Here’s Why Email Puts You in a Nasty Mood
Your alarm goes off, you roll over, grab your phone, and flicker your eyes open. You squint in the glow of the blue and it begins: You’re scrolling through notifications, emails, texts.
It’s already been shown that emailing after business hours can be psychologically damaging, but new research published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology confirms what you probably know in your gut to be true: workers who are expected to be available even when they aren’t at work experience an elevated stress response.
Psychologists from the University of Hamburg asked 132 people from 13 workplaces to complet...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - August 7, 2015 Category: Science Authors: tanyabasutime Tags: Uncategorized cortisol Email human behavior Mental Health/Psychology mood neuroscience Smartphones Stress technology Workplace & Careers Source Type: news
This Is Why Horrific Surgical Mistakes Still Happen In The U.S.
By: Laura Geggel
Published: June 11, 2015 04:41pm ET on LiveScience.
Major errors during surgery are rare, but preventable mistakes still happen in hospitals throughout the United States, a new review finds.
In about 1 in 100,000 surgeries, doctors make a "wrong site" error — for example, they operate on the wrong side of a person's body, or sometimes even on the wrong person, the study found. And in 1 out of every 10,000 procedures, doctors leave something (such as a medical sponge) in the patient's body, the researchers found.
Poor communication among medical staff is the root cause of many of these mistakes, ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 15, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Fruit flies’ sexual behavior as a model of motivation in the brain
By Nancy Fliesler
If you have children present, you might want to click out of this post. But if you want to understand motivation, you’ll want to know about the sexual behavior of fruit flies.
In the brain, motivational states are nature’s way of matching our behaviors to our needs and priorities. But motivation can go awry, and dysfunction of the brain’s motivation machinery may well underlie addiction and mood disorders, says Michael Crickmore, PhD, a researcher in the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center. “Basically, every behavior or mood disorder is a disorder of motivation,” he says.
It...
Source: Mass Device - June 8, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: Big Data Blog Boston Children's Hospital Vector Blog Source Type: news
Good eyes but poor vision: An indistinct world for one in 20
Extremely poor vision can be caused by strabismus in early childhood or by a displaced optical axis. Amblyopia is caused not by organic damage to the eyes but by the brain incorrectly fitting together the images the eyes provide. As a result, the ability to see an object in sharp focus is severely limited. This occurs in more than one in 20 people, researchers report. The authors' study analyzed the visual acuity of over 3200 German individuals aged between 35 and 44 years and determined the frequency and causes of amblyopia. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - June 5, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Perceptual-motor computational model of anomalous binocular correspondence - Schor C.
PURPOSE: A head-centric disparity model of anomalous binocular correspondence (ABC) in strabismus provides a framework that captures several associated perceptual-motor characteristics that are unexplained by the retino-centric model (anomalous retinal cor... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - May 27, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Why does squinting help us see more clearly? Video reveals how changing the shape of your eye corrects blurry vision
Craig Benzine from Chicago tackled the issue in a video for Mental Floss. Some people squint (stock image shown) to see more clearly. It helps by changing the eye's shape and limiting light entering. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Researchers develop new computer-based vision screening test for young children
(Elsevier Health Sciences) Many eye disorders in young children are asymptomatic and may remain undetected without testing. Since effective treatments are available for many of those conditions, early identification and intervention are critical to prevent potentially permanent vision problems. A new report published in the Journal of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus describes the effectiveness of a new computer-based vision-screening test, the Jaeb Visual Acuity Screener, which is suitable for use in schools and pediatrician's offices. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 28, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
The Hubble telescope at 25: When will Hubble II launch?
Twenty-five years ago this Friday, Nasa launched the Hubble space telescope. Within weeks, the American space agency realised that it had put the instrument into the Earth's orbit with the telescopic equivalent of a squint. It was one of the most embarrassing and expensive technological cock-ups in history. (Source: The Independent - Science)
Source: The Independent - Science - April 21, 2015 Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news
2 Simple Maps That Reveal How American Agriculture Actually Works
Driving through the farmlands of Iowa looking for fresh food to eat is a lot like sailing through the ocean looking for fresh water to drink. In the ocean, you're surrounded by water that you can't drink; in Iowa, you're surrounded by food you can't eat. Even though Iowa generates the second-highest amount of revenue of any state off its crops -- $17 billion in 2012 -- the overwhelming majority of that comes from field corn, which is destined mostly for animal feed and ethanol, not dinner plates.
I came upon this startling fact while trying to answer a seemingly simple question: What crop generates the most money in each...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 16, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Strabismus Surgery May Improve Vision in Both EyesStrabismus Surgery May Improve Vision in Both Eyes
Investigators employed an old metric in new ways to evaluate visual improvement after strabismus surgery. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ophthalmology News Source Type: news
Latanoprost eye drop for glaucoma more than halves vision loss
Two year placebo controlled trial backs use of most commonly prescribed prostaglandin analogueRelated items from OnMedicaAcute angle closure glaucomaPrimary open angle glaucoma Warning of big rise in age-related blindnessGP referral rates may partly explain national variation in squint surgeryChildren born with sight loss on the increase (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - December 19, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Childhood’s most prevalent disease: It’s not what you think
Chloe laughed from her belly. A Popsicle left its mark on a yellow sunflower dress, and pigtails of dirty blonde curls dusted her cheeks as she walked. She had a gap between her front teeth, and when she smiled, her dark green eyes disappeared in a squint. She told me several times, “I’m going be a princess!” “Which one?” I’d ask. She’d throw her favorite blanket on her head and point to the smiling Cinderella.
Chloe’s kindergarten teacher saw bruises at recess earlier that day. Suspecting abuse, she brought the five-year-old to a medical clinic after school. We found swollen lymph nodes in her armpits and ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - December 2, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: All posts Source Type: news
Rosetta mission: Philae probe lands squint – but scientists remain optimistic
European space engineers are hoping to carry out carefully programmed manoeuvres over the coming hours and days to rescue the Philae lander from its precarious position on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after it unexpectedly bounced twice on landing. (Source: The Independent - Science)
Source: The Independent - Science - November 13, 2014 Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news
Rosetta mission: Philae probe lands squint but scientists remain optimistic
European space engineers are hoping to carry out carefully programmed manoeuvres over the coming hours and days to rescue the Philae lander from its precarious position on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after it unexpectedly bounced twice on landing. (Source: The Independent - Science)
Source: The Independent - Science - November 13, 2014 Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news
'Wandering eye' may raise risk of falls for older adults
(Reuters Health) - Older people with strabismus, where one eye points slightly inward or outward affecting vision, are about 27 percent more likely than people without the condition to be injured by a fall, according to a new study. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 30, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
