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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Motivation To Reduce Smoking May Be Weakened By Taking Vitamin Pills A recent study revealed that smokers who take multivitamins actually make up for their healthy habit by smoking more. Psychologists call this the licensing effect, which happens when someone makes a good choice which later enables them to make a bad choice such as, when a person feels 'entitled' to a weekend binge drinking by avoiding alcohol all week.	01 Aug 2011
Imaging Shows Changes In Mood Regulating Areas Of Brain Among Heavy Smokers Who Try To Quit Heavy smokers who try to quit are typically affected by unpleasant mood changes. A brain imaging study has showed that certain areas of the brain linked to mood regulation really are affected, providing clues to why some heavy smokers find it so hard to give up.	01 Aug 2011
Self-Medicating Anxiety Raises Risk Of Social Phobia And Substance Abuse Disorders Individuals with anxiety-related symptoms who self-medicate with drugs or alcohol have a higher risk of having a substance abuse problem and social phobia, researchers from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, revealed in Archives of General Psychiatry.	01 Aug 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Dying Dementia Patients And Their Families Benefit From Hospice Care Hospice services substantially improved the provision of care and support for nursing home patients dying of dementia and their families, according to an analysis of survey responses from hundreds of bereaved family members.	01 Aug 2011
Scientist Converts Human Skin Cells Into Functional Brain Cells: Breakthrough Is Likely To Advance Medicine And Human Health A scientist at the Gladstone Institutes has discovered a novel way to convert human skin cells into brain cells, advancing medicine and human health by offering new hope for regenerative medicine and personalized drug discovery and development.	01 Aug 2011
In The Pursuit Of Dangerous Clumps: Customized Surfaces Help Reveal The Causes Of Diseases When normal proteins form protein clumps in the body, then alarm bells start ringing. Such clumps, called "amyloids," are closely associated with Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes, formerly called adult-onset diabetes.	01 Aug 2011

Dentistry News
Bone Fluoride Levels Not Associated With Osteosarcoma The International and American Associations for Dental Research have released in its Journal of Dental Research a study that investigated bone fluoride levels in individuals with osteosarcoma, which is a rare, primary malignant bone tumor that is more prevalent in males.	01 Aug 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Mobile Phone Technology Helps Patients Manage Diabetes An interactive computer software program appears to be effective in helping patients manage their Type 2 diabetes using their mobile phones, according to a new study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers.	01 Aug 2011
New Analytical Tools Developed For The Fast And Accurate Reconstruction Of Neural Networks The human brain is the most complex of all organs, containing billions of neurons with their corresponding projections, all woven together in a highly complex, three-dimensional web. To date, mapping this vast network posed a practically insurmountable challenge to scientists.	01 Aug 2011

Mental Health News
Mental Disorders And Psychosocial Adversities During Childhood Linked To Chronic Physical Conditions Later On A child who has a psychological adversity or a mental disorder that starts during childhood has a higher chance of developing a long-term (chronic) physical condition later on, researchers from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand reported in Archives of General Psychiatry.	01 Aug 2011
Psychiatric Hospitalizations Increased Among Children And Teens, But Dropped Among Seniors Over the last decade more children and teenagers and fewer seniors have been admitted to hospital for short stays for a primary psychiatric diagnosis, a researcher from the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, State University of New York wrote in Archives of General Psychiatry.	01 Aug 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Dying Dementia Patients And Their Families Benefit From Hospice Care Hospice services substantially improved the provision of care and support for nursing home patients dying of dementia and their families, according to an analysis of survey responses from hundreds of bereaved family members.	01 Aug 2011

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