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Background Music Can Impair Performance, Cites New Study

News Feed — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:00:00 +0000

For decades research has shown that listening to music alleviates anxiety and depression, enhances mood, and can increase cognitive functioning, such as spatial awareness. However, until now, research has not addressed how we listen to music...

The Healing Effects Of Nature

News Feed — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:00:00 +0000

"Many people," says Dr. Eeva Karjalainen, of the Finnish Forest Research Institute, Metla, "feel relaxed and good when they are out in nature. But not many of us know that there is also scientific evidence about the healing effects of nature." Forests...

The Healing Effects Of Nature

News Feed — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:00:00 +0000

U.S. Army: Dogs Help Battle PTSD

News Feed — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0000

The Army is using dogs "much more" to help soldiers recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to the Army Surgeon General's special assistant for mental health, Col. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, M.D., who spoke at the annual conventi...

By Ignoring Stress Recovering Addicts Suffer More Cravings

News Feed — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:00:00 +0000

Recovering addicts who avoid coping with stress succumb easily to substance use cravings, making them more likely to relapse during recovery, according to behavioral researchers. "Cravings are a strong predictor of relapse," said H. Harrington Clevelan...

A novel insight into neuroprotection against hypoxic/ischemic stress.

News Feed — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:59:34 +0000

A novel insight into neuroprotection against hypoxic/ischemic stress.

Sheng Li Xue Bao. 2009 Dec 25;61(6):585-92

Authors: Feng Y, Chao D, He X, Yang Y, Kang X, Lazarus LH, Xia Y

The use of opioid analgesics has a long history in clinical settings, although the functions of opioid receptors, especially their role in the brain, are not well understood yet. Recent studies have generated abundant new data on opioid receptor-mediated functions and the underlying mechanisms. The most exciting finding in the past decade is probably the neuroprotection against hypoxic/ischemic stress mediated by delta-opioid receptors (DOR). An up-regulation of DOR expression and the release of endogenous opioids may increase neuronal tolerance to hypoxic/ischemic stress. The DOR signal triggers, depending on stress duration and severity, different mechanisms at multiple levels to preserve neuronal survival, including the stabilization of ionic homeostasis, an increase in pro-survival signaling (e.g., PKC-ERK-Bcl 2) and the enhanced anti-oxidative capacity. Recent data on DOR-mediated neuroprotection provide us a new concept of neuroprotection against neurological disorders and have a potentially significant impact on the prevention and treatment of some serious neurological conditions, such as stroke.

PMID: 20029693 [PubMed - in process]

Could Acetaminophen Ease Psychological Pain?

News Feed — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Headaches and heartaches. Broken bones and broken spirits. Hurting bodies and hurt feelings. We often use the same words to describe physical and mental pain. Over-the-counter pain relieving drugs have long been used to alleviate physical pain, while a host of other medications have been employed in the treatment of depression and anxiety...

Questions About Stress Resolved By Studying Hair Of Ancient Peruvians

News Feed — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:00:00 +0000

Recent studies show that one in three Canadians suffer from stress and the number is on the rise. But stress isn't a new problem. While the physiological state wasn't properly named until the 1930s, new research from The University of Western Ontario proves stress has plagued humans for hundreds, and perhaps thousands of years...

Recalling Emotional Memory Opens Window Of Opportunity To Rewrite It

News Feed — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Scientists have for the first time selectively blocked a conditioned fear memory in humans with a behavioral manipulation. Participants remained free of the fear memory for at least a year. The research builds on emerging evidence from animal studies that reactivating an emotional memory opens a 6-hour window of opportunity in which a training procedure can alter it...