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This Is Why There Are So Many Defibrillators in Casinos
If you're going to experience cardiac arrest, a casino is one of the safest places to be! This is how a lifetime of poor health can be deadly when faced with acute stress, whether it be a $5,000 win or $5,000 loss.read more
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jordan Gaines Lewis Tags: Anxiety Health Sport and Competition Stress aed cardiac arrest casino defibrillator first aid gambling heart attack heart disease stroke Source Type: news

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation improves word production in Conduction Aphasia: Electroencephalographic and behavioral evidences
Publication date: September–December 2014 Source:International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 14, Issue 3 Author(s): Alberto Dominguez , Rosario Socas , Hipolito Marrero , Nieves Leon , Jesus LLabres , Enrique Enriquez A Conduction Aphasic patient, RH, with many difficulties at the level of phonological output, was subjected to Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) therapy six months after suffering a stroke. Fifteen daily sessions were administered (five days per week). The treatment led to a better intra-hemispheric electrical coherence and inter-hemispheric balance, as shown by the quanti...
Source: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

CancellationTools: All-in-one software for administration and analysis of cancellation tasks.
Abstract In a cancellation task, a participant is required to search for and cross out ("cancel") targets, which are usually embedded among distractor stimuli. The number of cancelled targets and their location can be used to diagnose the neglect syndrome after stroke. In addition, the organization of search provides a potentially useful way to measure executive control over multitarget search. Although many useful cancellation measures have been introduced, most fail to make their way into research studies and clinical practice due to the practical difficulty of acquiring such parameters from traditional pen-and-...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - November 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dalmaijer ES, Van der Stigchel S, Nijboer TC, Cornelissen TH, Husain M Tags: Behav Res Methods Source Type: research

Depression – not just in your head, it’s also in your genes
We all want to understand telomeres, the caps at the ends of our DNA strands, because the longer they are the longer we tend to live – and live freer of age related illnesses like heart disease, stroke, dementia, diabetes, and osteoporosis - and are free of depression.read more
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - December 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D. Tags: Child Development Depression Health Stress Source Type: news

Depression: Not Just in Your Head, It’s Also in Your Genes
We all want to understand telomeres, the caps at the ends of our DNA strands, because the longer they are the longer we tend to live – and live freer of age related illnesses like heart disease, stroke, dementia, diabetes, and osteoporosis - and are free of depression.read more
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - December 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D. Tags: Child Development Depression Health Stress Source Type: news

Measuring coping style following acquired brain injury: A modification of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations Using Rasch analysis.
CONCLUSIONS: The original version of the CISS may not be a valid and reliable measure of coping style following ABI. Modified subscales of the three distinct coping domains have been proposed that would help to improve measurement of coping style following ABI in future research and clinical practice. PRACTITIONER POINTS: How people cope with difficulties following an ABI has been shown to impact upon emotional outcomes and functional recovery. The original version of the CISS was found to be an imprecise measure of coping following ABI. A modified version of the CISS was found to be a valid and reliable measure of th...
Source: The British Journal of Clinical Psychology - December 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Simblett SK, Gracey F, Ring H, Bateman A Tags: Br J Clin Psychol Source Type: research

Ethnic Differences in Resting Heart Rate Variability: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Conclusions: These findings suggest that decreased vagally mediated HRV is not likely to account for the persistent health disparities experienced by AAs with respect to CVD risk and burden. These disparities underscore the need for continued research addressing socioethnic cardiovascular differences and the biobehavioral mechanisms involved.
Source: Psychosomatic Medicine - January 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Systematic Review/Meta-Analysis Source Type: research

Psychosocial Stress as a Risk Factor for Sepsis: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Conclusions: Increased stress was associated with higher 1-year adjusted incidence of sepsis, even after accounting for depressive symptoms. The association between stress and 10-year adjusted incidence of sepsis was also significant, but this association was reduced when adjusting for depressive symptoms. Reduction of stress may limit short-term sepsis risk.
Source: Psychosomatic Medicine - January 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Motor skill failure or flow-experience? Functional brain asymmetry and brain connectivity in elite and amateur table tennis players.
Abstract Functional hemispheric asymmetry is assumed to constitute one underlying neurophysiological mechanism of flow-experience and skilled psycho-motor performance in table tennis athletes. We hypothesized that when initiating motor execution during motor imagery, elite table tennis players show higher right- than left-hemispheric temporal activity and stronger right temporal-premotor than left temporal-premotor theta coherence compared to amateurs. We additionally investigated, whether less pronounced left temporal cortical activity is associated with more world rank points and more flow-experience. To this ai...
Source: Biological Psychology - January 20, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wolf S, Brölz E, Keune PM, Wesa B, Hautzinger M, Birbaumer N, Strehl U Tags: Biol Psychol Source Type: research

