They found that a blunted response to reward feedback (also known as reward positivity) while playing a game during an EEG scan in which teens were told they either won or lost predicted the first ...

Essentially, the pathway appeared to be that social anxiety leads to increased loneliness, and loneliness then contributes to a blunted blood pressure response during stressful situations.

Television’s most talked-about panel last week was the U.S. Supreme Court, which may well have blunted the already dull needle of parody-on-the-air by ruling that “substantial” borrowing ...