- June 13, 2013
- 07:33 PM
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The Daddy Chronicles II: Parenting Boosts Immune Function
by Psych Your Mind in Psych Your Mind
I've been doing this whole parenting thing for almost three months now and it has been simultaneously gratifying, terrifying, exhausting, and fascinating. One thing I haven't been doing is sleeping, and because of this I have had a lot of time to read up on some neat research on new parents. Last time I wrote about how parenting reduces Testosterone in men. Today I blog about the relationship between parenting and immune function.
Can parenting boost the immune system?
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Sneed, R., Cohen, S., Turner, R., & Doyle, W. (2012) Parenthood and Host Resistance to the Common Cold. Psychosomatic Medicine, 74(6), 567-573. DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31825941ff
- June 13, 2013
- 05:00 PM
- 92 views
Risk of injury from ‘foot type’ – back to ‘overpronation’
by Craig Payne in Running Research Junkie
Risk of injury from ‘foot type’ – back to ‘overpronation’... Read more »
Tong JW, & Kong PW. (2013) Association Between Foot Type and Lower Extremity Injuries: Systematic Literature Review With Meta-analysis. The Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapy. PMID: 23756327
- June 13, 2013
- 04:31 PM
- 42 views
Halogenated Graphene Catalyst May Replace Platinum in Fuel Cells
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
A group of scientists from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea, has developed a new metal-free fuel cell catalyst using edge-halogenated graphene nanoscale platelets. As a replacement for the expensive platinum-based catalysts this graphene application opens a way to affordable fuel cells.... Read more »
Jeon, I., Choi, H., Choi, M., Seo, J., Jung, S., Kim, M., Zhang, S., Zhang, L., Xia, Z., Dai, L.... (2013) Facile, scalable synthesis of edge-halogenated graphene nanoplatelets as efficient metal-free eletrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/srep01810
- June 13, 2013
- 03:59 PM
- 77 views
Putting the Social back... and forth
by Aurametrix team in Health Technologies
In the year 2006 'google' was officially declared a verb in Oxford Dictionary and Merriam Webster. But startups have not given up on building search engines. That same year Facebook opened its doors to users over the age of 13, preparing for exponential growth spurt. The list of startups working on yet another social network and lining up to present their sites at Silicon Valley New Tech Meetup kept growing too. And so were the crowds attending the meetups - as everybody wanted to see the next ........ Read more »
Cantor M, & Whitehead H. (2013) The interplay between social networks and culture: theoretically and among whales and dolphins. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 368(1618), 20120340. PMID: 23569288
- June 13, 2013
- 03:53 PM
- 42 views
Cells reach out their “hands” to create new limbs
by Gal Haimovich in Green Fluorescent Blog
Communication between cells takes many forms. There could be communication by sending out microvesicles with important messages inside, by sending out free molecules (like hormones) or by special structures (e.g. synapses). Sonic hedgehog (SHH) is a signaling protein that is important … Continue reading →... Read more »
Sanders TA, Llagostera E, & Barna M. (2013) Specialized filopodia direct long-range transport of SHH during vertebrate tissue patterning. Nature, 497(7451), 628-32. PMID: 23624372
- June 13, 2013
- 12:47 PM
- 44 views
UH Astrobiologists Find Martian Clay Contains Chemical Implicated in the Origin of Life
by Perikis Livas in Tracing Knowledge
Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa NASA Astrobiology Institute (UHNAI) have discovered high concentrations of boron in a Martian meteorite. When present in its oxidized form (borate), boron may have played a key role in the formation of RNA, one of the building blocks for life.... Read more »
University of Hawaii at Manoa. (2013) UH Astrobiologists Find Martian Clay Contains Chemical Implicated in the Origin of Life. University of Hawaii at Manoa. info:/
- June 13, 2013
- 12:01 PM
- 49 views
Blinkers and non-blinkers have differences in attentional blink
by Usman Paracha in SayPeople
Main Point:
Blinkers and non-blinkers have individual differences in selective attention and the ability of the non-blinkers to sense the targets presented in close temporal succession might be due to fairly quicker and exact target selection process.
