VITAL SIGNS Reactions: Your Posture, a Telltale Fright Sign
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The brain reacts more powerfully to the body language of a person in a posture denoting fear than it does to a fearful facial expression, according to a study released yesterday.
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People under intense deadline pressure are six times more likely to have a heart attack than those who don&#39;t face such stress, Swedish researchers conclude from a new study.
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Military researchers are working to uncover and harness a "human fear" scent. The pheromone could lead to smell-based terrorist sensors and new means to harness "contagious" stress.
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"Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing Western society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see - germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable! Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an extraordinary delusion - a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages."
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NEW YORK  - Negative emotions and anger, as well as sudden changes in body position in response to a startling event, appear to be factors that can trigger a stroke, according to a new study published in the medical journal Neurology.
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Stimulating a certain area of the brain   can produce a creepy feeling that someone is watching you when   no one is, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Also: Scientists activate that creepy feeling. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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On many online message boards and Internet chat rooms, anxious patients share details about the muscle pain and memory loss they have noticed since they started taking statins to lower their cholesterol. A new study suggests these people may be seeking validation for good reason: Some of their...
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The brain's response to another person's body language may help explain why humans are quite efficient at fleeing from danger, according to researchers.
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Seeking opportunity in a market clouded by fear.
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By Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune  Sep. 8--In the past few months, I have diagnosed myself with enough maladies to fill a medical textbook, which might never have happened if one night I hadn't typed two simple words onto my computer screen:   Stiff neck.
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Scientists use technology developed in Glasgow to discover that the eyes can be a giveaway when it comes to identifying fear in people's faces.
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A Colorado program may help with the balance and posture problems encountered by people suffering from Sensory Processing Disorder. In Bodyhack.
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THE soaring popularity of laptop computers has led to a dramatic increase in backpain.   Back specialists say they are treating record numbers of patients for problems caused by carrying heavy laptops or by poor posture while using keyboards.
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The stories seem strange but riveting. A heart attack victim recalls floating in the air, watching paramedics revive him. A surgical patient remembers hovering, watching the doctors operate. Such widely reported out-of-body experiences have long been the territory of theology, philosophy and scary movies. Now scientists have turned their attention to the topic.
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A novel set of input devices aim to reduce repetitive stress injuries by going vertical.
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Movable parts in a silicone face enable 'emotional' response to key words.