• Isaac Guest Blogs: Are final exams bad for our health?

    Angela

    The Guest Blog Post is from Isaac Park, one of Dr. T’s Health Psych Students: Finals are almost here at UCLA, and this is a hectic time when everyone’s diet, exercise regimen, and healthy lifestyle initiatives take a tailspin. This recent study investigated just this, looking at the effects of academic stress on health behavior in…

  • Nicole Guest Blogs: Too young to diet?

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    This Guest Blog is from Nicole Praefke, one of Dr. T’s Health Psych students: While it is obvious that childhood obesity is a rising problem in the United States, it is not so obvious what approach should be taken. There are parents that put their children on strict diets, there are parents that will do…

  • Haley Guest Blogs: A (mentally) healthy diet

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    Haley McNamara, one of Dr. T’s Health Psych students, guest blogs again!: Does your diet affect your mental health? In the scientific community, this is a difficult question to answer. Many studies on diet and nutrition rely upon notoriously inaccurate self-reporting measures. Furthermore, it is the minerals and nutrients found in food have an effect…

  • Take a deep breath

    Angela

    Stress is a pivotal component of the DiSH Lab’s research (the “S” after all does stand for “stress”). Measuring physical stress, however, can be a complicated process, as the most common methods – saliva, blood, and hair – all involve biological sample collection, storage, and [oftentimes expensive] assays. Good news is that new research from…

  • DiSH-ing what’s up!

    Angela

    As the DiSH Lab finishes up it’s second full quarter here at UCLA, we have some exciting announcements: First, major props to all Dr. T’s Health Psychology students who did guest blog posts. We’ve gotten so many entries that we’ll keep posting more in the coming months. Second, WELCOME to the new DiSH Lab RAs: Allison,…

  • Izabel Guest Blogs: Green Tea and Chocolate Have Cognitive Benefits

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    Izabel Khalili, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students, guest blogs again: The research performed by Joseph Steiner and colleagues from John Hopkins University shows that green tea and cocoa may help in the prevention of neurocognitive impairments in patients with HIV. Patients with HIV have lower levels of brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF), the protein which…

  • Reed Guest Blogs: TED Talk on Eating and Exercise

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    Reed Vierra, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students, guest blogs again!: In this talk, AJ Jacobs, an editor at Esquire and author of “Drop Dead Healthy,” discusses the “extreme” methods he went through in order to become as healthy as possible. Many of these extreme methods include following typical medical advice that is more difficult…

  • Ken Guest Blogs: Falling Can Be Fatal

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    This Guest Blog Post is from Ken Huang, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students: This New York Times article by Dr. Harley A. Rotbart, a professor and vice chairman of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, discusses falling and the heavy consequences that falling has for the elderly. We don’t usually tend…

  • Izabel Guest Blogs: Yoga for Caregivers

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    This Guest Blog Post is from Izabel Khalili, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students: When people become victims of prevalent diseases, their caregivers also become victims in a way, suddenly taking on stress and depression. According to a research done by the scientists in the University of California Los Angeles, it seems that a low-cost yoga program can improve…

  • Julie Guest Blogs: Treatments for Back Pain Not Effective

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    This Guest Blog Post is from Julie Nam, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students: Epidural injections are often used to relieve back pain. However, a recent study under the guidance of Dr. Kris Radcliff found no significant differences between spine patients who had injections and the control group. Injected patients actually had less improvement than…

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