antidepressants
How Antidepressants Affect Selfhood, Teenage Sexuality, and Our Quest for Personal Identity*by Maria Popova* *“Though antidepressants are effective at managing negative emotions, they don’t in themselves provide the sense of meaning and direction that a person equally needs in order to find her way in life.”* *“Great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them,”* Anaïs Nin famously wrote. But what if it doesn’t balance out? What if the emotional excess, believed to be essential to creativity, was of the negative and cr... mais »
Mental Health'sRDoC
A coming revolution walks a fine lineby vaughanbell *The Chronicle of Higher Education* has an excellent in-deptharticle on the most likely candidate for a revolution in mental health research: the National Institute of Mental Health'sRDoC or Research Domain Criteria project. The article is probably the best description of the project this side of the scientific literature and considering that the RDoC is likely to fundamentally change how mental illness is understood, and eventually, treated, it is essential reading. It is also interesting for the fact that the leaders of the RDoC pr... mais »
Alzheimer
Fornix Changes May Be First Clue to Cognitive Decline Pauline Anderson Sep 11, 2013 - 1 comment EDITORS' RECOMMENDATIONS - Statins Linked to Reduced Dementia - Gray-Matter Atrophy May Drive Cognitive Decline in Diabetes - Functional Brain Imaging May Spot Alzheimer's Early Topic Alert "Alzheimer's Disease" is already on your Topic Alert list. - [image: Personal Alert] Add Other Topics - Previous research has concentrated on changes to the hippocampus as a predictor of conversion from normal cognition to cognitive impairment, but emerging data suggest that pr... mais »
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Prion-like proteins drive several diseases of aging, say leading neurology researchersSeptember 9, 2013 [image: prion_like_protein_aggregates] Prion-like protein aggregates drive the progression of several neurodegenerative diseases. a. Amyloid-beta plaques in Alzheimers. b. Neurofibrillary tangles (tau) in Alzheimer’s. c. Lewy bodies (alpha-synuclein) in Parkinson’s. d. TDP-43 inclusions in motor neurons in ALS. (Credit: Emory University/*Nature*) Many of the brain diseases associated with aging, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, are caused by specific proteins that misfold and ag... mais »
erasing memories
Selectively erasing unwanted memoriesSeptember 13, 2013 Jim Carrey in *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind* (credit: Universal Studios) Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have been able to erase dangerous drug-associated memories in mice and rats without affecting other more benign memories. The surprising discovery** points to a clear and workable method to disrupt unwanted memories while leaving the rest intact, the scientists say. For recovering addicts and individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), unwanted memories... mais »
Voyager 1 interstellar
Voyager 1 embarks on historic journey into interstellar spaceSeptember 13, 2013 [image: nasa_voyager] This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft entering interstellar space (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA‘s Voyager 1 spacecraft is now officially the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas, present in the space between stars. Voyager is in a transitional re... mais »
Solutions economic and social
Solutions economic and social: Dr David Allen Wood delivers the most important lecture of ESC 2013SEP 2, 2013 11:02 EDT At 8.30 am, the *Dr Geoffrey Rose Lecture* was delivered by *Dr David A Wood *, the Garfield Weston Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the International Centre for Circulatory Health, National, Heart, and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and honorary consultant cardiologist to Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. With press conferences cranking and hot lines looming, attendance was sparse, but the message, no less poignant. With his family proudly look...mais »
Ecscr Protein and MS
Protein May Hold Key to Metabolic Syndrome Published: Sep 12, 2013 By Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco save | A A Action Points - Inactivation of a protein (Ecscr also known as ARIA) that regulates endothelial cell signaling enhanced insulin sensitivity in mice and could represent a new therapeutic strategy for treating metabolic syndrome and possibly obesity. - Note that Ecscr represents a previously undescribed mode of regulation in ener... mais »
Non beneficial care
