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Boffins Find Evidence for Novel Brain Cell Communication

...rain functions, from creative thought processes to mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. The study was performed jointly by scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York; Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado; Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan, New York; and t...

The Queen Of All Contraceptives Released

...ycling constitutions made them unfit for sustained mental and physical labor. Henry Maudsley, a British doctor, reflected popular opinion when he observed that menstruation doomed girls to failure in college.Comparing boys and girls, Maudsley insisted in an article, was not a question of two bodies and m...

Differences in Brain Functions Results in non-contact Knee Injuries

...ld measure whether these individuals had different mental characteristics that made them injury-prone, Swanik said. These awkward movements have the biomechanical appearance of a knee buckling, but can be reproduced safely in the lab to study how people mentally prepare and react to unanticipated events. ...

Group Therapy and Willpower can Help Smokers to Quit

...s who are likely to experience severe physical and mental repercussions, if they simply give up smoking from one day to the other....

Prison Healthcare Continues to Fail Despite Emergency Measures, Warns BMA

...ing services that result in prisoners with serious mental health and drug dependency problems not being asse...tor was unable to register a prisoner with serious mental health problems with a specialist mental health team because of confusion and delays in supplying hi...

Nutritious Diet Help Improve Childrens Academic Performance

.... Alfro says that good nutrition also improves mental and behavioural performance. She adds that obesi...ment of obesity is an important goal for improving mental and physical health for all children. Healthy eating and exercise are important means of treating an...

AIIMS Fined Rs 5 Lakhs for Negligence

... "We deem that a compensation of Rs 5 lakh for the mental agony, trauma, emotional suffering and disfigurement of her body causing immense life-long loss of conjugal bliss, shall meet the ends of justice," said Justice Kapoor. The Commission rejected AIIMS' plea that the patient had consented for undergoi...

Manic Depression Linked With Shrinking Brain

... and is associated with a decline in some areas of mental ability," McIntosh said....

New Analysis Puts Cot Death Under Scrutiny Once Again

...logy findings suggestive of asphyxia, and parental mental health problems. Although Bacon and Hey do not suggest that violence in the family, for example, necessarily implies that a babys death was unnatural, they believe that when a family has two unexplained deaths this possibility at least has to be co...

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

...hought of as a phenomenon only found in teens with mental health issues, the results support the notion that many adolescents in the community are self-harming as way to cope with emotional distress, she added. Accordingly, intervention efforts should be tailored to the individual and contribute to buildi...

Solving Puzzles Could Boost Brain Power

...e sessions involved either a structured one-on-one mental workout or a group brain exercise programme. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to analyse the blood flow and activity in the participants' brains while they completed assigned tasks. According to Mozolic, the study is ongoing ...

War Veterans Lack Adequate Mental Health Care: Pentagon Report

Military mental health services lack personnel and money to proper...d during conflict," concluded a year-long Pentagon mental health task force report: "An Achievable Vision." Studies of troops three and four months after re...

Questions Raised Over Safety of In-vitro Fertilization

... can provoke genetic changes that may develop into mental and behavioral disorders later in life. From Canada come claims that IVF can increase some birth defects tenfold; while from Denmark a study of young men finds those conceived through fertility treatment are 50 per cent more likely to be infertile th...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

...evere brain inflammation that can lead to lifelong mental disability -- presumably including autism. The vaccine court has awarded several dozen such children over the past two decades. Michelle's parents might have brought their claim under this theory; according to her mother's testimony and medical recor...

Domestic Abuse a Curse to Public Health

... major health problem leading to heart attacks and mental illness. It calls for a Government-funded refuge b...of heart disease but the most likely effect was on mental health, where rates of depression were three or four times higher than normal. The report calls fo...

Two, Not One Networks Rule Brain's Voluntary Chain-of-command

...etal network was constantly active at the start of mental tasks and during the correction of errors. "This maps very nicely onto another idea that's common in network dynamics and adaptive systems," Dosenbach says. "This is the idea that the factors controlling adaptive systems often act on different time...

Eating Disorder Figures Among Children Soars

...ling in school because they are coping with hidden mental health problems. This is especially true where the...ts itself in larger numbers of young children with mental health problems, including eating disorders." It has also been seen that anorexia, an eating disor...

Mental Health of Children on the Decline

UK-The mental well being of young children of today seems to be ... charity, found that one in ten children now has a mental health disorder to a clinically significant level. The research says that More than a million child...

Hitler's Holocaust may Have Stemmed from Syphilis from Jewish Prostitute

...ropagated by the Jews and resulted in insanity and mental retardation" could be the reason he attempted to eliminate the mentally retarded. He said well-documented aspects of Hitler's behaviour and health such as mood swings, paranoid rages, rashes and stomach problems were typical of syphilis. Incident...

WTC Neighborhood Residents Misled on Extent of Contamination

...und zero after 9/11 and have suffered physical and mental health problems ever since, and asks through a bullhorn that they receive the same medical treatment as the Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Even the so-called enemy combatants seem to be doing better than those who selflessly cleaned up the debris was th...

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