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1. 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 […]...
2. 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 […]...
3. 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 […]...
4. Share of Cost, TU Delft Develops Pen To Measure And Reduce Stress Share of Cost, TU Delft Develops Pen To Measure And Reduce Stress...
5. Exposure To Parental Stress Increases Pollution-Related Lung Damage In Children Psychosocial stress appears to enhance the lung-damaging effects of traffic-related pollution (TRP) in children, according to new research from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. The results will appear online ahead of the print edition of the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical […]...
6. 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 […]...
7. 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 […]...
8. Eliminating Cold Sores Herpes infections on the lips, in the eyes or on the nose are painful, long-lasting and unpleasant. A new 3D herpes infection model brings hope: active ingredients and new treatments can be reliably tested with this model. Animal tests could soon be a thing of the past. It burns and itches on your upper lip: […]...
9. 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…...
10. Share of Cost, Diagnostic Criteria For Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Are Lacking According To Researchers Share of Cost, Diagnostic Criteria For Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Are Lacking According To Researchers...
11. Stress Could Decrease Women’s Chances Of Conceiving, Study Reports Women with elevated stress levels might be less likely to get pregnant, according to a study published recently in the journal Fertility and Sterility USA Today reported today....
12. Share of Cost: City And Country People’s Brain Structures Respond Differently To Social Stress We all knew that city dwellers are more susceptible to mental disorders than their rural counterparts – a new study has shown that specific brain structures respond differently to social stress, depending on whether you are an urban or countryside dweller, researchers from the University of Heidelberg’s Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany, reported […]...
13. The Effects Of Unequal Access To Health Insurance For Same-Sex Couples In California Inequities in marriage laws and domestic partnership benefits may have implications for who bears the burden of health care costs. We examined a recent period in California to illuminate disparities in health insurance coverage faced by same-sex couples. Partnered gay men are less than half as likely (42 percent) as married heterosexual men to get employer-sponsored […]...