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A fifth of people using prescription drugs to boost concentration

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:52:06 GMT

Increasing numbers of people are using prescription medication like the attention deficit disorder drug Ritalin to boost alertness and brain power, a survey found.

Up to a fifth of adults, including college students and shift workers, may be using the "cognitive enhancers", a poll of 1,400 by Nature journal suggests.

"The use of these cognitive enhancing drugs is spreading to younger and younger people," she said. "That's a concern."

One in five of the 1,400 people who responded to the Nature survey said they had taken Ritalin, Provigil (modafinil) or beta-blockers for non-medical reasons. They used them to stimulate focus, concentration or memory and reduce stress.

"Methylphenidate does have substantial abusive potential so we have to be worried about substance abuse problems and the use of these drugs in the developing brain in children."

John Harris, professor of bioethics at the University of Manchester said people should be allowed to make their own minds up about these drugs.

Over 65 and living with depressiom

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:25:48 GMT

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Seniors are healthier, more affluent, more independent and living longer than ever before.

We do our elders a great disservice by clinging to stereotypes of them as a burdensome army of aging, sickly patients with bad hearts, cancerous tumours, weakening bones, bothersome bladders and faltering memories.

Far too many seniors struggling with mental illness remain isolated, lonely and disabled. And according to new research released this week, most aren't getting the help they need.

About one in five people over the age of 65 living in the community suffer from diagnosable mental illnesses such as depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia - about the same rate as the general population.

But the data exclude residents of nursing homes, retirement homes and long-term-care facilities, where rates of mental illness range from 40 to 90 per cent.

Reaching out for help when you are depressed is difficult at the best of times, but seniors face additional barriers.

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Fibromyalgia Diet

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:35:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: At the present time there is no approved diet or explicit nutritional recommendations for people with fibromyalgia. Yet this should hardly be read as an indication that diet can play no part in either helping or harming those suffering from the disorder.

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The best advice is to remember that you are what you eat, according to the old saying, and that food choices influence how you feel. Maintaining a healthy, well-balanced diet full of plenty of fruit and vegetables and low in the likes of saturated fat will make you feel better, physically and mentally, as well as help you to avoid developing any other health problems. It may or may not alleviate any of your symptoms, but it certainly won't make them any worse. The same can not be said for an unhealthy diet, especially one in which you eat foods that can exacerbate symptoms.

Here are some suggested dietary choices, but keep in mind that these are suggestions culled from a variety of sources with little to no clinical evidence supporting them at best, many are anecdotal. The most prudent advice is to find out what works best for you and stick with that.

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Eating Disorder's

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:10:20 GMT

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Night Eating is not an official type of eating disorder listed in the Diagnostic Criteria, but it is a very common problem and may be one of the more frequent causes of obesity. Night Eating is a stress-related eating, sleeping and mood disorder that is associated with disordered neuroendocrine function.

Night Eating Disorder Statistics

About 1-2 percent of the general population have severe impairments caused by night eating and night food craving.
More than 5 percent of the patients seeking therapy for obesity report symptoms of night eating. (Source ANRED).

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Bulimia Nervosa Disorder

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:10:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As a recognized eating disorder, bulimia nervosa (BN) is in its infancy, having only come under medical and psychological scrutiny in 1979 . According to the National Eating Disorders Association , bulimia nervosa is “characterized by a cycle of bingeing and compensatory behaviors such as self-induced vomiting designed to undo or compensate for the effects of binge eating.”

Although most people with bulimia nervosa can maintain a normal weight, the disorder is brutal, exerting a tremendous strain on virtually every major system and organ in the human body. The strain bulimia nervosa puts on one’s mental health can also be ferocious, inciting intense feelings of depression, guilt, disgust and shame .

