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- September 9, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 476 views
The Doctor Is… Online
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Medical professionalism is becoming hard to define in a digital age that blurs the line between public and private information. A majority of college students, health professional students, and young health care practitioners have social networking accounts and an active online presence. However, these accounts and profiles may be detrimental to individual and collective professionalism. [...]... Read more »
Cain J, Scott DR, & Akers P. (2009) Pharmacy students' Facebook activity and opinions regarding accountability and e-professionalism. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 73(6), 104. PMID: 19885073
Chretien KC, Greysen SR, Chretien JP, & Kind T. (2009) Online posting of unprofessional content by medical students. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 302(12), 1309-15. PMID: 19773566
Farnan JM, Paro JA, Higa JT, Reddy ST, Humphrey HJ, & Arora VM. (2009) Commentary: The relationship status of digital media and professionalism: it's complicated. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 84(11), 1479-81. PMID: 19858794
Finn G, Garner J, & Sawdon M. (2010) 'You're judged all the time!' Students' views on professionalism: a multicentre study. Medical education, 44(8), 814-25. PMID: 20633221
Guseh JS 2nd, Brendel RW, & Brendel DH. (2009) Medical professionalism in the age of online social networking. Journal of medical ethics, 35(9), 584-6. PMID: 19717700
MacDonald J, Sohn S, & Ellis P. (2010) Privacy, professionalism and Facebook: a dilemma for young doctors. Medical education, 44(8), 805-13. PMID: 20633220
Mattingly TJ 2nd, Cain J, & Fink JL 3rd. (2010) Pharmacists on Facebook: online social networking and the profession. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA, 50(3), 424-7. PMID: 20452920
Regan S, Ferris TG, & Campbell EG. (2010) Physician attitudes toward personal relationships with patients. Medical care, 48(6), 547-52. PMID: 20473214
Thompson LA, Dawson K, Ferdig R, Black EW, Boyer J, Coutts J, & Black NP. (2008) The intersection of online social networking with medical professionalism. Journal of general internal medicine, 23(7), 954-7. PMID: 18612723
- September 6, 2010
- 10:19 AM
- 393 views
Autism Evident in Newborns
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) has increased by nearly 10-fold in the last 2 decades, owing, in part, to earlier diagnosis by community practitioners. Now, a new study in the September 2010 issue of Pediatrics reports that signs of autism may be present as early as 1 month of age. Researchers evaluated children [...]... Read more »
Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network Surveillance Year 2006 Principal Investigators, & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2009) Prevalence of autism spectrum disorders - Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, United States, 2006. MMWR. Surveillance summaries : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries / CDC, 58(10), 1-20. PMID: 20023608
Karmel BZ, Gardner JM, Meade LS, Cohen IL, London E, Flory MJ, Lennon EM, Miroshnichenko I, Rabinowitz S, Parab S.... (2010) Early Medical and Behavioral Characteristics of NICU Infants Later Classified With ASD. Pediatrics, 126(3), 457-67. PMID: 20679296
Stoltenberg C, Schjølberg S, Bresnahan M, Hornig M, Hirtz D, Dahl C, Lie KK, Reichborn-Kjennerud T, Schreuder P, Alsaker E.... (2010) The Autism Birth Cohort: a paradigm for gene-environment-timing research. Molecular psychiatry, 15(7), 676-80. PMID: 20571529
Vandenberg KA. (2007) Individualized developmental care for high risk newborns in the NICU: a practice guideline. Early human development, 83(7), 433-42. PMID: 17467932
- September 1, 2010
- 08:59 PM
- 433 views
When Bipolar Patients Abuse Drugs – The Dual Diagnosis Dilemma
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Most people familiar with public health issues are aware of the challenges posed by “dual diagnosis” patients — those with both a psychiatric diagnosis and a substance abuse diagnosis. But the special case of addicted bipolar disorder patients is particularly problematic. Writing in the August issue of Current Psychiatry, Bryan K. Tolliver lists the severe [...]... Read more »