Published in:
PLoS ONE
Study Further:
Many people are unable to respond to the second target when presented in close time to the first (200-500 ms interval) and this phenomenon is known as attentional blink (AB). This concept is in r........ Read more »
Willems, C., Wierda, S., van Viegen, E., & Martens, S. (2013) Individual Differences in the Attentional Blink: The Temporal Profile of Blinkers and Non-Blinkers. PLoS ONE, 8(6). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066185
- June 13, 2013
- 11:22 AM
- 53 views
Body Dysmorphic Disorder puts ugly in the brain of the beholder
by Ben Buchanan in United Academics
When people think of mental problems related to body image, often the first thing that comes to mind is the thin figure associated with anorexia. Body dysmorphic disorder is less well known, but has around five times the prevalence of anorexia (about 2% of the population), and a high level of psychological impairment. It’s a mental disorder where the main symptom is excessive fear of looking ugly or disfigured. Central to the diagnosis is the fact that the person actually looks normal.... Read more »
Buchanan, B., Rossell, S., Maller, J., Toh, W., Brennan, S., & Castle, D. (2013) Brain connectivity in body dysmorphic disorder compared with controls: a diffusion tensor imaging study. Psychological Medicine, 1-9. DOI: 10.1017/S0033291713000421
- June 13, 2013
- 10:53 AM
- 65 views
Down the wrong path : Book details psychiatry’s lack of objective science
by Perikis Livas in Tracing Knowledge
Psychiatry — which uses well-intentioned coercion, unscientific diagnoses and psychoactive drugs that do as much harm as good — is a science that is off course, according to a new book co-written by Tomi Gomory, an associate professor in the Florida State University College of Social Work.... Read more »
Jeffery Seay. (2013) Down the wrong path : Book details psychiatry's lack of objective science. Florida State University. info:/
- June 13, 2013
- 10:04 AM
- 40 views
New Picture of Ice Could Revolutionize Gas Hydrates Understanding, Hydrogen Storage
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
A collaboration between Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers and a team led by the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Malcolm Guthrie has led to discoveries about how ice behaves under pressure, changing ideas that date back almost 50 years. The findings could alter scientists’ understanding of how the water molecule responds to conditions found deep within planets and could have implications for energy science.... Read more »
Guthrie, M., Boehler, R., Tulk, C., Molaison, J., dos Santos, A., Li, K., & Hemley, R. (2013) Neutron diffraction observations of interstitial protons in dense ice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309277110
- June 13, 2013
- 09:40 AM
- 49 views
Scientists Discover How to Trigger the Fruit Growth Hormone
by Geetanjali Yadav in United Academics
If someone told you to put your rock hard green McIntosh apple with a banana as that would make it ripe, you sure would scoff a little. But, believe your ears and do that yourself. It’s an easy way to get that red juicy goodness without spending a single penny! It sounds like magic – but it’s pure science. A very recent study by scientists from the Salk institute for Biological Studies have published their finding in the online international journal eLIFE – stating that ........ Read more »
Katherine Noelani Chang, Shan Zhong, Matthew T Weirauch, Gary Hon, Mattia Pelizzola, Hai Li, Shao-shan Carol Huang, Robert J Schmitz, Mark A Urich, Dwight Kuo, Joseph R Nery, Hong Qiao, Ally Yang, Abdullah Jamali, Huaming Chen, Trey Ideker, Bing Ren, Ziv . (2013) Temporal transcriptional response to ethylene gas drives growth hormone cross-regulation in Arabidopsis . eLife. info:/
- June 13, 2013
- 09:18 AM
- 175 views
Running to the heart's discontent
by Emilie Reas in Runner's Rationale
Running to the heart's discontent... Read more »
Burr JF, Drury CT, Phillips AA, Ivey A, Ku J, & Warburton DE. (2013) Long-term ultra-marathon running and arterial compliance. Journal of science and medicine in sport / Sports Medicine Australia. PMID: 23707138
- June 13, 2013
- 07:47 AM
- 49 views
Stress Leaves Its Mark on Dad’s Sperm
by Anouk Vleugels in United Academics
For the first time, researchers have found that stress can leave an epigenetic mark on sperm, which then alters the offspring’s hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, a part of the brain that deals with responding to stress. The study was published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
The experiment was conducted with preadolescent and adult male mice, in which stress was induced – for example by confronting the mice with predator odor (fox urine) or foreign objects in their cages......... Read more »
Rodgers, A., Morgan, C., Bronson, S., Revello, S., & Bale, T. (2013) Paternal Stress Exposure Alters Sperm MicroRNA Content and Reprograms Offspring HPA Stress Axis Regulation. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(21), 9003-9012. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0914-13.2013
- June 13, 2013
- 07:02 AM
- 43 views
Be prepared for the big genome leak
by Perikis Livas in Tracing Knowledge
It is only a matter of time until idealism sees the release of confidential genetic data on study participants, says Steven E. Brenner.... Read more »
Brenner, S. (2013) Be prepared for the big genome leak. Nature, 498(7453), 139-139. DOI: 10.1038/498139a
- June 13, 2013
- 04:50 AM
- 52 views
A preliminary psychology of "keeping it real"
by Christian Jarrett in BPS Research Digest
Keeping it real often means hanging out
From Ancient Greek philosophy to humanistic psychology to modern day rap songs, there's a long tradition of espousing the benefits of being true to yourself or "keeping it real". Despite this interest, a new study by Alison Lenton is one of the first to investigate what being true to oneself actually feels like, how often it happens and in what circumstances.