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Bulimia Nervosa'’s Patient Population is startling:

Sex: The overwhelming majority (92-98%) of sufferers are female
Prevalence and mean onset: It affects 1-2% of the young female population, typically at the mean age of 18.
Geographic: According to Dr. Megan Moreno MSEd, bulimia “is virtually nonexistent in non-industrialized countries … it is found solely in societies in which a high cultural value is placed upon slim-ness.”

So why do some adolescents develop bulimia nervosa? Unlike a virus, experts suspect bulimia nervosa is the result of a variety of psychological, cultural, familial and biological causes intertwining in the sufferer. Additionally, some studies indicate that people who take part in extracurricular social activities that require their bodies to be on frequent display for others—like cheerleading, running, swimming—may be substantially more susceptible to developing these kinds of eating disorders.

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Video Game Addiction

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:23:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: No current behavior—not web-surfing, not online porn -viewing—is getting attention like compulsive video gaming, thanks in part to a trio of highly publicized deaths in China and South Korea from marathon online gaming sessions. The issue kicked up so much dust that members of the American Psychiatric Association felt compelled to get together and vote on the matter in June of 2007:

Clip Source: www.myaddiction.com

“The APA defines mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Since the current edition, DSM-IV-TR, does not list “video game addiction,” the APA does not consider “video game addiction” to be a mental disorder at this time. If the science warrants it, this proposed disorder will be considered for inclusion in DSM-V, which is due to be published in 2012.”

A 2007 Harris poll reported that in the US 8.5% of youth gamers (ages 8 to 18) “can be classified as pathological or clinically ‘addicted’ to playing video games” while another 23% say they have “felt addicted” to video games.

It is extremely unlikely these figures represent an accurate depiction of the problem since, as the APA notes, there is no clinical classification for video game addiction; and further, it is unlikely any of those questioned were qualified to self-diagnose.

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stress symptoms

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:07:15 GMT

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All of Me: Art from multiple personalities

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:41:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Kim Noble has dissociative identity disorder and her exhibition, All of Me, features works by each of her personalities

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Kim Noble has dissociative identity disorder and her exhibition, All of Me, features works by each of her personalities

Abi paints realistic looking lone figures surrounded by empty space. She has a full understanding of her dissociative identity disorder (DID).

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Anon is an artist who has not revealed her name. She depicts fairytales by applying thick white acrylic paint to large canvases.

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Bonny understands DID and was the main “alter” and carer for Kim’s daughter until four years ago.

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Dawn is a young personality who has been told she has DID but has no proper understanding of the condition.

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Judy is a teenage personality who does not understand DID. Her work is usually concerned with loss.

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Karen was one of the first personalities to draw and provided a sketch for a book by several of Kim’s personalities to explain DID to her young daughter.

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Ken is a male personality with a distinctive technique and the latest of Kim’s alters to take up painting.

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Mimi paints scenes through the eyes of a child.

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Female Sexual Dysfunction

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:02:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 1. Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder: "Not tonight! Every night"
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) is defined as a persistent lack of desire or absence of sexual fantasies, mood and sex stimulation.

2. Sexual Arousal Disorder: "Nothing Play Turn-On"
When your body ignores listening to your mind which says "YES" to sex, it's called sexual arousal disorder (SAD). Medically speaking, SAD is defined as the persistent or recurring inability to maintain adequate genital lubrication, swelling or other responses. Vaginal lubrication is dependent on the swelling of blood vessels in the genital region, so any impediment to blood flow could potentially cause SAD.

3. Female Orgasmic Disorder: "Lack of / No Orgasm"
A persistent delay in, or complete absence of, orgasm that causes the woman marked distress is called "female orgasmic disorder" (FOD).

4. Sexual Pain Disorders:
Perhaps the most extreme symptoms of female sexual dissatisfaction are those associated with sexual pain d

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What Is Female Sexual Dysfunction?

Like Erectile Dysfunction(ED) in men, Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD) includes women's issues and problems encountered pre, during or post sexual activity. The problems may vary with individual case, a majority of which includes lack of libido, least desire for sex, lack of orgasm, etc.

