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Brain Scans Show We Take Risks Because We Can’t Stop Ourselves

By Guest PostFebruary 7, 2014Healthadhd, austin, balloon analogue, bart, brain activity, brain scans, developing an addiction, drunk driving, executive function, external factor, health relevant, hunger, lack of sleep, magnetic resonance imaging, make decision, mri, patterns of activity, peer pressure, risk task, risky behavior, risky decisions, russell poldrack, sarah helfinstein, scanner, take risks, university of texas, unprotected sex, unsafe sex, video game

AUSTIN, Texas — A new study correlating brain activity with how people make decisions suggests that when individuals engage in risky behavior, such as drunk driving or unsafe sex, it’s probably not because their brains’ desire systems are too active, but because their self-control systems are not active enough.

This might have implications for how health experts treat mental illness and addiction or how the legal system assesses a criminal’s likelihood of committing another crime. (more…)

Who Won’t Take Their Medicine?

By Guest PostFebruary 3, 2014Healthhealth literacy, medication adherence, medication regimens, medication usage, patient care

UA anthropologist Susan J. Shaw and UA pharmacist Jeannie Lee have been awarded $1.48 million from the NIH to study medication adherence and health literacy

UA associate professor of anthropology Susan J. Shaw and UA assistant professor of pharmacy Jeannie Lee have received $1.48 million from the National Institutes of Health to study factors that impact medication adherence among residents in Massachusetts, where state law mandated that nearly every resident receive a minimum level of health care insurance coverage. (more…)

Nighttime smartphone use zaps workers’ energy

By Guest PostFebruary 3, 2014Health, Technologynighttime, productivity, recovery functions, smartphone use

Using a smartphone to cram in more work at night results in less work the next day, indicates new research co-authored by a Michigan State University business scholar. (more…)

How patients make medical decisions

By Guest PostFebruary 2, 2014Healthbenefit, cost, decision-making, diane swanbrow, eleanor singer, make, medical decision, patient, physician, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR — Sooner or later, everyone faces decisions about whether or not to have surgery, take a new medication or have a cancer-screening test.

A new University of Michigan study published in Health Expectations explores the costs and benefits patients say are important in making these kinds of medical decisions, and how those costs and benefits explain what they actually decide to do. (more…)

HIV meds dialogue differs by race, ethnicity

By Guest PostFebruary 1, 2014Healthasian ancestry, black, culture, factor, hispanic, hispanic patients, hiv care, hiv medicine, hiv meds dialogue, ira wilson, jonathan cohn, m barton laws, minority patients, somnath saha, utterances, volume of dialogue, yoojin lee

Researchers found specific racial/ethnic differences in discussions of HIV medicine adherence in a newly published analysis of recorded office visits between 45 doctors and nurse practitioners and more than 400 patients.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A lot of evidence shows that a patients’ race or ethnicity is associated with differences in how health care providers communicate with them, the health care they receive, and their health outcomes. In HIV care, a key to those outcomes is whether people take their medications as prescribed. A new study of the doctor-patient dialogue about HIV drug adherence found several specific differences in those conversations depending on patients’ race and ethnicity. (more…)

Mysteries of neuroscience

By Guest PostFebruary 1, 2014Healthbrain mechanism, known unknowns, mental illness, three pound universe, treatment approaches

What we don’t know: Neuroscience research at CMHC

The third floor of the CMHC houses the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit (CNRU), an inpatient and outpatient research facility. It’s an honor to be asked to start a dialogue with you about what we do on the CNRU. Over the next few months, I’d like to introduce you to the scientists and clinicians and their teams that work on the CNRU. Today I’d like to introduce you to some of the things we do on the 3^rd floor. (more…)

Vibrations influence the circadian clock of a fruit fly

By Guest PostJanuary 31, 2014Health, Sciencebipolar disorder, circadian clock, daily locomotor activity, depression, diurnal change, drosophila, external world time, fruit fly, insomnia, joerg albert, light, ralf stanewsky, temperature, temperature fluctuation, ucl ear institute, university college london, vibrations

The internal circadian clock of a Drosophila (fruit fly) can be synchronised using vibrations, according to research published today in the journal Science. The study suggests that an animal’s own movements can influence its clock.

The circadian clock, which underlies the daily rhythms characterising most of our bodily functions, including the sleep cycle, is mainly set by diurnal changes in light and temperature. (more…)

Yoga Can Lower Fatigue, Inflammation in Breast Cancer Survivors

By Guest PostJanuary 31, 2014Healthalpha, alzheimer disease, arthritis, biological measures, blood sample, breast cancer survivor, cardiorespiratory fitness, chronic inflammation, coronary heart disease, depressive symptoms, fatigue, il 1b, il 6, inflammation, inflammation related proteins, interleukin 1 beta, interleukin 6, janice kiecolt glaser, jeanette bennett, juan peng, levels of inflammation, markers of inflammation, ohio state university, practicing yoga, pro inflammatory cytokines, protein, ronald glaser, sleep quality, tnf-a, tumor necrosis factor, type 2 diabetes, yoga, yoga exercise

In study, the more women practiced, the better their results

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Practicing yoga for as little as three months can reduce fatigue and lower inflammation in breast cancer survivors, according to new research.

The more the women in the study practiced yoga, the better their results. (more…)

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