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Do Millennials Have a Lower Work Ethic? The collision between the Millennial generation s expectations and reality was in full display recently, as 25-year-old Yelp employee Talia Jane wrote an open letter to the company s CEO complaining about her job and was promptly fired. Jane has some undeniable points about the egregiously expensive rent in the Bay Area and the general ignorance of the well-off to recognize how difficult it is to make it these days. Yet her letter also captures the complai ... Psychology Today - Wed. Feb 24
What Is Expertise? Everybody knows what an expert is it s somebody like Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan in sports , Albert Einstein and James Watson in science, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Adele in music, or Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in business. However, it turns out surprisingly difficult to provide a formal definition that everybody can agree with. There are in fact many definitions, but most are unsatisfactory see Gobet, 2015, for a detailed discussion . Psychology Today - Wed. Feb 24
Could Adults' Expectations Drive Up ADHD Diagnoses in Kids? Rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD have risen globally, and adults unreasonable expectations of young children could be one reason why, researchers suggest. Reporting in the Feb. 22 issue of JAMA Pediatrics , researchers from the University of Miami point to evidence that the rise in ADHD diagnoses coincided with ever-growing demands on young children s attention and focus. Since the 1970s, the researchers said, elementary school childr ... Healthday - Wed. Feb 24
High school football helmets offer similar protections despite different prices AURORA, Colo. Feb. 24, 2016 - Despite prices, promises and even ratings systems, all helmets approved for high school football players appear to offer similar protection against concussion, according to a new study from the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. All of the approved helmets evaluated in our study performed similarly, said Dawn Comstock, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24
Immune cells don't always ward off carbon nano invaders ANN ARBOR -- Scientists at the University of Michigan have found evidence that some carbon nanomaterials can enter into immune cell membranes, seemingly going undetected by the cell s built-in mechanisms for engulfing and disposing of foreign material, and then escape through some unidentified pathway. The researchers from the School of Public Health and College of Engineering say their findings of a more passive entry of the materials into cells is the fi ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24
Television exposure directly linked to a thin body ideal in women For the first time experts have been able to eliminate external factors and specifically pinpoint television as having a direct link with female body ideals. It is known that the perception of a woman s perfect body shape is influenced by images of celebrities and models seen in the media. However, in the past, there has been little attempt to control variables in order to isolate the effects of media exposure from other cultural and ecological factors. Sc ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24
Everyday mindfulness linked to healthy glucose levels PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] --Dispositional, or everyday mindfulness is the inherent trait of being aware of one s present thoughts and feelings. In a new study of 399 people that measured health indicators including dispositional mindfulness and blood glucose, researchers found that those with higher scores for mindfulness were significantly more likely than people with low scores to have healthy glucose levels. The results show an association and ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24
Clock gene may connect mood and sleep If you pull an all-nighter or stay up late to binge watch Game of Thrones, you will probably be grumpy the next day. But if you don t get enough sleep for weeks or months on end, you may develop depression or other lasting mood problems, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMI researchers have now discovered a possible reason why. A team led by HHMI investigator Louis Pt 225 269 ek and Ying-Hui Fu of the University of California, San Francisco, identified ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24
Predicted impact of different alcohol taxation and pricing policies on health ... Alcohol-content-based taxation or minimum unit pricing MUP are both predicted to reduce health inequalities more than taxation based on product value ad valorem taxes or alcohol tax increases under the current system excise duty plus value added tax in England, according to research published this week in PLOS Medicine . Petra Meier of the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and colleagues, used the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model SAPM , to estimate ho ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24
Monitoring & support help patients and primary care physicians dealing with ch... BOSTON, MA - Within the past 10 years, the prescription of opioids for the treatment of chronic pain has increased and the abuse of opioid medications leading to addiction has been described as epidemic. Primary care practitioners PCPs are increasingly concerned regarding the misuse of opioid medications, and many PCPs have little training in the area of pain management. PCPs and other health care professionals may be reluctant to prescribe opioids for pat ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24
Sleep changes seen with fetal alcohol exposure partly explain learning and moo... Slow-wave sleep - the deeper sleep during which the brain turns each day s events into permanent memories - is fragmented in adulthood in people exposed to high levels of alcohol in the womb. This is according to a study conducted by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and its Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research NKI , and recently published online in the journal Neuroscience . When combined with the findings of past studies in humans, ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24
HPTN 073: Client-centered care coordination attains high uptake for PrEP among... BOSTON and DURHAM, N.C. - Investigators from the HIV Prevention Trials Network HPTN today announced key results from the HPTN 073 Study at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections CROI in Boston, Massachusetts. The study showed high uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis PrEP for prevention of HIV infection among Black men who have sex with men BMSM in the U.S. with the use of a novel coordinated counseling and care approach resulting i ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

The collision between the Millennial generation s expectations and reality was in full display recently, as 25-year-old Yelp employee Talia Jane wrote an open letter to the company s CEO complaining about her job and was promptly fired. Jane has some undeniable points about the egregiously expensive rent in the Bay Area and the general ignorance of the well-off to recognize how difficult it is to make it these days. Yet her letter also captures the complai ...

