Behavior therapy recommended before medicine for young children with ADHD.More young children 2 to 5 years of age receiving care for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) could benefit…
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Assessment of total choline intakes in the United States
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Choline is an essential nutrient and plays a critical role in brain development, cell signaling, nerve impulse transmission, liver function, and maintenance of a healthy metabolism.
Can personality traits affect likelihood of using mindfulness-based stress reduction?
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A new study of older adults, who can gain particular quality of life benefits from the use of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) techniques, showed that specific personality traits were…
An experimental Alzheimer’s drug reverses genetic changes thought to spur the disease
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Aging takes its toll on the brain, and the cells of the hippocampus–a brain region with circuitry crucial to learning and memory–are particularly vulnerable to changes that can lead to Alzheimer’s…
Transplanted nerve cells survive a quarter of a century in a Parkinson’s disease patient
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In the late 1980s and over the 1990s, researchers pioneered the transplantation of new nerve cells into the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease. The outcomes proved for the first time that transplanted nerve cells can survive and function in th…
Experimental Alzheimer’s drug reverses genetic changes thought to spur the disease
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When given to old rats, the drug, which is known to affect signaling by the neurotransmitter glutamate, reversed many age-related changes that occur in a brain region key to learning and memory. The drug also produced effects opposing those seen in the…
No evidence of an association between silent brain infarcts and having migraine with aura
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A large cross-sectional study focused on women with migraines with aura and compared their brain MRI images with those of women not suffering from migraine. No differences between these two groups of women were found with regard to number of silent inf…
Focusing on the past can hurt your grade point average
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Graduate students who focused on negative problems in the past performed worse academically than their peers who focused on the present or the future, according to a study that was presented at…
Placebo effects in women are boosted by vasopressin reports new study in biological psychiatry
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A new study in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry suggests that women are particularly susceptible to the pain-relieving placebo effect of vasopressin.
Breast cancer patients upbeat on body changes
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BODY image identity varies among women who have undergone treatment for breast cancer with many rejecting mainstream body shape ideals, research shows.
