Word: affective
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...Frequent mental distress has probably increased since 2006," says Zack, "though whether the recent worsening of the economy will affect all areas equally is uncertain...
...isolate the specific impact of temperature on tree mortality during drought - and it indicates that in a warmer world trees are likely to be significantly more vulnerable to the threat of drought than they are today. "This raises some fundamental questions about how climate change is going to affect forests," says David Breshears, a professor at UA's School of Natural Resources and a co-author of the PNAS paper. "The potential for lots of forest die-off is really there...
...Since the days of Freud, research into the mind-body relationship has come a long way. Studies show that not only are your mental health and mood dependent in large part on physical factors like exercise, but also unchecked stress, anxiety and depression can affect physical health, increasing blood pressure, heart disease and even risk of death. So it was perhaps inevitable that patients would start bringing their yoga mats into therapy...
...Other sports physiologists are currently studying how ingesting the sugared solution, as opposed to just rinsing with it, affects physical performance, and how the body responds to artificially sweetened drinks. The body may undergo a kind of metabolic letdown in anticipation of a sugar rush that never comes, which could affect performance. "In some ways, the body's reaction is to the 'promise' of an incoming carbohydrate load, so one wonders what happens when that promise is not fulfilled," says Williams...
...temperature change of a tenth of a degree centigrade. Farrell did acknowledge that there could have been larger temperature effects caused by sunspots in the past. “A strong correlation between the amount of radioactive carbon and temperature from ice cores has shown that solar activity can affect temperature,” Farrell said. He cautioned that the link was “a hypothesis...[that] does not have firm scientific grounding.” But Soon said that there have been much greater temperature fluctuations due to sunspots in the past and that proponents of global warming...