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Common Sleep Disorder Hinders School Performance

...tting a good night’s sleep can be complex; and the rewards for treatment can extend beyond better grades. “One reason your child may not be getting a good night’s sleep is that he or she is having breathing problems,” said Robin A. Dyleski, MD director of Pediatric Otolaryngology at The New York Eye and Ear...

Genome Code Cracked for Breast and Colon Cancers

...ins’ Kimmel Cancer Center. Despite the potential rewards envisioned by cancer biologists, efforts to map cancer genes have drawn criticism from others who say that funding dollars should be spent on projects yielding more immediate benefits for detection and treatment. 'These are good debates to have,' s...

Cash Rewards for Meghalaya Tribes to Encourage Baby Boom

... encouraging mothers to bear more babies with cash rewards for doubling its population to two// million, its ... household. The council now plans to offer cash rewards to all mothers having 15 or more children as part of a drive to encourage baby boom between the two ...

A New Research Explores Connection Between Emotionality And Alcoholism

...ty may reflect brain systems involved in acquiring rewards and the positive moods we feel when we obtain a desirable object or goal. Conversely, right frontal activity may be involved in inhibiting behavior in the face of negative consequences and the anxiety we feel in those circumstances." This imbalance, ...

Shop Till You Drop Heroin - Plan to Provide Incentives to Drug Users

...sample proves abstinence from heroin. Further, the rewards would gradually go up as per the length of abstine... lines, if a sample showed positive for drugs, the rewards would drop to the former level. Nearly 5,000 drug users from the United States have participated ...

NIMH Studies Woman’s Hormonal Cycl

... progesterone levels while women were anticipating rewards during the post-ovulatory phase. Activity patterns that emerged when rewards were delivered during the post-ovulatory phase suggested that estrogen’s effect on the reward circui...

Effective Marketing of Multivitamins Essential

...ectors in a regulatory framework that supports and rewards investment in good science." Source-Eurekalert PR...

Mail-Order Drugs: Deal or No Deal?

... through the mail may not be reaping the financial rewards they think they are//. In recent years, mail-order pharmacies, owned by pharmacy-benefit managers (PBMs), have become popular among cost-conscious companies offering prescription benefits to their employees. Their belief – supported by a 2005 Feder...

Smoking on Television is Harmful to the Health of the Nation's Youth: BMA

...ponse to expected and valued rewards; these can be rewards that they have earned before or observed being given to others ("vicarious reinforcement"). “Television provides adolescents with role models, including movie and television stars who portray smoking as a personally and socially rewarding behavior,” ...

Addictive Drugs Harms the Brain

...ological learning in which the brain has created a rewards system for something that is harmful to the body. I would not call it damage — the circuit is working the way it should. But it has been remodeled in a maladaptive way,” The long lasting effect of the drug is the reason why the craving for the drug...

Relationships are Built on Love and Power

...nd was basically reciprocal in nature: "One person rewards the other for having done something nice." The distribution of power in a relationship often has to do with who has made the greater emotional investment. "The partner with the upper hand is the one who can more easily do without the other," Kruege...

Binge Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive Deficits Among College Students

...abilities, as exemplified by preferring short-term rewards over long-term losses," said Goudriaan. "In other words, this study shows that even in a group of "healthy" college students who are not alcoholics, heavy alcohol use is related to diminished decision making abilities or disadvantageous cognitive fun...

Tibetans to Introduce Organic Farming

...mplementing the project, Dorje said: "The monetary rewards from conventional farming in the short run is proving to be a major distraction. "But those who are serious about their farming are the most receptive to the advantages of going organic in the long run." India is home to some 100,000 Tibetans, ma...

In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash

...ime for games," he said, adding that sometimes the rewards are quite lucrative. "In just five hours playing one time... I made 2,000 yuan (260 dollars)." Often the players do not really need the commodities to survive in the online fantasy world, but they want them anyway for bragging rights. "It's abo...

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