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Electrocortical Effects of Acetaminophen during Emotional Picture Viewing, Cognitive Control, and Negative Feedback
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2021 Feb 19. doi: 10.3758/s13415-021-00866-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAcetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, may have psychological effects, such as reducing social and emotional pain. The current study (N = 173) used electroencephalography (EEG) to extend past research on acetaminophen. Healthy undergraduate students (64.7% women, age M = 18.15, SD = 3.33) were randomly assigned to ingest 1,000 mg of acetaminophen or placebo before completing emotional picture viewing (n = 143), a flanker task (n = 69), and a probabilistic learning task (n = 143) while EEG was recorded. (Sample ...
Source: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience - February 20, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Katie E Garrison Julia B McDonald Adrienne L Crowell Nicholas J Kelley Brandon J Schmeichel Source Type: research

LITFL Review 312
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Welcome to the 312nd 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 SGEM often posts thoughtful “skeptical” reviews on logical-sounding procedures a...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 25, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs

Use of acetaminophen during pregnancy linked to ADHD in children, UCLA researchers say
Acetaminophen, found in over-the-counter products such as Excedrin and Tylenol, provides many people with relief from headaches and sore muscles. When used appropriately, it is considered mostly harmless. Over recent decades, the drug, which has been marketed since the 1950s, has become the medication most commonly used by pregnant women for fevers and pain.   Now, a long-term study by UCLA, in collaboration with the University of Aarhus in Denmark, has raised concerns about the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy.   In a report in the current online edition of JAMA Pediatrics, researchers from the UCLA Fiel...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 24, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Relief From Death Anxiety: In Your Medicine Cabinet Already?
The radio show Wait, Wait....Don't Tell Me! has a weekly segment called "Bluff the Listener" during which a caller listens to three unbelievable stories and then guess which one of the three is actually true.  Much to my surprise, this week's "true" (yet unbelievable) story is about evidence that acetaminophen might relieve existential angst. (Here's a direct link to the audio segment.) Julius Axelrod (Source: National Institutes of Health) Really?  Good ole' Tylenol might relieve bothersome thoughts about the ultimate threat to our existence?  How could I not investigate this further, if only because t...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - May 5, 2013 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Authors: Lyle Fettig, MD Source Type: blogs