by European Society of Cardiology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Adults in their 20s and 30s with mental disorders have an up to three-fold elevated likelihood of a heart attack or stroke, according to a study in more than 6.5 million individuals published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology,. Lifestyle behaviors did not explain the excess...
by Julia Moióli, FAPESP Schematic of the study design, illustrating the longitudinal and cross-sectional approaches. Longitudinal design: the dotted blue lines represent the two analyzed time points, Wave 1 and Wave 2. The colored horizontal linesrepresent the differences in case–control status between both time points,which was the criteria to define each trajectory group. Sample sizes for...
by Daniel Hermens, Jim Lagopoulos and Zach Shan, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Despite the best efforts of clinicians and researchers for decades, we still do not fully know why some people develop mental disorders and others do not. However, changes in the brain are very likely our best clues to future mental health outcomes. The...
By Rich Haridy May 09, 2021 New research looked at 30 years of data and found no change in the association between technology use and mental health problems in teensanatoliycherkas/Depositphotos. Over the past century there have been frequent societal concerns over the impact of novel technologies on the well-being of young people. Yet, as time...
Scientists at EPFL’s Brain Mind Institute have identified an enzyme that can play a central role in developing a new route of treatment for Huntington’s Disease. ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE USING AN IN VITRO KINOME SCREEN, THE LAB OF HILAL LASHUEL AT EPFL IDENTIFIED A NOVEL KINASE (TBK1) THAT PHOSPHORYLATES THE HUNTINGTIN PROTEIN AT...
This news or article is intended for readers with certain scientific or professional knowledge in the field. Researchers have found a way to create a super-inhibitor that effectively stops the development of Parkinsons by using the Parkinson disease itself as an active building block. Various neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s are closely linked to the...
by University of Granada Researchers from the Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre (CIMCYC) of the University of Granada (UGR) have designed a test to detect dysphagia, a disorder that prevents people from swallowing when eating. It affects 8 percent of the world’s population. Dysphagia is prevalent among older people in particular (30 percent to...
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER Adolescents who play contact sports, including football, are no more likely to experience cognitive impairment, depression or suicidal thoughts in early adulthood than their peers, suggests a new University of Colorado Boulder study of nearly 11,000 youth followed for 14 years. The study, published this month in the Orthopaedic Journal...
UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO Otago scientists have made an important discovery in understanding the role a particular protein plays to impair memory in Alzheimer’s disease, which could lead to more effective treatment in future. Professor Cliff Abraham and Dr Anurag Singh from the Department of Psychology have identified that a protein in the brain – tumor...
By Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD A new study has added to the existing evidence that a healthy and balanced diet could help reduce the symptoms of depression. The study titled, “A brief diet intervention can reduce symptoms of depression in young adults – A randomized controlled trial”, was published this week in the latest issue of the...