Cassidy F, Ahearn EP, & Carroll BJ. (2001) Substance abuse in bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorders, 3(4), 181-8. PMID: 11552957
Hoblyn JC, Balt SL, Woodard SA, & Brooks JO 3rd. (2009) Substance use disorders as risk factors for psychiatric hospitalization in bipolar disorder. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 60(1), 50-5. PMID: 19114570
- August 27, 2010
- 03:31 PM
- 376 views
Peace and Conflict, Part 3 – Conflict Resolution
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
In the last of this series on peace and conflict, we are looking at the question, How can an intractable conflict be resolved or at least transformed into a benign conflict? The attempt here is to use dynamical systems theory or chaos theory to look at the question of intractable conflicts. As mentioned before, an [...]... Read more »
Vallacher, R., Coleman, P., Nowak, A., & Bui-Wrzosinska, L. (2010) Rethinking intractable conflict: The perspective of dynamical systems. American Psychologist, 65(4), 262-278. DOI: 10.1037/a0019290
- August 22, 2010
- 05:29 PM
- 287 views
Addicted to Love
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Robert Palmer may have already known what researchers now claim: Love can be an addiction. In a new study published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, investigators examined and compared the clinical, psychological and biological details of love, passion, gambling, and substance dependence. It turns out that an addiction to love is [...]... Read more »
Curtis JT, Liu Y, Aragona BJ, & Wang Z. (2006) Dopamine and monogamy. Brain research, 1126(1), 76-90. PMID: 16950234
Fisher HE, Aron A, & Brown LL. (2006) Romantic love: a mammalian brain system for mate choice. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 361(1476), 2173-86. PMID: 17118931
Fisher HE, Brown LL, Aron A, Strong G, & Mashek D. (2010) Reward, addiction, and emotion regulation systems associated with rejection in love. Journal of neurophysiology, 104(1), 51-60. PMID: 20445032
Koob GF. (2006) The neurobiology of addiction: a neuroadaptational view relevant for diagnosis. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 23-30. PMID: 16930158
Reynaud M, Karila L, Blecha L, & Benyamina A. (2010) Is Love Passion an Addictive Disorder?. The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse. PMID: 20545601
Sophia EC, Tavares H, Berti MP, Pereira AP, Lorena A, Mello C, Gorenstein C, & Zilberman ML. (2009) Pathological love: impulsivity, personality, and romantic relationship. CNS spectrums, 14(5), 268-74. PMID: 19407726
Timmreck TC. (1990) Overcoming the loss of a love: preventing love addiction and promoting positive emotional health. Psychological reports, 66(2), 515-28. PMID: 2190254
Young LJ, Murphy Young AZ, & Hammock EA. (2005) Anatomy and neurochemistry of the pair bond. The Journal of comparative neurology, 493(1), 51-7. PMID: 16255009
- August 19, 2010
- 06:56 PM
- 408 views
Cheers to a Decreased Risk of Arthritis
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Preliminary findings presented at annual meeting of the European League Against Rheumatism suggest that drinking alcohol may reduce the risk of developing several types of arthritis. The results of this study need to be interpreted with caution, however, since no cause and effect relationship was confirmed. The case-control study evaluated the alcohol consumption habits of [...]... Read more »
Källberg H, Jacobsen S, Bengtsson C, Pedersen M, Padyukov L, Garred P, Frisch M, Karlson EW, Klareskog L, & Alfredsson L. (2009) Alcohol consumption is associated with decreased risk of rheumatoid arthritis: results from two Scandinavian case-control studies. Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 68(2), 222-7. PMID: 18535114
Kim SK, Park SH, Shin IH, & Choe JY. (2008) Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody, smoking, alcohol consumption, and disease duration as risk factors for extraarticular manifestations in Korean patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The Journal of rheumatology, 35(6), 995-1001. PMID: 18464311