Psychology Today - Wed. Feb 24

What Is Expertise?

Everybody knows what an expert is it s somebody like Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan in sports , Albert Einstein and James Watson in science, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Adele in music, or Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in business. However, it turns out surprisingly difficult to provide a formal definition that everybody can agree with. There are in fact many definitions, but most are unsatisfactory see Gobet, 2015, for a detailed discussion .

Psychology Today - Wed. Feb 24

Could Adults' Expectations Drive Up ADHD Diagnoses in Kids?

Rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD have risen globally, and adults unreasonable expectations of young children could be one reason why, researchers suggest. Reporting in the Feb. 22 issue of JAMA Pediatrics , researchers from the University of Miami point to evidence that the rise in ADHD diagnoses coincided with ever-growing demands on young children s attention and focus. Since the 1970s, the researchers said, elementary school childr ...

Healthday - Wed. Feb 24

High school football helmets offer similar protections despite different prices

AURORA, Colo. Feb. 24, 2016 - Despite prices, promises and even ratings systems, all helmets approved for high school football players appear to offer similar protection against concussion, according to a new study from the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. All of the approved helmets evaluated in our study performed similarly, said Dawn Comstock, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

Immune cells don't always ward off carbon nano invaders

ANN ARBOR -- Scientists at the University of Michigan have found evidence that some carbon nanomaterials can enter into immune cell membranes, seemingly going undetected by the cell s built-in mechanisms for engulfing and disposing of foreign material, and then escape through some unidentified pathway. The researchers from the School of Public Health and College of Engineering say their findings of a more passive entry of the materials into cells is the fi ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

Television exposure directly linked to a thin body ideal in women

For the first time experts have been able to eliminate external factors and specifically pinpoint television as having a direct link with female body ideals. It is known that the perception of a woman s perfect body shape is influenced by images of celebrities and models seen in the media. However, in the past, there has been little attempt to control variables in order to isolate the effects of media exposure from other cultural and ecological factors. Sc ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

Everyday mindfulness linked to healthy glucose levels

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] --Dispositional, or everyday mindfulness is the inherent trait of being aware of one s present thoughts and feelings. In a new study of 399 people that measured health indicators including dispositional mindfulness and blood glucose, researchers found that those with higher scores for mindfulness were significantly more likely than people with low scores to have healthy glucose levels. The results show an association and ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

Clock gene may connect mood and sleep

If you pull an all-nighter or stay up late to binge watch Game of Thrones, you will probably be grumpy the next day. But if you don t get enough sleep for weeks or months on end, you may develop depression or other lasting mood problems, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMI researchers have now discovered a possible reason why. A team led by HHMI investigator Louis Pt 225 269 ek and Ying-Hui Fu of the University of California, San Francisco, identified ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

Predicted impact of different alcohol taxation and pricing policies on health ...

Alcohol-content-based taxation or minimum unit pricing MUP are both predicted to reduce health inequalities more than taxation based on product value ad valorem taxes or alcohol tax increases under the current system excise duty plus value added tax in England, according to research published this week in PLOS Medicine . Petra Meier of the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and colleagues, used the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model SAPM , to estimate ho ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

Monitoring & support help patients and primary care physicians dealing with ch...

BOSTON, MA - Within the past 10 years, the prescription of opioids for the treatment of chronic pain has increased and the abuse of opioid medications leading to addiction has been described as epidemic. Primary care practitioners PCPs are increasingly concerned regarding the misuse of opioid medications, and many PCPs have little training in the area of pain management. PCPs and other health care professionals may be reluctant to prescribe opioids for pat ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

Sleep changes seen with fetal alcohol exposure partly explain learning and moo...

Slow-wave sleep - the deeper sleep during which the brain turns each day s events into permanent memories - is fragmented in adulthood in people exposed to high levels of alcohol in the womb. This is according to a study conducted by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and its Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research NKI , and recently published online in the journal Neuroscience . When combined with the findings of past studies in humans, ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

HPTN 073: Client-centered care coordination attains high uptake for PrEP among...

BOSTON and DURHAM, N.C. - Investigators from the HIV Prevention Trials Network HPTN today announced key results from the HPTN 073 Study at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections CROI in Boston, Massachusetts. The study showed high uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis PrEP for prevention of HIV infection among Black men who have sex with men BMSM in the U.S. with the use of a novel coordinated counseling and care approach resulting i ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24