Archive: 26/07/2017

Risk for bipolar disorder associated with faster aging

New King's College London research suggests that people with a family history of bipolar disorder may 'age' more rapidly than those without a history of the disease.

Jul 26, 2017

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Talking to yourself can help you control stressful emotions

The simple act of silently talking to yourself in the third person during stressful times may help you control emotions without any additional mental effort than what you would use for first-person self-talk – the way people ...

Jul 26, 2017

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Study finds mental health court curbs recidivism

A new study from Florida Institute of Technology has found that criminal defendants who graduated from mental health court demonstrated substantially reduced re-arrest rates a full three years following their release, the ...

Jul 26, 2017

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Body ownership is not impaired in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia patients often experience an altered sense of self, e.g. as if someone else is controlling their actions. This impairment is described as a deficit in the "sense of agency", and while it has been well established ...

Jul 26, 2017

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Helping your children navigate activities of interest

In today's world, children are very active, being pushed and pulled into various extracurricular activities. Parents sometimes struggle with listening to their children to determine their likes, dislikes, wants and needs, ...

Jul 26, 2017

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Gene therapy to correct surfactant protein B deficiency in newborns

An article published in Experimental Biology and Medicine (Volume 242, Issue 13, July, 2017) reports that gene therapy may be used to as an intermediate therapy for newborns with surfactant protein deficiencies until lung ...

Jul 26, 2017

Do we need separate his and hers medicine cabinets?

One difference between the sexes that medical professionals take seriously is the susceptibility to certain diseases.

Jul 26, 2017

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Do you expect service with a smile? There's a dark side to putting on a happy face

As I was walking through the V&A museum in London a few days ago, two statues immediately grabbed my attention. It was Heraclitus and Democritus, a couple of Greek thinkers known as the "weeping and laughing philosophers". ...

Jul 26, 2017

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How rhyming helps reading

When, in the nursery rhyme, Jack and Jill go up a hill, they're teaching children more than how to fetch a pail of water. They're also improving their reading skills.

Jul 26, 2017

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Genetically modifying zebrafish for detection of harmful compounds in drug candidates

The common zebrafish is a useful proxy for testing whether drug candidates cause organ damage. Now, researchers in Singapore have created two modified types of the fish, one that glows when experiencing toxicity, and another ...

Jul 26, 2017

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