLE (75-80%) had largely stable mental status over time, but this subset of about 20-25% of persons with TLE is having greater difficulty in regard to cognition

Depression and anxiety are very common in patients with intractable epilepsy

seen in the context of an antisocial personality disorde

Interictal aggression

Episodic dyscontrol is characterized by several discrete episodes of failure to resist aggressive impulses that result in serious assaultive acts or destruction of property

emotional arousal typically seen in episodic dyscontrol

high level of arousal with signs of anxiety or fear

temporal lobe epilepsy is hippocampal sclerosis often in the context of mesial temporal sclerosis

elationship between temporolimbic epilepsy and aggressive behaviour

and probably do not apply to "dysfunction families"

middle child

best of both worlds. They are the youngest to the older sibling and the oldest to the younger sibling

Younger children always want to be able to do the things older siblings are allowed to do. And older siblings may feel that the younger siblings get away with things they were not able to when they were the same age.

middle child of three is usually different from the middle child of a large family

Only children usually want to be adults

During their formative years, only children live primarily in the world of adults

Sleep

Nutri­tion

Prior Knowl­edge

Engage Emo­tions

Nov­elty

Move­ment

Exer­cise

you need to reduce depression is more white light and fewer refined foods.

Sometimes, all

He'd focus on the problem at hand, then take a short nap on a couch. When he awoke, he usually had the problem solved.

5-15 minute break every hour during study sessions is more beneficial than non-stop study.

visual, kinesthetic, and auditory. If one isn't working for you, try another.

Focus on whatever you're studying.

loosen you up, making your mind more receptive to recognizing brilliant ideas.

birth order is sometimes not a major influence on personality development and that the child's opinion of himself and his situation determines his choice of attitude

mélange of two distinct sciences: sociology and psychology

Like all sciences, social psychology searches for concrete proof before belief

“the biologizing of human beings is not only bad humanism, but also bad science.”

study at Ohio State University conducted in the winter of 2001 showed that birth order affects career interests. In the Journal of Career Assessment, researchers noted that only children and first born children tended to have more cognitive and analytical interests, while those later-born were more artistic and outdoors oriented.

twenty-five types of marriages according to birth order

most common marital relationship is between an only child and a second child, and it has a fairly high rate of success, while first born-first born relationships seem to rarely happen. Firstborns are less likely to connect romantically.

seems to have no scientific proof

influence of being the first born of a specific gender, the influence of changing family dynamics, and the potential for methodical pitfalls in birth order research interest not only studies on birth order, but the research of many other social trends.