Here are some of the different manifestations and possible causes of FSD:

1. Loss of Libido / Sex Drive

2. Pain with Intercourse: Possible causes include

3. Lack of Orgasm or No orgasm at all

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Martial Law Would Be Declared If Bailout Not Passed In House

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:34:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As former California congressman Dan Hamburg said earlier this year, the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act gives the executive the power to invoke martial law in case of “major public emergencies,” not limited to “a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack,” but also “any other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order.” Obviously, a financial crash and ensuing social chaos of the sort now being implemented by the ruling elite would be characterized as a dire emergency and a near perfect excuse to impose martial law, a long standing goal of the elite. As the Army Times reported last month, a battle-hardened “homeland” brigade is now “going domestic” after spending time in Iraq. It appears this illegal deployment (under Posse Comitatus) is designed to respond to “public disorder” as the economy is deliberately and cynically dismantled at the behest of our rulers.

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In House debate on the banker “rescue” bill, Rep. Brad Sherman told his fellow Congress critters the government will declare martial law and the stock market will drop 3,000 points if the bill is not passed. “The panic-mongers were to the point of telling people the market would drop 3,000 points and there would be martial law,” said Sherman.

Sherman’s comment was not in the same context as a comment issued by Rep. Michael Burgess earlier in the week. Burgess, who appeared on the Alex Jones Show, said Pelosi threatened to invoke House rule XIII(6)(a), described as “martial law,” intended to suspend normal procedures and safeguards and thus allowing the House leadership to operate in a more authoritarian fashion.

The bailout plan is not only “economic fascism,” as Richard Viguerie has correctly noted, designed to loot the U.S. Treasury and reorganize and further consolidate elite control over the economy, but it is also a brazen effort to impose a martial law and dictatorship

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Why drugs aren't always the answer to ADHD

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:39:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

The answer to behavioural problems such as ADHD may not lie in the drug cabinet, writes Bernadette Tynan

Mark had always been well behaved in nursery school. But in primary school, he had become a nightmare. Regular bouts of hurling himself at other children and attacking equipment, combined with an inability to sit still and failure to respond to instructions had led to the dreaded words Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. The school indicated that Mark may have to be assessed for ADHD and the medication Ritalin prescribed.

This week, new guidelines from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence pronouncing that Ritalin (which acts by stimulating the central nervous system and can have a calming and focusing effect) should be prescribed with greater care, seem to suggest that they were right to be wary.

My experience over many years in the field of child development and psychology has led me to believe that one size does not fit all

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Psychoanalytic Therapy Wins Backing

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:55:05 GMT

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Intensive psychoanalytic therapy, the “talking cure” rooted in the ideas of Freud, has all but disappeared in the age of drug treatments and managed care.

But now researchers are reporting that the therapy can be effective against some chronic mental problems, including anxiety and borderline personality disorder.

The authors, writing in Wednesday’s issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, strongly urged scientists to undertake more testing of psychodynamic therapy, as it is known, before it is lost altogether as a historical curiosity.

The review is the first such evaluation of psychoanalysis to appear in a major medical journal, and the studies on which the new paper was based are not widely known among doctors.

Experts cautioned that the evidence cited in the new research was still too meager to claim clear superiority for psychoanalytic therapy over different treatments, like cognitive behavior therapy, a shorter-term approach.

Girl who bleeds without being cut baffles doctors

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:52:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A rare medical problem ...

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Girl who bleeds without being cut baffles doctors

Twinkle Dwivedi has a rare condition where she bleeds spontaneously from any part of her body

Villagers near her home in Uttar Pradesh, India, believe she must be cursed and shout cruel things in the street.

Indian medics now believe her condition is an extreme version of a rare blood platelet disorder for which they cannot find a cure.

"It didn't hurt. But it was scary and messy, and my friends thought it was disgusting.

