Pros and Cons of Delayed Cord Clamping
Delayed cord clamping allows extra time, usually one to three minutes, between the clamping and separation of the umbilical cord from the baby, until pulsations in the umbilical cord have ceased or the placenta is delivered. This allows the remaining stem cell-rich blood from the placenta to be transferred to the baby after birth (up to one-third of the baby’s total blood volume).
Delayed cord clamping at birth has proven to benefit both baby and mom. Some studies show that the added blood volume in babies (especially in pre-term babies) increases their red blood count by 60%. Not only does this help prevent iron deficie...
Source: Cord Blood News - January 29, 2019 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Maze Cord Blood Tags: Cord Blood pregnancy stem cells Source Type: blogs
7 Winter Depression Busters
We’ve entered the “dark ages” as the midshipmen at the Naval Academy say — the weeks between Christmas break and Spring break when everyone turns a pasty white and the sidewalks are full of ugly slush. The lack of sunlight and the shorter days don’t help the pursuit of sanity. However, if you approach this time of year with a dose of creativity and enthusiasm, you need not fall down the rabbit hole of depression.
Here are some ideas to keep your mood sunny when the weather is anything but.
1. Go to the light.
I start using my light lamp in October. However, in January, this fixture becomes my best friend. Br...
Source: World of Psychology - January 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Creativity Depression General Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Source Type: blogs
6 Ways to Keep the Energy and Optimism Up During the Dark and Cold Winter
“In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
Anne Bradstreet
Up here in Sweden the winter is dark, cold and often comes with a mix of rain and snow.
And spring is still far away.
It is not easy to keep the energy and optimism up like in the bright and warm summer days.
So today I’d like to share 6 habits I use that make it a lot easier to stay positive even throughout this dark and often grey season.
1. Find one of your...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - January 17, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Habits Happiness Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs
Tiny Wearable UV Sensor Can Help to Optimize Phototherapy
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a “virtually indestructible” solar-powered UV sensor. Described as the world’s smallest wearable, the battery-free device is thinner than a credit card and smaller than an M&M candy, but can warn people about UV over-exposure and help clinicians to optimize dosing during light therapy.
Not knowing of Northwestern’s role in this technology, we recently covered the now available sensor when it was released as a L’Oreal product through Apple stores.
Light therapy has numerous applications, including blue light therapy for jaundiced newborns and UV therapy...
Source: Medgadget - December 6, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Dermatology Materials Public Health Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: September 22, 2018
Sometimes when you’re stuck in your own stuff, you forget that the world is changing outside you. You zoom into what’s going wrong and that narrow focus prevents you from seeing what’s going right.
Like this week, I learned that we’re predisposed to forgive, which one of four personality types I might be, and the innovative ways colleges are trying to reach students grappling with mental illness.
It reminded me things are always improving. We’re getting closer to understanding ourselves and each other a little better. Isn’t that exciting? I hope you enjoy this sample of psychology offeri...
Source: World of Psychology - September 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Source Type: blogs
Light Therapy Tech to Help Overcome Jet Lag and Summer Insomnia
The warm summer months we’re experiencing here in the northern hemisphere bring a whole host of health effects on our bodies. While longer days in the sun allow more time for our bodies to produce vitamin D and develop a nice tan, too much sun can lead to painful sunburns, an increased risk of skin cancer, and appearance of UV wearables that never seem to catch on. And while summer days for many also bring the excitement of traveling, a holiday abroad often means jet lag, weird sleep schedules, and simply adjusting to being on a different part of the Earth.
While sleep aids like melatonin or Benadryl, or stimulants ...
Source: Medgadget - July 31, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Exclusive OTC Psychiatry Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Knitted Fabric Delivers Laser Light to Treat Skin Conditions
A number of diseases are treated using light therapy. These include acne, actinic keratosis, jaundice, Paget’s disease, and psoriasis. Modern light blankets use arrays of LEDs to produce illumination, but light emitted by LEDs can be quite weak compared to light produced by a laser. Photodynamic therapy light lamps, on the other hand, can create painful therapy sessions because of their indiscriminate and intense light.
Texinov Medical Textiles, a company based outside of Lyon, France, with help from the European health consortium PHOS-ISTOS, has announced developing a knitted soft fabric called FLUXMEDICARE that ...
Source: Medgadget - February 20, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Dermatology Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: December 16, 2017
Has cabin fever struck you yet this winter?
Find out ways to beat it, plus the latest on a new scientist-created version of oxytocin, how orange light therapy might help mental illness symptoms, why global teamwork might be helpful for psychological studies, and more in this week’s Psychology Around the Net!
How to Beat Cabin Fever When You’re Stuck Inside This Winter: Try a couple — or all — of these ideas for combating cabin fever (or, in some of our cases, the funk that comes along with shorter days and less sunshine).
