One more benefit for meditation and exercise: we don’t catch the cold as often and don’t suffer through it as long. Bruce Barrett, MD, PhD, July/August issue of the Annals of Family Medicine. “Evidence suggests that mindfulness meditation can reduce experienced stress and negative emotions and that regular exercise may protect people from respiratory […]

  Interesting hypothesis reported in Medscape Neurology A.N. Wilner, MD, 07/11/2012 that mass hysteria might be related to mirror neuron activity. Unable to stop copying someone? Even harder when in a group? It sounds plausible.