July 23, 2009 BALTIMORE, Jul 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A close relationship to a caregiver may slow decline in an Alzheimer's patient, U.S. researchers say.
Close Caregiver Relationship May Slow Alzheimer's Decline A particularly close relationship with caregivers may give people with Alzheimer's disease a marked edge over those without one in retaining mind and brain function over time. The beneficial effect of emotional intimacy that the researchers saw among participants was on par with some drugs used to treat the disease.
The Same Thing that Makes Us Love Makes Us Hate - The "Us-Them" Quiz A TV program staged a scene where a woman in Middle Eastern garb tried to buy bread in a store, and the clerk (planted by the program) berated her for her Arab sympathies. Most customers ignored the scene, but a few people jumped in to join the clerk in attacking the woman, including holding hr accountable for 9-11 and the Iraq War. Only one man actively stood up for her right to buy some baked
Why New Year's Resolutions Tend to Fail and How We Can Achieve Them Year after year, so many people make New Year's resolutions that over time wither and fade into another failed attempt to transform some aspect of their lives. What begins with a hopeful optimism unravels in yet another unmet aspiration. It's always a curiosity to me how we come to try to evoke change in the same way that gives us the same failure. I imagine that if we conducted a survey six mont
The Paradox of Expectations  Beginning a new year often brings forth a review of our expectations and I thought it might be a good idea to briefly examine this topic. As with many concepts in our culture, we tend to fall well short of fully appreciating what these terms truly suggest and at times, the apparent contradictions that they may evoke. This is certainly the case with the word expectations. Are they to be valued a
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