More than 1% of Canadians have been dependent on cannabis at some point in their lives. Despite the fact that marijuana use is expected to grow with the recent legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada, little research has focused on factors associated with recovery from addiction. New research published online this month in the journal...
Tag: <span>Mental Health</span>
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HOW MUCH SLEEP KIDS GET AFFECTS THEIR MENTAL HEALTH
FEBRUARY 4TH, 2020 POSTED BY ALICE SCOTT-WARWICK There’s a link between children’s sleep duration and depression, anxiety, impulsive behavior, and poor cognitive performance, researchers report. In a new paper in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers examine the relationship between sleep duration and brain structure in 11,000 children ages 9-11 from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development dataset. The...
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HOW MUCH SLEEP KIDS GET AFFECTS THEIR MENTAL HEALTH
ALICE SCOTT-WARWICK There’s a link between children’s sleep duration and depression, anxiety, impulsive behavior, and poor cognitive performance, researchers report. In a new paper in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers examine the relationship between sleep duration and brain structure in 11,000 children ages 9-11 from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development dataset. The researchers found that measures of...
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How to Stop People-Pleasing (and Still Be Nice)
People-pleasing might not sound all that bad. After all, what’s wrong with being nice to people and trying to help them out or make them happy? But people-pleasing generally goes beyond simple kindness. It involves “editing or altering words and behaviors for the sake of another person’s feelings or reactions,” explains Erika Myers, a therapist...
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NASA, industry partner for space-based study of potential Alzheimer’s key
by Jennifer Harbaugh, NASA An innovative experiment underway on the International Space Station could help researchers make new progress in the fight against aggressive neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The Ring-Sheared Drop experiment, developed and led by Teledyne Brown Engineering of Huntsville, Alabama, will be housed in the station’s Microgravity Science Glovebox to...
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Quadriplegics Can Grasp, Lift Objects Using Transcutaneous Neurostimulation
MEDGADGET EDITORS NEUROLOGY, REHAB Transcutaneous electrical muscle stimulation is used in a variety of clinical applications, including as a rehabilitation tool to help people with limited mobility. It is effective for maladies such as certain types of urinary incontinence, for example, but getting the muscles of the arm to move in unison and with appropriate...
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Link between inflammation and mental sluggishness shown in new study
by Beck Lockwood, University of Birmingham Scientists at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam have uncovered a possible explanation for the mental sluggishness that often accompanies illness. An estimated 12 million U.K. citizens have a chronic medical condition, and many of them report severe mental fatigue that they characterize as...
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Just 35 Minutes of Daily Exercise may Significantly Lower the Risk of Depression even in Predisposed Individuals
The idea that exercise may confer both physical and psychological benefits on those who engage in it on a regular basis is hardly new and has been extensively covered in scientific literature. Now, however, a new study conducted by Harvard researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) shows that even small amounts of daily exercise...
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Can our thoughts alter our brains?
Brain-computer interfaces have a structural impact on brain substance after one hour of training MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES The interdisciplinary study examined the influence of two different types of BCI on the brains of test subjects with no prior experience of this technology. The first subgroup was given the task...
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The way of making memories
by Heidelberg University How does the brain translate information from the outside world into something we remember? An international team of researchers working in the Human Brain Project have zoomed in on the neuronal circuits in the striatum, a brain structure involved in memory, behavior and reward learning. The findings, published in the PLOS Computational...