Women’s Health Newsflash: Grab Bag Edition! Brain Activity, Lyme Disease, Brain Workouts, and Angioplasty

Last week, I gave you a women’s health newsflash each day. Here are some interesting tidbits that didn’t exactly lend themselves to a category. Enjoy!

Film Content, Editing & Directing Style Affect Brain Activity, Neuroscientists Show
Using advanced functional imaging methods, New York University neuroscientists have found that certain motion pictures can exert considerable control over brain activity. Moreover, the impact of films varies according to movie content, editing, and directing style. Because the study, which appears in Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, offers a quantitative neuroscientific assessment of the impact of different styles of filmmaking on viewers’ brains, it may serve as a valuable method for the film industry to better assess its products and offer a new method for exploring how the brain works. Read More >>>

Bad Lyme Bug Spreading: Virulent Strain of Lyme Disease Spreading in U.S., Europe
A virulent strain of Lyme disease germ is spreading in the U.S. and in Europe, a new study shows. It’s not a new strain of Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete or spiral-shaped bacterium that causes Lyme disease. In fact, it was one of the first strains ever identified — found in the cerebrospinal fluid of a patient with severe Lyme meningitis. Read More >>>

Note: We have a guest post on Lyme disease coming up in the next 2 weeks!

The Daily Turn On: Brain Fitness
Many people correctly consider regular exercise to be an important way to keep their bodies young. But, did you also know the brain must be exercised as well in order to stay young and functioning at its best? As a matter of fact, the brain begins to slow down as early as age 30. Fortunately, we can prevent “apathy” — no matter how slight or unnoticeable — at any age. Read More >>>

Angioplasty Works Well in Women: Doctors’ Assumption of Worse Outcome in Women Appears Incorrect
Doctor’s may think angioplasty and stents work better in men than in women — but women do just as well after artery-unclogging procedures, a Mayo Clinic study shows. As it turns out, women have been doing as well as men for more than a decade. But the widespread assumption that women do worse after angioplasty means that women account for only 30% of the 1 million artery-opening procedures performed each year in the U.S. This despite the fact that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women. Read More >>>

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