Relaxation

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An evaluation of the Respiratory One Method (ROM) in reducing emotional exhaustion among family physician residents.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a particular burnout risk reduction method among family physicians within a family practice residency program and to contribute to the very limited research literature on family physician residents stress ...
Veronika Ospina-Kammerer, Charles R Figley (Int J Emerg Ment Health, 2003WINTER)
evaluation-respiratory-one-method-rom-reducing-emotional-exhaustion.asp

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Tactile stimulus and neurohormonal response: a pilot study.

The effects of tactile stimuli on plasma oxytocin and neuropeptide Y (NPY) were investigated in 21 volunteers exposed to massage. Blood samples for basal values were drawn immediately before and immediately after finishing the massage. A third sample was ...
S Wikström, T Gunnarsson, C Nordin (Int J Neurosci, 200306)
tactile-stimulus-neurohormonal-response-pilot-study.asp

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Comparative efficacy, speed, and adverse effects of three PTSD treatments: exposure therapy, EMDR, and relaxation training.

The authors examined the efficacy, speed, and incidence of symptom worsening for 3 treatments of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): prolonged exposure, relaxation training, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR; N = 60). Treaments did ...
Steven Taylor, Dana S Thordarson, Louise Maxfield, Ingrid C Fedoroff, Karina Lovell, John Ogrodniczuk (J Consult Clin Psychol, 200304)
comparative-efficacy-speed-adverse-effects-three-ptsd-treatments.asp

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Covert muscle excitation is outflow from the central generation of motor imagery.

Two studies were conducted in an attempt to examine inflow and outflow processing by examining covert muscle excitation during motor imagery (MI) and its correlation with motor task performance. Examining 80 novice dart throwers in Experiment 1, MI ...
Rafer S Lutz (Behav Brain Res, 200303)
covert-muscle-excitation-outflow-central-generation-motor-imagery.asp

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"Just trying to relax": masculinity, masculinizing practices, and strip club regulars.

This article explores customers understandings of their visits to heterosexual strip clubs and the ways in which those visits become meaningful to them in relation to cultural discourses around masculinity, sexuality, leisure, and consumption, as well as ...
Katherine Frank (J Sex Res, 200302)
trying-relax-masculinity-masculinizing-practices-strip-club-regulars.asp

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Relaxed conditions can provide memory cues in both undergraduates and primary school children.

BACKGROUND: Memory can be impaired by changes between the contexts of learning and retrieval (context-dependent memory, CDM). However, the reminder properties of context have usually been investigated by experimental manipulation of cues in isolation, ...
Helen J Cassaday, Rachel E Bloomfield, Natalie Hayward (Br J Educ Psychol, 200212)
relaxed-conditions-provide-memory-cues-undergraduates-primary-school.asp

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Brain electrical activity and subjective experience during altered states of consciousness: ganzfeld and hypnagogic states.

Manifestations of experimentally induced altered states of consciousness in the brains electrical activity as well as in subjective experience were explored via the hypnagogic state at sleep onset, and the state induced by exposure to an unstructured ...
Jiri Wackermann, Peter Pütz, Simone Büchi, Inge Strauch, Dietrich Lehmann (Int J Psychophysiol, 200211)
brain-electrical-activity-subjective-experience-altered-states.asp

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Hypnosis modulates activity in brain structures involved in the regulation of consciousness.

The notion of consciousness is at the core of an ongoing debate on the existence and nature of hypnotic states. Previously, we have described changes in brain activity associated with hypnosis (Rainville, Hofbauer, Paus, Duncan, Bushnell, & Price, 1999). ...
Pierre Rainville, Robert K Hofbauer, M Catherine Bushnell, Gary H Duncan, Donald D Price (J Cogn Neurosci, 200208)
hypnosis-modulates-activity-brain-structures-involved-regulation.asp