Nissen MJ, Gabay C, Scherer A, Finckh A, & Swiss Clinical Quality Management Project in Rheumatoid Arthritis. (2010) The effect of alcohol on radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis and rheumatism, 62(5), 1265-72. PMID: 20213811
Rajakulendran S, Gadsby K, & Deighton C. (2008) Rheumatoid arthritis, alcohol, leflunomide and methotrexate. Can changes to the BSR guidelines for leflunomide and methotrexate on alcohol consumption be justified?. Musculoskeletal care, 6(4), 233-45. PMID: 18702106
- August 14, 2010
- 11:26 PM
- 472 views
Breaking Up is Not So Hard to Do
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Half of marriages in the United States eventually end in divorce. In addition to just being a socially-accepted norm, a new study reveals that divorce may actually be contagious. A new study, authored by researchers from Brown University, the University of San Diego, and Harvard University, reports that divorce spreads through social networks much like [...]... Read more »
Bracke PF, Colman E, Symoens SA, & Van Praag L. (2010) Divorce, divorce rates, and professional care seeking for mental health problems in Europe: a cross-sectional population-based study. BMC public health, 224. PMID: 20429904
Gold KJ, Sen A, & Hayward RA. (2010) Marriage and cohabitation outcomes after pregnancy loss. Pediatrics, 125(5). PMID: 20368319
Markman HJ, Rhoades GK, Stanley SM, Ragan EP, & Whitton SW. (2010) The premarital communication roots of marital distress and divorce: the first five years of marriage. Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43), 24(3), 289-98. PMID: 20545402
Maxin D, & Berec L. (2010) A two-sex demographic model with single-dependent divorce rate. Journal of theoretical biology, 265(4), 647-56. PMID: 20542042
Shapiro A, & Remle RC. (2010) Generational Jeopardy? Parents' Marital Transitions and the Provision of Financial Transfers to Adult Children. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. PMID: 20197303
Yu T, Pettit GS, Lansford JE, Dodge KA, & Bates JE. (2010) The Interactive Effects of Marital Conflict and Divorce on Parent-Adult Children's Relationships. Journal of marriage and the family, 72(2), 282-292. PMID: 20544009
- July 12, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 379 views
Mind your Immune System
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Another significant piece in the mind-body puzzle comes from this new study where obsessive-compulsive behavior in mice was cured by a bone marrow transplant. A rare form of a genetic disorder in mice causes a “hair pulling” disorder, very similar to its human counterpart trichotillomania. In their new findings published in Cell, Mario Capecchi and [...]... Read more »
Chen SK, Tvrdik P, Peden E, Cho S, Wu S, Spangrude G, & Capecchi MR. (2010) Hematopoietic origin of pathological grooming in Hoxb8 mutant mice. Cell, 141(5), 775-85. PMID: 20510925
- July 9, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 446 views
The Handwriting on the Wall
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have poor penmanship. In turn, poor penmanship leads to decreased success in communication, failed academics, and a lack of self-esteem. Until now, clinicians and autism experts believed that developmental delays were to blame for inferior handwriting skills, but a new study in Neurology reports that weak motor skills [...]... Read more »
Beversdorf DQ, Anderson JM, Manning SE, Anderson SL, Nordgren RE, Felopulos GJ, & Bauman ML. (2001) Brief report: macrographia in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 31(1), 97-101. PMID: 11439759
Dowell LR, Mahone EM, & Mostofsky SH. (2009) Associations of postural knowledge and basic motor skill with dyspraxia in autism: implication for abnormalities in distributed connectivity and motor learning. Neuropsychology, 23(5), 563-70. PMID: 19702410
Dziuk MA, Gidley Larson JC, Apostu A, Mahone EM, Denckla MB, & Mostofsky SH. (2007) Dyspraxia in autism: association with motor, social, and communicative deficits. Developmental medicine and child neurology, 49(10), 734-9. PMID: 17880641
