Archive for May, 2007
Different anxiety types reflected in brain activity
Other psychological assessments standardized the pool of participants by removing those with mood disorders or other complicating factors. To tryout whether neural activation patterns supported the speculation that these two categories of anxiety are distinct, the researchers selected 42 subjects f…
Eat Fruits and Veggies, thereupon - Breathe Easy
tidbits that tantalizeYou Can EAT These??Science dealt yet another blow to harmless, fun-loving men recently. As whether recommending procedures like colonoscopies weren’t ample, it took direct aim at one of the most sacred of men’s rituals: eating a wide variety of red meat, desserts and processed…
Preventing cancer with vaccines? - A dream
The field of cancer treatment includes many promising area and paths for possible advances. Angiogenesis, kinase inhibitors, tomotherapy, proton therapy, and more. One exciting area is the development of vaccines to prevent cancer. Researchers around the world are making advances and are in an…
Yoga elevates brain GABA levels, may reduce anxiety and depression
The World Health Organization reports that mental illness makes up to fifteen percent of disease in the world. Yoga Asana Sessions Increase Brain GABA Levels: A Pilot Study J Altern Complement Med. “The development of an inexpensive, widely available intervention such as yoga that has no side effe…
Mixed outcomes from SSRI use in ACS patients
More… ©Current Medicine Group Ltd However, it is notable that SSRIs additionally inhibit platelet activation, which may affect outcomes in ACS patients. Patients with coronary artery disease often have anxiety, depression, and other related conditions, and SSRIs are commonly used to treat su…
A taste of depression
But precisely how depression might affect taste is unknown. Dr Lucy Donaldson from Physiology and Dr Jan Melichar from Community-based Medicine devised a pop quiz to find out. Many depressed public have reduced appetite and in the severely depressed that may be linked to a reduced ability to detec…
Abstract: Genetic variability at HPA axis in major depression and clinical response to antidepressant treatment.
Allele G carriers of rs2270007 of CRHR2 gene, showed a worse overall response to citalopram along moment of follow-up (Genotype effect F=7.45, P=0.007). RESULTS: rs110402, in CRHR1 gene, was associated with an increased risk to present a seasonal pattern and an early age of onset of the first depre…
Dangers of Accutane Depression
I was on accutane, and i was very depressed and suicidal while on it. Please read about the dangers in accutane, the corruption in getting the drug approved through the FDA, and the mislabeling. Dermatologists, like all doctors, get pursuaded by “drug reps” (see www.sideeffectsthemovie.com, http://w…
Weight Loss Success is in the Mind
I’ll be honest with you, it’s been a struggle to truly engage in that final battle with fat.  I shout it final considering, by the grace of God, I am going to compose that the last stand.  I will succeed.  That said, I know I will not give up the battle of the bulge, but there has bee…
How Is Mesothelioma Treated?
Most public who develop mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles. that could include working with asbestos or by home renovation using asbestos cement products or even by washing the clothes of a family member who worked with asbestos. However, they may have been been…












