Women's Brain Respond More Slowly on Laugh

California, woman's brain are longer to be able to laugh more than men spontaneously. Researchers have found the reason why women need some time to finally get laughed out loud.
So do not be surprised if a man gives the woman a joke, but the woman was not immediately laughed. Not because the joke is not interesting but because women take longer to get a laugh than men.
Studies show that older women laughed because his brain longer to process things sharply. In their study, researchers conducted brain scans to find differences between male and female brains when given a joke. Researchers want to know the time it takes for men and women to be able to laugh after hearing these jokes.
A cartoon show participants as shown in the benchmark rate jokes. During the movie, the participants' brains are monitored using a brain scanning device. The more brain cells are active during these movies, it means the joke is interesting.
Brain scan results showed, more women using certain parts of the brain than men, especially the front cortex that serves as a place to process language and thought. It causes women need more time to think and think something is funny or not.
In addition to differences in brain activity, she also reportedly had a level of expectation or hope of a low jokes. Unlike a man who was considered a joke is interesting from the beginning.
"Women and men have the distinct nucleus accumbens in the brain. This will affect a person's thoughts to the joke. In women, the nucleus accumbens was larger, which means the longer the joke will be processed in the brain," said Professor Allan Reiss of Stanford University, California, as quoted from Dailymail, Tuesday (2/2/2010).
Although older women react to a joke, but researchers say that women are actually much faster to find a point of humor than men. The results of the study also reported that men and women use humor for two different purposes.
"Men prefer to use humor to criticize or dominate each other, while women tend to use humor to maintain a good relationship and keep well," said Prof Alan.

Stress Difference between Men and Women

Stress can happen to anyone, both men and women. But men and women have factors of different stressors. Who is more stress, male or female? And who is more plump after stress, male or female?

One study reported that most women will stress the problems with the financial, social and personal relationships, family and work pressures.

In contrast to women, men more stress and gain weight due to two factors that both originated from the problem of employment, when they could not make a decision and therefore can not learn a new skill.

In terms of weight gain, women and men differ much when confronted with stressful situations. Researchers found that women will gain weight than men.

Studies conducted by Harvard's School of Public Health and published in The American Journal of Epidemiology that, as quoted Friday (21/8/2009) involving 1355 men and women in the United States and performed for about 9 years.

Suspected researchers, women consume more food or snacks and also alone and crying when under stress so that patterns become irregular eating.

While men spend more with his friends or playing music when under stress, although there is also a run on the food as did the women.

To eliminate stress, the researchers also suggest that taking steps stress-reducing body weight while reducing patient stress.

1. Be careful and avoid as much as possible all the factors causing stress
2. Try to exercise as a form of stress
3. Perform regular breathing exercises, meditation or yoga
4. Eat balanced and nutritious
5. Enough sleep, at least 7 hours a night
6. Find a therapist, psychologist, nutritionist or a consulting or if you have serious problems with weight and stress
7. Drink a multivitamin every day to strengthen stamina and overcome stress, especially that many contain antioxidants


How about yourselves ? Have ways of removing stress?

Exposed by Cigarette Smoke When Pregnant Can Make Sudden Infant Death

Mothers who smoke or are often exposed to cigarette smoke exposure during pregnancy can cause the baby's blood pressure becomes abnormal. Abnormal blood pressure cause of sudden infant death.

The team of researchers from Sweden's Karolinksa Institute found exposure to cigarette smoke during pregnancy can cause the baby's blood pressure becomes abnormal even until the child grew up.

Abnormal blood pressure makes the heart to pump faster and harder. Studies have shown damage to the circulation may be a risk factor in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Dr Gary Cohen and his team analyzed 36 newborns, 17 of them born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy. When babies are frequently exposed to smoke are examined, suggesting an abnormality in heart rate and blood pressure. This situation worsened during the first year of life.

"Usually when someone is standing heart rate increases and blood vessels tighten. In infants of mothers who smoke, the problem occurs continuously from birth until the first 1 year and get worse from time to time," said Dr. Cohen, as quoted by BBC News , Wednesday (27/1/2010).

Dr. Cohen added for some time been aware of the cardiovascular effects in cases of sudden infant death. And this probably explains why this could happen. Exposed to smoke early in life to make blood pressure control mechanisms disrupted.

"His influence not only on your breathing babies, but also the control of blood pressure and heart rate," says Dr. Cohen.

"The results of this study is reasonable. Sudden infant deaths could be avoided by not let anyone smoke in the same room with the baby. In addition a third of sudden infant deaths could be avoided if the mother did not smoke during pregnancy," said Professor George Haycock, advisor of Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths

Women Need More Sleep 20 Minutes Lots Of Men

New York, Women need to sleep 20 minutes more than men. Female brains are more complex and a lot of thinking and doing (multitasking) made to rest more than men.

Professor Jim Horn of the Sleep Research Center, Loughborough University says more women need to sleep because of its multitasking nature of the larger and more complex brains than men. The more often the brain is used, the more brain cells to be rested.

"Women do work more in one time. They are also used his head more often than men. For this reason, time to sleep even more," Prof Horne said, as quoted from Newyorkdailynews, Thursday (28/1/2010).

