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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 [...]
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Depression 
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, [...]
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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 [...]
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Alzheimer - Dementia 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Alzheimer - Dementia 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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