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a new study has found that all women need to lower their stress levels is a strong and happy marriage.
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a new study has found that all women need to lower their stress levels is a strong and happy marriage.
a team of researchers led by james a. coan, a university of virginia neuroscientist has found that women under threat who hold their husbands' hands show signs of 1 relief, which can clearly be seen on their brain scans.
coan, an assistant professor in the u.va. neuroscience graduate program and the department of 2, and his team conducted a study involving several couples who rated themselves as highly satisfied with their marriages.
the researchers designed a 3 mri (magnetic 4 imaging) study in which 16 married women were subjected to the threat of a very mild electric shock while they by turns held their husband's hand, the hand of a stranger (male) or no hand at all.
they found that the mri was able to show how these women's brains responded to this handholding while in a threatening situation.
the researchers 5 a large decrease in the brain response to threat as a function of 6 handholding, and a limited decrease in this response as a function of stranger handholding.
moreover, spouse handholding effects 7 as a function of 8 quality, with women in the very highest quality marriages benefiting from a very powerful decrease in threat-related brain activity.
"this is the first study of the neurological reactions to human touch in a threatening situation." said dr. coan.
the study is published in the december 2006 issue of the journal psychological science.
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