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Tips For Improving Your Teens’ Sleep Schedule
The Wall Street Journal: Many parents wrestle with helping their teenagers get enough sleep, especially when high school classes start before dawn. Battling early school start times and teens’ changing body clocks, which pressure them
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Immune Response May Link Social Rejection to Later Health Outcomes
Data from healthy adolescents indicate that recent exposure to targeted rejection activates the molecular signaling pathways that regulate inflammation.
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Healthy Lungs May Keep Brain Running Smoothly
U.S. News & World Report: Good lung health may help you maintain your brain’s processing speed and problem-solving abilities as you age, according to a new study. While reduced lung function had a negative effect
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Checking Facebook or Twitter is more tempting than sex or cigarettes, says study
The Daily Mail: Checking social networking sites is more tempting than sex and cigarettes, a study has revealed. Researchers at Chicago University’s Booth Business School used BlackBerrys to log reports about participants’ willpower and desires
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Psycho-Trick fördert gesundes Verhalten (Psychological trick promotes healthy behavior)
Der Spiegel: Salat? Oder doch Currywurst und Pommes? Die Wahl des Mittagsessens kann durch einen Kniff überraschenderweise beeinflusst werden. Möglich wird das durch ein grundlegendes psychologisches Konzept – nämlich, wie stark Menschen Körper und Geist
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Stress, depression may affect cancer survival
CNN: “A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ,” John Steinbeck once wrote. Now we are closer to understanding why. A disease like cancer can be a mortal battle, often fraught