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Your Sleep Improves Your Memory

From University of California - San Diego Relational memory is the ability to remember arbitrary or indirect associations between objects, people or events, such as names with faces, where you left your car keys and whether you turned off the stove after cooking but...

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Taking Antibiotics Could be Detrimental to Athletes

From University of California - Riverside New research demonstrates that by killing essential gut bacteria, antibiotics ravage athletes' motivation and endurance. The UC Riverside-led mouse study suggests the microbiome is a big factor separating athletes from couch...

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Mood of Doctor Can Impact Likelihood of Getting Sued

From University of Melbourne Australian doctors are more likely to be sued for medical negligence if they are unhappy, overworked, working in rural areas, or if they have suffered a recent injury or illness according to new research from the University of Melbourne....

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An Assessment Tool for Elderly Driver Safety

From North Carolina State University Researchers from North Carolina State University and Texas Tech University have developed a straightforward questionnaire that older adults can use to assess their "attentional performance" during driving. In proof-of-concept...

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If You Smoke Pot, Your Anesthesiologist Needs to Know

Node Smith, ND When Colorado legalized marijuana, it became a pioneer in creating new policies to deal with the drug. Now the state's surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists are becoming pioneers of a different sort in understanding what weed may do to patients who go...

Ketamine for Depression, Not an Opioid

Node Smith, ND Ketamine has gotten a bad rap as an opioid when there’s plenty of evidence suggesting it isn’t one, Johns Hopkins experts say. They believe this reputation may hamper patients from getting necessary treatment for the kinds of depression that don’t...

Brain Exam that Trump ‘Aced’ is Being Questioned

Node Smith, ND Last year, Dr. Ronny Jackson, then the White House physician, gave Donald Trump a standard test to detect early signs of dementia — and said the president had scored a perfect 30. “There is no indication whatsoever that he has any cognitive issues,”...

Study Looks at Antipsychotic Use in Kids with ADHD

Node Smith, ND Although fewer young people with ADHD are treated with antipsychotic drugs than suspected, many prescriptions for the drugs do not appear to be clinically warranted, according to a new study from psychiatry researchers at Columbia University Vagelos...

Resveratrol for Stress and Anxiety?

Node Smith, ND Like to unwind with a glass of red wine after a stressful day? Don't give alcohol all the credit. New research has revealed that the plant compound resveratrol, which is found in red wine, displays anti-stress effects by blocking the expression of an...

Study on Delivery Type Affecting Twins Psychological Development

Node Smith, ND A research team of the University of Malaga (UMA) in the area of Medicine and Psychology has analyzed, for the first time, the effect of the type of delivery on twins' psychological development and intelligence, demonstrating that cesarean section...

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Cannabis Use Linked to Psychosis in Some Young Adults

Proponents of cannabis say that there is no harm in smoking a joint, but a new study by McGill University finds otherwise. The research indicates young adults at high risk for psychosis can aggravate their symptoms by using cannabis. While it has been known in the...

Mainstream Science Links Uterine Tumors to Phthalates

Chemicals that are used in everyday products (phthalates) can now legitimately be blamed for uterine tumor growth, following a study by Northwestern Medicine.  According to corresponding study author Dr. Serdar Bulun, chair of the department of obstetrics and...

Dr. Oz Nominated to Head CMS

Appointment Ushers In Potential Health Insurance Reform  As President-Elect Donald Trump prepares for the White House, his list of nominees for various government positions grows more controversial. Earlier this week, Trump nominated Mehmet Oz, MD to head the Centers...

Nature’s Healing Power Gains Scientific Backing

Study shows that children cope better with mental stress when exposed to nature In a study by McGill University and Université de Montréal's Observatoire, more than 500 children with mental health issues, aged 10-12, were monitored in Quebec to determine how spending...

