Monthly Archive for April, 2011
Reading between the Blogs
Blogger Lorelle VanFossen got it right when she wrote, "Your blog is your unedited version of yourself." Personal blogs not only reveal bloggers’ opinions on assorted motley topics such as fashion, politics, TV shows, food, pop culture, subculture, whatnots, but also expose the bloggers’ psyche. Psychologists have long suspected links between language and personality, but scientific investigations were restricted to a small number of people tasked to write short essays on a given topic. Recently, Tal Yarkoni, a researcher at University of Colorado at Boulder, analyzed over 80 million words from 694 bloggers and discovered strong, surprising, and sometimes amusing associations between personality traits and word use.
Self-Injury and the Internet
Deliberate nonsuicidal self-injury is the intentional harming of one’s own body, and may include cutting, burning, scratching, minor overdosing, banging, or hitting. New research finds that images and live-action videos depicting self-injury permeate the internet. The images are accessible to youth at risk for this dangerous behavior, and reinforce, glamorize, and provoke self-destructive behavior.
Standardized Labels to Improve Low Health Literacy
Low health literacy contributes to medication errors, noncompliance, low quality of life, and poor health outcomes. With an aging population on a never-ending stream of prescription and over-the-counter medications, the risk of confusion and misunderstanding of drug regimens is substantial. A new study published in Archives of Internal Medicine reports that most patients cannot even organize their own medications in an efficient way, let alone understand them.
Headache Treatment – Alternative or Illicit?
Headache disorders can be painful and debilitating conditions. Ranging from infrequent tension-type headaches to cluster headaches to migraines, headaches affect nearly every individual at one time or another. Pain – particularly of the neck and back – accompany many headaches. Traditional pharmacological treatment begins with acetaminophen (Tylenol), but this is not effective for all headache sufferers. More potent pain-killers are used in a step-wise manner to treat pain associated with headache, and preventive and abortive treatments are available and effective for certain types of headache. The most alarming headache treatment option to emerge is the use of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin (a hallucinogen derived from mushrooms).
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