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People who experience certain breathing problems at night may be more likely to develop cognitive impairment...
...than individuals without any difficulties breathing while they sleep, a research review suggests.
Does longer exposure to estrogen during a woman’s adult life may provide protection against depression during menopause and post-menopause?
In a new study, researchers analyzed data from a large sample of children and found those whose mothers took antidepressant medications while pregnant were no more likely to be diagnosed with intellectual disability than those who weren’t exposed to antidepressants in the womb.
“There has certainly been a lot of reports about associations between taking medication - particularly psychiatric medication - during pregnancy and various outcomes,” said Dr. Alexander Kolevzon, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
Kolevzon and colleagues write in JAMA Psychiatry that antidepressant use in pregnancy has been linked to shorter pregnancies and lower birth weights. Some studies have also tied the medications to an increased risk of autism.
This article is about safety. It is not our position to argue gun control, the issue of safety starts in the home.
American children died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds at a sharply higher rate in 2014 than seven years earlier, according to a recent study, which said that the safe storage of firearms could make a big difference in preventing youth suicides.
Cannabis smokers often report that they use the drug to relax or relieve stress, but few studies provide clinical evidence of these effects.
Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago report that low levels tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the main psychoactive compound in marijuana, does reduce stress,
but in a highly dose-dependent manner: very low doses lessened the jitters of a public-speaking task, while slightly higher doses ….enough to produce a mild “high”….actually increased anxiety.
having high cardiorespiratory fitness may cut the risk of death in half compared to those in poor condition, researchers say.
...especially if they have previously been emotionally abused,
in the present and, at least for men, in the future, too, according to a study published online in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
