Neuroscientists are now testing the old saying "Smiling at you smiling at the world," as a new University of London College project aims to discover whether a cheerful face simply can help relieve depression and anxiety.
Scientists have developed a new application called "Pocket Smile" that sends a wide smile picture to smartphones throughout the day in the hope that it will make their owners rejoice.
This idea of experiment comes against the background of a recent study that indicates that when people see a smiling person, the smile muscles unwind in their faces involuntarily.
Scientists now believe that emotions and facial expressions occur at the exact same time, so stimulating one of them stimulates the other automatically, and it follows that a smile or seeing a smile, even when a person does not feel happy can stimulate good thoughts or vice versa.
And if it is proven that the application has a beneficial effect on the mood, it can be used as a temporary solution for the depressed person while waiting for his referral to a specialist after an initial diagnosis of depression.
The scientists have warned that the application is not intended for people who are in urgent need of treatment for depression, but if it succeeds in relieving some of the burden then the long-term goal is to help them support themselves so that they can access the specialized referral.
An American study revealed that sighing is not just a sign of depression , despair or sadness, and that it is a involuntary reflection that helps maintain lung function.
Sighing is a brain control system that causes people to sigh dozens of times an hour, even when they don't think of provocative things like health insurance or Donald Trump's statements.
The researchers note that there are two small groups of nerve cells in the brainstem - the area that is responsible for breathing, sleep, and heart rate - regulating the sigh, and doing so in response to an involuntary command to re-inflate the innumerable small vesicles in the lungs called the alveoli that control the movement of the body Of oxygen and carbon dioxide, which sometimes collapses.
"Unlike the pacemaker, which regulates the speed of the pulses, there is also a brain breathing center that controls the type of breathing we take," says a scientist from the Stanford University research team.
This center consists of a small number of different types of neurons, each of which acts as a button that occupies a different type of breathing, and a button that schedules regular breathing, other sighs, and other cells that can be yawning, sneezing, coughing, and even laughing and crying.
Scientists have developed a new application called "Pocket Smile" that sends a wide smile picture to smartphones throughout the day in the hope that it will make their owners rejoice.
This idea of experiment comes against the background of a recent study that indicates that when people see a smiling person, the smile muscles unwind in their faces involuntarily.
Scientists now believe that emotions and facial expressions occur at the exact same time, so stimulating one of them stimulates the other automatically, and it follows that a smile or seeing a smile, even when a person does not feel happy can stimulate good thoughts or vice versa.
And if it is proven that the application has a beneficial effect on the mood, it can be used as a temporary solution for the depressed person while waiting for his referral to a specialist after an initial diagnosis of depression.
The scientists have warned that the application is not intended for people who are in urgent need of treatment for depression, but if it succeeds in relieving some of the burden then the long-term goal is to help them support themselves so that they can access the specialized referral.
An American study revealed that sighing is not just a sign of depression , despair or sadness, and that it is a involuntary reflection that helps maintain lung function.
Sighing is a brain control system that causes people to sigh dozens of times an hour, even when they don't think of provocative things like health insurance or Donald Trump's statements.
The researchers note that there are two small groups of nerve cells in the brainstem - the area that is responsible for breathing, sleep, and heart rate - regulating the sigh, and doing so in response to an involuntary command to re-inflate the innumerable small vesicles in the lungs called the alveoli that control the movement of the body Of oxygen and carbon dioxide, which sometimes collapses.
"Unlike the pacemaker, which regulates the speed of the pulses, there is also a brain breathing center that controls the type of breathing we take," says a scientist from the Stanford University research team.
This center consists of a small number of different types of neurons, each of which acts as a button that occupies a different type of breathing, and a button that schedules regular breathing, other sighs, and other cells that can be yawning, sneezing, coughing, and even laughing and crying.
Source: Guardian
