“Economic insomnia” is one more complication of America’s financial meltdown, and psychiatric experts warn that it could be making us crazy. People are losing sleep worrying about job loss, foreclosure and bankruptcy. The longer the recession continues, the greater the chance that the financial boogeyman will creep out of the closet and steal away our […]
Children Can Strain Marital Bliss
There is nothing so miraculous and charming as a sleeping baby — and nothing so frustrating or exasperating as a tantruming toddler. Children have the power to evoke a wide range of emotions in their parents — often running through the entire emotional repertoire from love to resentment within the space of a few hours. […]
Brain Injuries Common in Our Troops
Mark McDonough PhD, who specializes in brain injuries spoke at an international conference on combat stress and discussed the impact of brain injuries on troops. He concluded that traumatic brain injury may be the “signature injury” of the Iraq war. The Kelvar helmets help prevent penetrating head wounds, but don’t adequately protect an individual from […]
Old Brains Can Still Learn
We used to believe that we were born with all of the new brain cells we would have for life. Once we reached adulthood, we can’t learn any more new tricks. Actually it’s not quite that way, but in general neural stem cells (undifferentiated brain cells, like fetal brain cells) were thought to only exist […]
WalMart Offers Walk in Care
WalMart’s SEO Lee Scott has developed his own solution to healthcare reform with the arrival of RediClinic inside Walmart Store. Now you can shop and have your bronchitis treated all in one trip 7 days a week. The service is designed to reach the uninsured as their services are low cost. For example, a visit […]
Is Iraq War Causing Mental Illness?
A study lead by Dr. Karen H. Seal of University of California, San Francisco found that 25% of the 100,000 veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan as of November 2005 were diagnosed with a mental disorder. This study was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine (2007:167 pp 476-82). The most common diagnosis was Post-Traumatic […]