Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 3rd 2020
In this study, we examined the effects of oxytocin on the Aβ-induced impairment of synaptic plasticity in mice.
To investigate the effect of oxytocin on synaptic plasticity, we prepared acute hippocampal slices for extracellular recording and assessed long-term potentiation (LTP) with perfusion of the Aβ active fragment (Aβ25-35) in the absence and presence of oxytocin. We found that oxytocin reversed the impairment of LTP induced by Aβ25-35 perfusion in the mouse hippocampus. These effects were blocked by pretreatment with the selective oxytocin receptor antagonist L-368,899. Furthermore, the treatment with the...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 2, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Coping with Comorbid Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
Tips that work. A plan. These are what help in the battle with mental illness and substance abuse. The material here is from individuals dealing with both diagnoses and for their family members. Tips are shared anonymously for privacy reasons.
If you suspect alcohol or drugs are interfering with your life and your ability to handle your mental health issues, you may be facing a dual diagnosis situation. Talk to your doctor or mental health professional without delay to begin the process of understanding and trying treatment options.
I have learned that willingness is the key to successful recovery work. The willingness t...
Source: World of Psychology - August 2, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jan McDaniel Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Recovery Substance Abuse 12 Steps Addiction Recovery Alcoholics Anonymous Comorbidity Mental Illness Source Type: blogs
Combining Therapies as the Next Frontier for the Treatment of Aging
There are two activities in medical science in which both the academic research community and clinical development industry are truly terrible at achieving results, or indeed even at getting started at all. The first is transfer of programs from academia to industry. The renowned valley of death in the development of new medical biotechnologies is very real; so very many programs languish undeveloped simply because neither side can effectively coordinate with the other. The second is the testing of synergies between multiple therapies that are applied at the same time to the same patient for the treatment of the same condi...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 31, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
How To Get The Most Out Of Virtual Learning
By Emily Reynolds
When the coronavirus hit, many of us had to quickly adapt to remote working — and even post-pandemic, many of us are likely to continue at least some of these tasks online.
Demands for more flexible working practices continue to grow, and for good reason — it can make life easier for employees with parenting or caring responsibilities, health problems or disabilities, and some argue it can also increase productivity. Online webinars and conferences also allow continued professional development without workers ever having to leave their home office.
Things are no different in the world of education:...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 30, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Coronavirus Educational Feature Memory Source Type: blogs
Levelling up Yorkshire and Humber: health as the new wealth post-Covid
This report, produced together with Yorkshire& Humber Academic Health Science Network and Yorkshire Universities, provides a plan to tackle ever-increasing socio-economic inequalities and boost health outcomes in Yorkshire and the Humber by encouraging and supporting more cross-sector working. Health and the economy are bound tightly together and interventions designed to improve health, inclusive growth and wellbeing in Yorkshire and the Humber are in the interests of all local, regional and national partners, businesses and communities and should be a shared priority and endeavour. ReportPress rel...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 13, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Logical fallacy the infinity
I regularly try to propound principles of critical thinking here, looks like I ' m going to have to issue another installment. One of the most annoying tactics of argumentation is called premise shifting, sometimes overlapping with the red herring fallacy. Example:Simplicio: Black Lives Matter/anti-racism protestors haven ' t targeted universities because they are hypocrites. Why aren ' t they demanding that Yale and Brown change their names?Sagrado: Anti-racism protesters were targeting universities long before the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent uprising. (By the way they have been demanding that Yale change it...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 12, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Should Governments Erect Statues?
Jeffrey Miron andErin PartinIn response to the police killing of George Floyd, and to a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, protesters across the country have recently removed or vandalized statues celebratingConfederate soldiers,founding fathers, andexplorers. Some cities and states havepreemptively removed or covered such statues to reduce the likelihood of conflict.Those advocating for statue removal argue that honoring problematic historical figures is offensive to significant fractions of the citizenry, especially Blacks and other minorities. And many of the Confederate monuments being attacked were er...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 9, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron, Erin Partin Source Type: blogs
College in America Could Be Changed Forever
COVID-19 is threatening to upend the models that both public and private higher education depend on in the United States. As universities consider whether to postpone in-person classes until next year, many parents and students may be questioning the value of a traditional higher education. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 6, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Charles A. Goldman; Rita Karam Source Type: blogs
Psychologists Are Mining Social Media Posts For Mental Health Research — But Many Users Have Concerns
This article contains discussion of suicide and self-harm
In 2014, the Samaritans launched what seemed like an innovative new project: Radar. Designed to provide what the charity described as an “online safety net”, users could sign up to Radar to receive updates on the content of other people’s tweets, with emails sent out based on a list of key phrases meant to detect whether someone was feeling distressed.