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation and Melanoma

NODE SMITH, ND For patients with cancers that do not respond to immunotherapy drugs, adjusting the composition of microorganisms in the intestines -- known as the gut microbiome -- through the use of stool, or fecal, transplants may help some of these individuals...

Sperm Cells Poison Competitors to Implant Egg

NODE SMITH, ND Competition among sperm cells is fierce -- they all want to reach the egg cell first to fertilize it. A research team from Berlin now shows in mice that the ability of sperm to move progressively depends on the protein RAC1. Optimal amounts of active...

Why Some Men Respond Aggressively When ‘Manhood’ is Questioned

NODE SMITH, ND When their manhood is threatened, some men respond aggressively, but not all. New research from Duke University suggests who may be most triggered by such threats -- younger men whose sense of masculinity depends heavily on other people's opinions. "Our...

How Does Trauma-Focused Psychotherapy Work?

NODE SMITH, ND Trauma-focused psychotherapy is widely considered the best available treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the ways in which this method affects the brain to promote recovery from PTSD are not well understood. In a new study...

Adverse Childhood Upbringing Changes Later Opportunities

NODE SMITH, ND An adverse upbringing often impairs people's circumstances and health in their adult years, especially for couples who have both had similar experiences. This is shown by a new study, carried out by Uppsala University researchers, in which 818 mothers...

Study Shows Exercise Alone Can Lower Inflammation

NODE SMITH, ND Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated that human muscle has an innate ability to ward off the damaging effects of chronic inflammation when exercised. The discovery was made possible through the use of lab-grown, engineered human...

Brain Stimulation Improves Temporal Memory Recall

NODE SMITH, ND You might remember you ate cereal for breakfast but forget the color of the bowl. Or recall watching your partner put the milk away but can't remember on which shelf. A new Northwestern Medicine study improved memory of complex, realistic events similar...

Closeness to Nature Helps Prevent Depression

NODE SMITH, ND Depression, especially in urban areas, is on the rise, now more than ever. Mental health outcomes are influenced by, among other things, the type of environment where one lives. Former studies show that urban greenspace has a positive benefit on people...

Study Shows Exercise Alone Can Lower Inflammation

NODE SMITH, ND Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated that human muscle has an innate ability to ward off the damaging effects of chronic inflammation when exercised. The discovery was made possible through the use of lab-grown, engineered human...

Brain Stimulation Improves Temporal Memory Recall

NODE SMITH, ND You might remember you ate cereal for breakfast but forget the color of the bowl. Or recall watching your partner put the milk away but can't remember on which shelf. A new Northwestern Medicine study improved memory of complex, realistic events similar...

Closeness to Nature Helps Prevent Depression

NODE SMITH, ND Depression, especially in urban areas, is on the rise, now more than ever. Mental health outcomes are influenced by, among other things, the type of environment where one lives. Former studies show that urban greenspace has a positive benefit on people...

Microglia Behind Depression/Inflammation Link

NODE SMITH, ND Special immune cells found in the brain, microglia, play a key role in the processes that make you feel uneasy and depressed in correlation with inflammation. This is the conclusion of a study using mice carried out by researchers at Linköping...

Lack of Sleep Can Look a Lot Like Concussion

NODE SMITH, ND A new study suggests that a lot of people might be going through life with symptoms that resemble concussion -- a finding supporting researchers' argument that athletes recovering from a brain injury should be assessed and treated on a highly...

The Reproductive Microbiome: Profound Implications of New Research

SARAH WYLIE, ND and JACLYN CHASSE-SMEATON, ND  Once upon a time, I attended the birth of a patient in a teaching hospital in Vermont. The baby was born and crying healthfully at her mother’s breast, and it was time for the mother’s uterus to contract...

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Why I Became a Naturopathic Doctor

Jenna Henderson, N.D. Like most naturopathic doctors, I was drawn to alternatives when I reached the limits of mainstream medicine.  In my situation it was extreme, I was already in kidney failure when I enrolled in naturopathic college.  By that time, I had seen the...