Psychology Studies: 11 Of The Most Popular
Popular psychology studies include: 6 signs of a narcissist, hairy chests and intelligence and the effects of alcohol on the brain. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Most popular Source Type: blogs
Launching Biomedical Careers for Students Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Group of RIT U-RISE students, including Bo Allaby (standing second from the right) and Maameyaa Asiamah (kneeling in front) who are interviewed in this post. Credit: Dr. Bonnie Jacob.
Scientists who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) are underrepresented at all career stages, especially at the Ph.D. level. To address this, the Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) training program for undergraduates who are deaf and hard of hearing at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York, has committed to lifting barriers and increasing DHH representation in science.
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Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Profiles Training Source Type: blogs
Miscommunication leads to misunderstandings: the tragic consequences of misinterpreted sobriety
At her first visit, still lightly jaundiced, Jennie wanted to talk about a liver transplant. I told her that she had to be sober for six months before they would consider putting her on the list. She told me proudly that she had been sober for three weeks. “How are you doing without alcohol?” “Going
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Miscommunication leads to misunderstandings: the tragic consequences of misinterpreted sobriety originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mary Braun, MD Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
ISFAR Criticizes New Alcohol Guidance Issued by Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction But Fails to Reveal Its Conflicts of Interest with Big Alcohol
Earlier this year, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction released anew guidance on alcohol use. The guidance was notable for concluding that there is a dose-response relationship between the amount of alcohol one consumes and one ' s risk of disease or injury and therefore, greater amounts of alcohol consumption are associated with poorer health outcomes. In particular, the guidance concluded that drinking no alcohol is safer than drinking a low or moderate amount of alcohol.The International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research (ISFAR) has just published a stingingcritique of the new guidance. The critique es...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - February 23, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Ayahuasca And Mushrooms For Alcoholism And Depression
Ayahuasca for alcoholism and depression may be effective, according to a survey of almost 100,000 people. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Alcohol Depression Source Type: blogs
Alcohol Kills Brain Stem Cells And Slows Neurogenesis
Alcohol kills brain stem cells and without them, new brain cells cannot be produced. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Alcohol Source Type: blogs
Additional drug and alcohol treatment funding allocations: 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities - This information provides a breakdown of the extra funding available to all local authorities in England for the financial year 2023 to 2024 and an indicative allocation for 2024 to 2025. The funding will help them improve their drug and alcohol treatment and recovery systems.GuidanceMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
High IQ And Alcoholism: Do Smart People Drink More?
People with high IQ are generally healthier, but they have one or two bad habits. Study reveals if alcoholism is one of them? (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Intelligence Source Type: blogs
The Popular Drink Linked To Cognitive Decline — Yet Again
While the drink used to be thought safe for brain health, the latest research finds otherwise. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Alcohol Dementia Source Type: blogs
Make Dry January a habit: Understanding and addressing alcohol use disorder
The concept of Dry January, an opportunity to take a break from alcohol, does not need to end on January 31. If it does end, dietary guidelines recommending a maximum of 1 drink or less for women and two drinks or less for men on any given day should guide subsequent alcohol use. This is because
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Make Dry January a habit: Understanding and addressing alcohol use disorder originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Bubu Banini, MD Tags: Physician Gastroenterology Source Type: blogs
Why the name “ emergency medicine ” is no longer adequate: a call for change
I am an emergency physician in training. It’s a thrilling and rewarding job learning to treat the severely ill and injured. But it is also a rare clinical shift when I don’t treat patients with life-limiting alcohol and drug addiction, people struggling with homelessness, those whose behavior does not allow them to safely be in
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Why the name “emergency medicine” is no longer adequate: a call for change originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jordan Hughes, MD Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
Senators Bennet and Collins Have Their Hearts in the Right Place, But Their Eyes on the Wrong Target
Jeffrey A. SingerSenator Susan Collins (R ‑ME) wrote anop ‐ed for Seacoastonline this week expressing her concerns about skyrocketing drug overdose deaths. According to the most recentdata from the National Center for Health Statistics, 90 percent of opioid ‐related overdose deaths involve illicit fentanyl, and 15 percent involve diverted prescription pain pills. In her column, Senator Collins expressed pride in a proposal aimed at reducing overdoses that she co‐sponsored with Senator Michael Bennet (D‑CO). Unfortunately, while the legisla tion was well‐intended, it placed too much emphasis on educ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 9, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Explosions and anxiety: Adult special needs life is a tough haul
My 26yo son, " #1 " , is pretty solidly in the 3-4th (bottom) percentile of cognitive abilities. It ' s a cognitive continuum of course; what ' s true of the 3rd percentile can also be true of the 10th or the 20th -- especially when lack of sleep or alcohol is involved. So this isn ' t just about special needs adults. It ' s something useful to understand for tens of millions of Americans.The other day he exploded. No harm came of it, except to him. It ' sa behavior we ' ve known from childhood though it ' s only with time we came to understand how closely tied it is to his anxiety.It happened during an ice hockey gam...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - February 5, 2023 Category: Disability Tags: ADHD adult anxiety athletics autism behavioral therapy cognitive impairment community discrimination exercise Explosive Child legal Source Type: blogs
Evidence Likewise Calls California ’s “Housing First” Homelessness Strategy into Question
Vanessa Brown Calder and Jordan GygiA recentCato blog examined the effects of Utah ’s “Housing First” policy, which aims to provide the chronically homeless with permanent housing without requiring treatment for mental health issues or substance use disorder. The Biden administration recently unveileda new federal plan to address homelessness that rests on this philosophy, so the outcomes in Housing First states are worth considering. Unfortunately, in Utah, the original “Housing First” state, data indicates that chronic homelessness and overall homelessness have grown significantly two decades after policy imp...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 31, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Vanessa Brown Calder, Jordan Gygi Source Type: blogs
Teen substance use rebounds after pandemic
Among high school seniors using marijuana, the pandemic forced the largest one-year decline in use over the past 48 years. Marijuana use fell from 35.2 percent in 2020 to 30.5 percent during 2021. In 2022, it remained pretty much unchanged at 30.7 percent. Alcohol drinking among high school seniors fell from 55.3 percent of seniors
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Teen substance use rebounds after pandemic originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Richard Capriola, MBA Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
