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How To Forget Unwanted Memories
Date: Oct-20-2012There are two ways we can forget a memory that causes unpleasant sensations, be they a humiliating gaffe at some dinner party or an extremely frightening event, say researchers from the University of Cambridge, England, in the October 17th edition of Neuron. Perhaps Freud really was onto something 100 years ago when he suggested that humans have a voluntary repression mechanism that blocks unwanted memories out of consciousness...
Scientists Surprised To Find Significant Adverse Effects Of CO2 On Human Decision-Making Performance
Date: Oct-20-2012Overturning decades of conventional wisdom, researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found that moderately high indoor concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) can significantly impair people's decision-making performance. The results were unexpected and may have particular implications for schools and other spaces with high occupant density...
Gender Differences In Stress Reactions To Relationship Conflict
Date: Oct-20-2012Men and women who are expectant parents have different stress reactions to relationship conflict, according to researchers at Penn State, who studied couples expecting their first child. In addition, recovery from the initial reaction to conflict also can be different for men and women, depending on individual difficulties, such as anxiety, or relationship difficulties, such as chronic relationship conflict...
Sexual Behavior Influenced By Religious Affiliation And Residence In Muslim-Majority Nations
Date: Oct-20-2012Hindus and Muslims are less likely than Christians and Jews to have premarital sex, and Muslims are the least likely among people of these religious groups to have extramarital sex, according to a new study that analyzed data on premarital and extramarital sexual behaviors in over 30 developing countries around the world. Co-authored by Amy Adamczyk, an Associate Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Brittany Hayes, a Ph.D...
In The UK, The Use Of Anti-Psychotic Drugs For Dementia Is 'Under Reported'
Date: Oct-20-2012The scale of the challenge to reduce the use of anti-psychotic drugs by people with dementia may be under-estimated, according to researchers from Aston University and the University of East Anglia, working with NHS Kent and Medway. There is a key public health challenge to reduce the prescribing of anti-psychotic drugs to people with dementia as they are thought to be associated with up to 1,800 deaths a year. Ian Maidment, corresponding author and a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy from Aston University has worked in medication management in dementia for 20 years...
Clinicians Warned Of The Aggressive Nature Of Meningitis Cases
Date: Oct-20-2012More than 200 patients have been diagnosed with fungal meningitis following spinal epidural injections with contaminated methylprednisolone from a compounding pharmacy. In a clinical observation published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers provide details about the clinical care, deterioration, and ultimately the death of one of the index cases in this outbreak. The authors took care of a 51-year-old patient who initially sought emergency medical care for occipital headaches radiating to the face one week after having an epidural steroid injection in her neck...
Plant-Based Diets May Prevent Chronic Diseases
Date: Oct-20-2012Sixty-three percent of all deaths globally in 2008 were due to non-communicable chronic diseases and conditions, such as certain cancers, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes type 2, says the World Health Organization. Poor diets are major contributory factors in all of them. In regions of the world where plant-based diets are more common, the national or regional rates for these types of diseases are considerably lower, compared to areas where animal-base diets are more prevalent...
Human Stool Transplant Effective Treatment For C-diff
Date: Oct-20-2012An unconventional therapy that uses donated human stool to treat the highly contagious and potentially fatal C.diff is safe and beneficial, according to a new study being presented at the annual Infectious Disease Society of America Meeting in San Diego. A team of investigators discovered that 43 out of 49 patients recovered quickly after treatment and had no negative side effects from C.diff three months after. Treatment was given through a nasogastric tube or colonoscopy, on an outpatient or inpatient basis. Mayur Ramesh, M.D...
Anti-Psychotic Drug Prescription Should Lessen For People With Dementia
Date: Oct-20-2012The challenge of reducing the usage of anti-psychotic drugs among dementia patients proves to be more difficult than originally estimated. This has become a vital public health issue in the UK, because these drugs are associated with up to 1,800 deaths a year in people with dementia. The actual usage of anti-psychotic drugs in dementia patients may be up to 46 percent more than any original numbers suggests. Anti-psychotic drugs are often prescribed for dementia patients to help with symptoms such as aggression, hallucinations, and agitation...
When Water Breaks Early, Breech Births Cause More Complications
Date: Oct-20-2012Breech births increase the risk of complications for the mother and baby when the amniotic sac ruptures early. These findings were presented by a researcher from Loyola University Health System at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Chicago. Preterm, premature rupture of the amniotic sac contributes to one-third of all preterm births. A rupture is considered premature when it occurs before the onset of labor prior to 37 weeks' gestation...
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