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| Winter-swimming Scandinavian men can teach us how the body adapts to extreme heat and cold Posted: 11 Oct 2021 08:08 AM PDT The Scandinavian winter swimming culture combines brief dips in cold water with hot sauna sessions -- and now, a study of young men who participate regularly in these polar plunges finds that winter swimming may allow the body to adapt to extreme temperatures. The findings suggest that routinely alternating swims or dips in chilly water with sauna sessions might affect how brown fat, also known as brown adipose tissue (BAT), burns energy and produces heat. |
| Sleep loss does not impact ability to assess emotional information Posted: 11 Oct 2021 06:12 AM PDT It's no secret that going without sleep can affect people's mood, but a new study shows it does not interfere with their ability to evaluate emotional situations. It is often assumed that feeling more negative will color people's experience of emotional images and events in the environment around them. However, researchers found that while going 24 hours without sleep impacted study participants' mood, it did not change their performance on tests evaluating their ability to process emotional words and images. |
| A visit from a social robot improves hospitalized children’s outlook Posted: 09 Oct 2021 06:31 AM PDT A new study finds a visit from human-controlled robot encourages a positive outlook and improves medical interactions for hospitalized children. |
| Meditation training reduces long-term stress, hair analysis shows Posted: 07 Oct 2021 09:22 AM PDT A new study finds that mental training reduces the concentration of the stress hormone cortisol in hair. The amount of cortisol in hair provides information about how much a person is burdened by persistent stress. |
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