About 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Many of those folks have trouble pinpointing their pain’s cause when it doesn’t stem from a physical injury or illness.
As it turns out, the root of chronic pain isn’t always an injury or illness. Serious emotional trauma can contribute to it too. So some researchers are exploring a new kind of therapy to address trauma and studying its effects on patients’ chronic pain. For some people, they’re seeing positive results.
You might want to skip the hot dogs this Fourth of July, according to a new study published in the BMJ. This study looked at the long-term health consequences of eating red, processed meats for about 80,000 people - and found that those who ate more of them had a 13% higher risk of death during the study’s followup period than those who didn’t.
Pretty scary stuff. But what’s the big deal with processed meat specifically? And what other convenient foods can you replace it with?
Our brains may be uniquely tuned to recognize music, says a new study in Nature Neuroscience. Researchers monitored the brains of humans and monkeys as they listened to both musical and noisy sounds -- and found that monkeys' brains didn't appear to recognize music, while human brains did.
The research may offer a little more insight into how we humans use musicality as a tool in communication, researchers say.
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