Frings M, Gaertner K, Buderath P, Christiansen H, Gerwig M, Hein-Kropp C, Schoch B, Hebebrand J, & Timmann D. (2010) Megalographia in Children with Cerebellar Lesions and in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Cerebellum (London, England). PMID: 20480275
Fuentes CT, Mostofsky SH, & Bastian AJ. (2009) Children with autism show specific handwriting impairments. Neurology, 73(19), 1532-7. PMID: 19901244
Mayes SD, & Calhoun SL. (2007) Learning, attention, writing, and processing speed in typical children and children with ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, and oppositional-defiant disorder. Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence, 13(6), 469-93. PMID: 17852125
- July 3, 2010
- 02:24 PM
- 599 views
The Bold and the Beautiful
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Personality is a complicated interplay of traits that influence well-being, cognition and mental health. The so-called Big Five personality traits include extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. It is difficult to quantify personality characteristics and their roles in mood, behavior and reasoning, but several recent studies have proclaimed the significant effect of extraversion — the [...]... Read more »
Abbott RA, Croudace TJ, Ploubidis GB, Kuh D, Richards M, & Huppert FA. (2008) The relationship between early personality and midlife psychological well-being: evidence from a UK birth cohort study. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 43(9), 679-87. PMID: 18443733
Burgess L, Irvine F, & Wallymahmed A. (2010) Personality, stress and coping in intensive care nurses: a descriptive exploratory study. Nursing in critical care, 15(3), 129-40. PMID: 20500651
Gray, J. (1970) The psychophysiological basis of introversion-extraversion. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 8(3), 249-266. DOI: 10.1016/0005-7967(70)90069-0
Lester D. (2010) Big five personality scores of Americans by state. Psychological reports, 106(2), 433-4. PMID: 20524543
Lue BH, Chen HJ, Wang CW, Cheng Y, & Chen MC. (2010) Stress, personal characteristics and burnout among first postgraduate year residents: a nationwide study in Taiwan. Medical teacher, 32(5), 400-7. PMID: 20423259
Osborne H, Simpson J, & Stokes G. (2010) The relationship between pre-morbid personality and challenging behaviour in people with dementia: A systematic review. Aging , 1-13. PMID: 20480417
Strobel M, Tumasjan A, & Spörrle M. (2010) Be yourself, believe in yourself, and be happy: Self-efficacy as a mediator between personality factors and subjective well-being. Scandinavian journal of psychology. PMID: 20497398
Styśko-Kunkowska MA, & Borecka D. (2010) Extraversion and evaluation of humorous advertisements. Psychological reports, 106(1), 44-8. PMID: 20402425
Terracciano A, McCrae RR, & Costa PT. (2010) Intra-individual Change in Personality Stability and Age. Journal of research in personality, 44(1), 31-37. PMID: 20305728
Stafford, L., Ng, W., Moore, R., & Bard, K. (2010) Bolder, happier, smarter: The role of extraversion in positive mood and cognition. Personality and Individual Differences, 48(7), 827-832. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.02.005
LARSEN, R., & KETELAAR, T. (1989) Extraversion, neuroticism and susceptibility to positive and negative mood induction procedures. Personality and Individual Differences, 10(12), 1221-1228. DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(89)90233-X
- June 26, 2010
- 12:23 PM
- 510 views
Only the Brain is Worried about Getting Fat
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
One thing that virtually all women share is body image issues. No matter how thin or fat, short or tall, or muscular or slim, women dislike something about their body. According to a new study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, even women who are seemingly well-adjusted with no overt body image issues have [...]... Read more »
Annis NM, Cash TF, & Hrabosky JI. (2004) Body image and psychosocial differences among stable average weight, currently overweight, and formerly overweight women: the role of stigmatizing experiences. Body image, 1(2), 155-67. PMID: 18089148
Etu SF, & Gray JJ. (2010) A preliminary investigation of the relationship between induced rumination and state body image dissatisfaction and anxiety. Body image, 7(1), 82-5. PMID: 19837639
