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Taking selfies regularly: You might be a narcissist, says MGM study

TNN | Aug 27, 2016, 09.23 AM IST

Indore: Taking selfies regularly might induce personality disorder. A study conducted by Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College has associated taking selfies to narcissism (excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one's physical appearance).

The students surveyed 100 young adults from two different professional colleges in city to assess prevalence of the 'selfie syndrome'.

Through observational study for assessment of behaviour and traits associated with taking and posting selfies among students, researchers used a semi-structured questionnaire result in detection of Selfie Syndrome in significant percentage of people. The research found that narcissists more frequently update their status and selfies, which was motivated by their need for attention and validation from Facebook community. People with low self-esteem more frequently posted selfies with their romantic partners.

When asked about where youth most often take selfies, 30% youths said that they prefer taking selfies at home alone. 59% said they prefer to take them in public, 3% said at work, 1% at school/college while 7% preferred selfies in bathroom.

The other important findings of the study included 15% taking selfies just to send them to a friend, 14% to put on social media, 13% because they were bored, 3% to show people they have friends, 21% take selfies to share their current lifestyle with their family. 3% said they take selfies for attention while 31% said they had other reasons for taking selfies. Overall 34% of people under study agreed to the point that they get some sort of satisfaction from posting selfies on social network. However 66% of people disagreed.

"24% said they get satisfaction after posting selfies - this may indicate narcissism among people. Other data shows tendency of self-objectification and validation from others. For people taking 7-10 selfies, it may indicate the road towards body dysmorphic disorder. 31% people said they feel the pressure to look good all the time in their selfies. This indicates the pressure of society's approval and deep seated insecurities about one's appearance," community medicine department head Dr Sanjay Dixit said.

Five students of the college have completed the research "An assessment of Selfie Syndrome among the students in the Indore city". The students including Aayushi Parashar, Ankur Nayan, Ali Zainul Abedin Hussaini and Ashish Dhurway under guidance of faculty of department of community medicine executed the research.

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Today, ultrasound is mostly anatomical. We want to bring it down to the molecular and cellular level

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ANI  |  Washington D.C. [US]  August 26, 2016 Last Updated at 17:25 IST

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A new study outlines how protein engineering techniques may help to image not just anatomy of the baby in ultrasound but also show specific cells and molecules deeper in the body such as those associated with tumor or bacteria in our gut.
The researchers engineered protein-shelled nanostructures called gas vesicles- which reflect sound waves- to exhibit new properties useful for ultrasound technologies.

