1. GIPc and Extracellular NMDA Receptors
Zhaohong Yi, Ronald S. Petralia, Zhanyan Fu, Catherine Croft Swanwick, Ya-Xian Wang, Kate Prybylowski, Nathalie Sans, Stefano Vicini, and Robert J. Wenthold
The usual textbook view is that synaptic receptors, particularly NMDA receptors, are stably anchored at synapses, whereas extra synaptic receptors are wandering freely in the [...]
Too few businesses have grasped the link between the sort of workplaces they have developed and the problem of absentee staff, according to chair of the Council of Civil Service Unions (CCSU) Mark Serwotka.
He added that a front page story last week (Monday 5 July) in the Daily Mail, about increasing sickness absence [...]
Changing one’s diet to lose weight is often difficult. There may be physical and psychological effects from a changed diet that reduce the chances for success. With nearly 65% of the adult population currently classified as overweight or obese and with calorically dense foods high in fat and carbohydrates readily available, investigating those factors that [...]
If your neighbor’s barking dog drives you crazy, pity the employees of the nation’s animal shelters, where the noise produced by howling, barking and yapping dogs often exceeds that produced by a jackhammer.
And pity the poor dogs.
“While employees may wear hearing protectors, dogs don’t have that option,” said Crista Coppola, [...]
Immediate relatives (brother, sister, mother, father, son or daughter) of people who have Parkinson’s disease are at increased risk for developing depression and anxiety disorders, according to a new study by Mayo Clinic. The risk is particularly increased in families of patients who develop Parkinson’s disease before age 75. The Mayo Clinic report appears in [...]
Longstanding anger and hostility compromise lung function and hasten the natural decline in lung power that is a normal part of aging, reveals research published ahead of print in Thorax.
The authors base their findings on a study of 670 men, taking part in the long term US Normative Aging Study. Their ages [...]
There’s depression, and then there’s double depression.
Sound bad? It is, according to Thomas Joiner, Florida State University Distinguished Research Professor and the Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology, who has identified hopelessness as a distinguishing feature of double depression in a new paper published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. The finding could help [...]
Thousands of World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers were still suffering serious mental health effects three years after the disaster, the Health Department reports. New findings released from the World Trade Center Health Registry show that one in eight rescue and recovery workers (12.4%) likely had post-traumatic stress disorder when they were interviewed in [...]
A higher level of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder may increase the risk of coronary heart disease in older men, according to a report in the January issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
A link between stress and coronary heart disease (CHD) has long been proposed. Numerous studies [...]
Each year, many people seek emergency treatment for unexplained chest pains. A thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, indicates several common factors among those affected, including stress at work, anxiety, depression and a sedentary lifestyle.
Chest pain is a common reason for patients to seek emergency treatment. A considerable number of [...]