Bioidentical hormones, menopausal women, and the lure of the “natural” in U.S. anti-aging medicine
Publication date: May 2015 Source:Social Science & Medicine, Volume 132 Author(s): Jennifer R. Fishman , Michael A. Flatt , Richard A. Settersten Jr. In 2002, the Women's Health Initiative, a large-scale study of the safety of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for women conducted in the United States, released results suggesting that use of postmenopausal HRT increased women's risks of stroke and breast cancer. In the years that followed, as rates of HRT prescription fell, another hormonal therapy rose in its wake: bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT). Anti-aging clinicians, the primary prescribers of ...
Source: Social Science and Medicine - March 19, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

New use of antipsychotics associated with a small increased risk of acute kidney injury in older adults with mental disorders
ABSTRACT FROM: Hwang YJ, Dixon SN, Reiss JP, et al. Atypical antipsychotic drugs and the risk for acute kidney injury and other adverse outcomes in older adults: a population-based cohort study. Ann Intern Med 2014;161:242–8. What is already known on this topic Antipsychotic use is increasing among older adults, who—as a result of age and frailty—may be particularly susceptible to adverse effects.1 Antipsychotics have already been associated with serious adverse events in older adults including falls, fractures and cardiovascular disease. Among older adults with dementia, they increase the risk of stroke ...
Source: Evidence-Based Mental Health - April 23, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kirkham, J., Seitz, D. Tags: Epidemiologic studies, Neurology, Delirium, Drugs: psychiatry, Schizophrenia spectrum, Epidemiology Prevalence, assessment and diagnosis Source Type: research

Attention in Older Adults: A Normative Study of the Integrated Visual and Auditory Continuous Performance Test for Persons Aged 70 Years.
CONCLUSIONS: This study provides IVA norms for 70-year-olds stratified by education and gender, increasing the usability of this instrument when testing persons near this age. The data presented here show some major differences from original IVA norms, and explanations for these differences are discussed. Explanations include the broad age-range used in the original IVA norms (66-99 years of age) and the passage of 15 years since the original norms were collected. PMID: 26160019 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Clinical Neuropsychologist - July 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Berginström N, Johansson J, Nordström P, Nordström A Tags: Clin Neuropsychol Source Type: research

A closer look at the rural-urban health disparities: Insights from four major diseases in the Commonwealth of Virginia
This study help bridges this gap through investigation of four major diseases in the Commonwealth of Virginia: cancer, stroke, cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We utilize a unique inpatient hospital discharge billing dataset, and construct average patient counts at ZIP-code level over 2006–2008 where covariates from alternative sources are merged (806 ZIP-code areas, 190 urban, 616 rural). Count data regressions are first fitted to identify possible regional-level factors that affect disease incidences. A system of equations with rural-urban specification are then estimated via seemingly ...
Source: Social Science and Medicine - July 20, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Resting plasma lipids and cardiovascular reactivity to acute psychological stress.
Abstract. Prior research suggests that hyperlipidemia is associated with elevated blood pressure responses to acute stress but whether lipid levels influence underlying cardiac and vascular determinants of blood pressure during stress is not known. Thus, we examined whether lipids were associated with stress-induced blood pressure responses and responses of stroke volume (SV), cardiac output (CO), and total peripheral resistance (TPR). In 19 healthy university students (15 men), blood was drawn to measure lipid levels (triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol [LDL-c], high-density lipoprotein cholesterol [HDL-c],...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - August 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Austin, Anthony W.; Kushnick, Michael R.; Knutson, Michael J.; McGlynn, Mark L.; Patterson, Stephen M. Source Type: research

The rubber hand illusion depends on the tactile congruency of the observed and felt touch.
The rubber hand illusion (RHI) occurs when the participants’ own unseen hand is stroked in synchrony with an observed rubber hand. It manifests itself in terms of a tendency to misreport the position of one’s own hand as nearer to the rubber hand (proprioceptive drift) and in terms of feelings of ownership of the rubber hand. Many studies have examined whether the illusion depends on characteristics of the hand (e.g., orientation, skin color), but very few have examined the importance of the tool that delivers the tactile sensation. We demonstrate that the RHI depends on the congruency of the tool used to stroke the re...
Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance - July 20, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ward, Jamie; Mensah, Ajua; Jünemann, Kristin Source Type: research