Improving adolescents’ social and emotional lives must go beyond teaching them skills School programs designed to educate children and adolescents on how to understand and manage emotions, relationships and academic goals must go beyond improving the skills of the individuals to create a respectful climate and allow adolescents more autonomy in decision making, according to…
Trine Stub, Sara A. Quandt, Thomas A. Arcury, Joanne C. Sandbergand Agnete E. Kristoffersen BMC Complementary and Alternative MedicineBMC series – open, inclusive and trusted201717:301 DOI: 10.1186/s12906-017-1814-0 © The Author(s). 2017 Received: 21 February 2017 Accepted: 31 May 2017 Published: 8 June 2017 Abstract Background Effective interdisciplinary communication is important to achieve better quality in health care. The aims of this study were to compare conventional and complementary providers’ experience of communication about complementary therapies…
Predicting autism: Study links infant brain connections to diagnoses at age two In previous studies, researchers linked infant brain anatomy differences to autism diagnoses at age two. Now they show differences in functional connections between brain regions at 6 months to predict autism at age two. Predicting autism: Study links infant brain connections to diagnoses…
Neurodegenerative disease mechanism and potential drug identified Two new studies of neurodegenerative diseases linked to mitochondrial defects offer hope for developing a new biomarker for research and diagnostics, and a drug for treating such diseases. Neurodegenerative disease mechanism and potential drug identified Source: Science Daily Mind & Brain
Study could help explain link between seizures and psychiatric disorders Scientists have identified different types of neurons in a brain region called the reticular thalamus. A better understanding of these cells could eventually help explain how both seizures and certain psychiatric disorders can occur at the same time. Study could help explain link between seizures…
Take a coffee or tea break to protect your liver Researchers found that drinking coffee and herbal tea may protect against liver fibrosis, estimated as the degree of liver stiffness, which is high in extensive scarring of the liver. Because these beverages are popular, widely available, and inexpensive, they could have the potential to become…
Same genes, same environment, different personality: Is individuality unavoidable? Genetically identical Amazon mollies raised individually and under identical environmental conditions, nevertheless develop different personality types. Additionally, increasing the opportunity for social interactions early in life appears to have no influence of the magnitude of personality variation. These results of a recent study shed a new…
Study confirms benefits of fennel in reducing postmenopause symptoms Fennel, an anise-flavored herb used for cooking, has long been known for its health benefits for a variety of issues, including digestion and premenstrual symptoms. A new study confirms that it is also effective in the management of postmenopause symptoms such as hot flashes, sleeplessness, vaginal…
Newly discovered brain network offers clues to social cognition By studying rhesus monkeys, researchers have identified a brain network dedicated to processing social interactions — a discovery that offers tantalizing clues to the origins of our ability to understand what other people are thinking. Newly discovered brain network offers clues to social cognition Source: Science…
The secret to combating pancreatic cancer may lie in suppression of a common protein In mice with a KRAS mutation, which is present in 90 percent of pancreatic cancer patients, expressing only half the amount of the glucose-regulated protein GRP78 is enough to halt the earliest stage of pancreatic cancer development. This results in delayed…