Finally doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi decided she has Type 2 Platelet Disorder, a rare condition where blood is dangerously low in clotting particles.

However, a blood specialist in Britain came up with a different diagnosis and believes there may be hope.

Consultant haematologist Dr Drew Provan, of Barts Hospital in London, said:

"She may have Type II von Willebrand disease and she should see a coagulation doctor for treatment."

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Attention! Deficits Disorder

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:29:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The temporary tax measures in place during the war were repealed and, by the end of the 19th century, the debt had been reduced to $1.2 billion, less than half of its 1865 level.

Given the vast expansion of U.S. territory and the wars the country fought to create and then hold together the United States, this does not seem a large debt level. In fact, in its first 110 years of history, the United States had shown its ability to fund expansion while reducing debt over time. And this was accomplished without an income tax. In fact, in 1869 and again in 1895, the Supreme Court ruled federal income taxes unconstitutional.

The story was quite different in the 20th century. By the end of World War I, the national debt had risen to $26 billion. Even though the debt level had been reduced over the next decade, the Great Depression caused further deficit spending and FDR's New Deal tripled debt levels up to $72 billion.
In other words, the national debt is growing exponentially.

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In Madison's term of office, the ill-fated War of 1812 ran the national debt up to $127 million by 1816. Monroe and John Quincy Adams were both able to reduce the debt during their terms of office and by 1829 the debt had fallen to $58 million. And then, during Andrew Jackson's presidency, the national debt was entirely paid off. For the first time in its history (and the last) the United States had no national debt.

Over the next decade, the country ran up $46 million in new debt and by 1848 it rose to $63 million. However, in all fairness, one advantage of this was that the Mexican War resulted in U.S. expansion all the way to the Pacific and the acquisition of the entire southwest and California. Under the Pierce administration, the debt was paid down to $28 million; but it never got that low again.

The Civil War exploded the national debt up to $2.8 billion, or 100 times higher than in had been in 1857. Per capita debt in 1860 was $2 per capita; at the end of 1865, it was $75.

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Brain's Hub of Fear Found

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:08:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The results of the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and the Yerkes Center, are detailed in the October issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience.

The genetically engineered virus was injected into the amygdala of the mice by Emory graduate student Kimberly Maguschak. The amygdala is a part of the brain thought to be important for forming memories of emotionally charged events.

"We found that after beta-catenin is taken out, the mice can still learn to fear the shocks," Maguschak said. "But two days later, their fear doesn't seem to be retained because they spend half as much time freezing in response to the tone."

So it appears that beta-catenin is turned on in the amygdala to help in signaling during the learning process, Maguschak said.

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Scientists may have found the glue that keeps fearful memories stuck in the brain, a discovery that could be useful in new treatments for Alzheimer's disease and post-traumatic stress disorder.

That glue seems to be a protein that is key to maintaining the structure of cells and also is essential to embryonic development, a new study suggests.

Previous studies have found other factors that govern our feelings of fear:

One study found a 'fear factor' gene that controls how neurons fire in the brain when mice are faced with impending danger.

Another found that the brain can learn to fear something, such as a bee's sting, when we view someone else's fear.

Another recent study detailed how primates and other mammals learned to fear and avoid snakes.

During long-term memory formation, structural changes take place in the connections between neurons in the brain, or synapses

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A fifth of people using prescription drugs to boost concentration

Increasing numbers of people are using prescription medication like the attention deficit disorder drug Ritalin to boost alertness and brain power, a survey found.

Over 65 and living with depressiom

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All of Me: Art from multiple personalities

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Martial Law Would Be Declared If Bailout Not Passed In House

Why drugs aren't always the answer to ADHD

The answer to behavioural problems such as ADHD may not lie in the drug cabinet, writes Bernadette Tynan

Psychoanalytic Therapy Wins Backing

Girl who bleeds without being cut baffles doctors

Girl who bleeds without being cut baffles doctors

Attention! Deficits Disorder

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