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1. Study Helps Explain ‘Sundowning,’ An Anxiety Syndrome In Elderly Dementia Patients New research provides the best evidence to date that the late-day anxiety and agitation sometimes seen in older institutionalized adults, especially those with dementia, has a biological basis in the brain. Consider our share of cost dental plans to help you. Contact our office during regular business hours Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm PST […]...
2. How The Effects Of Stress Can Be Inherited None of us are strangers to stress of various kinds. It turns out the effects of all those stresses can change the fate of future generation, influencing our very DNA without any change to the underlying sequence of As, Gs, Ts and Cs. Consider our share of cost dental plans to help you. Contact our […]...
3. Anxiety, Comfort Foods And Obesity Many people when stressed turn to high calorie “comfort foods”. Despite the contribution this behavior makes to the current obesity epidemic, little is known about the molecules and nervous system circuits that control it. Insight into this could provide new targets for the development of therapeutics to curb this potentially detrimental behavior. Consider our share […]...
4. Ghrelin Likely Involved In Why We Choose ‘Comfort Foods’ When Stressed We are one step closer to deciphering why some stressed people indulge in chocolate, mashed potatoes, ice cream and other high-calorie, high-fat comfort foods. UT Southwestern Medical Center-led findings, in a mouse study, suggest that ghrelin the so-called “hunger hormone” is involved in triggering this reaction to high stress situations. Consider our share of cost […]...
5. Mood And Experience: Life Comes At You Living through weddings or divorces, job losses and children’s triumphs, we sometimes feel better and sometimes feel worse. But, psychologists observe, we tend to drift back to a “set point”-a stable resting point, or baseline, in the mind’s level of contentment or unease. Research has shown that the set points for depression and anxiety are […]...
6. Statement By HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Recognizing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Day Today, on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Day, we recognize the millions of Americans who suffer from this debilitating condition. PTSD affects a wide range of people, from new mothers to our country’s service men and women. PTSD affects about 5.2 million adult Americans, but women are more likely than men to develop it. Consider […]...
7. Roundup: In Oregon, New Gov. Kitzhaber Vows To Change State’s Health Care Delivery System; In Ariz., 2nd Person Denied Transplant Coverage Dies Roundup: In Oregon, New Gov. Kitzhaber Vows To Change State’s Health Care Delivery System; In Ariz., 2nd Person Denied Transplant Coverage Dies...
8. New Parents Have 6 Months Sleep Deficit During First 24 Months Of Baby’s Life A survey reveals that parents lose an average of six months’ sleep during the first 24 months of their child’s life. Approximately 10% of parents manage to get just two-and-a-half hours continuous sleep each night, the Silentnight survey found. Over 60% of parents with babies aged less than 24 months get no more than three-and-a-quarter […]...
9. Eliminating wasteful federal spending Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act with my strong support, and the measure has now been signed into law. The legislation is designed to identify and eliminate improper payments from federal agency spending and recover the lost funds that agencies have misspent....
10. Rights expanded for Illinois prisoners A federal judge has significantly changed how the the Illinois corrections system operates: inmates can now challenge orders sending them to the maximum security Tamms Correctional Center. According to George Pawlaczyk of the Belleville News-Democrat (a Southwestern Illinois paper that has done a series on conditions at Tamms), U.S. District Judge G. Patrick Murphy ruled […]...
11. Study Could Lead To New Treatments For Mood Disorders Study Could Lead To New Treatments For Mood Disorders...
12. Sea Lamprey Research Sheds Light On How Stress Hormones Evolved Michigan State University researchers are the first to identify a stress hormone in the sea lamprey, using the 500 million-year-old species as a model to understand the evolution of the endocrine system. Corticosteroid hormones control stress response in animals with backbones, including humans…...