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by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
When most people think of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the first thing that comes to mind may be a scene in the 1975 film “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest,” where Jack Nicholson undergoes the treatment, in a way more akin to torture than medical care. There are people holding him down, he is not under [...]... Read more »
Breggin, P. (2007) ECT Damages the Brain: Disturbing News for Patients and Shock Doctors Alike. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 9(2), 83-86. DOI: 10.1891/152315007782021196
Coentre R, Barrocas D, Chendo I, Abreu M, Levy P, Maltez J, & Figueira ML. (2009) [Electroconvulsive therapy: myths and evidences]. Acta medica portuguesa, 22(3), 275-80. PMID: 19686628
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
A new animal study reveals that a brain protein can reduce the expression of fear when infused into specific parts of the brain involved in behavioral responses to fear-inducing stimuli. The findings have important implications for the possible development of new drug therapies that can mimic these effects in humans with anxiety disorders or post-traumatic [...]... Read more »
Alleva E, & Francia N. (2009) Psychiatric vulnerability: suggestions from animal models and role of neurotrophins. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 33(4), 525-36. PMID: 18824030
Montag C, Basten U, Stelzel C, Fiebach CJ, & Reuter M. (2010) The BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and anxiety: Support for animal knock-in studies from a genetic association study in humans. Psychiatry research, 179(1), 86-90. PMID: 20478625
Peters J, Dieppa-Perea LM, Melendez LM, & Quirk GJ. (2010) Induction of fear extinction with hippocampal-infralimbic BDNF. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5983), 1288-90. PMID: 20522777
Soliman F, Glatt CE, Bath KG, Levita L, Jones RM, Pattwell SS, Jing D, Tottenham N, Amso D, Somerville LH.... (2010) A genetic variant BDNF polymorphism alters extinction learning in both mouse and human. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5967), 863-6. PMID: 20075215
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
Physical activity is recommended as part of every healthy lifestyle in order to maintain appropriate body weight and composition and to prevent a myriad of diseases. Now, researchers suggest that genetics plays a role in how much voluntary physical activity one is likely to engage in. Predispositions to active, athletic lifestyles are passed on from [...]... Read more »
Garland T Jr, Kelly SA, Malisch JL, Kolb EM, Hannon RM, Keeney BK, Van Cleave SL, & Middleton KM. (2010) How to run far: multiple solutions and sex-specific responses to selective breeding for high voluntary activity levels. Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society. PMID: 20810439
Houle-Leroy P, Garland T Jr, Swallow JG, & Guderley H. (2000) Effects of voluntary activity and genetic selection on muscle metabolic capacities in house mice Mus domesticus. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), 89(4), 1608-16. PMID: 11007602
Knab AM, & Lightfoot JT. (2010) Does the difference between physically active and couch potato lie in the dopamine system?. International journal of biological sciences, 6(2), 133-50. PMID: 20224735
Koteja P, Garland T Jr, Sax JK, Swallow JG, & Carter PA. (1999) Behaviour of house mice artificially selected for high levels of voluntary wheel running. Animal behaviour, 58(6), 1307-1318. PMID: 10600154
Li, S., Zhao, J., Luan, J., Ekelund, U., Luben, R., Khaw, K., Wareham, N., & Loos, R. (2010) Physical Activity Attenuates the Genetic Predisposition to Obesity in 20,000 Men and Women from EPIC-Norfolk Prospective Population Study. PLoS Medicine, 7(8). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000332
Rezende EL, Kelly SA, Gomes FR, Chappell MA, & Garland T Jr. (2006) Effects of size, sex, and voluntary running speeds on costs of locomotion in lines of laboratory mice selectively bred for high wheel-running activity. Physiological and biochemical zoology : PBZ, 79(1), 83-99. PMID: 16380930
Swallow JG, Koteja P, Carter PA, & Garland T Jr. (2001) Food consumption and body composition in mice selected for high wheel-running activity. Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 171(8), 651-9. PMID: 11765974
by Shaheen Lakhan in Brain Blogger
The burden of type 2 diabetes is staggering. Close to 20 million people in the United States are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and total costs related to diabetes are creeping toward $200 billion annually. Programs to prevent and treat diabetes are numerous, but the effectiveness of various types of programs and modes of education [...]... Read more »
American Diabetes Association. (2008) Economic costs of diabetes in the U.S. In 2007. Diabetes care, 31(3), 596-615. PMID: 18308683
Davies MJ, Heller S, Skinner TC, Campbell MJ, Carey ME, Cradock S, Dallosso HM, Daly H, Doherty Y, Eaton S.... (2008) Effectiveness of the diabetes education and self management for ongoing and newly diagnosed (DESMOND) programme for people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 336(7642), 491-5. PMID: 18276664
Deakin T, McShane CE, Cade JE, & Williams RD. (2005) Group based training for self-management strategies in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online). PMID: 15846663
Deakin TA, Cade JE, Williams R, & Greenwood DC. (2006) Structured patient education: the diabetes X-PERT Programme makes a difference. Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association, 23(9), 944-54. PMID: 16922700
Duke SA, Colagiuri S, & Colagiuri R. (2009) Individual patient education for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online). PMID: 19160249
Farmer AJ, Wade AN, French DP, Simon J, Yudkin P, Gray A, Craven A, Goyder L, Holman RR, Mant D.... (2009) Blood glucose self-monitoring in type 2 diabetes: a randomised controlled trial. Health technology assessment (Winchester, England), 13(15). PMID: 19254484
Gillett M, Dallosso HM, Dixon S, Brennan A, Carey ME, Campbell MJ, Heller S, Khunti K, Skinner TC, & Davies MJ. (2010) Delivering the diabetes education and self management for ongoing and newly diagnosed (DESMOND) programme for people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: cost effectiveness analysis. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). PMID: 20729270
Loveman E, Cave C, Green C, Royle P, Dunn N, & Waugh N. (2003) The clinical and cost-effectiveness of patient education models for diabetes: a systematic review and economic evaluation. Health technology assessment (Winchester, England), 7(22). PMID: 13678547
O'Kane MJ, Bunting B, Copeland M, Coates VE, & ESMON study group. (2008) Efficacy of self monitoring of blood glucose in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes (ESMON study): randomised controlled trial. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 336(7654), 1174-7. PMID: 18420662
Skinner TC, Carey ME, Cradock S, Dallosso HM, Daly H, Davies MJ, Doherty Y, Heller S, Khunti K, Oliver L.... (2008) 'Educator talk' and patient change: some insights from the DESMOND (Diabetes Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed) randomized controlled trial. Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association, 25(9), 1117-20. PMID: 19183318
Urbanski P, Wolf A, & Herman WH. (2008) Cost-effectiveness of diabetes education. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 108(4 Suppl 1). PMID: 18358259
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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 »
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