Stress :: How mental stress leads to physical ailments

Prolonged stress weakens the immune system, strains the heart, damages memory cells and deposit fats at the waist, says Dr. Bruce McEwen of the neuroendocrinology laboratory, Rockefeller University, and author of a new book, The End of Stress as We Know It.

Be natural at interviews

Personnel Managers tend to employ women who stick to standardised feminine behaviour during interviews like smiling, nodding and looking away. This is the finding of a study by psychologists from London University’s Goldsmiths College.

Menopause :: Mood during Menopause

On approaching menopause, many women do fear falling into profound moodiness. Even doctors believe this can happen. Until 1980, the American Psychiatric Association listed “involutional melancholia” – a mental disorder that supposedly occurred during menopause – in their official directory of psychiatric diagnoses. But the truth is not nearly so frightening, say psychologists from the University of Pittsburgh.