Posts tagged with 'mothers'
Recent research: a mixed bag of six papers on anxiety
19th February 2009
Here are half a dozen papers with anxiety relevance. The first couple are about the interaction between genetic vulnerability (or resilience) and childhood experience. The Stevens et al paper is an update on the large body of research looking at psychological genetic vulnerability/resilience in macaque monkeys and how this interacts …
Recent research: fish and n-3 fatty acids
6th November 2008
Fish, fish oils, and n-3 fatty acids are often in the health news. Here are seven recent papers illustrating the breadth of fish oil relevance. The papers look at treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, the potential of flax as a dietary source of n-3 fatty acids, effects on indicators of cardiovascular …
Recent research: mothers, children & depression
30th October 2008
Here are five recent papers on mothers, families, children and depression. The first is a freely viewable editorial by Markowitz which begins with a quote from the Aeneid "I cannot bear a mother's tears". Markowitz looks at evidence demonstrating the importance of both nature (genetic risk) and nurture (effects of …