Study finds genetic link between sleep disorders and depression in young children (EurekAlert!)
( American Academy of Sleep Medicine ) A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Sleep was the first to use twin data to examine the longitudinal link between sleep problems and depression. Results of this study demonstrate that sleep problems predict later depression; the converse association was not found. These findings are consistent with the theory that early treatment of sleep problems …
Iceland gets fast-track to join the European Union
Following the deep economic crisis of last year and the ousting of the incumbent government, EU members have proposed a fast-track entrance to Iceland in the European Union. Although Iceland is a member of the Schengen Agreement and the European Economic Area, it has refused to join the EU over nautical fishing disputes in the Atlantic Ocean. There were talks of Iceland dropping their currency for the Euro before the economic depression. The European Union expects Iceland to hand in its applicat
petervidani: The Economy According To Mint.com Is it Great…
petervidani: The Economy According To Mint.com Is it Great Depression bad? That’s a qualitative question I can’t answer. But what the data, the hard facts, mean for you – if you run a consumer business – is that your customers are spending $400 less each month than they were a year ago, have burned through half of their savings, and on average have taken on an additional $5k in debt.
Depression Help Naturally - Make One Simple Change
by John Stephan Laney Many forms of depression are biochemical. This means that people get depressed because their biochemistry is out of whack. Doctors often prescribe anti depressant drugs to help correct the biochemistry and give help for depression, and people start to feel better. Since it is commonly recognized that biochemistry imbalances can cause many forms of depression, it should be no surprise that what you eat and what you dont eat can have a major impact on your mood.
Voices from the Great Depression (Reno Gazette-Journal)
Some called it the Great Depression, others just Hard Times. People worldwide mark the beginning of the Depression of the 1930s with the U.S. stock market crash of Oct. 27, 1929.
In Hard Times, the Hoi Polloi Stay in the Picture (New York Times)
?Breadlines & Champagne? is a monthlong, 50-film series of movies from the Great Depression, playing at Film Forum in Manhattan.
Weekend Bookchat
When the Great Depression sank its claws into American society, the jobless men wandering the countryside in search of work used slang to pay tribute to Herbert Hoover, the president who oversaw their slide into ruin: hobo villages along railroad tracks were dubbed Hoovervilles and jackrabbits caught for food were called Hoover Hogs. How will the venacular of the Next Great Depression pay tribute to George W. Bush? Will subdivisions full of foreclosed McMansions be known as Bushvilles? Will
Excessive chatting on Facebook can lead to depression
Girls can be prone to anxiety and depression by talking too much to their friends through texting, email and social networking sites such as Facebook. Repeated conversations among adolescent girls, known as co-rumination, can be unhelpful, particularly if it is about romantic disappointments.Frequently discussing the same problem can intensify into an unhealthy activity for …
Depression-era stimulus put millions to work in national park system
Reporting from Yosemite National Park — The economy was in a shambles. Millions of Americans were out of work. Saying something drastic needed to be done, the newly elected president announced a massive economic stimulus package aimed at repairing the nation’s sagging infrastructure and putting people back to work. The first “emergency agency” established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the Civilian Conservation Corps, which eventually put 3 million men to work in the national park s
The Economy: Looking for Grownups in Congress
By Matt Gauntt This week, Congress was formulating a stimulus bill to get the economy moving in the right direction. The House of Representatives passed an $819 billion bill on Wednesday and the Senate is poised to pass a similar bill this coming week. The Country and the World are facing potentially, the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. We were told that this was a time to end partisanship, to end the culture of greed and corruption in the nation. We were told t
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