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Danger and insecurity in contemporary life

... GM foods, have been blamed for making people more fearful of technological innovations and less trusting of scientists and government. Researchers Jenny Kitzinger and Emma Hughes, University of Cardiff, have analysed British media coverage of "risk" in relation to the debates on genetically modified crops a...

Singer Richie Concerned over Daughter's Weight Loss

Singer Lionel Richie was so fearful over his daughter Nicole's drastic weight loss that he agreed to take her to the doctors personally and find out the problem.// According to contactmusic.com, Richie was scared for his daughter's health and wanted to know if she had an eating disor...

91-year-old city man Falls Victim to West Nile Virus

... did say that she doesn't want people to become so fearful that they shut themselves up in their homes. She advised, "Live a normal life, but do be on guard." Lester Boggs death is apparently Illinois' fourth death this year related to West Nile virus. Health officials say that only one in five peopl...

Pre-Clinical Study Suggests How Steroid Can Reverse Post-Traumatic Stress

...ral stress hormone can help lastingly decrease the fearful response associated with reliving a traumatic memo...lectrical shock – mice in the study still showed a fearful response when re-exposed to the place where it happened, a condition that could be a model for post-...

Fearful or Fearless, Control Exists in The Brain

...y improvised this test to suit this study by using fearful and happy faces, with "FEAR" or "HAPPY" visibly spread across the images. 19 healthy participants took this test and the functioning of the brain was recorded. The scientists observed that the rostral cingulate appeared to show activity prior to t...

Review Opens Bag of Tricks for Reducing Pain from Children’s Shot

...s be able to do something to help children be less fearful of getting a shot, Maxwell said. Source-Newswise RM...

Over 50s Most Concerned About Global Warming

...already happening. More than half the over 50s are fearful of the impacts of climate change, being particularly concerned about the impact on the UK climate, economy and weather. A high proportion (75 per cent) of the over 50s believe they are already experiencing the effects of a changing climate. The ove...

Wiping Out Memories Selectively, is Possible Now

... one of the two tones while the untreated remained fearful of both the sounds. Apparently the drug had wiped out the memory associated with one of the tones, researchers say. This discovery could help in the treatment of post-traumatic disorders, they say....

Stress Could Kill Brain Cells, Says a Recent Study

...the researchers report. The younger rats became fearful and acted depressed in the presence of bigger animals. Their stress hormone levels were six times higher than in other young rats that did not undergo the encounter with the bullies. The team had thought that that elevated stress hormone levels wo...

Alzheimer’s Patients Plead for Greater Understanding and Suppor

...husband of an “activist patient” admits, spouses — fearful and overwhelmed — can be insensitive and impatient as their mates’ abilities decline. “Their brains have to work so much harder, which tires them out. Their logic isn’t always linear, so there’s a tendency to think they don’t comprehend. I’m not a...

Trauma Exposure can Affect Brain Function Several Years After Event

...agues. In the experiment, 22 healthy adults viewed fearful and calm faces while undergoing functional magneti...ignificantly higher bilateral amygdala activity to fearful versus calm faces compared to those who were living more than 200 miles away. These results show tha...

Pride, Even the Hubristic Kind, Allows Us to Survive

...s means of survival. For instance, an onslaught of fearful emotions could keep a person protected from danger and threat. "We believe [pride is] an evolved emotion, but it's a little bit more indirectly related to survival. To the extent that it allows us to survive, it does that by helping us maintain o...

Talking About Your Feelings Really Does Help

...tudy. When people see a photograph of an angry or fearful face, they have increased activity in a region of the brain called the amygdala, which serves as an alarm to activate a cascade of biological systems to protect the body in times of danger. Scientists see a robust amygdala response even when they s...

School-based Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs

...hey could heighten anxieties, making children more fearful of strangers, the review cautions. It was a concern that anxiety may be increased as we found in the review, but we were pleased that there was an increase in knowledge, said lead reviewer Karen Zwi of Sydney Childrens Hospital in Australia. The imp...

Singapore's Dr. Love Brings Good Sex to Indonesia

... very, very important," he says. And is Dr. Love fearful of ruffling feathers among Indonesia's small band of radical Islamists? Not really. "Number one, we are not aligned with any religion... We are not bringing foreign content to impose on the culture," he responds. "I don't drive the content, they ...

Pain Doctor in Virginia Sentenced to Five Years Imprisonment

...because they ignore patient complaints or they are fearful of harassment by drug-enforcement agents. Between 1998 and 2002, Hurwitz drew more than 400 patients from 39 states to his clinic in McLean for prescriptions for painkillers such as morphine and OxyContin. Brinkema said she had read news accounts...

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