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AUCKLAND, New Zealand, March 7, 2013 /CNW/ - The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) is sharing innovative Canadian approaches to mental health research with an international audience in New Zealand this week. MHCC President and CEO Louise Bradley is among 300 leaders and experts in mental health from eight countries sharing best practices in mental health and disability services at the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) exchange in Auckland, New...
LONDON, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Defence IQ has this week forged a new partnership with Strategic Defence Intelligence in a bid to make access to defence industry reports as easy as possible. The Defence IQ Industry Report Store (http://defenceiq.industryreportstore.com) has been created and will allow those with focuses on particular sectors of the industry instant access to market analysis and reports. These reports draw on robust primary and secondary research,...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A consortium of scientists has identified a new protein regulator of taste, findings that help unlock the mystery of exactly how cells transmit taste information to the brain for three out of the five primary taste types. The researchers identified CALHM1, a channel in the walls of taste receptor cells, as a necessary component in the process of sweet, bitter, and umami (savory) taste perception. The other two taste types, sour...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers writing in Computers in Human Behavior suggest older adults with low levels of emotional well-being should try looking to a little Nintendo for help. According to North Carolina State University researchers, older adults who played video games during their study reported having higher levels of emotional well-being. The team surveyed 140 adults aged 63 and older about how often they played video games, if at all....
NEW YORK, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BedtimeNetwork.com, the only website dedicated to helping women and those they love make bedtime and sleep better, announces the first, "Friends Help Friends Sleep Better," campaign and contest http://www.bedtimenetwork.com/friends-dont-let-friends-lose-sleep-contest in time for National Sleep Awareness Week. The benefits of a good night's sleep are recognized as an essential component of good health joining the likes of diet and exercise. A...
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have, for the first time, identified a specific group of cells in the brainstem whose activation during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is critical for the regulation of emotional memory processing. The findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, could help lead to the development of effective behavioral and pharmacological therapies to treat anxiety disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias and panic attacks....
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Those who have trouble falling asleep at night might have one more thing to cause them grief. According to a new study published in the European Heart Journal, people who experience symptoms of insomnia are three times more likely to suffer from heart failure. This study, the largest of its kind to date, followed 54,279 people for more than 11 years. Though researchers were able to identify a link between insomnia and heart...
BioMed Central Boys are right-handed, girls are left...Well at least this is true for sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) and grey short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica), finds an article in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, and shows that handedness in marsupials is dependent on gender. This preference of one hand over another has developed despite the absence of a corpus collosum, the part of the brain which in placental mammals allows one half of the...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online An international team of researchers led by Cornell University reveals that it is possible to tell who a person is thinking about by analyzing images of his or her brain. Nathan Spreng, assistant professor of human development in Cornell's College of Human Ecology, and his colleagues demonstrate that our mental models of people produce unique patterns of brain activation, which can be detected using advanced imaging techniques....
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new brain imaging study from Oxford University reveals that the phantom pain many amputees feel in the missing limb is linked to changes in the brain that occur following amputation. Arm amputees who maintained strong representations of the missing hand in their brains – to the point where it was indistinguishable from persons with both hands – experienced the most phantom limb pain. The research team hopes that their...
