Brain activity prior to treatment flags vulnerability to antidepressant side effects
...relationship between brain function changes during brief placebo treatment and later side effects during treatment with medication. The study's unique design compares brain function changes in healthy research subjects with no history of depression while taking an antidepressant vs. placebo, a pill with in...Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
...f deaths from violence and disease, according to a brief report in the March 23/30 issue of JAMA. In background information, the authors write mass violence against civilians in the west of Sudan started in 2003 and has continued. "More than 1.5 million people (25 percent of the population of the region) a...Physicists find patterns within seemingly random events of physiological systems
...vity. In research on the dynamical features of the brief awakenings and sleep periods that occur in differe... random disruptions in the sleep cycle, periods of brief wakefulness exhibit what is known as self-organized criticality. This physical phenomenon is exhibi...Alcohol intervention attempted for violent males
...es (Cardiff, UK) conducted a randomized trial of a brief psychological intervention for males with maxillof... National Crime Database). In was concluded that a brief alcohol intervention applied immediately after sentencing for an alcohol-related violent offence had...Cognitive behavioral therapy and medication is effective in the treatment of panic disorder
...here to the entire CBT program, even though it was brief and delivered with considerable flexibility of scheduling," the authors conclude. "This finding suggests the need for qualitative research to elucidate the reasons for nonadherence in these patients. A major goal of future work in this area should be...Ten-minute emergency room intervention for problem drinkers
... and colleagues, developed and taught the two-hour brief negotiation intervention to 58 emergency room physicians, residents and physician associates. The counseling is intended for hazardous and harmful drinking. Hazardous is defined as more than 14 drinks per week and four per occasion for men; seven dri...Inpatient smoking cessation counseling is associated with early differences in mortality
...the in-hospital mandated smoking deprivation for a brief period after discharge." Many states are already beginning to pay for anti-smoking counseling. The Centers for Disease Control encourage physician intervention to encourage patients to give up smoking. This study will add strong support to those effo...Study: Young adults can be motivated to eat fruits, veggies
.... Nutritional information for young adults must be brief and practical, Nitzke notes. In addition, her team found it helpful to identify how ready each participant was to make dietary changes. "We were then able to use that information to tailor educational messages to their specific interests," she explai...Using the internet's power and anonymity to reduce problem drinking
... several alcohol interventions based on in-person brief motivational interventions (BMIs) that are curren.... "BMIs use elements that are common to effective brief interventions," said Scott Walters, symposium organizer and assistant professor of behavioral scienc...15 minutes training enough to save lives with an automated external defibrillator
...ed today in the journal Critical Care shows that a brief training session is all that is needed for safe and efficient use of an automated external defibrillator. Sudden cardiac deaths affect nearly 400,000 people per year in Europe, and every day in the U.S. more than 1,200 people die from cardiac arrest ...Computer memory, MRI technology benefit from student research at UH
...ach giving a 15-minute presentation, followed by a brief question and answer period. A faculty panel judged each presenter on originality and quality of research, quality of presentation and skillful use of visual aids. "The symposium provides an opportunity for TcSAM students to hone their presentation...Residual tumor cells are a barrier to targeted cancer therapeutics
...ave proposed that chronic treatment possibly even brief treatment with molecularly targeted therapies might eliminate cancers. Curing cancers with short-term treatment, however, contrasts sharply with clinical experience with cancer patients, say Penn researchers. This suggests that tumors often become r...ER patients with substance abuse treatment need incur higher health care costs
...ntifying them as substance abusers -- either for a brief intervention or to refer them to substance abuse treatment as appropriate. The emergency department visit itself can represent a teachable moment for a patient." The researchers estimated that 27 percent of adult emergency department patients in Ten...Anger, negative emotions may trigger stroke
...triggers precipitate a stroke. "It's possible that brief episodes of mental stress cause transient changes in blood clotting and in the function of cells lining blood vessels. It is important to note that our study does not assess the cumulative risk related to exposures to potential triggers but short-ter...Rolipram - a potential new treatment for Alzheimer disease
...r AD-associated memory loss. The authors show that brief treatment of a mouse model of AD with a phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor, rolipram, improves memory in both long-term potential and contextual learning both measurements of brain function. Rolipram's protective effect is due to its ability to modify g...'Sit-down' rounds improve outcomes for kidney dialysis patients
...k-rounds" from patient to patient. The latter are brief and often focus on urgent issues, he says. "Our results provide evidence that time spent meeting to discuss each patient's progress is as important as direct patient care in chronic disease management, in that this rounding practice is associated wi...Burning anxiety: New treatment targets smokers with panic disorder
... Zvolensky and his team are currently evaluating a brief prevention program and a 16-week treatment protocol that targets smokers who are vulnerable to panic psychology. By inducing panic symptoms through such methods as having patients hyperventilate or breathe CO2-enriched air, smokers learn to tolerate ...Combining liver transplantation and coronary artery bypass grafting can be safe and effective
... were discharged home while one patient required a brief in patient rehabilitation stay. "In this series," the authors report, "combined OLT-CABG appears to be a safe and effective approach to patients with severe coronary artery disease and end-stage liver disease." Several technical features of the comb...Little benefit from comprehensive assessment of older people in general practice
...the primary-care team. All participants received a brief assessment followed by a nurse-led in-depth assess...red only to those with problems established at the brief assessment. The primary outcome measures of the study were death, admissions to hospital and institu......l illness, especially major depression, in which a brief application of electric stimulus a shock is used to produce a generalized seizure. "ECT produces a net improvement in health for most patients, and should help fill the knowledge gap that recently led to more restrictive guidance on the use of EC...