Bush Administration plan to reduce global warming could devastate sea life
...ion. Metabolism in some animal species may also be depressed by increased acidity. Furthermore, some fish, squids, and shrimps will have a diminished capacity for oxygen uptake at the gill and transportation through their bloodstream, leading to asphyxiation. Seibel said that there is typically a natural exc...Doppler ultrasound predicts risk of miscarriage
...d by increased free amniotic fluid and evidence of depressed myocardial contractility (ability of the cardiac muscle to shorten itself). With the new Doppler technology, embryonic congestive heart failure is easily identified and, according to the study results, can be implicated in 40 percent of miscarriages....Estrogen promotes gender differences in brain's response to stress
...ic variations have been demonstrated in clinically depressed women. However, how these factors might combine to produce the glaring disparity in the prevalence of this disorder awaits discovery. Such knowledge will hopefully lead to the development of new, more effective treatments for depression....Researchers-again-pinpoint why stress kills
... well be that studies show married people are less depressed than their single counterparts. Behind this string...sk for a heart attack or other cardiac disease for depressed but otherwise healthy patients is similar to the risk for patients with established cardiovascular d...Secondary complications and restoration of function in SCI
...a indicate that colonic motility may be especially depressed during sleep after SCI, and this may exacerbate a sluggish colon transit time. In the study, measures that increased contraction of abdominal muscles facilitated defecation; this was especially helpful in participants with higher-cord injury who lack...Protease-inhibitor cocktail protects, increases anti-microbial action of promising new peptide
... presenting a particular problem for patients with depressed immune systems, such as those with HIV/AIDS, organ-transplant patients and chemotherapy patients. In earlier research in Bobek's laboratory, MUC7 12-mer killed fungal agents that cause the most common opportunistic infections that threaten these pat...Severe depression associated with greater number of nerve cells in thalamus region of brain
...al illness. Major depression is characterized by a depressed mood and lack of interest or pleasure in normal activities for a prolonged period of time, while bipolar disease is distinguished by alternating periods of extreme mania or elevated mood swings, and severe depression. Schizophrenia often results in p...Sleepless over Seattle: Migrating songbirds forgo sleep but keep their wits
..."Like migrating sparrows," the authors note, "both depressed and manic patients show reduced latency to REM sleep, loss of slow-wave sleep, and reduced amounts of total sleep." Understanding the mechanisms that power the sleepless flight of songbirds promises to unravel one of the longstanding mysteries of the...Long-term heart damage may result from constant confrontation and defeat
.... In addition, physical activity was significantly depressed in both circadian phases and throughout the stress treatment. (This condition represents an imbalance between normally precisely orchestrated physiological and behavioral processes and may constitute a risk factor for the development of disease.) ...Drug prevents chemotherapy-induced hearing loss, study finds
...t to listen for. As a result, many children become depressed and socially isolated, and they fall behind in school. "Their whole development suffers because of it," Dickey said. "The higher frequencies are affected first, and often it's right in the frequency of human speech." Scientists believe NAC, occasiona...Scientists build on case connecting inflammatory disease and depression
...ndicates that treatment must be discontinued since depressed patients can commit suicide," he said. For about 30 years, depression has been linked to low levels of serotonin, a brain chemical that regulates mood. Drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Prozac ease depression by el...Depression traced to overactive brain circuit
...al condition. They randomly gave 27 unmedicated depressed patients-in-remission and 19 controls either pills containing seven essential amino acids, such as lysine and valine, or identical-looking placebo pills. Subjects received either the active pills or placebos in repeated trials over several days in a ...U-M scientists find common virus in human prostate tissue
...ys without causing problems. But in people with a depressed immune system especially those who have just received a kidney transplant the virus can cause serious kidney and bladder disease. Now, new research by scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School suggests the intriguing possibility ...Brain's reward circuitry revealed in procrastinating primates
... suggested Richmond. "For example, people who are depressed often feel nothing is worth the work. People with OCD work incessantly; even when they get rewarded they feel they must repeat the task. In mania, people will work feverishly for rewards that aren't worth the trouble to most of us."...