Monthly Archive for April, 2010
Scrambling for a Career
In the weeks after Match Day, the day that fourth-year medical students learn their fates for residency training, most medical students are reflecting on their results with joy, resignation, or despair. A handful of others are still reeling in the realization that their medical careers are going to look significantly different than they had planned.
Health Behaviors More Important than Socioeconomic Status
Many studies have reported that socioeconomic status is a predictor of morbidity and mortality. Now, a large-scale, longitudinal study asserts that the association may be more related to health behaviors than socioeconomic status. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), reports that assessment of health behaviors over time lessens the association between socioeconomic status and mortality.
Pulling The Plug Too Soon?
A new report raises important questions about whether or not some people diagnosed as irrevocably unconscious really are.The study published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) finds that some patients previously diagnosed to be in a vegetative state were mentally aware and able to communicate. Researchers found that when such patients were placed in an functional MRI (fMRI) scanner and asked questions, they exhibited measurable brain activity showing actual understanding and response.
Closing the Window of Fear
Excessive fear is the cause of many psychopathologies. Although pharmacological interventions can help in preventing the retrieval of fear memories, they are toxic and involve a lot of side-effects. Till now, non-pharmacological interventions were only effective in suppressing the memory of fear for a short period. A new technique developed by scientists at the Center for Neural Science and New York University has generated a lot of interest in the in the field of psychological therapy.According to a hypothesis called the reconsolidation theory, fear memories are consolidated every time they are recalled. Following an episode of fear stimuli, it's memory becomes unstable for some time which allows it to be updated. This window period of reconsolidation has provided scientists with a tool to modify it.
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