In the future, these gas vesicles could be administered to a patient to visualize tissues of interest. The modified gas vesicles give more distinct signals, making them easier to image or target specific cell types and help create color ultrasound images.
"It's somewhat like engineering with molecular Legos," said senior author Mikhail Shapiro.
"We can swap different protein 'pieces' on the surface of gas vesicles to alter their targeting properties and to visualize multiple molecules in different colors," he added.
Anupama Lakshmanan, lead author of the study, said: "Today, ultrasound is mostly anatomical. We want to bring it down to the molecular and cellular level."
In 2014, Shapiro first discovered the potential use of gas vesicles in ultrasound imaging. These gas-filled structures naturally occur in water-dwelling single-celled organisms such as Anabaena flos-aquae, a species of cyanobacteria that forms filamentous clumps of multicell chains.
Shapiro realized that the vesicles would readily reflect sound waves during ultrasound imaging and ultimately demonstrated this using mouse.
In the latest research, Shapiro and his team set out to give the gas vesicles new properties by engineering gas vesicle protein C, or GvpC, a protein naturally found on the surface of vesicles that gives them mechanical strength and prevents them from collapsing.
The protein can be engineered to have different sizes with longer versions of the protein producing stronger and stiffer nanostructures.
"The proteins are like the framing rods of an airplane fuselage. You use them to determine the mechanics of the structure," Shapiro said.
In another experiment, the scientists removed the strengthening protein from gas vesicles and then administered the engineered vesicles to mice and performed ultrasound imaging. Compared to normal vesicles, the modified vesicles vibrated more in response to sound waves and thus resonated with harmonic frequencies.
Harmonics are created when sound waves bounce around, for instance in a violin, and form new waves with doubled and tripled frequencies. Harmonics are not readily created in natural tissues, making the vesicles stand out in ultrasound images.
In the other set of experiments, the researchers demonstrated how gas vesicles could be made to target certain tissues in the body. They genetically engineered the vesicles to display various cellular targets such as an amino acid sequence that recognizes proteins called integrins that are overproduced in tumor cells.
"Adding these functionalities to the gas vesicles is like snapping on a new Lego piece; it's a modular system," said Shapiro.
The team also showed how multicolor ultrasound images might be created. Shapiro's group created an approach for imaging three different types of gas vesicles as separate 'colors' based on their differential ability to resist collapse under pressure.
The vesicles themselves do not appear in different colors, but they can be assigned colors based on their different properties.
To demonstrate this, the team made three different versions of the vesicles with varying strengths of the GvpC protein. They then increased the ultrasound pressures, causing the variant populations to successively collapse one by one.
As each population collapsed, the overall ultrasound signal decreased in proportion to the amount of that variant in the sample, and this signal change was then mapped to a specific color. In the future, if each variant population targeted a specific cell type, researchers would be able to visualize the cells in multiple colors.
"You might be able to see tumor cells versus the immune cells attacking the tumor, and thus monitor the progress of a medical treatment," said Shapiro.
The research is published in ACS Nano journal.

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How malaria supports spread of infectious cancer in Africa

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New York: Infectious agents can cause a lot of cancer in Africa and researchers believe they now have a clue to how malaria during pregnancy creates the right conditions for a virus to cause cancer in children.
The researchers wanted to explore why the Epstein-Barr virus causes a type of cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma only in some people and not in all infected by the virus.
Rosemary Rochford from the University of Colorado Cancer Center in the US and her colleagues centered their research in Kisumu, Kenya, a port city of just over 400,000.

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In addition to a near universal rate of infection with the Epstein-Barr virus, Kisumu has an unusually high rate of Burkitt's lymphoma and malaria.
"Because Burkitt's lymphoma is prevalent in areas with a lot of malaria, we thought maybe it could be associated with malaria infection," Rochford said.
Children born to women who have malaria during pregnancy are more predisposed to develop Burkitt's lymphoma, the researchers noted.
"What we think happens is that the risk for these children begins during pregnancy. Usually for most people, the virus is quiet. You never even know you have it. But when you get malaria, the virus reactivates and infects more cells,” Rochford said.
"When mothers get malaria during pregnancy, these malaria-infected cells shed more virus and infants get infected earlier in life. Because they're infected so early, their immune systems don't manage the virus the way they should,” Rochford explained.
"It's not just the fact of exposure to Epstein-Barr virus, but the timing of it that matters. These kids with prenatal exposure due to the secondary pressure of malaria are the ones with increased risk," Rochford said.
One answer to the challenge of virus-associated cancers in Africa would be better and more prevalent use of vaccines.
Rochford pointed out that the story of Burkitt's lymphoma is similar to the story of other virus-associated cancers, including cervical cancer caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV) and Kaposi's sarcoma caused by the human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8).
In fact, in Kisumu, Kaposi's sarcoma is the most common cancer in men and cervical cancer is the most common cancer in adult women.
Unlike in the US, where the cancer risk of viruses is far smaller than the risks associated with tobacco and alcohol, "in some parts of Africa, the majority of cancers are caused by infectious agents," said the study published in the journal Current Opinions in Virology.

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Mumbai surgeon comes to rescue of pellet-hit

By Anil Raina, Mumbai Mirror | Aug 24, 2016, 12.24 PM IST

Renowned retina surgeon from Mumbai Dr S Natrajan is back in the Valley to perform more vitrectomies (retina surgeries) on victims hit by pellets in eyes.

