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Offbeat brainwaves during sleep make older adults forget Like swinging a tennis racket during a ball toss to serve an ace, slow and speedy brainwaves during deep sleep must sync up at exactly the right moment to hit the save button on new memories, according to new UC Berkeley research. While these brain rhythms, occurring hundreds of times a night, move in perfect lockstep in young adults, findings published today in the journal Neuron show that, in ol ... EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15
After searching 12 years for bipolar disorder's cause, U-M team concludes it h... ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Nearly 6 million Americans have bipolar disorder, and most have probably wondered why. After more than a decade of studying over 1,100 of them in-depth, a University of Michigan team has an answer - or rather, seven answers. In fact, they say, no one genetic change, or chemical imbalance, or life event, lies at the heart of every case of the mental health condition once known as ... EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15
Graphic anti-smoking posters may encourage some teens to begin smoking cigaret... Exposing teens to graphic anti-smoking posters may actually increase the risk that some start smoking, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Conducted in a one-of-a-kind laboratory that replicates a convenience store, the study found that some teens who viewed posters depicting gruesome displays of smoking-caused diseases actually reported being more susceptible to cigarette smoking after vie ... EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15
Student drug use in Ontario, Canada, at historic lows but new concerns over fe... TORONTO, December 14, 2017 - By almost every measure, students in grades 7 through 12 in Ontario, Canada are drinking, smoking, and using drugs at the lowest rates since the Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey OSDUHS began in 1977. This according to new numbers released today by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH . But new data on fentanyl use, included for the first time in th ... EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15
Do bullies have more sex? Adolescents who are willing to exploit others for personal gain are more likely to bully and have sex than those who score higher on a measure of honesty and humility. This is according to a study in Springer s journal Evolutionary Psychological Science which was led by Daniel Provenzano of the University of Windsor in Canada. Researchers believe that bullying might be more than just objectionable ... EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15
Where Psychological Science and Cancer Research Unite Some of the most fascinating research happens on the edges of disciplines. When materials science overlaps with entomology, a clothing company can make a hat out of spider silk, grown in vats of yeast. When public health and anthropology overlap, one researcher can transform life in a whole refugee camp to improve hygiene, vaccinate dogs to prevent rabies, and clean up garbage in the streets throu ... Psychological Science - Fri. Dec 15
Smoking leads to less increase in life expectancy for less educated women Life expectancy in Sweden has risen steadily during the last few decades for most groups. One exception is women whose highest educational level is compulsory school. This is mostly because of smoking, says a new dissertation in sociology. Life expectancy has stayed level in the last 20-30 years for women with only a compulsory schooling in Sweden, but it s increased for other social groups. A big ... EurekAlert - Wed. Dec 13
Alcohol taxes are too low, have not kept up with inflation PISCATAWAY, NJ - State alcohol excise taxes are typically only a few cents per drink and have not kept pace with inflation, according to a new study in the January issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs . Raising those taxes, according to the authors, represents an opportunity for states to increase revenues while simultaneously improving public health outcomes and costs related to e ... EurekAlert - Wed. Dec 13
Childhood Spanking Could Heighten Adult Mental Health Woes Adults who were spanked as kids may face heightened risk of certain mental health problems, a new study suggests. The study found that those who were spanked were more likely to have abused drugs or attempted suicide. And that was with other factors -- including more severe physical or emotional abuse -- taken into account. The findings don t prove that spanking, per se, led to adulthood mental he ... Healthday - Wed. Dec 13
NHS could save £200m a year and improve patient satisfaction, new research rev... New research by academics at the University of East Anglia UEA suggests that NHS Trusts in England could save more than pound 200 million a year by managing staff well. The report, published today by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, found Trusts that made the most extensive use of good people management practices were over three times more likely to have the lowest levels of staff sickness abs ... EurekAlert - Wed. Dec 13
175 years on, study finds where you live still determines your life expectancy Researchers at the University of Liverpool revisited a study carried out 175 years ago which compared the health and life expectancy of people in different parts of the United Kingdom, including Liverpool, to see if its findings still held true. They found that stark differences still exist and that people living in Liverpool still had lower life expectancy than those living in the rural area of R ... EurekAlert - Wed. Dec 13
PrEP could make US easily hit its 2020 HIV prevention goal, Drexel U. study fi... If just a quarter of men who have same-sex intercourse and are at a high risk for HIV used daily preventive medicine, three out of every 10 HIV infections could be averted, according to a new Drexel University study. Michael T. LeVasseur, PhD, and Neal D. Goldstein, PhD, from Drexel s Dornsife School of Public Health, used a 10,000 person model of high-HIV-risk men who have sex with men a term use ... EurekAlert - Wed. Dec 13

Offbeat brainwaves during sleep make older adults forget

Like swinging a tennis racket during a ball toss to serve an ace, slow and speedy brainwaves during deep sleep must sync up at exactly the right moment to hit the save button on new memories, according to new UC Berkeley research. While these brain rhythms, occurring hundreds of times a night, move in perfect lockstep in young adults, findings published today in the journal Neuron show that, in ol ...

EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15

After searching 12 years for bipolar disorder's cause, U-M team concludes it h...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Nearly 6 million Americans have bipolar disorder, and most have probably wondered why. After more than a decade of studying over 1,100 of them in-depth, a University of Michigan team has an answer - or rather, seven answers. In fact, they say, no one genetic change, or chemical imbalance, or life event, lies at the heart of every case of the mental health condition once known as ...

EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15

Graphic anti-smoking posters may encourage some teens to begin smoking cigaret...

Exposing teens to graphic anti-smoking posters may actually increase the risk that some start smoking, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Conducted in a one-of-a-kind laboratory that replicates a convenience store, the study found that some teens who viewed posters depicting gruesome displays of smoking-caused diseases actually reported being more susceptible to cigarette smoking after vie ...

EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15

Student drug use in Ontario, Canada, at historic lows but new concerns over fe...

TORONTO, December 14, 2017 - By almost every measure, students in grades 7 through 12 in Ontario, Canada are drinking, smoking, and using drugs at the lowest rates since the Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey OSDUHS began in 1977. This according to new numbers released today by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH . But new data on fentanyl use, included for the first time in th ...

EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15

Do bullies have more sex?

Adolescents who are willing to exploit others for personal gain are more likely to bully and have sex than those who score higher on a measure of honesty and humility. This is according to a study in Springer s journal Evolutionary Psychological Science which was led by Daniel Provenzano of the University of Windsor in Canada. Researchers believe that bullying might be more than just objectionable ...

EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15

Where Psychological Science and Cancer Research Unite

Some of the most fascinating research happens on the edges of disciplines. When materials science overlaps with entomology, a clothing company can make a hat out of spider silk, grown in vats of yeast. When public health and anthropology overlap, one researcher can transform life in a whole refugee camp to improve hygiene, vaccinate dogs to prevent rabies, and clean up garbage in the streets throu ...

Psychological Science - Fri. Dec 15

Smoking leads to less increase in life expectancy for less educated women

Life expectancy in Sweden has risen steadily during the last few decades for most groups. One exception is women whose highest educational level is compulsory school. This is mostly because of smoking, says a new dissertation in sociology. Life expectancy has stayed level in the last 20-30 years for women with only a compulsory schooling in Sweden, but it s increased for other social groups. A big ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Dec 13

Alcohol taxes are too low, have not kept up with inflation

PISCATAWAY, NJ - State alcohol excise taxes are typically only a few cents per drink and have not kept pace with inflation, according to a new study in the January issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs . Raising those taxes, according to the authors, represents an opportunity for states to increase revenues while simultaneously improving public health outcomes and costs related to e ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Dec 13

Childhood Spanking Could Heighten Adult Mental Health Woes

Adults who were spanked as kids may face heightened risk of certain mental health problems, a new study suggests. The study found that those who were spanked were more likely to have abused drugs or attempted suicide. And that was with other factors -- including more severe physical or emotional abuse -- taken into account. The findings don t prove that spanking, per se, led to adulthood mental he ...

Healthday - Wed. Dec 13

NHS could save £200m a year and improve patient satisfaction, new research rev...

New research by academics at the University of East Anglia UEA suggests that NHS Trusts in England could save more than pound 200 million a year by managing staff well. The report, published today by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, found Trusts that made the most extensive use of good people management practices were over three times more likely to have the lowest levels of staff sickness abs ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Dec 13

175 years on, study finds where you live still determines your life expectancy

Researchers at the University of Liverpool revisited a study carried out 175 years ago which compared the health and life expectancy of people in different parts of the United Kingdom, including Liverpool, to see if its findings still held true. They found that stark differences still exist and that people living in Liverpool still had lower life expectancy than those living in the rural area of R ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Dec 13

PrEP could make US easily hit its 2020 HIV prevention goal, Drexel U. study fi...

If just a quarter of men who have same-sex intercourse and are at a high risk for HIV used daily preventive medicine, three out of every 10 HIV infections could be averted, according to a new Drexel University study. Michael T. LeVasseur, PhD, and Neal D. Goldstein, PhD, from Drexel s Dornsife School of Public Health, used a 10,000 person model of high-HIV-risk men who have sex with men a term use ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Dec 13