Tag Archives: Psychological Stress and PTSD
Job creation (paying jobs, that is) anyone? Suicide Among Adults Aged 35–64 Years — United States, 1999–2010
Job creation (paying jobs, that is) anyone? From the CDC: Suicide Among Adults Aged 35–64 Years — United States, 1999–2010. Suicide Among Adults Aged 35–64 Years — United States, 1999–2010 Weekly May 3, 2013 / 62(17);321-325 Suicide is an increasing … Continue reading
Panic Developments – An Interesting Editorial by Donald F. Klein in the Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria
Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria 2012;34(Supl1):S01-S04 Panic Developments This editorial permits personal conclusions and questions, hoping to stimulate relevant research. Klein, in 1959, serendipitously found that imipramine blocked the apparently spontaneous panic attack in non-depressed inpatients, later considered agoraphobic.Later it was … Continue reading
Daily social interactions that are negative and competitive are associated prospectively with heightened proinflammatory cytokine activity.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Feb 7;109(6):1878-82. Epub 2012 Jan 23. Negative and competitive social interactions are related to heightened proinflammatory cytokine activity. Chiang JJ, Eisenberger NI, Seeman TE, Taylor SE. Source Department of Psychology, David Geffen … Continue reading
Social pain–the painful feelings associated with social disconnection–rely on some of the same neurobiological substrates that underlie experiences of physical pain
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2012 May 3;13(6):421-34. doi: 10.1038/nrn3231. The pain of social disconnection: examining the shared neural underpinnings of physical and social pain. Eisenberger NI. Source University of California, Department of Psychology, 4444 Franz Hall, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. … Continue reading