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Credit: Anthony Raykh / UMass Amherst A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has identified an unusual physical phenomenon that challenges ... team from the Department of ...

Chronic pain can result from nervous-system overload that creates physical symptoms in response to repressed emotions, therapist Nicole Sachs says.

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In 'High Functioning,' Judith Joseph teaches people how to understand the science of their sadness, so they can understand the science of their happiness.

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a Pulitzer Prize–winning book about systems that reference themselves. The system that most captured his imagination was an imaginary device that had launched the field of computer science, the ...

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