Hayes S, & Tantleff-Dunn S. (2010) Am I too fat to be a princess? Examining the effects of popular children's media on young girls' body image. The British journal of developmental psychology, 28(Pt 2), 413-26. PMID: 20481395
Hrabosky JI, Cash TF, Veale D, Neziroglu F, Soll EA, Garner DM, Strachan-Kinser M, Bakke B, Clauss LJ, & Phillips KA. (2009) Multidimensional body image comparisons among patients with eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder, and clinical controls: a multisite study. Body image, 6(3), 155-63. PMID: 19410528
Owens, T., Allen, M., & Spangler, D. (2010) An fMRI study of self-reflection about body image: Sex differences. Personality and Individual Differences, 48(7), 849-854. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.02.012
- June 22, 2010
- 10:54 AM
- 340 views
Goal Setting – Pitfalls and Benefits
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Goal setting is a funny thing. Like many of you, I’m sure, I’ve had a long and checkered relationship with it. I’ve gone back and forth, was a big fan, hated it, went back to goal setting again. What is it that fascinates and repels about goal setting? I set out to look at some [...]... Read more »
LATHAM, G., & LOCKE, E. (2006) Enhancing the Benefits and Overcoming the Pitfalls of Goal Setting. Organizational Dynamics, 35(4), 332-340. DOI: 10.1016/j.orgdyn.2006.08.008
- June 17, 2010
- 09:10 PM
- 331 views
Medical Art Imitating Life
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
The ideal human body shape has evolved — for better or worse — over the course of human history. Its depiction in art parallels society’s beliefs regarding what is and is not attractive and desirable. The representation of the human form has, too, undergone a metamorphosis in the oft-forgotten field of medical illustration. With the [...]... Read more »
Bonafini BA, & Pozzilli P. (2010) Body weight and beauty: the changing face of the ideal female body weight. Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity. PMID: 20492540
Kemp M. (2010) Style and non-style in anatomical illustration: From Renaissance Humanism to Henry Gray. Journal of anatomy, 216(2), 192-208. PMID: 20447244
Pearce JM. (2009) Henry Gray's Anatomy. Clinical anatomy (New York, N.Y.), 22(3), 291-5. PMID: 19280653
- June 12, 2010
- 10:28 AM
- 799 views
Female Teachers’ Math Anxiety Negatively Affects Female Students
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
For a long time it was believed that males have better spatial and numerical abilities resulting in their greater aptitude for mathematics compared to females. But research in cognitive development of human infants and children has failed to support these claims. Instead, scientists now have enough evidence to conclude that the same set of biologically [...]... Read more »
Beilock SL, Gunderson EA, Ramirez G, & Levine SC. (2010) Female teachers' math anxiety affects girls' math achievement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(5), 1860-3. PMID: 20133834
Hyde JS, Lindberg SM, Linn MC, Ellis AB, & Williams CC. (2008) Diversity. Gender similarities characterize math performance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5888), 494-5. PMID: 18653867
- June 9, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 445 views
Antidepressants Carry Equal Risks
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
For nearly a decade, the public has heeded warnings of suicidal behavior related to antidepressant use in children and adolescents. However, the use of antidepressants in this population is still increasing. Initially, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the most common class of antidepressants prescribed for children, were the only drugs associated with the increase in [...]... Read more »
Bridge JA, Iyengar S, Salary CB, Barbe RP, Birmaher B, Pincus HA, Ren L, & Brent DA. (2007) Clinical response and risk for reported suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in pediatric antidepressant treatment: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 297(15), 1683-96. PMID: 17440145
