Tattoos Across Cultures: Connections With Health, Healing Ancestors, and Cultural Heritage

 Inked Mummies, Linking Tattoo Artists With Their Ancestors by Krista Langlois.  The New York Times. July 5, 2021.  

Circadian Clocks: Body Parts Respond To Day And Night Independently From Brain, Studies Show

Circadian Clocks:  Body Parts Respond To Day And Night Independently From Brain,  Studies Show.  University of California--Irvine/Science Daily.  May 30, 2019. 

Pain: An Interaction Of Mind And Body--Implications For Treatment

100 Million Americans Have Chronic Pain.  Very Few Use One Of The Best Tools To Treat It by Brian Resnick.  Vox.  May 17, 2018. 

Boosting Resilience In Midlife

How To Boost Resilience In Midlife by Tara Parker-Pope.  The New York Times.  July 15, 2017. 

Prejudice Harms Body And Mind

How Prejudice Can Harm Your Health by Dhruv Khullar.  The New York Times.  June 8, 2017. 

Breathing Linked To Emotional Judgments And Memory Recall

Rhythm Of Breathing Affects Memory, Fear.  Northwestern University/Science Daily.  December 7, 2016

Mental Disorders And Physical Diseases Often Go Hand In Hand

Depression In Young People Affects The Stomach, Anxiety The Skin.  Universitat Basel/Science Daily.  November 24, 2016

Placebos Seem To Work Even When The Patient Knows It Is A Placebo

Is A Placebo A Sham If You Know It's A Fake And It Still Works?  by Katherine Hobson.  NPR.  October 27, 2016

New Center For Health And Happiness Focuses On Neglected Relationship

Harvard Has A New Center For Happiness by James Hamblin.  The Atlantic.  April 26, 2016

Body Awareness May Change Brains And Help People Become Resilent To Stress

Does Mindfulness Make For A Better Athlete?  by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  September 30, 2015. 

Robot/Infant Study Suggests Body Position Critical to Toddler's Ability to Connect Ideas

Robot Model For Infant Learning Shows Bodily Posture May Affect Memory And Learning.  Indiana University/Science Daily.  March 18, 2015.

Research Into the Health Benefits Of Psychedelics

The Trip Treatment by Michael Pollan.  The New Yorker.  February 9, 2015.

Posture: Physical And Psychological

How Bad Sitting Posture At Work Leads To Bad Standing Posture All The Time by Jeanne Whalen. The Wall Street Journal.  June 23, 2014.

Linking Psychology And Physiology, Study Finds Linkage Between Being Victim of Bullying and Inflammation

Bullying Linked To Increased Inflammation:  Study by Kathryn Doyle.  Reuters.  My 12, 2014.

What Can Stress To Horse and Rider In Equestrian Performance Tell Us About Performance

Horses Don't Get Stage Fright--But Their Riders Do.  Science Daily.  February 19, 2013.

The study indicates that highly-trained horses and riders differ in how they react to stress in practice and performance situations.  Riders show signs of "stage fright" in front of crowds, while horses seem to have similar stress markers in performance and practice situations.  In other words, the presence of a crowd does not seem to add any additional stress to the horse beyond that caused by the course itself.  And interestingly, the heightened level of stress of the rider does not seem to be communicated to the horse in performance forums.    Could this type of comparative stress studies offer a way to understand the uniqueness of human stress?

Putting On A Happy Face Through Botox May Help Depression. Really

Botox May Help Depression, Doctor Suggests In New Book by Karen Weintraub.  USA TODAY.  January 28, 2013.

While studies of this treatment are small and preliminary, several experts cited by the article believe the idea is not far-fetched.  In the words of Paul Ekman, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California-San Francisco Medical School:  Depression is a neural circuit and if you interrupt that circuit in any way, you lessen its impact.  Another expert said that loosening the frown muscles with botox could perhaps change how others respond to the person.