Dr. Steven Southwick is designated as the inaugural Greenberg Professor

Dr. Steven Southwick, newly named as the inaugural Greenberg Professor of Psychiatry, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Resilience, is a recognized expert on the psychological and neurobiological effects of extreme psychological trauma.

Facebook Use Affects Mood Differently To Stress And Relaxation

Researchers measured people's physical and psychological responses while they used Facebook, performed a stressful task, or just relaxed, and found each of these activities appears to have a different effect on mood and arousal. Dr. Maurizio Mauri of the Institute of Human, Language and Environmental Sciences at IULM University in Milan, Italy, and colleagues, write about their findings in the ...

Facebook Use Affects Mood, Unrelated to Stress or Relaxation

New research shows that using Facebook can elevate a user’s mood and keep him or her coming back for more. But the way the social networking site affects mood is unrelated to feelings of either stress or relaxation, Medical News Today reports.

Fire In The Blood

February 8, 2012: After a decade of research into using blood markers to determine who was most vulnerable to the psychological aftereffects of combat, the U.S. Army is now testing a blood analysis that can spot troops with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and to what degree they have it.

Caregiving Burden, Stress, and Health Effects Among Family Caregivers of Adult Cancer Patients [Grand Rounds]

Unlike professional caregivers such as physicians and nurses, informal caregivers, typically family members or friends, provide care to individuals with a variety of conditions including advanced age, dementia, and cancer. This experience is commonly perceived as a chronic stressor, and caregivers often experience negative psychological, behavioral, and physiological effects on their daily lives ...

Women should be informed about abortion

In Natalie Plumb’s column on abortion, she talks about the psychological effects of abortion on the mother, and the apparent murder of the growing fetus. She believes that abortion should, eventually, become outlawed. Plumb fails to account for the effects of pregnancy on the mother.

Friends mitigate effect of bad experiences

Toronto, Jan 29 (IANS) Having supportive friends can mitigate the effects of bad experiences and confer psychological benefits.