Gibbons RD, Hur K, Bhaumik DK, & Mann JJ. (2006) The relationship between antidepressant prescription rates and rate of early adolescent suicide. The American journal of psychiatry, 163(11), 1898-904. PMID: 17074941
Hetrick S, Merry S, McKenzie J, Sindahl P, & Proctor M. (2007) Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for depressive disorders in children and adolescents. Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online). PMID: 17636776
Jick H, Kaye JA, & Jick SS. (2004) Antidepressants and the risk of suicidal behaviors. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 292(3), 338-43. PMID: 15265848
March J, Silva S, Petrycki S, Curry J, Wells K, Fairbank J, Burns B, Domino M, McNulty S, Vitiello B.... (2004) Fluoxetine, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and their combination for adolescents with depression: Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS) randomized controlled trial. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 292(7), 807-20. PMID: 15315995
Olfson M, Marcus SC, & Shaffer D. (2006) Antidepressant drug therapy and suicide in severely depressed children and adults: A case-control study. Archives of general psychiatry, 63(8), 865-72. PMID: 16894062
Schneeweiss S, Patrick AR, Solomon DH, Dormuth CR, Miller M, Mehta J, Lee JC, & Wang PS. (2010) Comparative safety of antidepressant agents for children and adolescents regarding suicidal acts. Pediatrics, 125(5), 876-88. PMID: 20385637
Schneeweiss S, Patrick AR, Solomon DH, Mehta J, Dormuth C, Miller M, Lee JC, & Wang PS. (2010) Variation in the risk of suicide attempts and completed suicides by antidepressant agent in adults: a propensity score-adjusted analysis of 9 years' data. Archives of general psychiatry, 67(5), 497-506. PMID: 20439831
Simon GE, Savarino J, Operskalski B, & Wang PS. (2006) Suicide risk during antidepressant treatment. The American journal of psychiatry, 163(1), 41-7. PMID: 16390887
Vitiello B, Silva SG, Rohde P, Kratochvil CJ, Kennard BD, Reinecke MA, Mayes TL, Posner K, May DE, & March JS. (2009) Suicidal events in the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS). The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 70(5), 741-7. PMID: 19552869
- June 6, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 387 views
Trick of the Light – Optical Illusions Can’t be Beat
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
You know ‘em, you love ‘em: Suddenly, pictures bulge out in three dimensions, or static dots begin to swirl, or you see colors that aren’t really there. Tricking your eye is as easy as the well-known “finger sausage” maneuver: Hold out your arms, point your index fingers toward each other, then move them slowly together [...]... Read more »
Kuriki I, Ashida H, Murakami I, & Kitaoka A. (2008) Functional brain imaging of the Rotating Snakes illusion by fMRI. Journal of vision, 8(10), 16-10. PMID: 19146358
- June 3, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 401 views
Exercise – It Works For Depression
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
I’m currently reading with great pleasure Tony Schwartz’s new book, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working – The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance. Schwartz’s main premise is that we need balance — between activity and rest on the physical level, between performance and renewal on the emotional level, between left and right brain [...]... Read more »
Babyak M, Blumenthal JA, Herman S, Khatri P, Doraiswamy M, Moore K, Craighead WE, Baldewicz TT, & Krishnan KR. (2000) Exercise treatment for major depression: maintenance of therapeutic benefit at 10 months. Psychosomatic medicine, 62(5), 633-8. PMID: 11020092
Blumenthal JA, Babyak MA, Moore KA, Craighead WE, Herman S, Khatri P, Waugh R, Napolitano MA, Forman LM, Appelbaum M.... (1999) Effects of exercise training on older patients with major depression. Archives of internal medicine, 159(19), 2349-56. PMID: 10547175
- May 31, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 402 views
Life is Like a Box of Chocolates
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Through the course of modern human history, chocolate has been considered the most special of all confections. Chocolate inspires deep love and devotion from those who partake of it, and its ability to enhance one’s mood has been advertised by men, women and children — and candy manufacturers — everywhere. Now, new evidence may put [...]... Read more »
