Do positive emotions help us cope with occupational stress?

Emotional Stress, Positive Emotions, and Psychophysiological Coherence

3 Chris, a 45-year-old business executive, had a family history of heart disease, and was feeling extremely stressed, fatigued, and generally in poor emotional health. A 24-hour heart rate variability analysis 1 revealed abnormally depressed activity in both branches of his autonomic nervous system, suggesting autonomic exhaustion ensuing from maladaptation to high stress levels. His heart rate...

Do cortical lesions help us to distinguish MS from NMO?

White Matter Counts: Brain Connections Help Us Do 2 + 2

HIGHWAYS OF THE BRAIN White matter is a lot like the highways of the brain. These highways connect different parts of the brain and pass information from one part of the brain to others. The better built the highways are, the easier it is to do things like read and do math. These connections or highways are called tracts, and each tract will connect different parts of the brain. There is a spec...

Help Us Do a Better Job of Teaching Music ?

We are just at the beginning stages of applying neuroscientific findings to music teaching. A simple model of the learning cycle based on neuroscience is Sense → Integrate → Act (sometimes modified as Act → Sense → Integrate). Additional components can be added to the model, including such concepts as active rather than passive learning, learning activates reward centers, all learning is emotio...

How Do the Nurses Cope with Job Stress? A Study with Grounded Theory Approach

Introduction: Due to the adverse effects of job stress on health of nurses and the importance of coping process of nurses in management of job stress, the present study was carried out with the aim of exploring the experiences of the nurses in order to reveal the original coping process of the nurses in the case of encountering occupational stress. Methods: This qualitative study was conducted ...