There is no doubt that undergoing infertility treatment involves a rollercoaster of emotions and can be very stressful, with many women reporting high rates of anxiety and depression. Therapies designed to help women reduce stress earlier in the treatment process... 
In 1994, Harvard scientists taught a simple 5-fingered combination of piano notes to a group of volunteers using all their fingers. They were instructed to play it over and over again for two hours a day, for five consecutive days. Another group of volunteers... 
In 1981 Harvard psychologist Prof Langer recruited a group of elderly men all in their late 70s or 80s for a “week of reminiscence”. Surrounded by props from the 50s they were asked to act as if it was actually 22 years earlier, 1959. They were surrounded... 
Research conducted at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor provides concrete evidence of the mind-body connection through study of the placebo effect. Scientists have long been puzzled by questions of how and why some people, under certain circumstances, are able... 