Some of the same brain mechanisms of drug addiction in humans fuel accompany the emergence of binge eating behavior and the development of obesity in animals, according to a study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse ( NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health. The study, conducted by researchers at the Scripps Research Institute, was published in the online version of Nature Neuroscience and will also appear in May 2010 issue of magazine printing. When researchers gave rats access to different levels of fatty foods, they found only unrestricted availability can lead to drug responses, as in the brain, leading to compulsive eating behaviors and the onset of obesity.
“Substance abuse and obesity are two of the most difficult of health in the United States,” said Dr. Nora D. Volkow, director of NIDA. “This research opens the door to apply some of that knowledge we have collected in the study of addiction to overeating and obesity.”
Obesity and addiction have been linked to dysfunction in the brain’s reward system. In two cases, overuse can cause a gradual increase in the level of reward – that require more and more to the taste of fatty foods or improved drugs to meet the need in time.
Pregnancy can be a beautiful miracle, but it can be uncomfortable, especially when you know the worst heartburn of his life. And although we can not help you with arguments about baby names or even “cankles, we can help with the details of heartburn … pun intended.
What is this? Burnin Hunk o ‘Love
In talking to most obstetricians and pregnant women, heartburn is normal and widespread. About 40-80% of pregnant women complain of heartburn.
Heartburn is the name of those who suffer a heat experience “or” burn “behind his sternum, but it has nothing to do technically with the heart. You can burn higher, near the throat and is often accompanied by other nasty villains, and a bitter taste, bloating, burping and difficulty swallowing, as if pregnancy was not enough!
The capacity of your brain to information is a reliable predictor of Alzheimer’s disease may be cheap and easy to test, according to scientists. “We have developed a performance evaluation of low-cost index can anyone Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages,” said Michael Wenger, associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. “Looking (information) processing capacity, which can detect changes in the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI).”
MCI is a condition that affects language, memory and mental functions. Is different from the ordinary mental deterioration associated with aging and is a likely precursor of Alzheimer’s disease more severe. MCI and Alzheimer’s disease are related to a decrease in the volume of the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for long-term memory and spatial reasoning.
MRI – magnetic resonance imaging – are the most reliable and direct detection of atrophy of the hippocampus and the diagnosis of MCI. But for many, the procedure is not available or too expensive.
Young adults with hyperthyroidism face a 44 percent risk of stroke compared with those with normal thyroid function, according to a study published in Stroke, Journal of the American Heart Association.
“Strokes of undetermined cause accounts for between one third and one-quarter of all ischemic strokes among young people,” said Ching-Herng Lin, Ph.D., lead study author and professor at the School of care management Health, Faculty of Medicine Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan. “To the best of our knowledge, hyperthyroidism has not been considered a risk factor for stroke in the group 18 to 44 years.”
Hyperthyroidism, also known as overactive thyroid is a common endocrine disorder that affects approximately 0.5 percent (1 in 200 people) to 2 percent (1 to 50) of the world’s population, including a large group of young adults, said Lin. This condition causes an overproduction of thyroid hormone, which speeds up the metabolism and causes symptoms such as sweating, weight loss, diarrhea and nervousness.