by European Psychiatric Association Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A group of European researchers have shown that exposure to human odors, extracted from other people’s sweat, might be used to boost treatment for some mental health problems. In a preliminary study, the researchers were able to show that social anxiety was reduced when patients underwent mindfulness therapy while...
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Connecting stress, weight, and social anxiety in early adolescence
by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Between the end of childhood and the beginning of adolescence, there is a critical window of time referred to as “peripuberty.” This transitional period involves developmental changes in both fat tissue and in the brain in which both can be re-programmed by exposure to stress,...