What do suffering a traumatic brain injury and using club drugs have in common? University of Florida researchers say both may trigger a similar chemical chain reaction in the brain, leading to cell death, memory loss and potentially irreversible brain damage. [continue reading…]
November 2007
The joke, “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good,” may not be totally off the mark in the workplace.
In a recent study, no matter how they sliced the data and controlled certain variables, sociologists Elizabeth Gorman of the University of Virginia and Julie Kmec of Washington State University, came to the same conclusion: women say they have to work harder than men. [continue reading…]
Young children sometimes give the impression of being racially prejudiced – for example, by preferring to play with other children who have the same colour skin as them. To find out where these attitudes come from, Luigi Castelli and colleagues at the University of Padova in Italy, looked to parents and found that it is mothers’ perceived attitudes which are more influential than fathers’. [continue reading…]
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Treating people who have early memory problems with Alzheimer’s drugs seems to have no affect on the onslaught of the disease, researchers said Tuesday. Three main drugs — Aricept, or donepezil; Exelon, or rivastigmine; and Reminyl, or galantamine — are currently approved for use in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease. They are also often prescribed on a so-called “off-label” basis to people with pre-dementia. [continue reading…]
