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Lance Armstrong, who is the 7-Time Tour de France Champion in cycling, has long been accused of using performance enhancing drugs.
Most recently, one of his former US Postal Service teammates, Tyler Hamilton claimed on 60 minutes that he had seen Armstrong inject himself with steroids on multiple occasions.
Armstrong has long maintained his innocence. He was on Larry King Live back in 2005 denying the allegations against him. A short clip of his interview from 6 years ago is below.
A new study, co-authored by Jamie Jackson, a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, suggests that women with congenitive heart failure who repress their emotions (esp. anger) are more likely to experience symptoms of depression.
About.com reported that when researchers, who studied 35 women, factored in how much women knew about their illness, they found that the women who repressed their anger were more likely to feel depressed than those who were open to talking about their feelings.
Jackson explains, “I think the reason we’re seeing this pattern is that if you’re scared about your health condition, and you’re confronted with more and more information, that makes it more real to you. If you’re somebody who doesn’t like to acknowledge the emotion around the situation, it may result in reacting with greater negative emotion.”
The researchers note that this information could help physicians to find ways to educate patients about their illness that would be more compatible with their coping styles.
Back by popular demand, we’ve brought back your questions answered by Dr. Matsumoto. Our most recent question and answer series was in February 2011.
You can find questions and answers here.
We also did the question and answer series back in February of 2010. We asked you, the readers, to ask specific questions they may have to Dr. Matsumoto. We then selected your questions and had Dr. Matsumoto personally respond in a 2-part series.
You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
Ask your specific question(s) to Dr. Matsumoto in the comments section above. The questions can be related to anything: microexpressions, facial expressions of emotions in general, culture, emotion, nonverbal behavior, etc.
Please no inappropriate questions! Don’t forget we monitor all questions asked on the blog and inappropriate questions will be deleted.
We’ll select certain questions we think are interesting, interview Dr. Matsumoto and post the responses within one week.
Thanks for your participation!