Anxiety
[image: Opinionator - A Gathering of Opinion From Around the Web] [image: ANXIETY] ANXIETYWe worry. Nearly one in five Americans suffer from anxiety. For many, it is not a disorder, but a part of the human condition. This series explores how we navigate the worried mind, through essay, art and memoir. January 14, 2012, *3:00 PM* It’s Still the ‘Age of Anxiety.’ Or Is It?By DANIEL SMITHIt’s hard to believe that anyone but scholars of modern literature or paid critics have read W.H. Auden’s dramatic poem “The Age of Anxiety” all the way through, even though it won a Pulitzer Prize in 19... mais »
How Pleasure Works
Mind Reading: How Pleasure Works By MAIA SZALAVITZ | @maiasz | August 26, 2011 | * * [image: Getty Images] GETTY IMAGES How does the brain create the experience of joy and desire? That’s the subject of David Linden’s new book, *The Compass of Pleasure*. A professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Linden studies memory. But here, he explores the basis of craving, addiction and satisfaction. *Many people have heard that the neurotransmitter dopamine is the brain’s “pleasure” signal, but it’s more complicated than that. What does it really do?* It has ki... mais »
Web addiction
[image: Brain scans of white matter]Brain scans of white matter in the brainBy Helen Briggs12 January 2012 Last updated at 00:42 GMT Continue reading the main story Web addicts have brain changes similar to those hooked on drugs or alcohol, preliminary research suggests. Experts in China scanned the brains of 17 young web addicts and found disruption in the way their brains were wired up. They say the discovery, published in Plos One, could lead to new treatments for addictive behaviour. Internet addiction is a clinical disorder marked by out-of-control internet use. A research t... mais »
Prevenindo DCNT: tabaco, álcool, hábitos alimentares e atividade física
De: Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva Caros colegas, antes de mais nada,um feliz 2012! Informo que em 2012 ofereceremos uma disciplina no curso de Pós-Graduação da ENSP, sobre o tema: Prevenindo Doenças Crônicas Não-Transmissíveis: tabaco, álcool, hábitos alimentares e atividade física ENSP.00.813.1 e pode ser encontrado no link: http://www.sigass.fiocruz.br/pub/programa/disciplina.do?codP=1&codPeriodo=700&page=2 Também ofereceremos um Curso de Inverno de Políticas de Controle do Tabagismo ENSP.00.814.1 http://www.sigass.fiocruz.br/pub/programa/disciplina.do?codP=1&codPeriodo=701 A emen... mais »
Nicotine Gum
Nicotine Gum and Skin Patch Face New DoubtBy BENEDICT CAREYPublished: January 9, 2012 The nicotine gum and patches that millions of smokers use to help kick their habit have no lasting benefit and may backfire in some cases, according to the most rigorous long-term study to date of so-called nicotine replacement therapy. Enlarge This Image Chris Goodney/Bloomberg News The study, published Monday in the journal Tobacco Control, included nearly 800 people trying to quit smoking over a period of several years, and is likely to inflame a long-running debate about the value of nicotine ... mais »
Stress & Brain
*The Huffington Post* Amanda L. Chan Extreme Stress Could Shrink The Brain [image: Stress Shrinks Brain] Even for healthy people, stressful moments can take a toll on the brain, a new study from Yale University suggests. Researchers reported in the journal *Biological Psychiatry* that stressful moments in life -- like going through a divorce or being laid off -- can actually shrink the brain by reducing gray matter in regions tied to emotion and physiological functions. This is important because these changes in brain gray matter could signal future psychiatric problems, research... mais »
Weight Loss: Preventing Diabetes ?
Weight Loss No Solution for Preventing Diabetes, Expert Says WASHINGTON -- Community-based weight-loss programs have not been shown to be effective at reducing the incidence of diabetes, so implementing a national program would likely be money down the drain, a diabetes expert said at a symposium on Tuesday.full story
The Neuroscience Of Optimism
The Neuroscience Of Optimism[image: Neuroscience Optimism] *By Christoph W. Kon* *(Click here for the original article)* Ask a bride before walking down the aisle “How likely are you to get divorced?” and most will respond “Not a chance!” Tell her that the average divorce rate is close to 50 percent, and ask again. Would she change her mind? Unlikely. Even law students who have learned everything about the legal aspects of divorce, including its likelihood, state that their own chances of getting divorced are basically nil. How can we explain this?/.../
Guantanamo
10 Years Later, Guantanamo Is STIL SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Suleiman al-Nahdi waits with dozens of other prisoners in a seemingly permanent state of limbo five years after he was cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay. "I wonder if the U.S. government wants to keep us here forever," the 37-year-old al-Nahdi wrote in a recent letter to his lawyers. Open for 10 years on Wednesday, the prison seems more established than ever. The deadline set by President Barack Obama to close Guantanamo came and went two years ago. No detainee has left in a year because of restrictions on tran... mais »
Non Communicable Diseases
*From ProCOR:* Global: NCDs teacher starter pack Attachments [image: UN Secretary Report]UN Secretary Report (137K)[download] [image: Richard Smith's NCD presentation]Richard Smith's NCD presentation (1940K)[download] Download Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDF files. Richard Smith posted this "starter pack" for teaching NCDs in low- and middle-income countries to the UnitedHealth and NHLBI Collaborating Centers of Excellence discussion board. He was kind enough to share it with the ProCor community as well. The starter pack includes: 1. A PowerPoint presentation that Richard used whi... mais »
Middle-age Brain
The Advantages of the Middle-Age Brain Despite news reports about cognitive decline starting at 45, the middle-age brain actually performs better in other ways By PATRICIA COHEN | @patcohennyt | January 10, 2012 | [image: Getty Images] GETTY IMAGES A study in the *British Medical Journal* lit up the Internet last week with the conclusion that cognitive decline begins at age 45. While it’s true that some innate skills like memory and speed of reasoning fall off as we age, other aspects of intelligence related to learning and experience actually improve. These findings are part of a w... mais »
Demografia Médica
*Do Jornal Medicina: CFM* O jornal Medicina 203, disponível a partir desta segunda-feira (26) no Portal Médico, do Conselho Federal de Medicina (CFM), traz como destaque a desigualdade no acesso a especialistas desvelada no censo brasileiro de médicos especialistas e generalistas – um dos desdobramentos do estudo inédito apresentado pelo CFM em novembro: “Demografia médica no Brasil: dados gerais e descrições de desigualdades”. Uma importante constatação do censo – de que os profissionais das especialidades básicas (Cirurgia Geral, Clínica Médica, Pediatria, Ginecologia e Obstetríc...mais »
