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Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...data developed by Atwater in the late 1800s. But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also allows companies to use a modified set of values, published by the Department of Agriculture in 1955, that take into account our ability to digest different foods in different ways. Atwater’s numbers say that Tara Haelle can extract 8.9 calories per gram of fat in a plate of her...
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...data, 70 per cent of people with drug-resistant bipolar depression responded to triple chronotherapy within the first week, and 55 per cent had a sustained improvement in their depression one month later. And whereas antidepressants – if they work – can take over a month to have an effect, and can increase the risk of suicide in the meantime, chronotherapy usually...
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...data-processing resources, our ancestors evolved a brain that can focus on that approaching spear or lurking lion rather than a broad sweep of savannah landscape. One can think of it as a spotlight of attention that illuminates key sensory information in the brain, which then enters into conscious awareness. This is the mind’s spotlight on the outside world, with...
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...data from BCG studies show highly variable levels of protection, this has been one of the most widely used of all vaccines – not least because it is cheap. However, it was only with the publication of the complete genome of M. tuberculosis in 1998 that it became clear exactly what the process of attenuation had done. Early in the development of the BCG strain, the...
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Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...analysis of ‘patient homicides’ in the UK (from 1997 onwards) was conducted, certain key features were identified. Specifically, substance misuse was usually a factor, around half of the ‘patients’ were not receiving the mental health care intended for them and the ‘patients’ were also at high risk of being a victim of homicide (Appleby et al., 2018)....
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...analysis was that criminal courts make things worse and were best avoided...Session 1: Children or criminals?: 7 This session’s quiz - Well done – you have reached the end of Session 1. You can now check what you’ve learned this session by taking the end-of-session quiz. Session 1 practice quiz Open the quiz in a new tab or window by holding down Ctrl (or Cmd on a...
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...Analysis of the data collected in response to the six explicit questions did indeed reveal that the participants who read the Twilight chapter tended to self-identify more with the traits associated with vampires (e.g. being able to jump higher than average) and those that read the Harry Potter chapters tended to identify more with the traits associated with wizards (e.g....
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...data that was presented to go ahead and make the recommendation,” says SAGE chair Jon Abramson, a pediatrician at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. “We feel the benefit of vaccinating as many people as we can far outweighs the small risk that somebody won’t respond who could have responded to a larger dose.” SAGE advised that...