Aromatherapy – Too Much of a Good Thing?

A team of researchers from Taipei Medical University in Taiwan set up an experiment to model conditions of a typical spa – including the use of a vaporizer dispensing bergamot essential oil into the air. Healthy spa workers were then recruited to stay in the...

Coping With Anxiety

“Anxiety is a part of life, though it can become a problem when it starts to take over your life,” says Dr. Karen Cassiday, director of the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center in Chicago. Generalized anxiety disorder affects 6.8 million adults per...

A Stress Buster for Busy People

We are more likely to overeat, have disrupted sleep and get a headache when we are stressed. Meditation has helped lots of people to slow down, and shake off the tension that comes with an ordinary day, as well as times when anxiety has escalated. Andy Puddicombe, a...

Finding Serenity

A new strategy for remaining calm, cool and collected when someone makes us angry has recently been published online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.  Researchers from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan believe that a strategy...

Stress and Headache in Children

Italian researchers recently reported that stress, followed by lack of sleep were the top triggers for headache and migraine attacks in children. Speaking at the Meeting of the European Neurological Society in Prague, the researchers found that stress factors...

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