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Quitting smoking found to be one of the toughest New Year's resolutions

Most New Year's resolutions fail. A study, from the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Public Health, found that that "quitting smoking is the most difficult resolution to keep.

30 Dec 2017

The long goodbye: Coping with sadness and grief before a loved one dies

For years before her death at age 96, Nancy Lundebjerg's mother underwent a long, slow decline. Arthritis made it hard for Margaret Lundebjerg to get around. After two hip surgeries, she needed a walker when she was out and about.

21 Dec 2017

Portable technique produces rapid blink measurements for assessing neurological function

The blink reflex has been shown to be sensitive to a number of neurological insults, including traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease, suggesting that it could be a useful tool for neurological assessment.

20 Dec 2017

UCLA researchers reveal reversibility of Friedreich's ataxia in mouse models

In children and adults with Friedreich's ataxia, an inherited disease that causes damage to the nervous system, a loss of coordination typically progresses to muscle weakness and can involve vision, diabetes, and other problems over the course of several years.

20 Dec 2017

New findings may lead to sensitive, non-invasive test for Alzheimer's disease

New research has drawn a link between changes in the brain's anatomy and biomarkers that are known to appear at the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD), findings that could one day provide a sensitive but non-invasive test for AD before cognitive symptoms appear.

19 Dec 2017

Study links mild obsessive-compulsive symptoms to alterations of cerebral anatomy in healthy children

A new study carried out by the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute and the Institute of Global Health of Barcelona, a centre supported by "la Caixa" Foundation, associates for the first time mild obsessive-compulsive symptoms, which are present in a much higher percentage of cases than those that require specialized medical and psychological attention, to characteristics and specific alterations of the cerebral anatomy.

19 Dec 2017

Researchers link stress-related genetic changes to suicide risk and psychiatric illness

Researchers have linked genetic changes in the so-called CRH gene, which affects the regulation of the body's stress system, to suicide risk and psychiatric illness.

19 Dec 2017

New guide provides evidence-based overview of key sleep challenges faced by women

Though sleep is essential to health and wellbeing, the unique barriers faced by women in maintaining good sleep health are often misunderstood or overlooked, according to a new resource "Women & Sleep: A Guide for Better Health" developed by the Society for Women's Health Research Interdisciplinary Network on Sleep.

18 Dec 2017

Researchers identify mechanism that regulates signaling events leading to cancer metastasis

Understanding how cancer cells are able to metastasize -- migrate from the primary tumor to distant sites in the body -- and developing therapies to inhibit this process are the focus of many laboratories around the country.

18 Dec 2017

Ketamine can stop suicidal thoughts finds new study

A study has shown that Ketamine – an anesthetic drug, is capable of reducing and halting suicidal thoughts in depressed patients. The study comes from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) who found that it may take only a few hours after administration of ketamine to reduce the suicidal thoughts in the patients.

18 Dec 2017

Longer life associated with optimism, stubborness and “love for land” finds study

A new study has shown that being stubborn and optimistic may be a key to long life. The researchers looked at nine villages in the Cilento region of southern Italy and found that hundreds of people there are over 90 years of age. They explored the reasons behind this longevity and found certain behavioral traits accounted for long life. The study was published this week in the journal International Psychogeriatrics.

17 Dec 2017

Long-term U-M study yields framework that could be useful for studying bipolar disorder

Nearly 6 million Americans have bipolar disorder, and most have probably wondered why. After more than a decade of studying over 1,100 of them in-depth, a University of Michigan team has an answer – or rather, seven answers.

15 Dec 2017

Study: Ketamine more effective than common sedative in reducing suicidal thoughts

Ketamine was significantly more effective than a commonly used sedative in reducing suicidal thoughts in depressed patients, according to researchers at Columbia University Medical Center.

14 Dec 2017

Anti-stress compounds provide new treatment approach for diabetes and obesity

For the first time, scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich could prove that a stress protein found in muscle has a diabetes promoting effect. This finding could pave the way to a completely new treatment approach.

13 Dec 2017

Self-efficacy in exercise adoption appears to positively influence female veterans with FM symptoms

For female Veterans with fibromyalgia (FM) symptoms, the impact of believing in their ability to begin and sustain a long-term exercise program appears to positively influence their results.

12 Dec 2017

Bipolar disorder may involve accelerated epigenetic aging, study finds

Bipolar disorder may involve accelerated epigenetic aging, which could explain why persons with the disorder are more likely to have - and die from - age-related diseases, according to researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

12 Dec 2017

Researchers use new approach to identify casual mechanisms in depression

People with major depressive disorder have alterations in the activity and connectivity of brain systems underlying reward and memory, according to a new study by the University of Warwick.

12 Dec 2017

Butler Hospital launches international Alzheimer's disease prevention study

The Memory and Aging Program at Butler Hospital, a member of Care New England and a major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, enrolled one of the initial participants in an international Alzheimer's disease (AD) prevention study.

11 Dec 2017

Brief test can help determine whether drugs, talk therapy work better for treating anxiety

Clinicians and patients often struggle to find the right treatment for anxiety, sometimes cycling through various therapies for months before the patient begins to feel their symptoms improve.

8 Dec 2017

UMSOM researchers find two-way link between TBI and intestinal changes

University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers have found a two-way link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and intestinal changes. These interactions may contribute to increased infections in these patients, and may also worsen chronic brain damage.

7 Dec 2017

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Quitting smoking found to be one of the toughest New Year's resolutions

The long goodbye: Coping with sadness and grief before a loved one dies

Portable technique produces rapid blink measurements for assessing neurological function

UCLA researchers reveal reversibility of Friedreich's ataxia in mouse models

New findings may lead to sensitive, non-invasive test for Alzheimer's disease

Study links mild obsessive-compulsive symptoms to alterations of cerebral anatomy in healthy children

Researchers link stress-related genetic changes to suicide risk and psychiatric illness

New guide provides evidence-based overview of key sleep challenges faced by women

Researchers identify mechanism that regulates signaling events leading to cancer metastasis

Ketamine can stop suicidal thoughts finds new study

Longer life associated with optimism, stubborness and “love for land” finds study

Long-term U-M study yields framework that could be useful for studying bipolar disorder

Study: Ketamine more effective than common sedative in reducing suicidal thoughts

Anti-stress compounds provide new treatment approach for diabetes and obesity

Self-efficacy in exercise adoption appears to positively influence female veterans with FM symptoms

Bipolar disorder may involve accelerated epigenetic aging, study finds

Researchers use new approach to identify casual mechanisms in depression

Butler Hospital launches international Alzheimer's disease prevention study

Brief test can help determine whether drugs, talk therapy work better for treating anxiety

UMSOM researchers find two-way link between TBI and intestinal changes

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