International Students and Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Annals of Behavioral Medicine: Working with a group of 60 international students whose lives were changed dramatically by a move to Montreal, psychology professor Jean-Philippe Gouin observed their health in the five-month study, which was published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine , according to CTV. With his research team, he tracked the participant heart rates for changes in what is referred to as high-frequency heart rate variability HF-HRV and known in the medical community to be an indicator of parasympathetic nervous system health and Good friends can actually make you healthier in the physical sense in addition to improving your mental well-being, according to a new study from Concordia University in Montreal. Dr. Grouin assessed their social integration by means of a questionnaire that also gauged how lonely they felt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.