In principle, this meant people could keep an eye on friends who were vulnerable: if they missed a tweet where somebody said they felt suicidal or wanted to self-harm, for example, Radar would send it on, in th...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Facebook Feature Mental health Twitter Source Type: blogs
Racism Awareness Is Not Enough
The recent turmoil following yet another murder by police of a Black man has made it clear that systemic racism is embedded in our history and our culture. Yes, there have been real efforts to effect change over the last 50 years:
Diversity trainings have been annual events for corporations and educational institutions for decades.
Since the early 1960s, many companies, organizations, and educational institutions have designated affirmative-action or diversity officers whose job it is to make sure that qualified BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) are recruited and retained.
Black studies departments have been p...
Source: World of Psychology - June 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. Tags: Racism antiracist Black Lives Matter microaggression Prejudice Source Type: blogs
PostdoC: Tri-Institutional Molecular Mycology and Pathogenesis Training Program (Tri-I MMPTP)
The TRI-I MMPTP (Research Triangle, North Carolina) have ONE open fellowship slot to start as early as 8/1/20 and applications are now being accepted for the slot to be filled on a rolling basis. As a reminder, since this is a T32 program the fellows must be US citizens or permanent residents. Fellows placed on the training grant can receive up to 3 years of fellowship support.
A diverse set of faculty across 3 universities (UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, NC State) working on molecular mycology from plant pathology, animal disease, pathogenesis, evolution, cellular and molecular biology of fungi https://mmptp...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - June 22, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: postdoc fungi Source Type: blogs
Our Response to Racism Should Not Be More Unpaid Work for Black Faculty, Part I
This essay is part of a 2-part series on the burdens placed on black faculty in academic bioethics. The second part, by Keisha Ray, Ph.D. can be read by clicking here.
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
During the beginning of the #METOO movement, female academics named those who had harassed them, universities created (or expanded) reporting structures and formed committees to help improve conditions for women on campus, and movements were made to try new ways of working such as restorative justice.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 10, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: Education Featured Posts professional ethics #blackbioethics ally Source Type: blogs
What Can We Do to Combat Anti-Black Racism in the Biomedical Research Enterprise?
The recent deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, in addition to the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on African Americans, are wrenching reminders of the many harms that societal racism, inequality, and injustice inflict on the Black community. These injustices are rooted in centuries of oppression—including slavery and Jim Crow, redlining, school segregation, and mass incarceration—that continue to influence American life, including the biomedical research enterprise. Despite leading an NIH Institute whose mission includes building a diverse scientific workforce, at NIGMS we’ve struggled with...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 10, 2020 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Matt Mills Tags: Director’s Messages News Training/Fellowships/Career Development Research Resources Science Communication Source Type: blogs
Learn Forecasting: How Can You Get Your Own Crystal Ball?
This article will help you better understand how futurists come up with forecasts; the challenges that come with crafting those; and resources that you can use right now to become a futurist yourself and get your very own “crystal ball”! On a more serious note, by understanding or even using the same methods that futurists do, anyone can distinguish hype from the actual trends that deserve attention because it might soon become a necessary skill.
More science, less crystal ball
Even though futurists often describe abstract concepts such as “computer-telecommunications hook-ups” (an early forecasting of online...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 9, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Artificial Intelligence Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Science Fiction keynote scientific validation analysis forecasting futurists Institute For Future gattaca Star Trek Good Judg Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting – How Stigma is Everywhere
What is stigma? And how does it affect a person’s mental health and quality of life? In today’s Psych Central Podcast, Gabe talks with anthropologists Alex Brewis and Amber Wutich about the deeply dehumanizing impact of stigma in society. Whether it’s your mental health diagnosis, your neighborhood, your race or your inability to meet society’s standards in some way, stigma is alive and well in today’s world. People even tend to stigmatize themselves, intensifying their suffering.
Why are people so quick to stigmatize? And how does stigma affect mental health treatment? Tune into the show for an in-depth look ...
Source: World of Psychology - June 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: General Interview Mental Health and Wellness Podcast Psychology The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
