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Prozac does not work in majority of depressed patients 26 February 2008 NewScientist.com news service
The antidepressant Prozac and related drugs are no better than placebo in treating all but the most severely depressed patients, according to a damaging assessment of the latest generation of antidepressants.
David Healy, a psychiatrist at Cardiff University, UK, specialising
in the use of SSRI drugs, says the latest study confirms suspicions
that the drugs' effectiveness had been dramatically overstated.
"Most importantly this new study shows that the people who did respond to the drugs would have responded to placebo, anyway.
"It confirms that GPs should not be dishing these drugs out as first-line treatment for mild depression," he told New Scientist.
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Highest Risk of Depression Is At 44
31/01/2008 from http://www.healthypages.co.uk/newsitemRecent research into the levels of happiness experienced in people from young age to old age has revealed an interesting statistic: that it is in the 40's that people are the least happy and prone to depression and that it is at the age of 44 that people are most susceptible.
Past research showed that the tendency toward depression and unhappiness was a constant throughout life, however the research conducted by the University of Warwick and Dartmouth College in the US involving data of 2 million people from over 80 countries, reveals that it is not the case.
Their data analysis showed that people were happier early in their life and later in life, with the mid years being the unhappiest.
Professor Andrew Oswald, researcher and economist from the University of Warwick said "It happens to men and women, to single and married people, to rich and poor, and to those with and without children."
To offer an explanation for this tendency he said "One possibility is that individuals learn to adapt to their strengths and weaknesses, and in mid-life quell their infeasible aspirations," and "Another possibility is that a kind of comparison process is at work in which people have seen similar-aged peers die and value more their own remaining years. Perhaps people somehow learn to count their blessings."
The chief executive of Sane, the mental health charity, Marjorie Wallace said: "This study raises intriguing questions about the processes that lead to depression in mid-life, as well as indicating what a common experience it is worldwide."
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By Dr. Robert Anthony, Creator of The Secret of Deliberate CreationWhatever you expect to happen is determined by the thoughts you dwell upon plus the intensity of the emotions behind those thoughts. It is worth repeating that our subconscious does not question the validity of the data we present to it. It merely processes it and attracts to us what we believe to be true.
If we are using imagery to change habit patterns, we must see ourselves acting and reacting the way we want to be in the future. It doesn't matter how we acted today or yesterday. Once our subconscious gets hold of our new thought, our brain-mind, functioning together through our central nervous system, will take over and we will automatically assume the new behavior patterns. The key is to be able to picture or imagine the end result so vividly that it appears real.
Your subconscious mind functions in terms of goals or end results. Once the subconscious has accepted an idea, you can absolutely depend upon it to take you to that goal. If we will supply the end results, our subconscious will supply the "how to." It will show you how to reach that end result.
Think of the end results in terms of present possibilities. They must be seen so clearly that they seem real to your brain and nervous system. The ultimate aim of affirmation and visualization is to evoke the feeling that the goal is already achieved.
Feel as though it has already been achieved and your imagery will pull you toward the end result that you desire. Imagine it in as much detail as possible. Keep using the imaging process over and over again for the same goal. In the beginning, don't worry about whether you are putting in enough detail. Every time you visualize you will automatically incorporate more and more detail.
Always put yourself in the picture. See yourself involved in the activities of your goal. If you do not put yourself in the picture, you may not be in the end result. Suppose you want a new car - let's say a new BMW. You visualize the car and faithfully infuse your imagery with emotion, detail and repetition. And then, all of a sudden, a new BMW comes into your life. You look out the window of your house and your neighbour is driving a new BMW! You now have new BMW in your life, but you are not in it!
So, make sure you identify yourself with your goal. All successful individuals have started with a picture held in their mind. They visualized and affirmed what they wanted to be, to do and to have. And then they instructed their subconscious with clarity and repetition.
from: http://www.mindpowernews.com/
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Scientists Discover Way to Reverse Memory Loss
By
Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor. Source: The
Independent
Scientists performing experimental brain surgery on a man
aged 50 have stumbled across a mechanism that could unlock
how memory works.
