Washington: Being mindful, which means being open, receptive and attentive to whatever is unfolding in the present moment, can mitigate the fear of dying, new research shows. George Mason University psychology professor Todd Kashdan wanted to find out if mindful people had different attitudes about dying, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reports. "Like little kids who nearly suffocate under blanket protection to fend off the monster in the...
06:10 PM, Mar 01, 2011
Washington: Spine surgeon Anders Cohen puts a lot of stock in patients' expectations of pain relief. He prefers to operate only on those who "grab you by the collar and say, 'I can't take it anymore.'" New brain research proves doctors like Cohen are onto something: Pessimism can override the effectiveness of even powerful treatments. You've heard of the placebo effect, the healing power of positive belief. This is the...
11:58 AM, Mar 01, 2011
London: If you accidentally knock over your neighbour's beer in a bar and he stares at you, would you buy him a new drink or would you try to outstare him? New research suggests the dominance behaviour exhibited by staring someone down can be reflexive. Our primate relatives certainly get into dominance battles, they mostly resolve the dominance hierarchy not through fighting, but through staring contests, the journal Psychological Science...
06:16 AM, Feb 28, 2011
London: Being happy and cheerful in teen years could be key to greater well being and satisfaction in adulthood, says new research. Although a troubled childhood may be linked to mental health problems, little is known about the impact of a positive childhood. Accordingly, University of Cambridge researchers and MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing went back to a 1946 British birth cohort study of 2,776 people to examine...
05:59 AM, Feb 28, 2011
London: If you perceive that women are the weaker sex, think again, for a new study claims they are more cunning and competitive than men -- particularly when the going gets tough. Researchers have carried out the study and found that instead of physical violence, women rely more on subtle forms of aggression, such as excluding someone from a group if they think they are a threat. For the study,...
01:03 PM, Feb 26, 2011
Washington: Bad or annoying events seem much worse if people have to go through them again. "The prospect of repeating an experience can, in fact, change how people remember it," said study authors Jeff Galak from Carnegie Mellon University and Tom Meyvis from New York University. In a series of eight studies exposing people to annoying noise or tedious computer tasks or asking them about menstrual pain, participants recalled these...
12:26 PM, Feb 08, 2011
London: Do you feel that your spouse doesn't understand you? It may be because you are too close to each other, scientists say. Psychologists at the University of Chicago and Williams College in Massachusetts found that when two people know each other too well they assume they share too much knowledge and their language becomes dangerously ambiguous. This "closeness communication bias" can lead to long term misunderstandings, rows and even...
05:45 PM, Jan 22, 2011
Bhopal: A man was forced to carry the body of his 16 year old daughter on his bicycle for 14 kilometres, for an autopsy in Madhya Pradesh. Bakshu Singh's daughter committed suicide by consuming poison at her house in village Dudhmania. The Police refused to allow Bakshu Singh to perform the last rights of his daughter until the postmortem was done. But they refused to take the body to the...
11:38 PM, Jan 11, 2011
Washington: David Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he's haunted by how humans hijack his work to make street drugs, sometimes causing overdose deaths. Nichols makes chemicals roughly similar to ecstasy and LSD that are supposed to help explain how parts of the brain function. Then he publishes the results for other scientists, hoping his work one day leads to treatments for depression...
03:41 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Los Angeles: Executors of Michael Jackson's estate on Wednesday asked a TV network to cancel a program reenacting the singer's autopsy, calling it "in shockingly bad taste". "Your decision to even schedule this program is in shockingly bad taste, insensitive to Michael family and appears to be motivated solely by your blind desire to exploit Michael's death," co-executors John Branca and John McClain wrote in a letter to Discovery Communications....
05:27 PM, Dec 30, 2010
London: It's research which is likely to make a number of men happy -- more than 96 per cent of women feel ashamed at least once a day, while for almost half, the feeling of guilt strikes up to four times a day. According to the study, women beat themselves up daily about their friendships, relationships, work and body shape. It found that almost half of respondents were kept awake...
03:26 PM, Dec 28, 2010
New York: Meet SM, a 44-year-old woman who literally knows no fear. She's not afraid to handle snakes. She's not afraid of the "The Blair Witch Project," "The Shining," or "Arachnophobia." When she visited a haunted house, it was a monster who was afraid of her. SM isn't some cold-blooded psychopath or a hero with a tight rein on her emotions. She's an ordinary mother of three with a specific...
02:07 PM, Dec 20, 2010
The Discovery Channel's controversial programme Michael Jackson's Autopsy is said to be based on the official coroner's report and court documents taken after the Thriller hitmaker's death in 2009. It is due to air in Britain on Jan 13. The show will follow a pathologist as he performs a full autopsy on a synthetic cadaver and exposes the "medical myths that surrounded Jackson throughout his troubled life, his drug addiction,...
10:32 AM, Dec 13, 2010
London: Are humans psychic? A startling study has suggested that many people can see into the future. Researchers, led by Daryl Bem at Cornell University, who carried out the study, have also found that influencing events before they happen is also within many people's remit, the 'Daily Mail' reported. They have based their findings on an analysis of a series of experiments,involving 1,000 volunteers.In one experiment, students were shown a...
03:34 PM, Nov 18, 2010
On the World Epilepsy Day, doctors at Delhi's AIIMS have pioneered a new surgery that could help .India has a statistics of 10 million people suffering from it. ...
10:21 AM, Nov 17, 2010
London: According to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers in the UK found children who spend a lot of time in front of television and computer monitors had more psychological difficulties than their counterparts who weren't in front of these devices. Scientists from University of Bristol's Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences, looked at 1000 children, between 10 and 11 years, and noted the time they...
02:47 PM, Oct 14, 2010
Alappuzha: A mentally unstable woman allegedly drowned her eight-month-old baby in a washing machine at her home at Cherthala in Kerala on Friday. The incident occurred on Friday evening when the infant's father and elder sister were away. Suma, 40, -- said to be undergoing psychiatric treatment -- turned up on her own at the women's cell of the Town police station in Alappuzha and confessed to the crime, police...
12:35 PM, Sep 25, 2010
![Indian gypsy cultures on show ahead of Games]( "Indian gypsy cultures on show ahead of Games")
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations will bring gypsy communities to Delhi for an exposition-cum-showcase at the Azad Bhavan theatre. ...
10:24 AM, Jul 30, 2010
Chicago-based Auctioneers last week said the tools would go on sale on August 12. ...
11:54 AM, Jul 26, 2010
Autopsy tools used to embalm and prepare Elvis Presley's body for his funeral in 1977 are set to go under the hammer at a Chicago auction house. ...
01:58 PM, Jul 21, 2010
