UCSD team finds that ethics consultations reduce futile end-of-life treatments
...nt decisions have to be made that are fraught with emotion and conflict. What these findings demonstrate is that a skilled ethics consultation service can help physicians, nurses, patients and family members deal with the conflicts and reduce non-beneficial, life-prolonging treatments." The study was carrie...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, August 19, 2003
...iscussion of medicinal marijuana is confounded by emotion and politics, usually unsupported by data. Our short-duration clinical trial suggests acceptable safety in a vulnerable immune-compromised population." United States Should Adopt a No-Fault Medical Malpractice System A no-fault medical malpractic...Antidepressant drugs may protect brain from damage due to depression
... limbic system, a group of structures important to emotion and motivation. Using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Sheline's team measured hippocampal volumes in 38 women who had experienced an average of five episodes of major depression in their lifetimes. Only some of those episodes had be...Happy people may have more immunities to common cold
... profiles and considering ways to enhance positive emotion might reduce the risk of colds -- and by extension, other infectious diseases....Brain imaging study reveals interplay of thought and emotion in economic decisions
...ent proposers, they found that the activity of the emotion area exceeded that of the deliberative area in cas...t in a primary way because a sufficiently negative emotion can induce you to make certain decisions that would seem to go against your self interest." Many pre...Robo-thespians help mothers of kids with cancer
...resented in "thought bubbles" -- of the thought or emotion motivating the animated mother figure. The user-mother's choices are worked out dramatically on screen, and Gina recommends appropriate IDEA applications to respond to the action. The idea, according to the presentation paper: "If Gina gets Carmen t...Study suggests bipolar disorder may cause progressive brain damage
...plex of neural circuits in the brain that regulate emotion and memory. The study found significantly lower concentrations of NAA in the right hippocampus of males with bipolar disorder when compared to the control group. They also found that for the right hippocampus, bipolar patients who had the disease t...Brain images reveal effects of antidepressants
...nt changes when we present research subjects these emotion challenges," said Davidson. "The pictures activate the individual circuits that underlie different kinds of emotional responses." UW emotions researchers have been using fMRIs with emotion-challenging pictures for several years in an effort to under...Heart gone haywire blamed in some sudden infant deaths
...inn. When combined with a trigger, such as intense emotion or physical exertion, a long Q-T heart can go out of control and cause cardiac arrest and sudden death. "This often explains cases in which children die suddenly while playing in the sandbox, teen-agers die of unexplained drowning, or previously hea...M.I.N.D. Institute study confirms autism increase
...ct and lack the ability to read faces for signs of emotion or other cues. Children typically do not engage in social play or games with their peers. Unusual behaviors such as rocking, hand-flapping or even self-injurious behavior may be present in some cases....Researchers find promising new target for anxiety-reducing drugs
...ir lives. Under normal conditions, that protective emotion spurs action to avoid such threats. But when anxiety grows excessive -- as it does in an estimated 25 percent of U.S. residents sooner or later -- it can significantly reduce one's quality of life, and in the cases of some 20 million Americans at an...Experience alters how we perceive emotion
...children saw a single face and had to choose which emotion it expressed the most. Because many images were a ...rocesses the brain uses to perceive and categorize emotion might be innate but that how people actually perceive and understand expressions of emotion can be s...... Physicians often forget the role of cognition and emotion in treating patients pain. Dr. Cohen points out "pain is a perception. Its not a sensation. Its not only related to tissue damage." Having trained under McGill psychologist Ronald Melzack, a world pioneer in pain research, Dr. Cohen believes in a...Late-onset schizophrenia found to be distinct condition
... of brain cells involved in social perspective and emotion is weakened. This happens when a key structural protein called tau falls out of solution, said Dr. Manuel F. Casanova, neurologist and neuropathologist at the Medical College of Georgia and lead author on the research published in the March issue of...Doctors need training courses in communication skills
...aining on behaviour, understanding, perception and emotion could not only make doctors adopt better communicating styles, but could also alter their attitudes and beliefs, thereby increasing the chances of them continuing to use their more patient-centred skills in the clinic. She said: Time and experience a...Why does an anti-depressant work for some people, but not others?
...ed changes in ventral limbic sites associated with emotion (mood) AND dorsal cortical regions thought to mediate reason and cognition -- a relationship that was first identified by Dr. Mayberg in a landmark study in the American Journal of Psychiatry last year. But in this study of veterans who did and did...Brain imaging reveals less medication just as effective in treating schizophrenia
...in the brain that helps regulate learning, memory, emotion and cognition. In order for neurotransmission to occur, the dopamine must attach to dopamine receptors on other neurons. By blocking the dopamine from reaching these receptors, the drugs are able to reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia. Kapur and col...Coupling of brain proteins may prompt new treatments for schizophrenia, addiction
... in the brain that help regulate learning, memory, emotion and cognition. In a study published in the Jan. 20 edition of the journal Nature, researchers demonstrate how proteins can modify each other's function - including the ability of neurons to accept or reject dopamine and other neurochemicals - by bind...University Of Wisconsin to launch center to study how emotions affect health
...ive projects. "We begin with theunderstanding that emotion is the primary means through which externalpsychol...relating individual differences in thecircuitry of emotion with physiological measures. Now they will examine theanatomy and activity of brain circuits linked ...UI study finds types of decision-making deficiencies depend on area of brain damage
...rom the fear of being caught. If the negative/fear emotion isstronger than the positive/reward emotion, the person will likely turn down thebribe. The UI study suggests that the immediate effect of any action influences patients with VMF cortex damage, regardless of whether the immediateeffect is correct. In...