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Bullying linked to adulthood anxiety and depression
Bullying is most often discussed as being an adolescence issue and left behind once out of high school. Research now indicates that effects of bullying may linger well into early adulthood.
Allison Dempsey, doctoral student, University of Florida College of Education, studied the effects of bullying on 210 college students. Primarily, Dempsey asked participants about their [...]
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0 Comment » Smoking may lead to depression
For years tobacco company advertisements suggested that smoking would help a person to relax. Now researchers suggest that smoking will also increase a person for the risk of depression.
Almudena Sánchez-Villegas, professor, University of Navarra, based his research on a 6 year study of 8,556 university graduates (average age of 42) over a 6 year period. During [...]
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Depression Anesthesia with low oxygen levels linked to Alzheimer’s protein
Every year over 200 million are anesthetized while undergoing surgery. A concern has been if the widely used anesthetic desflurane contributes to increased production of amyloid-beta protein (an indicator of Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers Bin Zhang, Yuanlin Dong, Rudolph Tanzi, Zhongcong Xie, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, [...]
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Alzheimer Type 2 diabetes predictor may be in the veins
Extra weight, family history, and lifestyle are all considered contributors to the development of type 2 diabetes. Researchers would like to add one more risk factor–blood vessels.
Saverio Stranges, MD, Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK, found changes in the blood vessels and sub-clinical systemic inflammation can also help identify [...]
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Diabetes Heavy drinking, smoking, and bad genes increases risk of early Alzheimer’s
A new report shows that there is a link between the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease and heavy smoking and drinking.
Ranjan Duara, MD, Wien Center for Alzheimer’s Disease, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida, studied 938 people age 60 and older. All participants had been diagnosed with possible/probable Alzheimer’s disease. Information of the participant’s [...]
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Alzheimer Parkinson’s new drug treatment raises issue of side effects
Traditionally, Parkinson disease patients receiving medication have been given levodopa for treatment. In recent years a newer class of drug called dopamine agonists has been used to disable muscle control problems often associated with the disease.
Rebecca Stowe, University of Birmingham, reports in a study, that appears in the latest issue of The Cochrane Library (published [...]
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Parkinson Formaldehyde linked to ALS
Scientist have shown that there is no apparent connection between common chemicals, like pesticides and herbicides, and developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig’s disease). However, there is one exception.
Marc Weisskopf, PhD, Harvard University, Boston, reported at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, Chicago, that people reporting a ten year or greater exposure [...]
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ALS - Lou Gehrigs Disease Type 2 diabetes self-monitoring may be counterproductive
Worldwide one in twenty people have diabetes. Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes accounting for an estimated 85-95% of all diabetes cases. Traditionally, self-monitoring of blood glucose levels for type 1 and type 2 diabetes who use insulin to treat their condition is recommended. What is in question is if type 2 [...]
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Diabetes 20% of returning deployed soldiers suffer PTSD or major depression
In the first analysis of its kind to study military service personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, the RAND Corporation has found:
Nearly 20% of returning Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers (300K) report PTSD or major depression.
Many service members failed to report PTSD or major depression fearing it would damage their career.
Service members fail to seek treatment because [...]
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PTSD Lou Gehrig’s disease research aided by yeast cells
During autopsies of brains, of people who had lateral sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig’s disease) or frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a protein called TDP-43 was observed to accumulate abnormally. Further studies confirmed the damaging role of TDP-43.
Aaron D. Gitler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, sought a way to screen [...]
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