Repressed Emotions lead to Depression?

A new study, co-authored by Jamie Jackson, a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University,  suggests that women with congestive heart failure who repress their emotions (esp. anger) are more likely to experience symptoms of depression. About.com reported that when researchers, who studied 35 women, factored in how much women knew about their illness, they found that the…

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3-D Facial Recognition Software

Researcher Lijun Yin, an associate professor of computer science at Binghamton University, has been working on a new universal algorithm to create a digital reading of the human face to identify specific human emotions.  “Many scientists are working on similar issues, we are unique in our three-dimensional approach,” Yin stated. The Pipe Dream website reported…

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Ask The Expert: Your Questions to Dr. Matsumoto Part 4

Back by popular demand, we’ve brought back your questions answered by Dr. Matsumoto. Our most recent question and answer series was in February 2011. You can find questions and answers here. We also did the question and answer series back in February of 2010. We asked you, the readers, to ask specific questions they may…

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Botox for Kids?

At first you might think that this is a joke, but its not.  A San Francisco mom recently injected botox into her 8 year-old daughter. ABC News has reported on this strange  event of a mother doing something becuse a “child” wants it in spite of what is best for the child. Kerry, the girl’s…

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