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TV and Junk Food Found to Correlate with ADHD Symptoms |
| Thursday, September 06, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The already bleak portrait painted by repeated stories on inattentive,media-saturated children has grown slightly more ominous: newlongitudinal studies seem to confirm a correlation between inordinate... more
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Faster Antidepressant Shows Promise |
| Thursday, September 06, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Approximately half of patients do not achieve remission from depression using only medication. Those who do get better must wait for several difficult weeks before they notice any positive results. Th... more
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TV and Junk Food Found to Correlate with ADHD Symptoms |
| Thursday, September 06, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The already bleak portrait painted by repeated stories on inattentive, media-saturated children has grown slightly more ominous: new longitudinal studies seem to confirm a correlation between inor... more
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Scientists Finger Placebo Effect in Some Depression Relapse |
| Thursday, September 06, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
It is not uncommon for patients taking an antidepressant to experience a relapse of symptoms anywhere from six months to a year after first beginning the medication. In a new study, researchers at Rho... more
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Cigarettes' Relationship to Alzheimer's Not as Swell as Previously Thought |
| Wednesday, September 05, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
In the wake of studies showing that alcohol had some health benefits, smokers were rabid to find similar good news for cigarettes. An article in the 1991 issue of the International Journal of Epid... more
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Anxiety May Complicate Pregnancy and Birth |
| Wednesday, September 05, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Pregnancy, as we've stated before, is one of the most difficult - and rewarding - of all human experiences. That an expectant mother and those sharing the pregnancy experience by proxy would encount... more
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Family-Based Treatment Found Effective in Bulimia Study |
| Wednesday, September 05, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
A study led by Dr. Daniel Le Grange, director of the Eating Disorders Program at the University of Chicago, has concluded that family-based treatment for bulimia nervosa is superior to more traditiona... more
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New Schizophrenia Drug Shows Promise |
| Tuesday, September 04, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
Since Thorazine was developed to treat schizophrenia in 1954, medication for the disorder has focused on regulating dopamine. While many of these drugs are effective, they all come with a high risk of... more
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New Approaches Needed for Bipolar Disorder in Children |
| Tuesday, September 04, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder, long considered a severe and stigmatic condition first making its presence known in the late 20's-30's, is being diagnosed among children and adolescents at an astounding rat... more
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Early Action on ADHD Helps Make Pharmacological Options Unnecessary |
| Tuesday, September 04, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
An ambitious study at Lehigh University examined the progress of 135 3- to 5-year-olds as they underwent interventions aimed at decreasing aggressive and defiant behaviors associated with attention de... more
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Proximity Affects Stressor's Impact |
| Friday, August 31, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Coming face to face with a bear would make anyone afraid, and scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging in London have explained that our distance from such a threat is a ... more
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Medical Anomaly Exposes Compulsive Gambling's Neurological Roots |
| Friday, August 31, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Tony Soprano is hardly the only American attracted to thrills of risking big money on games of chance: while experts speculate that only 4 to 6% of all individuals who gamble develop a... more
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Smoking Causes Permanent Genetic Changes |
| Friday, August 31, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
It is now undisputed that chronic smoking increases the risk of a variety of health problems. There has been some disagreement, however, about why ex-smokers still face elevated risks of cancer ev... more
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New Report Fosters Controversy Over Cigarette Taxes |
| Friday, August 31, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
A new report set to appear in the American Journal of Public Health may further intensify scrutiny of planned legislation that would make changes to the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHI... more
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Mold and Depression May Be Linked |
| Thursday, August 30, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
If you have ever seen, through teary eyes, the menacing spread of mold along the walls of your house, you know that the mycotoxins it releases can bring flu-like symptoms and respiratory problems. W... more
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Baby-Care Habits Reveal Post-Natal Depression |
| Thursday, August 30, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Conceiving, carrying and delivering a child is the most challenging series of acts undertaken by our species, and it may understandably lead to high anxiety for all involved, particularly the one ... more
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Alcoholics' Liver Cirrhosis Increases Brain Damage |
| Thursday, August 30, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
By comparing the brains of alcoholics on a genetic level researchers at the Waggoner Center at the University of Texas were able to confirm that liver cirrhosis, a complication that affects as many as... more
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Meth Hastens Ravages of Time |
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
The Faces of Meth gallery documents the frightening speed with which attractive faces become grotesque. Mug shots taken only a short time after the first drug bust are almost unrecognizable after meth... more
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American Education by the Numbers |
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Parenting
The blink-and-you-missed-it summer of '07 has officially entered its last throes, leaving the majority of America's 75 million students, from pre-K to college, in a brief state of inev... more
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Smokeless Tobacco Not a Safe Smoking Alternative |
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
Couple the negative PR that has swirled around cigarettes over the last decade with restrictions that have made smoking in many locations illegal, and what you get is a recipe for savvy marketing to e... more
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Lowering Cholesterol May Protect Against Alzheimer's |
| Tuesday, August 28, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
The current consensus is that Alzheimer's is brought on by an accumulation of amyloid-beta and abnormal tau proteins, which accrete in the brain into neural plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Wh... more
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Girls Influenced by Gender Stereotypes in Math, Sciences |
| Tuesday, August 28, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Classroom Issues
It sounds like the stuff of post-war urban legend, but the original talking Barbie doll introduced herself to kids and parents nationwide with the immortal line "math class is tough." And the ... more
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Interview: Professor Elyn Saks Discusses Memoir, Battle with Schizophrenia |
| Tuesday, August 28, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
Elyn R. Saks, professor of law at the University of Southern California and adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, recently published The Center Cannot Hold, a co... more
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Survey of Mortality Data Shows Alcohol Use Drastically Reduces Lifespan |
| Tuesday, August 28, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
By examining the Multiple Causes of Death database, researchers identified the effect that heavy alcohol use has on longevity, pegging the amount of lost life as high as 25 years. More than two decade... more
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Early Advantage to Alzheimer's Gene? |
| Monday, August 27, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
When a grandparent is lost in the fog of Alzheimer's Disease, family members want to know why the person that they care about is breaking down. It is not enough to say that they got the di... more
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