Faces must be seen to be recognized
...appears paradoxical that some aftereffects such as negative afterimage or orientation-dependent aftereffect do not require seeing the inducing stimulus. Contrariwise, the result reported here for the identify aftereffect is more in line with common expectation. Together, these findings provide insight into br...Scents and emotions linked by learning, Brown study shows
... to score the pleasing new odors as distasteful a negative association that grew over time. Bottom line: When an odor is paired with an emotional event, perception of that odor was altered to fit that association. Herz wasn't surprised. Little rigorous data exists, Herz said, to back a genetic theory of odor...Being overweight has a significant effect on a child's quality of life
...to an article in the January 5 issue of JAMA. The negative effects of childhood overweight and obesity on qua...or adults." "These findings have both positive and negative implications. As for any chronic condition, a relatively small effect of overweight on children's fu...Two self-fulfilling prophecies are stronger, and more harmful, than one
...have underestimated not only the effect of our own negative prophecies, but also the power of others' false beliefs in promoting negative outcomes. When two or more people have similar false beliefs about another person, it's possible thi...BMJ turns missing murder case documents over to FDA
...g side effects and sought to minimise their likely negative effect on prescribing. The documents reportedly went missing during the case of Joseph Wesbecker in 1994, who killed eight people at his workplace in 1989, while taking fluoxetine. He then shot and killed himself. In 1994, some of the relatives of t...OHSU researcher says FDA could broaden access to results of clinical drug trials
...ponsor cannot pretend that a study that turned out negative did not exist. So the FDA reviews all major studies, positive or negative, published or unpublished. "In accordance with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act, over the past several years, the FDA has been posting the review documents for some ap...Risk of tuberculosis doubles in first year of HIV infection
...try, and those whose infection status changed from negative to positive during the study. Miners were followed until they developed pulmonary tuberculosis, left the mines, or died. Tuberculosis incidence not only doubled within the first year of HIV infection but also increased four-fold after two years, with...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for December 2004 (second issue)
...at any time in the past seemed to provide a strong negative association with sarcoidosis, a finding which they could not explain. The study appears in the second issue for December 2004 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine....Little evidence that breast cancer diagnosis leads to employment discrimination, study concludes
...ditions was observed in either group. In addition, negative events, such as firings, were rare in both groups. "[W]e recognize that individual women may find the return to work after breast cancer difficult and may attribute work problems or the personal decision to reduce work effort to the fact of having h...Anger, negative emotions may trigger stroke
ST. PAUL, Minn. Anger and other negative emotions may be triggers for ischemic stroke, acco...okes were more likely to have experienced anger or negative emotions in the two hours prior to the stroke than at the same time the day before the stroke. They ...Anniversary of one of the largest hepatitis A outbreaks in the US brings experts together
... the burden of hepatitis A disease and reduce this negative impact on the economy. For more information on hepatitis A and prevention through vaccination, log on to www.partnersforimmunization.org . Support for this educational effort is being provided by GlaxoSmithKline, a company that joins NPI in its com...Stanford study questions accuracy of ads for body scans
...ercent of the ads. Fear-evoking messages and other negative pitches were found in 45 percent. The approaches run the gamut from one ad that has people thanking the company, "You've given us peace of mind," to another that says, "I had a ticking time bomb in my body." While the study found that the ads ...New data sets survival benchmark for Pfizer's ELLENCE
...III, 79% were HR positive, 21% of patients were HR negative and 62% of patients had one to three positive lymph nodes. The prescribed treatment was completed in 98% of patients in the FEC 100 plus docetaxel arm and 99% of patients in the FEC 100 only arm. In addition, the relative dose intensity was maintai...Molecular test predicts risk of breast cancer recurrence and who will benefit from chemotherapy
...omen diagnosed with estrogen-dependent, lymph-node negative breast cancer* every year are at low risk for recurrence and may not need to go through the discomfort and side effects of chemotherapy. The test is based on levels of expression (increased or decreased) of a panel of cancer-related genes. This pane...Stressed mice quicker to get skin cancer
...longer. "There's a lot of evidence pointing to the negative effects of chronic stress, which dampens our immune system and impacts various aspects of our health," says Francisco Tausk, M.D., associate professor of dermatology at Johns Hopkins and director of the study. "But, to help create solid treatment st...Breast MRI moderately useful for detecting breast cancer, but does not eliminate need for biopsy
...ivity of 88.1 percent, and correctly identified as negative for cancer 281 of 417 cases without cancer, resulting in a specificity of 67.7 percent. MRI performance was not significantly affected by mammographic breast density, tumor histology, or menopausal status. "In conclusion, MRI shows high sensitivity ...Pharmaceutical marketing tactics hold little sway with prescribing physicians
...tionally, many physicians are skeptical of or hold negative attitudes toward sales representatives," he said. "Physicians recognize that information presented is biased toward the promoted drug and is unlikely to be objective or even accurate. Thus, physicians often discount information received from a sale...Magnetic resonance imaging helps detect breast cancer but does not eliminate need for biopsy
...a sensitivity of 88.1%. It correctly identified as negative for cancer 281 of 417 cases without cancer, producing a specificity rate of 67.7%, compared to 52.8% for mammography. While MRI was good at finding cancer, it was less effective in ruling out malignancies, Bluemke says. "People who have an abnormal m...Bulimic teens also likely to suffer from depression
...ith bulimia, which is characterized by unrelenting negative feelings about one's self. Bulimics, she sa...ymia might be the struggle to regulate unrelenting negative moods stemming from the depression and the feelings of low self-esteem associated with the eating di...Younger children in the child welfare system could benefit from specialty mental health services
... may be an important element in reducing long-term negative consequences for children served by child welfare agencies and in decreasing placement instability among children removed from their homes," the authors write. Michael S. Hurlburt, Ph.D., of the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center at Childr...