Chang AS, Yeong BY, & Koh WP. (2010) Symposium on Plant Polyphenols: Nutrition, Health and Innovations, June 2009. Nutrition reviews, 68(4), 246-52. PMID: 20416020
Egan BM, Laken MA, Donovan JL, & Woolson RF. (2010) Controversies in Hypertension: Does Dark Chocolate Have a Role in the Prevention and Management of Hypertension? Commentary on the Evidence. Hypertension. PMID: 20404213
Macht M, & Dettmer D. (2006) Everyday mood and emotions after eating a chocolate bar or an apple. Appetite, 46(3), 332-6. PMID: 16546294
Macht M, & Mueller J. (2007) Interactive effects of emotional and restrained eating on responses to chocolate and affect. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 195(12), 1024-6. PMID: 18091197
Macht M, & Mueller J. (2007) Immediate effects of chocolate on experimentally induced mood states. Appetite, 49(3), 667-74. PMID: 17597253
Macht M, Roth S, & Ellgring H. (2002) Chocolate eating in healthy men during experimentally induced sadness and joy. Appetite, 39(2), 147-58. PMID: 12354683
Rose N, Koperski S, & Golomb BA. (2010) Mood food: chocolate and depressive symptoms in a cross-sectional analysis. Archives of internal medicine, 170(8), 699-703. PMID: 20421555
Strandberg TE, Strandberg AY, Pitkälä K, Salomaa VV, Tilvis RS, & Miettinen TA. (2008) Chocolate, well-being and health among elderly men. European journal of clinical nutrition, 62(2), 247-53. PMID: 17327862
Williams S, Tamburic S, & Lally C. (2009) Eating chocolate can significantly protect the skin from UV light. Journal of cosmetic dermatology, 8(3), 169-73. PMID: 19735513
- May 20, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 428 views
Clinical Psychologists’ Perceptions of Persons with Mental Illness
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Many people have fabulous relationships with their psychologists. They feel supported, understood, well-liked. But there are also those who feel a little uneasy. Research by Lynn Servais and Stephen Saunders of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin may have unearthed one of the reasons why.
Some psychologists have a hard time connecting with people with mental illness, [...]... Read more »
Servais, L., & Saunders, S. (2007) Clinical psychologists' perceptions of persons with mental illness. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 38(2), 214-219. DOI: 10.1037/0735-7028.38.2.214
- May 17, 2010
- 01:31 PM
- 1,062 views
Take Two of These… And You Still Might Have Pain
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Migraines are severe, often debilitating, headaches that may be accompanied by visual symptoms, as well as nausea and vomiting. Migraines may last up to 24 hours. The exact cause of migraine is unknown, and most treatment focuses on acute pain relief once the migraine begins. For many migraine sufferers, acute pain relief is often ineffective [...]... Read more »
Goldstein J, Silberstein SD, Saper JR, Ryan RE Jr, & Lipton RB. (2006) Acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine in combination versus ibuprofen for acute migraine: results from a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, parallel-group, single-dose, placebo-controlled study. Headache, 46(3), 444-53. PMID: 16618262
Kirthi V, Derry S, Moore RA, & McQuay HJ. (2010) Aspirin with or without an antiemetic for acute migraine headaches in adults. Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online). PMID: 20393963
Lampl C, Voelker M, & Diener HC. (2007) Efficacy and safety of 1,000 mg effervescent aspirin: individual patient data meta-analysis of three trials in migraine headache and migraine accompanying symptoms. Journal of neurology, 254(6), 705-12. PMID: 17406776
Lovell BV, & Marmura MJ. (2010) New therapeutic developments in chronic migraine. Current opinion in neurology, 23(3), 254-8. PMID: 20442572
Paemeleire K, & Bartsch T. (2010) Occipital nerve stimulation for headache disorders. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 7(2), 213-9. PMID: 20430321
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