Words Heal Too

Words that heal.

The value of words in the healing process runs constant to the path of therapeutic treatment, the net of exchanges and relationships between brain chemistry and the right words in order to heal is subtle and intricate. Psychotherapy, a treatment with words, is shown to be a treatment that directly affects the brain and that is able to change it stably, even in its anatomical structure and funct...

Can words heal? Using affect labeling to reduce the effects of unpleasant cues on symptom reporting

Processing unpleasant affective cues induces elevated momentary symptom reports, especially in persons with high levels of symptom reporting in daily life. The present study aimed to examine whether applying an emotion regulation strategy, i.e. affect labeling, can inhibit these emotion influences on symptom reporting. Student participants (N = 61) with varying levels of habitual symptom report...

Heal thyself

www.landesbioscience.com oxidative Medicine and celluar Longevity 75 As we continue to gain further insight of human biology, we learn that the body has remarkable promise and potential to defend itself from a number of disorders. For example, adipose derived stem cells have the uncanny ability to secrete soluble factors, such as macrophage colony stimulating factors, interleukins, and trophic ...

Helping Concrete Heal Itself

Concrete is one of civilization’s most durable building materials. The ancient Romans used concrete 2,000 years ago to make structures that still stand today. People now use the material’s modern versionaggregates such as sand or gravel held together by a cement and water pastemore than all other construction materials combined. The world produced 4.3 billion metric tons of cement in 2014, an...

Physician heal thyself.