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Washington, July 2 (IANS) Men with low levels of testosterone are at increased risk of suffering from depression than those of the general population, new research says.

“In an era where more and more men are being tested for Low T – or lower levels of testosterone – there is very little data about the men who have borderline low testosterone levels,” said lead researcher Michael Irwig, associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University.

“We felt it important to explore the mental health of this population,” Irwig said.

(IANS) If you are a working man, be careful! An increasing number of men are being sexually targeted at the workplace, a recent study warns.

Researchers from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) reviewed 282 complaints lodged over six months, abc.net.au reported.

The study found 78 percent of cases were men harassing female colleagues. Professor Paula McDonald from QUT said 11 percent of the complaints were from men against other men.

She said that figure was higher than expected.

Men who wear red clothes send out a signal that they are angry and aggressive, in much the same way as if their face had reddened, a new research has found.

Researchers from Durham University showed 50 male and 50 female volunteers images of men in different coloured t-shirts.

The participants rated those wearing red as more aggressive and angry than those in blue or grey.

However, while the male volunteers also tended to consider men wearing red as ‘dominant’, the female volunteers did not.

Does oxytocin, better known as the ‘love hormone’, have an effect on our metabolism too? Yes, says a new study that establishes how it helps men ward off obesity.

Oxytocin is released whenever we cuddle or kiss. Then, when we have sex and have an orgasm, even more oxytocin is released.

The study found that the same hormone can help with obesity in men as it also affects male metabolism.

Apparently it can “reduce caloric intake and appetite and alter levels of appetite-regulating hormones”, Bustle.com reported.

Men too can get breast cancer and those with naturally high levels of the female hormone oestrogen may be at a greater risk, says a new study.

Men with the highest levels of oestrogen were two and a half times more likely to develop breast cancer than men with the lowest levels of the hormone, the researchers found.

“We have shown for the first time that just like some forms of the cancer in women, oestrogen has a big role to play in male breast cancer,” said study author professor Tim Key from Cancer Research UK.

XA new study has revealed that how your brain reacts to emotional information is influenced by your genes.

The University Of British Columbia study found that carriers of a certain genetic variation perceived positive and negative images more vividly and had heightened activity in certain brain regions.

Lead author Rebecca Todd said that people really do see the world differently, adding that for people with this gene variation, the emotionally relevant things in the world stand out much more.

Even couples who share household work relatively equally stop doing so after the arrival of the baby as the man withdraws from many of the chores that he used to do, new research has found.

The researchers found that after the baby’s birth, women’s workloads increased by two hours a day, while men’s total working time each day increased by only about 40 minutes.

Simply having more sex does not make couples happier because the increased frequency actually leads to a decline in wanting for and enjoyment of sex, says a team including an Indian-origin researcher from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).

The desire to have sex decreases much more quickly than the enjoyment of sex once it has been initiated.

Children are more likely to display troublesome behaviour in families in which the father feels unsupported by his partner, says a study.

The ways in which parents work together in their roles is a key factor in relation to the behaviour of their children.

“My results suggest that in the long term, family therapeutic interventions that aim to improve the co-parent relationship may be informed by paying particular attention to how much fathers feel supported by their co-parent,” said researcher Rachel Latham from the University of Sussex.

If your boss sees and caters to your needs before his, everything in the workplace improves, claims a new study.

New University of Illinois at Chicago research examined the “serving culture,” and found that putting employees first lead to measureable improvements in customer satisfaction, higher job performance by employees, and lower turnover are the result.

Employees feel the most valued, and in return give back to the company and its customers when their bosses create a culture of trust, caring, cooperation, fairness and empathy.

Treating gum disease can offer relief to men suffering from a prostate condition that makes urination difficult, new research has found.

Gum disease treatment reduces symptoms of prostate inflammation, called prostatitis, a disease that inflames the gland that produces semen, the findings showed.

“This study shows that if we treat the gum disease, it can improve the symptoms of prostatitis and the quality of life for those who have the disease,” said corresponding author Nabil Bissada from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine.

Do online posts about yourself influence your behaviour? Yes, says a new study.

The study found that students who posted more on social media about drinking before college actually did more binge drinking in their freshman year.

“What you post about yourself online matters – what you post may be who you become,” said researcher Jon D’Angelo from the University of Wisconsin.

