Dr Ramesh Manocha, Author at Generation Next

Short Sleepers Are Four Times More Likely To Catch A Cold: Researchers Connect Sleep Loss To Higher Rates Of Illness

Credit: Vera Kratochvil/public domain In 2009, Carnegie Mellon University's Sheldon Cohen found for the first time that insufficient sleep is associated with a greater likelihood of catching a cold. To do this, Cohen, who has spent years exploring psychological factors contributing to illness, assessed participants self-reported sleep duration and efficiency levels and then exposed them [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2016-02-07T20:17:50+11:00February 7th, 2016|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: body health, cold, life style, physical health, sickness, sleep, study, virus|0 Comments

Widespread Exposure To BPA Substitute Is Occurring From Cash Register Receipts, Other Paper

alamy People are being exposed to higher levels of the substitute for BPA in cash register thermal paper receipts and many of the other products that engendered concerns about the health effects of bisphenol A, according to a new study. Believed to be the first analysis of occurrence of bisphenol S (BPS) in [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2016-02-22T11:19:27+11:00February 4th, 2016|Categories: Science & Research, Society & Culture|Tags: bisphenol A, BPA, Paper, public health, thermal paper, toxic|0 Comments

‘BPA-free’ Plastic Accelerates Embryonic Development, Disrupts Reproductive System

On the far right, a zebrafish embryo breaks free from a group of unhatched sibling eggs. Credit: Zebrafish Lab Companies advertise "BPA-free" as a safer version of plastic products ranging from water bottles to sippy cups to toys. Many manufacturers stopped used Bisphenol A to strengthen plastic after animal studies linked it to [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2016-02-07T20:23:32+11:00February 4th, 2016|Categories: Science & Research, Society & Culture|Tags: BPA-free, BPS, embryonic development, physical health, Plastic, Reproductive System|0 Comments

13 Untranslatable Words For Happiness

Dr Tim Lomas believes analysis of happiness is very Western-centric Rex Features Psychologists have been analysing happiness for years. Subjects for studies include what makes us happy, and why? And, what happens to our bodies when we feel happiness? Dr Tim Lomas believes analysis of happiness is very Western-centric – it focuses only on Western cultures [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2016-02-07T22:00:20+11:00February 4th, 2016|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: Happiness, life decisions, marriage, psychology, study, western culture|0 Comments

Study Finds Violent Video Games Provide Quick Stress Relief, But At A Price

Getty Images A study authored by two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students indicates that while playing video games can improve mood, violent games may increase aggressive outcomes. The study, authored by James Alex Bonus and Alanna Peebles, graduate students in Communication Arts, and Karyn Riddle, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2016-02-01T13:56:46+11:00January 31st, 2016|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Technology|Tags: aggression, human behaviour, lifestyle habits, stress relief, students, video games, violence|0 Comments

ALCOPOPS: Sweet, Cheap, And Dangerous

The report traces the transformation of alcopops from their introduction in the 1990s as sweet, bubbly products, to today's dangerous, "binge-in-a-can," 23-25-ounce, supersized alcopops with 12-14% alcohol content. The report describes how the alcohol industry makes alcopops (AKA flavored malt beverages or FMBs) seductively attractive to youth, resulting in harmful consumption. It also suggests how [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2020-10-30T16:50:12+11:00January 31st, 2016|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol, Society & Culture|Tags: alcohol, alcohol industry, Alcohol Justice, alcopops, flavored malt beverages, sweet, tips|0 Comments

Cancer Riddle, Solved: Researchers Reveal How Cancer Cells Form Tumors

University of Iowa researchers have documented how cancerous tumors form by tracking in real time the movement of individual cells in 3-D. They report that just 5 percent of cancer cells are needed to form tumors, a ratio that heretofore had been unknown. Credit: Soll Laboratory. The team discovered that cancerous cells actively [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2016-02-01T13:57:16+11:00January 29th, 2016|Categories: Science & Research, Technology|Tags: cancer, Cancer Cells, healthy cells, ratio, research, tumors|0 Comments

A Huge Genetic Discovery On Schizophrenia

Photo: Tim Beddow/Getty Images Schizophrenia is a devastating and often destructive mental disorder, one that overtakes a young mind and sends it spinning out of touch with reality. About one in 100 Americans is estimated to have schizophrenia, and although the word itself has been around for just over 100 years, the illness has [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2016-02-01T13:57:37+11:00January 29th, 2016|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research|Tags: Behavioral Genetics, disease, mental disorder, mind, Psychiatric Research, schizophrenia, treatments|0 Comments

Why Everything We’ve Been Told About Happiness Is Flawed

Shutter Stock The "standard" blueprint for a happy life usually reads something like this: Go to college. Get a job in a big corporation that provides good benefits. Find a partner. Have children. Buy a house. Raise your children. Retire and hope to go on a cruise (before you die of a heart [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2016-02-01T14:02:13+11:00January 29th, 2016|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Technology|Tags: education, environmental health, Happiness, happy life, life expectancy, life illusions, lifestyle habits|1 Comment

Inherited Factor In Depression

Sutter Stock A brain circuit that governs emotion is passed down from mother to daughter and may be an inherited factor contributing to depression, research has shown. The structure, known as the corticolimbic system, is less likely to pass from mothers to sons or from fathers to children of either gender, the US [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2016-02-01T13:58:16+11:00January 29th, 2016|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research|Tags: Brain, Depression, emotional intelligence, mental illness, mother's stress, offspring, Parents, University of California, women|0 Comments

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