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A genome wide search for genes underlying anxiety disorders turned up unexpected candidates
Increasing the activity of two enzymes better known for their role in oxidative stress metabolism turns normally relaxed mice into "Nervous Nellies," according to research conducted at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and reported in the early online edition of Nature. Locally overexpressing either glyoxalase 1 or glutathione reductase 1 in mouse brains significantly increased anxiety in usually relaxed mice and made already jittery mice even more anxiety-ridden. [click link for full article]

Chernobyl Children More Hyperactive?
In an extensive study of children exposed to varying levels of fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, Israeli researchers have found that Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) scores are higher among those who were in-utero at the time of the accident - regardless of their actual level of radiation exposure. The study conducted at the Technion-Israel institute of Technology appears in the August 30, 2004 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. [click link for full article]

Rising Diabetes Threat Meets a Falling Budget
Spending has been cut despite the growth of a disease that figures in the deaths of 225,000 Americans each year.

Cost and Effect: Beyond 'I'm a Diabetic,' Little Common Ground
Parents of children with Type 1 diabetes fear that their children's plight is being lost in the din of Type 2 diabetes.

Fleeting Images of Fearful Faces Reveal Neurocircuitry of Unconscious Anxiety
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have found that fleeting images of fearful faces - images that appear and disappear so quickly that they escape conscious awareness - produce unconscious anxiety that can be detected in the brain with the latest neuroimaging machines. It's one of the first times that neuroimaging has captured the brain's processing of unconscious emotion. [click link for full article]

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