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New Insights into the ‘Borderline Personality’ Brain

By Guest PostJanuary 21, 2013Healthanger, anthony c ruocco, borderline personality disorder, bpd, brain function, brain region, chaotic relationship, cycle, data, diagnosis and treatment, disorders, emotion dysregulation, emotional reaction, frontal part, function of brains, hallmark symptom, hyperactive, insula, major depression, mental illness, negative emotions, neural circuits, people with bpd, sadness, scarborough, suicide, university of toronto

TORONTO, ON — New work by University of Toronto Scarborough researchers gives the best description yet of the neural circuits that underlie a severe mental illness called Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and could lead to better treatments and diagnosis.

The work shows that brain regions that process negative emotions (for example, anger and sadness) are overactive in people with BPD, while brain regions that would normally help damp down negative emotions are underactive. (more…)

Reappraisal Defuses Strong Emotional Responses to Israel-Palestine Conflict

By Guest PostDecember 18, 2012General, Politicsaggressive policies, cognitive reappraisal, cognitive strategy, conciliatory policies, disengagement, election of hamas, emotional responses, emotionally charged events, eran halperin, gaza strip, hebrew university, herzliya, Israel, israeli palestinian conflict, israeli soldier, james gross, jewish israelis, kidnapping, mahmoud abbas, maya tamir, negative emotions, negative intergroup emotions, palestine, palestinian president, palestinian response, political reactions, reaction, reappraisal, rockets, roni porat, stanford university, un membership, united nations

Reappraisal is a widely-used cognitive strategy that can help people to regulate their reactions to emotionally charged events. Now, new research suggests that reappraisal may even be effective in changing people’s emotional responses in the context of one of the most intractable conflicts worldwide: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“Negative intergroup emotions play a crucial role in decisions that perpetuate intractable conflicts,” observes lead researcher Eran Halperin of the New School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel. (more…)

Study: Delays in Video Calls May Not Always Hurt Communication

By Guest PostOctober 12, 2011Technologychristian rauh, computer users, modern technology, negative emotions, ohio state university, personal communication, political topics, ross buck, stacie renfro powers, tessa vest, university of connecticut, us presidential election, video, video calls, video connection, video technology, war in iraq

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study reveals how the delay computer users sometimes experience when making video calls over the internet can actually help communication in some circumstances, even though it is frustrating in many others.

Researchers found that when two strangers first talked about an emotionally charged topic over a video connection with a one-second delay, they actually reported less frustration than did those who talked with no delay. (more…)

Children Who Seldom Smile, Laugh or Hug a Parent Might be at Risk for Depression

By Guest PostJuly 8, 2011Healthamy gentzler, charles george, children, daniel shaw, history of depression, hugging a parent, laboratory assessment, maria kovacs, negative emotions, negative moods, nestor lopez duran, positive displays, positive emotions, smiling and laughing, thomas olino, university of michigan, university of pittsburgh, vulnerability to depressive disorders

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— A new study from the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh shows that even if a child isn’t crying, frowning or displaying other negative emotions on a consistent basis, another warning sign is when a child shows fewer positive displays, like hugging a parent or smiling and laughing.

“Surprisingly, it seems that it is low levels of happiness, as opposed to high levels of sadness, what may help explain why these kids too often develop depressive disorders,” said Nestor Lopez-Duran, an assistant professor of psychology at U-M and one of the study’s authors. (more…)

Changes in Brain Circuitry Play Role in Moral Sensitivity as People Grow Up

By Guest PostMay 31, 2011Health, Scienceaccidental actions, amygdala, behavioral measures, brain, brain scanning, cingulate cortex, cognitive processes, dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, eye tracking, fmri scan, insula and subgenual prefrontal cortex, jean decety, kalina michalska, katherine kinzler, mental states, moral judgment, moral responses, negative emotions, neurodevelopmental perspective, people, perpetrator, pupil dilation, social neuroscience, university of chicago, young children

People’s moral responses to similar situations change as they age, according to a new study at the University of Chicago that combined brain scanning, eye-tracking and behavioral measures to understand how the brain responds to morally laden scenarios.

Both preschool children and adults distinguish between damage done either intentionally or accidently when assessing whether a perpetrator had done something wrong. Nonetheless, adults are much less likely than children to think someone should be punished for damaging an object, especially if the action was accidental, said study author Jean Decety, the Irving B. Harris Professor in Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago and a leading scholar on affective and social neuroscience. (more…)

FEELING ANGRY? SAY A PRAYER AND THE WRATH FADES AWAY

By Guest PostMarch 21, 2011Culture, Healthbrad_bushman, divine intervention, dutch university, fatigue, feeling anger, fuming, maureen, negative emotions, ohio_state_university, vigor

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Saying a prayer may help many people feel less angry and behave less aggressively after someone has left them fuming, new research suggests.

A series of studies showed that people who were provoked by insulting comments from a stranger showed less anger and aggression soon afterwards if they prayed for another person in the meantime.

The benefits of prayer identified in this study don’t rely on divine intervention: they probably occur because the act of praying changed the way people think about a negative situation, said Brad Bushman, co-author of the study and professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University. (more…)

Intelligence and Personality May Predict Illness and Death

By Guest PostFebruary 8, 2011Culture, Healthalcohol abuse, alexander weiss, better lives, cancer, cardiovascular disease, controlling factors, coronary heart disease, david batty, diet, Environment, fast driving, homicide, ian deary, intelligence, intelligence and personality, key personality trait, live longer, negative emotions, personality types, predictor, premature death, smarter people, traits, type d

Do smarter people live longer and better lives? Are certain personality types more prone to premature death than are others? As our population continues to age in dramatic numbers, these questions become increasingly relevant. A new report in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, provides an overview of research on possible associations between intelligence and personality traits and various health outcomes.

Although there is not much evidence to date that links intelligence with cancer, low intelligence has been shown to be related to increased risk of hospital admission and death due to cardiovascular disease. In addition, lower intelligence is associated with a greater incidence of accidents and risk of death by homicide than is higher intelligence. (more…)

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