Should I Take Supplements to Sleep? What Experts Think
If you want to understand the importance of sleep, ask someone who spent the previous night tossing and turning. Sleep is a vital function: essential for physical recovery, preparing for the next day, even clearing waste material from the brain. Mounting evidence suggests that getting adequate amounts of sleep each night is even more critical than previously believed, responsible for reducing the risk of serious conditions including dementia, obesity, and stroke.
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Yet so many of us struggle to fall and stay asleep, with more than one-third of U.S. adults failing to get the re...
Source: TIME: Health - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Carly Weeks Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
'I'm a food expert - these four simple spices could boost your brain power'
These kitchen staples could help boost both your memory and brain health, according to an expert. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
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Chronic Pain Linked to Accelerated Brain Aging Chronic Pain Linked to Accelerated Brain Aging
The consequences of chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) may extend well beyond physical discomfort, potentially leading to more rapid brain aging, new research shows.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
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Delirium Linked to a Threefold Increased Risk for Dementia Delirium Linked to a Threefold Increased Risk for Dementia
A large, long-term study reveals a strong association between delirium in older adults and incident dementia and mortality risk.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - April 10, 2024 Category: Neurology Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: news
MRI links hearing loss to increased dementia risk
MRI has shown that hearing loss may increase dementia risk in seniors not yet cognitively impaired in ways distinct from those that tend to be associated with conditions such as Alzheimer's and cerebrovascular disease.A team led by Thomas Parker, MD, of the Imperial College London in the U.K. found that, compared with older adults who did not have hearing impairment, those who did had faster rates of whole brain atrophy. The findings were published April 3 in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry."Our data suggest a complex interplay of hearing ability, neurodegeneration, and cognition and implicate pathway...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 10, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Subspecialties Neuroradiology Source Type: news
Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarism
Harvard University honesty researcher Francesca Gino, whose work has come under fire for suspected data falsification, may also have plagiarized passages in some of her high-profile publications.
A book chapter co-authored by Gino, who was found by a 2023 Harvard Business School (HBS) investigation to have
committed research misconduct
, contains numerous passages of text with striking similarities to 10 earlier sources. The sources include published papers and student theses, according to an analysis shared with
Science
by University of Montreal psychologist Erinn Acland.
Science
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Source: ScienceNOW - April 9, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
The Dying Brain; Obesity Drugs and MS; NurOwn Tries Again
(MedPage Today) -- New research about the dying brain suggested the line between consciousness and death may not be distinct. (The Guardian)
A single fecal microbiota transplantation induced mild but sustained effects on motor symptoms in early... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
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The mysteries of near-death experiences | Letters
Readers respond to Alex Blasdel ’s long read on the studies of brain activity immediately after deathAlex Blasdel ’s long read contains some fascinating facts and speculations (The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense, 2 April). However, it is odd to suggest that there are only three approaches to understanding so-called near-death experiences – physicalist, parapsychological and spiritualist.While the field of near-death studies is indeed full of “kooks and grifters”, many serious scientists and rational thinkers in this and other fields, who are neither parapsy...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 9, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Guardian Staff Tags: Death and dying Health Society Philosophy Psychology Source Type: news
America ’ s Growing Birthweight Crisis
Americans are increasingly at risk of having lower incomes, poorer health, and a worse shot at opportunity even before they are born. More babies are now born with low birthweights than in the last 30 years. This has caused growing inequalities that can persist if not properly addressed. In certain parts of the country, that risk may be ten-times greater.
Underweight newborns are at an increased risk of long term health challenges, lower IQ scores, and developmental delays. New data shows that the frequency of this problem is rising with more than 300,000 newborns now experiencing low birthweight. This public hea...
Source: TIME: Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeremy Ney Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Can AI improve sustainability in nuclear medicine?
Nuclear medicine experts support the use of AI to improve sustainability of practices in the field, yet said implementation will require careful consideration of the technology’s benefits and detriments, according to an article published April 6 in Radiography.
Lead author Geoff Currie, PhD, of Charles Sturt University in New South Wales, Australia, and U.S. colleagues, discussed the potential for AI across what they describe as the “five pillars” of sustainability in nuclear medicine (social, human, economic, ecological, and environmental) and noted its benefits and threats in each pillar.
“AI, digital twins, an...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 9, 2024 Category: Radiology Tags: Nuclear Medicine Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
Perceived Social Isolation Tied to Altered Brain Processing of Food Cues
TUESDAY, April 9, 2024 -- Social isolation is associated with altered brain processing of food cues in premenopausal women, according to a study published online April 4 in JAMA Network Open.
Xiaobei Zhang, Ph.D., from the University of... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - April 9, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Cortical volume alterations in the limbic network in adolescents with high reactive aggression - Bashford-Largo J, Blair RJR, Blair KS, Dobbertin M, Elowsky J, Dominguez A, Hatch M, Bajaj S.
This study aims to identify both bra... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
What Experts Really Think About Diet Soda
Growing up, Olivia Dreizen Howell, 39, “lived on” diet soda. So did her family. At a family reunion in 1996, everyone sported T-shirts with their shared surname in Diet Coke-can font. “We drank Diet Coke, Diet ginger ale, and Diet Sprite like water—there was no difference in our household,” she says.
Like many, Howell believed that sugar-free soda was a benign choice. But the latest research casts doubt on that assumption, linking diet drinks to mood disorders, fatty liver development, autoimmune diseases, and cancer, to name a few.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perri Ormont Blumberg Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The Relentless Cost of Chronic Diseases
At first, my legs buckled. Then I started nearly fainting and was struck by fierce jaw, neck, and back pain—six unhappy faces-worth on the scale. Just as quickly, as one tends to do, I created narratives to explain these sudden symptoms. That one glass of wine had done me in. The steamy weather led my knees to wobble. It was the aftermath of a concussion I got after I fell in a hole in the sidewalk. It was from when I hurt my neck when I was thrown down on a subway platform by a man with low spatial awareness and somewhere to be.
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It turned out I was fainting beca...
Source: TIME: Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alissa Quart Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Genetic Variants May Contribute to Cerebral Palsy Genetic Variants May Contribute to Cerebral Palsy
Using whole-genome sequencing, Canadian researchers found a high prevalence of genetic abnormalities in children with cerebral palsy.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - April 9, 2024 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery Source Type: news
