by Becky | Aug 30, 2019 | 2015, Alternative Therapies, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Brain Health, Infant and Children's Health, Sleep
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. This study offers a brief, tailored behavioral sleep intervention for children with ADHD and sleep problems that not only improves sleep but also the severity of ADHD symptoms, behavior, daily functioning, quality of life, and working memory, six months after randomization. (more…)
by Becky | Aug 21, 2019 | 2019, Amino Acids, Brain Health, Stress
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Matcha tea, with a CE/TA ratio of 2 or less was shown to significantly modify the stress response in a mice model of psychological stress as well as in stressed pharmacy students who consumed baked cookies with added matcha. (more…)
by Becky | Aug 19, 2019 | 2018, Brain Health, Depression, Infant and Children's Health
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Study finds that associations between screen time and lower psychological well-being were larger among adolescents than younger children. (more…)
by Becky | Aug 19, 2019 | 2017, Brain Health, Lutein, Zeaxanthin
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. One year of nutritional supplementation with 10 mg of lutein and 2 mg of zeaxanthin significantly increased their levels in the central nervous systems of healthy well-nourished college students and improved their cognitive functioning. (more…)
by Becky | Aug 12, 2019 | 2019, Alternative Therapies, Animal-Assisted Therapies, Brain Health, Depression, Self-Care, Stress
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. This study explores the health benefits of employing animal visitation programs to reduce college student stress, anxiety and depression and concludes that human animal interactions reduce stress as shown by a significant reduction in the salivary cortisol levels of study participants. (more…)
by Becky | Jun 26, 2019 | 2018, Brain Health, CoQ10 (Coenzyme Q10), Headaches
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. This study demonstrates that CoQ10 supplementation significantly decreased CGRP and TNF-α but had no effects on IL-6 and IL-10 in patients with migraine. (more…)
by Becky | Jun 19, 2019 | 2017, Autism, Brain Health
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. The findings of this study suggest that DCS may be a safe and effective strategy to help youth with ASD to maintain the skills gained during short-term social skills training. (more…)
by Becky | Jun 10, 2019 | 2018, Brain Health, Infant and Children's Health
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Survey analyses of 2,670 middle and high school students across the United States revealed that students who experienced both bullying at school and cyberbullying were more than 11 times as likely to attempt suicide compared to those who had not been bullied.
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by Becky | Jun 10, 2019 | 2017, Alternative Therapies, Animal-Assisted Therapies, Autism, Brain Health
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Ten weeks of a therapeutic horse riding group intervention significantly increased social interaction skills with horses which crossed over to positive changes in participants’ interactions with their family pets.
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by Becky | Jun 3, 2019 | 2019, Alcohol, Brain Health, Infant and Children's Health
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Researchers, using chaos theory to analyze the biological changes in the brain that drive fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, found that teenagers who were exposed to alcohol while in the womb showed altered neural networks (brain connections) that were consistent with impaired cognitive performance.
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by Becky | May 31, 2019 | 2017, Autism, Brain Health, Infant and Children's Health
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Twenty sessions of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of the twenty-four participating autistic children significantly improved autistic symptoms, with a lasting effect of six months. (more…)
by Becky | May 30, 2019 | 2016, Autism, Brain Health, Folic Acid & Folate
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Folic acid supplementation significantly improved autism symptoms involving sociability, cognitive verbal/preverbal, receptive language, and affective expression and communication in children with autism. (more…)
by Becky | May 30, 2019 | 2019, Brain Health, Carotenoids, Cognitive Health, Fitness and Exercise, Lutein, Zeaxanthin
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Plasma levels of carotenoids lutein, zeaxanthin, β-cryptoxanthin, and β-carotene and y-tocopherol are significantly associated with measures of cognitive and physical fitness in the participating fifty-six individuals with mild cognitive impairment. (more…)
by Becky | May 6, 2019 | 2014, Botanicals, Brain Health, Essential Oils
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Lavender oil, at both high and low doses, significantly improved symptoms of anxiety in patients with generalized anxiety disorder compared to placebo and exhibited adverse events that were comparable to placebo and lower than for active paroxetine, the active control.
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by Becky | May 6, 2019 | 2018, Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, Brain Health, Fitness and Exercise
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Individuals with familial AD mutations who exercised more than 2.5 hours per week had significantly better cognitive and functional performance and significantly less AD-pathology in their cerebrospinal fluid than those who exercised less.
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by Becky | May 6, 2019 | 2019, Autism, Brain Health, Infant and Children's Health
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Comparing an original open-label trial of MTT to a two-year follow-up study revealed that significant improvements in ASD symptoms of participants carried over and even improved further at the end of the two-year follow-up. (more…)
by Becky | Apr 23, 2019 | 2017, Brain Health, Stroke
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. This study suggests that extremely low-frequency electromagnetic field, through the production of nitric oxide can help regulate inflammation and oxidative stress levels to improve recovery of brain injury following stroke. (more…)
by Becky | Apr 23, 2019 | 2018, Brain Health, Cognitive Health, Fruits and Vegetables
Written by Jessica Patella, ND. Those with the highest consumption of green leafy vegetables experienced slower cognitive decline, perhaps due to the neuroprotective actions of lutein, folate, β-carotene, and phylloquinone. (more…)
by Becky | Apr 15, 2019 | 2019, Alternative Therapies, Autism, Brain Health, CBD
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Cannabis treatment was shown to be safe and to improve ASD symptoms and quality of life in the participating autistic patients. (more…)
by Becky | Apr 8, 2019 | 2016, Aging, Brain Health, Cognitive Health, Sleep
Written by Jessica Patella, ND. This study demonstrates the benefits of tai chi Qigong exercise in improving sleep quality among older adults with cognitive impairment. (more…)
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