“The purpose of the study was to understand the role that one’s own Facebook alcohol posts play in predicting binge drinking during the first year of college,” he added.

While circumcision reduces the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission by infected men, there is actually a possible increased risk of infecting female sexual partners while the circumcision wounds heal, warns a new study.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends male circumcision (the surgical removal of foreskin from the penis) which reduces HIV acquisition by 50-60 percent.

Treating insomnia in night shift workers may improve their work productivity and safety, says a new research.

The researchers found that night shift workers classified as alert insomniacs had the highest level of impairment in work productivity and cognitive function, which was significantly worse than controls.

“Our findings are important to everyone who is dealing with night shift work,” said principal investigator Valentina Gumenyuk from Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Contrary to popular perception, people suffering from depression may not be more prone to commit violent acts in the future, says a new research.

The fact that the German co-pilot suspected to be behind the deadly plane crash in the French Alps last month, killing himself along with the 149 people on board, was apparently suffering from depression has prompted many to speculate that most psychiatric disorders could lead to violent behaviour.

According to the new findings only substance use disorders predict future violence.

Surgeon Sergio Canavero has claimed that not only he can successfully conduct a head transplant, but he can do it within an hour.

The Italian doctor, whose procedure would see a man’s head being removed from one body and place to other, has vowed to go to China as he is banned from doing it everywhere else due to political reasons, the Independent reported.

Canavero said that the full joining process could take up to 24 hours, and would be carried out by a team of doctors from around the world to ensure that none of them got tired.

Even if you quit smoking at the age of 60, you can lower the risk of heart attack and stroke within the first five years, say German researchers.

After a person quits smoking, this risk continues to decrease. On an average, the risk for former smokers is only 1.3 times that of people who have never smoked in their lives.

To earn better at the workplace, what qualities do you think you must have? Well, for one, start having extra action between the sheets!

According to a recent study, employees who make love two or three times a week earn 4.5 percent more than their peers who are laggards in this department.

Researchers from the Anglia Ruskins University, a public university located in Cambridge, East of England, also found that workers with health problems who are sexually active earn 1.5 percent more than those with similar ailments who are not sexually active.

Men infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS need fewer drinks to feel the effects of alcohol than uninfected men, says a new study.

“All else equal, people who have HIV infection have a lower tolerance for alcohol than similar people without HIV infection,” explained Amy Justice, professor of medicine and public health at Yale University.

It is not clear, she added, whether HIV-infected individuals are simply more susceptible to alcohol or if they achieve higher concentrations of alcohol in the blood from the same number of drinks.

Are professional golfers, beneath the fine screen of glamour, lonely beings? Yes, says a new study.

In the midst of intense rivalries and on a meagre income, many professional golfers are leading lonely isolated lives, the study said.

John Fry from Myerscough College interviewed 20 professionals, including Ryder Cup players and a former world number one, to reveal the “particular stresses” behind the glamour of the game.

Fry said that the number of tournaments held abroad had increased over recent years.

Ladies! If you need any help online, men would be at your service, for a new study shows that males tend to compete with each other when it comes to being generous to women online.

Nichola Raihani of University College London (UCL) said that people are really generous and were right to say most of the time, that their motives for giving to charity were not self-serving. However, this does not preclude these motives from having evolved to benefit the donor in some way.

If you are bit vain in nature, you may just posses one of the qualities that most celebrated leaders in the business world have, as a new study has said claimed that narcissistic leaders happen to be the most successful ones.

New research from Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management finds those strong characteristics are not such a bad thing, as long as those leaders temper their narcissism with a little humility now and then.

A new study has found that Argentine tango dancing can benefit people at certain stages in the development of Parkinson’s disease (PD).

Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital-The Neuro, McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre study looked at changes in patients’ motor abilities following a 12-week tango course and is also the first study to assess the effect that tango has on non-motor symptoms.

When we see an attractive person, it activates an internal craving or urge for sex known as “spontaneous desire” which should not be called sex desire at all, new research by a Massachusetts-based leading psychologist and author has revealed.

Emily Nagoski also found that while 70 percent of men typically experience “spontaneous desire”, just 10 to 20 percent of women have “spontaneous desire” as their primary desire style.