Talking Helps Ease Emotional Distress

Americans are a diverse group of people interacting on a daily basis often times in stressful situations. How different are our cultural stress coping mechanisms and are they working? The American Psychological Association, APA reports that according to UCLA psychologist Matthew Lieberman, Ph.D., the idea that putting problems into words will ease the emotional impact…

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Efficacy of a Facial Affect Recognition Training Tool for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often struggle to recognize emotions from facial expressions (facial affect), hindering their social interactions. By using Humintell’s emotion recognition training tool MiX, researchers out of Rush University Medical Center in Skokie, Illinois tested children ages 8-14 who are affected with autism spectrum disorder over a six week period. Russo,…

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Face Transplant: Update

In January of this year we shared the story of the first Full Face Transplant recipient, a Texas man, Dallas Weins who was very grateful for the life changing operation. Reuters.com, has reported on another face transplant that has had such success that the recipient Richard Norris is able to brush his own teeth and…

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Your Questions Answered By Dr. Matsumoto Part 5!

Thank to you everyone for your overwhelming response to the “Submit your questions to Dr. Matsumoto” post on March 16th. Here are a few questions and answers by Dr. Matsumoto himself! You can find out more about Dr. Matsumoto and his research at his website You can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of the…

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