Neurology’s Robert P. Friedland analyzes study linking higher life expectancy to positive emotions expressed by nuns

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Well Being JournalRobert P. Friedland, professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, offered his analysis of a study in which it was shown that nuns who wrote about their autobiographies with greater positive emotion expressed lived noticeably longer—in some cases, ten years longer—than those who wrote about less positive emotion. “I think the Nun Study is very important because it uses information obtained about people before the period of illness,” he said.