The early November edition of the Science Daily Research New Update series features a good variety of newly published Health Psychology related studies. Read on to learn more about: a new link between pregnant womens' folate levels and ADHD, fish oil may not only help fight cardiovascular disease, but also stroke and rheumatoid arthritis, researchers regrow spinal nerves in animals, stressed-induced changes ...

An admittedly unusual group of announcements and studies for this edition of The Scientist Research News Update - certainly not a dose of the typical psychology and public health related stories usually found in this series. Topics include that initial research that suggests antioxidants may actually help cancer cells survive, an announcement that the FDA halts the first ever stem cell study for spinal cord ...

As mentioned in a previous post, I am on internship at a nationally ranked rehabilitation hospital. Though I am currently assigned to a traumatic brain injury rotation (TBI), I have already started to work with patients with spinal cord injuries (i.e., my next formal rotation). I recently came across a wonderful free resource for patients and their family entitled, "Spinal Cord Injury Patient-Family Teachin ...

A brief but nonetheless interesting update for the 8-15-09 edition of The Scientist Research News Update. Check out the incredible report of how regenerative medicine induced a spinal cord to regrow sensory axons to their target destination, a new director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), gender differences in HIV/AIDS progression, the Avian flu and a link to Parkinson's disease, and how stresse ...