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
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
Touch can reduce pain, depression and anxiety, say researchers
More consensual touch helps ease or buffer against mental and physical complaints, meta-analysis showsWhether it is a hug from a friend or the caress of a weighted blanket, the sensation of touch appears to bring benefits for the body and mind, researchers say.The sense of touch is the first to develop in babies and is crucial in allowing us to experience the environment around us as well as communicate. Indeed, the loss of touch from others during the Covid pandemichit many hard.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Medical research Mental health Society UK news World news Neuroscience Anxiety Depression Source Type: news
RFK Jr. speaks candidly about his gravelly voice
'If I could sound better, I would,' says the presidential candidate, who has spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological condition that affects his vocal cords. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: James Rainey Source Type: news
Biological Sex Influences Brain Protein Expression
Neurological disorders often have sex biases, and these differences could be due to altered protein expression in the brain. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - April 4, 2024 Category: Science Tags: News News & Opinion Source Type: news
What the papers say is still seen by many who don ’t buy them | Brief letters
Newsstand influence | Tax relief for charitable giving | Starter for 10 | Mind-body dualism | A period of silence from MPsArchie Bland notes the declining circulation of the Sun and the Times (Winning over the Times and the Sun won ’t decide the next election – but Starmer’s Labour can’t kick the habit, 2 April). But newspaper displays in supermarkets and motorway service areas act as billboards. Thousands of non-buyers still see the screaming tabloid headlines every day. Whether they are influenced would be an interesting research topic.Martin LewisWakefield, West Yorkshire• Incentives to donate to charities alr...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 4, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Guardian Staff Tags: Newspapers The Sun The Times Charitable giving Income tax University Challenge Death and dying Consciousness Politics Biology House of Commons Media & magazines Neuroscience Oxbridge and elitism Source Type: news
The rise of theranostics: Part 2 -- Moving into communities
A decade ago, only a few radiopharmaceutical agents were used to help treat cancer patients. That has changed and the field of theranostics is expanding rapidly in various ways, as described in part 1 of AuntMinnie.com's series on the rise of theranostics.
However, few freestanding theranostics centers exist today. Even if some private urology, radiation oncology practices, or radiologist groups are building the ability to perform theranostics, experts are cautious about patient management, radiation safety, and the risk of unnecessary imaging. They're also mindful of the multiple dedicated teams required to build a thera...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: Practice Management Radiation Oncology/Therapy Nuclear Medicine Medicolegal Genitourinary Radiology Source Type: news
Thousands to be offered blood tests for dementia in UK trial
More than 50 clinics will offer tests to about 5,000 people who are worried about their memory in five-year trialThousands of people across the UK who are worried about their memory will receive blood tests for dementia in two trials that doctors hope will help to revolutionise the low diagnosis rate.Teams from the University of Oxford and University College London will lead the trials to research the use of cheap and simple tests to detect proteins for people with early stages of dementia or problems with cognition, with the hope of speeding up diagnosis and reaching more people.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 4, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Mabel Banfield-Nwachi Tags: Dementia Alzheimer's Medical research Society Science Mental health Neuroscience UK news Source Type: news
After childhood trauma, sisters use art and science to explore how memory can morph
Two sisters struggled to remember troubling childhood events until adulthood. A neuroscientist and author gave them the science and the language to turn their work into a dance performance and a book. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gabriel Spitzer Source Type: news
Lipid drops in on Alzheimer ’s disease | Science Signaling
Microglial lipid droplet accumulation leads to increased neurotoxicity in an APOE-dependent manner. (Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment)
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The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’
New research into the dying brain suggests the line between life and death may be less distinct than previously thoughtPatient One was 24 years old and pregnant with her third child when she was taken off life support. It was 2014. A couple of years earlier, she had been diagnosed with a disorder that caused an irregular heartbeat, and during her two previous pregnancies she had suffered seizures and faintings. Four weeks into her third pregnancy, she collapsed on the floor of her home. Her mother, who was with her, called 911. By the time an ambulance arrived, Patient One had been unconscious for more than 10 minutes. Par...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 2, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Alex Blasdel Tags: Death and dying Consciousness Science Biology Neuroscience Hospitals Source Type: news
This boxer is using science to track her brain health, and helping researchers better understand head impacts
Boxer Claire Hafner’s brain may help future women athletes, patients with neurodegenerative conditions, survivors of intimate partner violence and soldiers with head trauma. She's one of 17 Canadian athletes participating in a landmark study of the effects of head trauma on 900 living athletes, mostly from combat sports. (Source: CBC | Health)
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Keep winning at tennis? You may see more images each second, scientists say
Elite athletes and professional gamers may have higher than average visual temporal resolution, research suggestsIf you have wondered why your partner always beats you at tennis or one child always crushes the other at Fortnite, it seems there is more to it than pure physical ability.Some people are effectively able to see more “images per second” than others, research suggests, meaning they’re innately better at spotting or tracking fast-moving objects such as tennis balls.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 1, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Linda Geddes Science correspondent Tags: Neuroscience UK news Source Type: news
Smartphone app could help detect early-onset dementia cause, study finds
App-based cognitive tests found to be proficient at detecting frontotemporal dementia in those most at riskA smartphone app could help detect a leading cause of early-onset dementia in people who are at high risk of developing it, data suggests.Scientists have demonstrated that cognitive tests done via a smartphone app are at least as sensitive at detecting early signsof frontotemporal dementia in people with a genetic predisposition to the condition as medical evaluations performed in clinics.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 1, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Linda Geddes Science correspondent Tags: Dementia Apps Smartphones Health Technology Society Mental health Science Medical research Neuroscience Source Type: news
Unveiling the Mysteries of Hibernation and Torpor
Neuroscientist Siniša Hrvatin explores how animals initiate and regulate states of dormancy. (Source: The Scientist)
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