Mindfully Healing

Adults who grew up with this childhood personality trait earn more money now. People labelled ‘stubborn, defiant rule-breakers’ as children grow up to earn a higher income, a new study finds. The findings come from research carried out on almost 3,000 children in Luxembourg. The study looked at the children’s intelligence, socioeconomic status and family background, among other variables. Forty years later, 745 of those children were followed up to find out their educational and occupational achievements. The researchers were surprised to find that a more rebellious childhood nature was

The most common anxiety disorder is social anxiety disorder. Cognitive therapy on its own is the best treatment for social anxiety disorder, new research finds. It is better than just taking drugs and better than taking drugs as well as having therapy. Cognitive therapy resulted in either a cure or significant improvement in 85% of patients. Professor Hans M. Nordahl, who led the study, said: “We’ve set a new world record in effectively treating social anxiety disorders. This is one of the best studies on social anxiety disorders ever. It’s

Brain scans reveal how men and women react differently to depression. Woman are much more susceptible to depression than men. At age 15, girls are twice as likely as boys to be experiencing depression. This could be down to hormonal fluctuations, body image issues, genetic factors or other causes. Men, though, are more likely to suffer persistent depression. And for women, depression tends to go in cycles. Brain scans of adolescents in a new study have found different responses at this young age. For the research, 106 adolescents with depression

How fashion helps us fit in with others as well as sets us apart. When women move to a new city they take note of the height of other women’s high heels. Then they tend to copy the heel-height worn by affluent women and ignore the heels of less affluent women. Professor Kurt Gray, author of new study analysing shoe purchases by women, said: “In other words, women want to look like the rich girls, and different from the poor girls.” The researchers call this ‘trickle down conformity’: the idea