Futile Care in ICU a Common Occurrence, Doctors Say Costly treatments are not always in line with patient's prognosis, researcher contends Tuesday, September 10, 2013 [image: HealthDay news image] Related MedlinePlus Pages - Critical Care - End of Life Issues TUESDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Critical care doctors at a major teaching hospital believe they provided futile treatment to about one in five intensive care unit patients, needlessly prolonging their lives. ICU doctors in the UCLA Health System said they were certain they provided futile care for 11 percent of the cr... mais »
Desperdício de alimentos
Últimas notícias Jornal de Notícias Cobertura em tempo real Desperdício de alimentos no mundo é 3º maior emissor de CO2, diz *...* Terra Brasil - há 3 horas Homem cata restos de comida em um mercado de Bogotá. Cerca de um terço dos alimentos para consumo, aproximadamente de 1,3 bilhão de toneladas, é desperdiçado Foto: John Vizcaino / Reuters. A comida desperdiçada no mundo responde por mais ... Desperdício de alimentos causa prejuízos anuais de US$ 750 biJornal do Brasil Toneladas de alimentos são desperdiçados anualmenteNotícias ao Minuto DCI MSN Paraiba.com.br ONU Brasil
cinnamon and Diabetes
Will a Spoonful of Cinnamon Help the Diabetes Meds Go Down? Marlene Busko Sep 09, 2013 In a new meta-analysis of 10 studies in patients with type 2 diabetes, taking cinnamon supplements improved fasting blood glucose and cholesterol levels, but not glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels. HbA1c likely was not affected because the studies were too short, and they were also very small and diverse, making it difficult to draw any clinical implications, caution Robert W. Allen (then a PharmD student at Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California) and coauthors in their paper pub... mais »
Smoking
[image: End Tobacco in Europe] A new pledge from the campaign End Tobacco in Europe WHO Director-General considers the tobacco endgame Posted by Cornel Radu-Loghin (campaign leader) It starts with you TAKE THE PLEDGE Dr Margaret Chan Director-General of the World Health Organization Keynote address at the International Conference on Public Health Priorities in the 21st Century: the Endgame for Tobacco New Delhi, India 11 September 2013 Excellencies, honourable ministers, distinguished scientists, representatives of civil society, ladies and gentlemen, I thank the government of India for ... mais »
September 11
[image: Hijacked airliner approaching the south tower of the World Trade Center.]*2001: World Trade Center and Pentagon attacked by terrorists* On this day in 2001, 19 militants associated with the terrorist group al-Qaeda hijacked four planes in the United States, crashing three into buildings (the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania) and killing some 3,000 people .
World Population 2012
2012 World Population Data Sheet Explore - Share - - - WPDS Home - Data Sheet - Interactive Map - Video - Webinar - Fact Sheets - Graphics PRB's Interactive Map Which countries will grow the most by 2050? Where do people live the longest? How does contraceptive prevalence vary worldwide? Find the answers in PRB's interactive map. Browse through 17 indicators organized in six tabs, ranging from life expectancy, HIV/AIDS, family planning, health, and more. View data on global, regional, or country maps or tables. You can easily embed the map on yo... mais »
E-Cigarettes
Electronic Cigarettes as Good as Patch for Quitting Smoking Neil Canavan Sep 09, 2013 - 4 comments EDITORS' RECOMMENDATIONS - Electronic Cigarette Use Doubles Among Adolescents in 1 Year - Electronic Cigarettes: Safe for Microcirculation - Substance Abuse and Addiction News & Perspectives BARCELONA, Spain — Electronic cigarettes are as effective as the patch when it comes to helping smokers overcome the cravings of nicotine addiction, suggests the first randomized study of its kind. The work, presented here at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) 2013 Annual Congress, ... mais »
Iatrogenia (1982)
*IATROGENIA E CARDIOLOGIA **(Transcrito de uma apresentação verbal com redação que deixa a desejar quanto à qualidade de texto para ser lido)* *Aloyzio Achutti* *(Na época) Professor Titular de Cardiologis da Faculdade de Medicina da PUCRS. Dirigente da Equipe de Prevenção das Doenças Cardio-vasculares da Secretaria da Saúde e do Meio Ambiente do Rio Grande do Sul. Membro do Corpo de Peritos da OMS – Organização Mundial da Saúde.* *Participação no Ciclo de Palestras promovido pela Associação dos Ex-Bolsistas da Alemanha (AEB). Porto Alegre, (6-7 novembro,1982).* A iatrogenia sempre s... mais »
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