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Can drinking #coffee actually lower your death risk? Here’s what a new study found: https://t.co/dN3zJ6vKto ? pic.twitter.com/qvIT7REIYt – Cleveland Clinic (@ClevelandClinic) October 17, 2017 Are you a big fan of coffee? Can you not really function if you’ve not had that morning cup? We all have our reasons for loving coffee – some like it…
We evolved to experience social rejection in the same way as physical pain.
http://theconversation.com/loneliness-on-its-way-to-becoming-britains-most-lethal-condition-94775 Analysis of 300,000 people in 148 studies found that loneliness is associated with a 50% increase in mortality from any cause. This makes it comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and more dangerous than obesity. As the lead researcher of the analysis, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, comments: Loneliness significantly increases risk for premature mortality. Only…
Can Antibiotics Treat PTSD?
http://bigthink.com/articles/the-dawn-of-a-new-era-in-ptsd-science In the study, researchers gave 76 healthy adult subjects either doxycycline or a placebo, then sat them in front of a computer screen that randomly flashed two colors, red and blue. The appearance of one color was associated with a 50% risk of receiving a painful electric shock. After 160 flashes, the study’s subjects…
Believers in benevolent God read less hostility in others’ eyes,
Prayer leads people who believe in a benevolent God to read less hostility in others’ eyes, study finds https://t.co/p1MchTjebd — PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) April 5, 2017 We conducted these studies in the Netherlands, a quite secularized country where Christians do not have much political power. Christians in the Netherlands are mostly very active and involved, but…
Anxiety and temporary memory loss
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ritual-and-the-brain/201804/why-your-brain-stress-fails-learn-properly You try to brush it off, but to no avail. Sitting with pencil in hand, you turn over the page of the exam booklet. You read over the first few questions. It happens: all the knowledge you thought you had up your head magically vanishes from your mental repository. There’s nothing up there. Nothing…