Men also actually need more sleep when many jobs that require heavy thinking, but still not as much as she needed.

"Women have more commitment to do something, for example a new wife could not sleep after all the homework done," says Michael Breus, author of "Beauty Sleep: Look Younger, Lose Weight, and Feel Great Through Better Sleep '.

In The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, researchers from North Carolina says that women are more disturbed sleep than men. And one intruder sleeping woman is a man who slept beside her.

Pregnant women are also more difficult to sleep because of the position is rather disturbing stomach. In addition, a mother is also more sensitive and will wake up when his son was crying. But according to Prof Horne, it was actually caused her brain aging more slowly than men.

"A 75-year-old woman will have the same brain structure with a 70-year-old man. That is to say, man's brain faster than older women means greater risk of dementia in men," explained Prof Horne.

The average adult needs to sleep 6 to 8 hrs, but each individual can be different needs. To be sure, if you feel your brain is too often used, so sleep even more.

In order Men Want to Use Condom

Wisconsin, many men refuse to use condoms for bad reasons and so forth. Whereas women aim to persuade men to use condoms is to prevent transmission of sexually transmitted infections.

According to the American psychologist, he actually wanted to use condoms if the strategy appropriate to offer him. What strategy?

When going to have sex, many women have a dilemma because her partner did not want to wear a condom. And women also have a right to protect themselves from risk of disease, sexually transmitted diseases such as herpes, Trichomoniasis, chlamydia, HPV, HIV and so on.

According to Dr Michelle Broaddus from the Medical College of Wisconsin, United States, was a man willing to use condoms when the female partner can take compromise and negotiation with the good.

"If she asked in a subtle, somewhat erotic, seductive and interspersed with jokes, he'd want to use it. But if a woman asks in a rude, yelling, threatening and patronizing, he would have refused," said Dr. Broaddus was quoted as saying by ScienceDaily, Friday (28/1/2010).

Each year, an estimated 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections in the United States. Nearly half occurred in the young couple under the age of 25 years. One cause is the high number of low condom use, especially because he is lazy to use a condom.

Dr. Broaddus and colleagues have conducted a study on the effects of negotiation and the approach to the use of female condoms in men. The study, published in the Journal of Sex Roles that reported the results of a survey of 193 couples participating.

Researchers analyzed various strategies and approaches that made women to her male partner in order to use a condom. Strategies include:

1. Technique explained, the woman explained to him about the dangers of sexually transmitted infections and what would happen if you do not use condoms.
2. Threatening techniques, which threatens the woman does not want to do and provide sexual services if her male partner does not want to use condoms.
3. Erotic techniques, namely women sensual approach and said that he would feel very sexy and really enjoyed the male sex if the couple use a condom.

Male participants were then asked about the perception by researchers that some women strategy. Based on survey results, participants admitted he was more interested in and enjoy the use of condoms when the female partner to offer erotic techniques rather than using the technique of explanation let alone a threat.

"This study shows that with the approach and the appropriate negotiation strategy, a man of compromise to be invited to use condoms. Effective communication between partners can lead to safer sex practices and reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections," said Dr. Broaddus.

Women Lose 90 Percent Egg When Age 30

London, Why do women aged 30 years and over is very difficult to get pregnant? Researchers have found the answer. Women lose 90 percent of eggs when entering the age of 30 years.

Women had been taking 90 percent of her eggs when she was 30 years old. Although still able to produce eggs at the age of 30 to 40 of the year, but the egg reserves continue to shrink rapidly.

Researchers said the body of choosing the best egg from its reserves. While female egg quality will get worse as you get older and the increasing difficulty in having a healthy baby.

Research carried out the University of St Andrews and Edinburgh University are the first of the decline in the number of ovarian reserve is so fast and hard seed fertilization menopause.

The results showed an average of 300 thousand women have eggs, but this number will decline rapidly than previously thought. At the age of only 30 years old female egg reserves 12 percent and 3 percent at age 40 years.

Dr Hamish Wallace in his writing the research tells us that this has been done to show the prospects of women's fertility rates.

"Our research shows that 95 percent of women at the age of 30 years had only a 12 percent maximum of ovarian reserve and at the age of 40 years, only three percent of the remaining," he said as quoted by the Telegraph, Thursday (28/1/2010).

Researchers say many women who think wrong by assuming they can still produce eggs and keep the level of fertility. However, this study showed a decrease in significant egg quickly.

Research conducted with 325 women using the data in the UK, U.S. and Europe of all ages to assess the potential of the egg cell reserves. Researchers then use these data to graph the average reduction potential of ovarian reserve throughout the life of women.

Dr. Wallace, who practiced at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital also said this research could help predict early menopausal women and egg freezing of ovarian cancer patients.

A study published in the journal Public Library of Science One also showed a big difference female egg cell. Some of the women there who have the egg up to 2 million eggs, but there also has at least 35,000 eggs. But the average woman has 300 thousand eggs.

This research is a warning to women not to late to plan a pregnancy. Because the fertility of women after the age of 30 years will fall drastically