Social problems linked to mental illness in Pakistan
...l instability, economic uncertainty, violence, and conflict for at least the past three decades. These are risk factors for psychiatric disorders and may help explain the findings of this review, say the authors. The time is right for Pakistan to build on this research effort and develop a national strategy t...Exercise sharpens focus, decision-making among aging adults
...lks reap greater focus and reduced decision-making conflict as they perform a variety of tasks, scientists say...ise intervention reduced their level of behavioral conflict in completing a computer-based task by 11 percent from pre-exercise levels, while the control subjec...Urgent action required to prevent 500k deaths/yr worldwide from pregnancy-related causes
...s and, in particular, for the majority who live in conflict zones in the developing world. The authors discuss the extraordinary risks to reproductive health faced by forced migrants, and the obligation of humanitarian agencies to respond to reproductive and sexual health needs. This week's Lancet editori...Ten percent of employees experience work-family conflict
...at more than ten percent of employees experience a conflict between their work and their home situation. This ...r avoiding or reducing such conflicts. Work-family conflict is a common problem among employees. As well as being socially undesirable, such conflict also negat...Financial problems linked to depression symptoms in breast cancer patients
...om a partner, family member or close friend; major conflict with children or grandchildren; and muggings, robberies, accidents or other major events. Results showed that about 18 percent of the participants had levels of depression high enough to indicate they needed psychological help. About three-quarters o...Panel: Clinical use of embryonic stem cells jeopardized by Bush's policy on federal funding
...ed research. But many ramifications of this policy conflict with the panel's carefully determined conclusions, which are reported in two papers: one in the November issue of Fertility and Sterility, and one in the November/December issue of The Hastings Center Report. For example, even if scientists were will...Gay, lesbian couples can teach heterosexuals how to improve relationships
...nal of Homosexuality, the researchers explored the conflict interaction of homosexual and heterosexual couples...picture," said Gottman. "Straight couples start a conflict discussion in a much more negative place than do gays and lesbian couples. Homosexuals start the sa...Neurons that play truth or consequences
...n has suggested that the brain is sensitive to the conflict that arises when tasks are too complex and subject...onflict, but they failed to find neurons signaling conflict alone in the ACC. This observation is at odds with certain functional brain imaging studies in human...Brain imaging study reveals interplay of thought and emotion in economic decisions
... of behavior in the ultimatum game that won't have conflict built right into the theoretical description." Other coauthors of the study were postdoc James Rilling, former undergraduate Jessica Aronson and staff scientist Leigh Nystrom....Survey of medical students affirms value of student diversity
...y necessarily led to higher levels of intellectual conflict or challenge. The researchers said that some majority students commented in open-ended questions that high diversity was an important factor in their choice of medical school and they felt that it was an honor to be chosen at a school known for effo...Nationwide improvement in nursing home care not likely, despite some changes
... families of residents with dementia reported less conflict with staff. University of North Carolina researcher Sheryl Zimmerman and her colleagues studied the current state of residential care/assisted living care and residents and how it compares with nursing home care and residents. They found that nursing...This is your heart on drugs: Study improves ER treatment for cocaine's heart effects
...gen, and therefore more blood flowing to it. This conflict between the heart's increased demand for blood, and the narrowing of the blood vessels needed to supply it, can be worsened if the patient has existing blockages in their arteries -- cutting off blood supply to parts of the heart altogether. Cocaine ...Family friendly work policies may need to be refocused
... be 'family friendly' have focused on reducing the conflict between work and home through policies such as fle...s would be needed, depending on the combination of conflict and facilitation in an employee's life." Data for the analysis came from the National Survey of Midl...Joint-custody arrangements good for children of divorce -- but only if there is no parental conflict
...- but the positive impact can be offset by ongoing conflict between the parents. ...dy agreement their child was in, and the degree of conflict with their former spouse. To determine how well the children were ...Doctors should play no part in executions
...al injection (or any execution) creates a profound conflict of roles that is morally unacceptable, he says. When doctors enter the death chamber, they harm not only their relationship with their own patients, but the relationships with all doctors with their patients. He believes that, even without doctors' ...Preventive sessions after divorce protect children into teens
...reasing father's access to the child, and reducing conflict between the parents. Each mother also had two structured individual sessions. Mother Plus Child Program -- the mother program, plus 11 structured group sessions for children, designed to improve coping, the mother-child relationship, and reduce nega...Intensive care treatment may be bad for your health
...o survive. Rubenfeld shows that doctors may face a conflict in deciding on treatments that are best at saving lives and those that give the best quality of life to those patients who survive. He stresses that more research is needed to make these decisions with confidence. An example of research into how wel...USC researchers develop new way to measure cultural adaptation of youth
... lead to identity confusion, stress, interpersonal conflict and, for adolescents, rebelliousness against parents who are slower to acculturate. Teens experiencing these stresses are more susceptible to behaviors such as smoking, alcohol and other drug use; violence; suicide; eating disorders; and risky sexua...World's first study on surrogacy reveals high quality parenting and no problems
... the surrogate, and no mothers described any major conflict or hostility between the commissioning couple and the surrogate. The concern about the commissioning mother's feelings about the surrogate's involvement with the child seems unfounded, with 90% reporting no anxieties about this aspect." When the res......esigned to help people work through issues such as conflict resolution or mild depression. Under development f...e prototype will include three modules for users - conflict management, treatment of mild depression and psychological self-assessment. The goal is to prevent ...