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...according to Ruobing Wang ’03, who has already been admitted into medical schools at Stanford and New York University, knowledge of the material is far more important than the testing environment...
...mortality in an uncertain world isn't enough of an incentive, there are tangible health benefits to reconciling in the boomer years. Forgiving someone who was once important in your life can reduce your level of stress 15% to 20%, according to Frederic Luskin, senior fellow at the Stanford University Center on Conflict and Negotiation and author of Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription For Health and Happiness (HarperSanFrancisco). "Forgiveness is a form of resilience that reduces the wear and tear on the body and can lead to better health and better quality of life," Luskin says...
...stay elevated indefinitely, glucocorticoids can and do. Cortisol in particular can weaken the immune system, potentially making cancer and infectious diseases worse. Measuring the influence of stress, though, is tough. Some studies have shown no effect at all. Others offer intriguing clues. Dr. David Spiegel, director of Stanford's Psychosocial Treatment Laboratory, cites a study of psoriasis patients in which half practiced meditation and half didn't; the first group healed faster. Other studies show that patients who are part of a rich social network have lower cortisol levels than loners, that people who pray regularly tend to live longer...
...instance, the A.P.A. is considering adding "relational disorders"--severe problems between spouses or siblings--to the fifth edition. Relational-disorder sufferers are completely sane except when they are around, say, their spouse. Skeptics contend that marital spats shouldn't be considered mental illnesses. A group of Stanford researchers wants to put "compulsive shopping disorder" into DSM V, but First doesn't seem to like the idea. While a number of studies have shown that pathological gambling exists and can be measured, he says, compulsive shopping "has received virtually no research attention to date." (The same goes for sex addiction, according...
Researchers seeking to answer those questions come up against a confounding mess of variables--everything from changing hormone levels to a patient's willingness to admit that a problem exists. But last summer a researcher at Stanford University tried to wave away some of the fog. Turhan Canli showed nearly 100 photographs--some of emotionally neutral objects like a fire hydrant, others of emotionally unsettling things like a severed hand--to 12 men and 12 women. Three weeks later he showed the subjects the same images and found that the women were 15% more likely to have accurately remembered...