The
accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally
intended to suppress the obese man's appetite, using the
increasingly successful technique of deep-brain stimulation.
Electrodes were pushed into the man's brain and stimulated
with an electric current. Instead of losing appetite, the
patient instead had an intense experience of déjà
vu. He recalled, in intricate detail, a scene from 30 years
earlier. More tests showed his ability to learn was dramatically
improved when the current was switched on and his brain
stimulated.
Scientists are now applying the technique in the first trial of the treatment in patients with Alzheimer's disease. If successful, it could offer hope to sufferers from the degenerative condition, which affects 450,000 people in Britain alone, by providing a "pacemaker" for the brain.
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By Stuart Licthman, Author, How to Get Lots of Money for Anything...Fast!
Have you ever wondered why so many people have so much trouble getting what they truly want? Have you considered that there could be an easier way though life? Have you ever felt that life was just too much of a struggle? Most of us have, at one time or another, just felt that life was a royal pain. But the liberating truth is this - life doesn’t have to be that way.
What’s the secret to making life a joy? What’s the secret to creating more money now? And what’s the answer to why you haven’t achieved your goals yet?
It’s in your own mind.
No, not in your thoughts. Not in your conscious mind. The roadblock is deeper. It’s where you rarely look. It’s in your unconscious. In short, if there is something you are trying to achieve - you name it - and you aren’t achieving it, chances are your unconscious holds some contradictory intentions for you. Said another way, you want something and it doesn’t.
If you are typical, you are constantly giving yourself contradictory instructions - like “I want to lose weight” and “I want that luscious piece of pie.” Notice anything odd about them?
Those statements are going in different directions. After years of such frustrating and contradictory messages, your unconscious gives up and starts to disregard what you consciously want.
In other words, you cancelled out your own request. You said, “I want money,” but right after that you said (or thought), “I don’t deserve it” or “Money never comes to me” or some other similar limiting belief. As a result, you usually didn’t get what you said you wanted!
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Imaginary workouts can build strength and fuel weight loss
By Jonathan Fields Source: JonathonFields.comBreakthrough research in the field of exercise physiology has yielded stunning revelations about the way we get fit. The big surprise, though, is not what we “have” to do, but what we might “not” have to do.
Our thoughts can literally redefine the size, shape and strength of our bodies.
For decades, exercise scientists have worked to discover how we get fit. Getting stronger, we were told, was about creating enough resistance in a muscle to create millions of micro-tears that would, over days, weeks and months, rebuild themselves, bigger, leaner and stronger. So when we lift weights, sprint or engage in pretty much any kind of exercise, we set this whole process in motion.
The entire cycle is known as hypertrophy and it’s always been considered a pretty mechanical experience. Weight loss has been tossed off with similar assumptions. Regardless of he method used for short-term weight loss, sustained loss always comes back to calories in and calories out.
Nothing foofy, just hard work. Thus, the famed old coach’s chant, “no pain, no gain!” But, what if we could make a change to that slogan?
No pain…huge gains.
It seems there may be a giant kink in this system. And, it has to do with the brain’s role in whole process.
Mind Over Muscles
Building muscle, it turns out, is not nearly as mechanical as we thought. And, in fact, a recent study by Erin M. Shackell and Lionel G. Standing at Bishop’s University reveals you may be able to make nearly identical gains in strength and fitness without lifting a finger!
That study measured the strength gains in three different groups of people. The first group did nothing outside their usual routine. The second group was put through two weeks of highly focused strength training for one specific muscle, three times a week. The third group listened to audio CDs that guided them to imagine themselves going through the same workout as the exercising group, three times a week.
And, the results blew everyone away.
The control group, who didn’t do anything, saw no gains in strength. The exercise group, who trained three times a week, saw a 28% gain in strength. No big surprises there. But, the group who did not exercise, but rather thought about exercising experienced nearly the same gains in strength as the exercise group (24%). Yes, you read that right!
The group that visualized exercised got nearly the same benefit, in terms of strength-gains, as the group that actually worked-out.
All of which leaves us with two big questions:
- How in the world did this work? And,
- Does this mean I can really get totally buff without ever working out?
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