Can Teamwork Solve One Of Psychology’s Biggest Problems? Psychologist Chri...
Source: World of Psychology - December 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: ADHD and ADD Anxiety and Panic Bipolar Health-related Medications Psychology Around the Net Research Schizophrenia Technology amphetamines Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder cabin fever Christopher Chartier Light therapy Source Type: blogs
Photobiomodulation: A new and promising way to enhance brain function
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As is increasingly evident, there are multiple methods aimed at enhancing brain function.
Brain training and mindfulness practices are commonly used. Substance-based methods are popular too, including hallucinogens in the form of plant extracts, and drugs. Same as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): All of these are promising but have been challenged — for example, the reproducibility of electrical-based stimulation results is increasingly questioned.
— Fig. 1: Vielight Neuro Alpha/Gamma in use
Within this context, photobiomodulation (PBM)–low level light th...
Source: SharpBrains - December 4, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Lew Lim Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness Technology brain-enhancement brain-function Brain-Training enhance brain function low level light therapy mindfulness Neurodevelopmental neurological Photobiomo Source Type: blogs
OCD and Seasonal Affective Disorder
This article on SAD describes it as follows:
Seasonal affective disorder is characterized by feelings of sadness and depression that occur in the fall or winter months when the temperatures begin to drop and the days grow shorter. The depressive episode is often associated with excessive eating, sleeping, and weight gain. Depressive symptoms begin in the fall or winter and persist until the spring. Women are twice to three times more likely to suffer from the winter blues than men.
Seasonal affective disorder can also impact people during the summer months (“the summer blues”), too, but it is less common. People suffer...
Source: World of Psychology - November 23, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janet Singer Tags: Depression OCD Research Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Sad Seasonal Affective Disorder Source Type: blogs
6 Kinds of Light Therapy to Treat Seasonal Depression
It’s that time of year again when the highly sensitive types among us who thrive with lots of sunlight begin to wither with the plants as the sun begins to hide.
Not only do we get less vitamin D (and deficiencies have been linked to depression), but the change in sunlight affects our circadian rhythm — the body’s internal biological clock that governs certain brain activity and hormone production. In some people, the change of mood-related chemicals can cause seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as winter blues or seasonal depression.
For an episode of major depression to be classified as SAD, a pers...
Source: World of Psychology - November 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Bipolar Depression Holiday Coping Mental Health and Wellness Roundup Self-Help Light therapy Sad Sadness Seasonal Affective Disorder Seasonal Depression seasonal depressive disorder Vitamin Source Type: blogs
New study suggests people with OCD are especially sensitive to the seasons
By Christian Jarrett
The clocks have gone back and there’s a chill in the air. It’s well known that during these darker months, a significant minority of us experience unwelcome negative changes to our mood (at least if you believe in the notion of Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD, which not all experts do). Now an intriguing study in Psychiatry Research has explored the link this condition may have with another psychiatric diagnosis, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
The results suggest that people with OCD are more likely than average to experience seasonal effects on their mood, and that for these seas...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: October 21, 2017
Happy Saturday, sweet readers!
It’s a gorgeous day here in my neck of the woods, and trust me when I say we’ll be taking full advantage of it! After all, the days are getting shorter and soon there won’t be as many warm and sunny days (at least, not here) until spring. Many people begin experiencing seasonal affective disorder (SAD) as fall really kicks in. As many of you know, for a lot of people light therapy is an effective way to treat SAD.
However, did you also know light therapy might be able to help with bipolar disorder? That’s just one of the topics we’re covering in today’s Psy...
Source: World of Psychology - October 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Bipolar Brain and Behavior Celebrities Disorders Industrial and Workplace Policy and Advocacy Professional Psychology Around the Net Research Self-Esteem Stigma Treatment Bipolar Disorder Defense Mechanism Denial Depression Source Type: blogs
Seasonal Affective Disorder: The Silent Season
It’s that time again. The days are getting shorter and the air is getting colder. The leaves are beginning to change colors and delicately fall. We pull out our scarves and gloves and drink warm cider. To many, the change in season is received with a warm welcome and open arms. To others, they begin to settle into the knowledge that their least favorite season is among them.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that emerges during autumn and well through the winter months. Some commonly mistake SAD with the general feeling of laziness during the winter months as symptoms tend to include increased...
Source: World of Psychology - September 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Silvi Saxena, MSW, LSW, CCTP, OSW-C Tags: Depression General Happiness Inspiration & Hope Motivation and Inspiration Psychology autumn Depressive Episode fall Melancholy Mood Disorder Sad Sadness Seasonal Affective Disorder Seasonal Changes Winter Blues Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 270
Welcome to the 270th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Ashley Liebig delivers a powerful, poignant and thought provoking talk on the golden fleece, the golden hour and the golden rule. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
Moises Gallegos introduces a new mnemonic for the management options o...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 19, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
