In a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, Authors provide the strongest evidence to date that a more educated population and better cardiovascular health are contributing to a decline in new dementia cases over time, or at least helping more people stave off dementia for longer. [...]
Early Intervention for Psychotic Disorders: Building Population Health Systems This Viewpoint proposes a conceptual framework for population health systems that would enable early intervention services for patients with new-onset psychotic disorders. Treatment works; the earlier, the better. The intuition that, if applied early in the course of illness, available treatments for [...]
By Alexander C. Tsai, Mark Tomlinson, W. Scott Comulada, and Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus Abstract Background Violence against women by intimate partners remains unacceptably common worldwide. The evidence base for the assumed psychological impacts of intimate partner violence (IPV) is derived primarily from studies conducted in high-income countries. A recently published systematic review [...]
Let’s face it. We live in the age of technology. Things that were learned through books, lectures, and hand-written practices when we were kids are now being learned through games, apps, and videos by the kids of this generation. Even their leisure time is spent differently than ours. For ADHD [...]
Screening of Pregnant Women and New Mothers a Priority January 26, 2016. CNN reports this morning that if new recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are followed, primary care physicians will do this type of depression screening for all adult patients at least once. The recommendations by the task [...]
Abstract Many studies indicate a crucial role for the vitamin B12 and folate-dependent enzyme methionine synthase (MS) in brain development and function, but vitamin B12 status in the brain across the lifespan has not been previously investigated. Vitamin B12 (cobalamin, Cbl) exists in multiple forms, including methylcobalamin (MeCbl) and adenosylcobalamin [...]
Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia said on Wednesday that they had indicted five people, including two research scientists, on charges of stealing trade secrets about drugs to treat cancer and other diseases from GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug giant, according to today's New York Times According to prosecutors, the two scientists, Yu [...]
Editorial | January 20, 2016 Sharing Clinical Trial Data: A Proposal From the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) believes that there is an ethical obligation to responsibly share data generated by interventional clinical trials because participants have put themselves at risk. In [...]
Serotonin Improves High Fat Diet Induced Obesity in Mice Animal studies are not the usual coverage topic of brainscienceblogs.com. However, in this instance, we could not resist. Serotonin (5-HT) is a monoaminergic neurotransmitter with activities that modulate central and peripheral functions. The first step in the synthesis of 5-HT from [...]
NEW YORK, Jan. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Jed Foundation (JED) and the Steve Fund, two leading mental health organizations, announced a joint plan to provide colleges and universities with recommended practices for improving support for the mental health and emotional well-being of America's college students of color. The [...]