Lenton and her colleagues began by surveying 104 participants (average age 35; 66 women) on th........ Read more »
Lenton, A., Bruder, M., Slabu, L., & Sedikides, C. (2013) How Does “Being Real” Feel? The Experience of State Authenticity. Journal of Personality, 81(3), 276-289. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00805.x
- June 13, 2013
- 03:16 AM
- 66 views
The Autism Impact Measure and more
by Paul Whiteley in Questioning Answers
It's the usual excuse from me, "the dog ate my homework sir", no not that one, the one about me having a busy week so not being able to post a particularly detailed blog entry this time around. Indeed although there is the usual plethora of research material to pick from, only a few studies have really caught me eye so far this week. But those studies are pretty interesting....Must try harder @ Wikipedia I'm starting with the paper by Stephen Kanne and colleagues* and their descriptio........ Read more »
Kanne, S., Mazurek, M., Sikora, D., Bellando, J., Branum-Martin, L., Handen, B., Katz, T., Freedman, B., Powell, M., & Warren, Z. (2013) The Autism Impact Measure (AIM): Initial Development of a New Tool for Treatment Outcome Measurement. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-013-1862-3
- June 12, 2013
- 10:21 PM
- 51 views
Brain imag(in)ing the make believe
by Shelly Fan in Neurorexia
I seldom get worked up over the fate of fictional characters. That said, I joined millions in horror as the infamous Red Wedding (or “Rains of Castarmere”) finally unfolded on screen in last week’s Game of Thrones. Having read the books, I’ve waited for the *spoilers/youknowwhat* with a mixture of dread and anticipation. When it […]... Read more »
Mikkel Wallentin, Andreas Højlund Nielsen, Peter Vuust, Anders Dohn, Andreas Roepstorff, & Torben Ellegaard Lund. (2011) Amygdala and heart rate variability responses from listening to emotionally intense parts of a story. Neuroimage, 963-973. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.077
Mar RA. (2011) The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. Annual review of psychology, 103-34. PMID: 21126178
- June 12, 2013
- 07:35 PM
- 63 views
What lies behind illusions?
by sedeer in Inspiring Science
Humans have an exquisite sense of vision. It’s the primary sense for most of us and our making way of …Continue reading »... Read more »
Eagleman, D. (2001) TIMELINE: Visual illusions and neurobiology. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2(12), 920-926. DOI: 10.1038/35104092
- June 12, 2013
- 04:50 PM
- 47 views
When Cleaning fMRI Data is a Nuisance
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic_Discover
A flaw in data processing could be leading to biases in fMRI brain functional connectivity patterns, according to a new report: The Nuisance of Nuisance Regression. Ironically, two high-profile recent papers about bias are amongst the victims. The new paper, from Pittsburgh’s Michael Hallquist and colleagues, is essentially about a case where 2 + 2 [...]... Read more »
Hallquist, M., Hwang, K., & Luna, B. (2013) The Nuisance of Nuisance Regression: Spectral Misspecification in a Common Approach to Resting-State fMRI Preprocessing Reintroduces Noise and Obscures Functional Connectivity. NeuroImage. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.116
- June 12, 2013
- 02:45 PM
- 49 views
A journey to the active Sun
by Perikis Livas in Tracing Knowledge
After approximately two months of preparations in Kiruna in the north of Sweden, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise has lifted off successfully today at 7.37 a.m. CEST. For one week the team has been waiting for favorable weather conditions. Polar winds will now grasp the huge, helium-filled balloon and the gondola, carrying Sunrise westward around the North Pole at a height of more than 35 kilometers. Equipped with the largest solar telescope ever to have left the Earth’s surface........ Read more »
Dr. Birgit Krummheuer. (2013) A journey to the active Sun. Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau. info:/
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