In a group of healthy, but obese adults, eating olive oil at least once a week was associated with less platelet activity in the blood, which may reduce the tendency of blood to clot and block blood flow, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention | Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic […]
Sleep boosts immune systems by making blood cells more able to attack
Sleep off your sickness: Slumber boosts our immune systems by making white blood cells more able to attack Researchers analysed blood taken from participants when asleep and awake Body showed higher levels of a specific T-cell function while asleep A certain group of molecules, such as hormone adrenaline, are lower at night It suggests these […]
Book provides a new framework for making sense of mental illness
Fear. Anxiety. Hope. Desire. Love. Anger. Guilt. Grief. These are the gamut of human emotions universal to our experiences. But why some people can become vulnerable to extreme bad feelings and other mental disorders remains a mystery that has affected and divided families, and cost lost years, or worse, lives, for millions of sufferers of […]
Making decisions over prolonged periods doesn’t diminish accuracy, new study finds
Making good decisions typically involves gathering information over at least several seconds, much longer than the time that individual brain cells take to process their inputs. However, this disparity does not reduce our ability to make accurate choices, finds a new study by neuroscientists at New York University. Their results, which appear in the journal […]
Bad boss? You may be making things better—or worse
Disagreeable, dishonest and careless bosses can mean bad outcomes for organizations and work groups. However, new research highlights that the employees they work with also play a major role in this. Employee anxiety, self-esteem and how leadership behavior is perceived can all affect the leader’s influence on outcomes—and both followers and leaders can buffer against […]