After performing retinal surgeries on pellet victims in Ophthalmology Department SMHS Hospital for free earlier this month, Borderless World Foundation Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh is once again organizing free retinal surgery camp for pellet victims in the Valley.

Hospital sources told Mumbai Mirror that Dr Natarajan is planning around sixty surgeries in four days, and on his second visit to SMHS Hospital in connection with the treatment of pellet victims whose eyes needed specialized surgeries, which he has earlier promised to come to Kashmir every month to treat and follow up the pellet cases.

"The pellet injuries are extremely bad and they are very young, so the surgeries are very tough. At this mass scale I have never seen such type of injuries," Dr Natarajan told Mirror.

He said retina surgeries are required in most victims whose eyes are perforated by pellets due to the damage that these cause to retina. Retina is the inner tissue layer of eye which is sensitive to light.

"We are repairing the damaged eyes but the recovery will depend on the extent of damage and the follow-up treatment. Eye surgeries for pellet injuries are carried out in stages and each victim has to undergo a number of surgeries over a period of time," he said

Dr Natarajan said that I wish the situation improves and I don't have to come back and I have given an offer to the Jammu and Kashmir Government that I can be an advisor and make sure that department is running on its own and make center of excellence for managing the injuries, and I can teach here.

"I am here waiting for Dr Natarajan, last time he had operated me, and now i had come for the treatment again. Natarajan had given second life to me, and now I owe him a lot," a pellet victim Atif said.

Borderlss World Foundation team has requested all the voluntary organizations and other organizations across the Valley to share this information within their localities so that maximum victims are provided with the specialized treatment.

Around 500 people with pellet injuries in eyes were received by the hospital over the period of 46 days, after the protests broke out all over Kashmir Valley following the killing Hizbul Mujahiddin Commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani on 8th July.

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August 21, 2016

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Eating citrus fruit could head off chronic diseases that are related to obesity, a growing health problem in many parts of the world, according to a new study.
Diabetes, heart disease and liver disease are increasing as more people pack on the kilos. But there’s a substance in citrus fruits called flavanones, which are antioxidants that help people’s bodies reduce the amount of oxidative stress. The diseases linked to obesity are caused by oxidative stress and its related inflammation.
When humans consume a fatty diet, their fat cells produce reactive oxygen species that harm cells. When fat cells become too large, which they do in obese individuals, they produce higher levels of reactive oxygen species that overwhelm the body, causing inflammation and disease.
Researchers say antioxidants found in fruits and vegetables, such as citrus flavanones, help fight reactive oxygen species and reduce oxidative stress in animals that eat a high fat diet.
Paula Ferreira, a graduate researcher at the Universidade Estadual Paulist in Brazil conducted the research. The month-long experiment by Ferreira and colleagues involved 50 mice, feeding them either a normal diet, a high fat diet, or a high fat diet with three flavanones.
Investigators found the mice that ate a high fat diet, but no flavanones, had significantly higher levels of cell damage, than mice that ate a normal diet
Mice on the high fat died had 80 percent more cell damage markers in their blood and 57 percent in the liver compared to rodents fed a normal diet, report researchers.
But mice fed a high fat diet plus the three flavanones - hesperidin, eriocitrin and eriodictyol - had a reduction in cell damage markers compared to mice on a standard diet. Reductions in the liver ranged from 50 to 64 percent depending upon the flavanone given compared to those on a high fat diet alone.
Researchers said the obese mice became healthier consuming citrus flavanones even though they did lose any weight.
“Our results indicate that in the future, we can use citrus flavanones, a class of antioxidants, to prevent or delay chronic diseases caused by obesity in humans,” said Ferreira.
It’s also possible, said researchers, that citrus could be beneficial to people who are not obese but eat a fatty, Western-style diet, she said. Ferreira said the best way to get flavanones is to drink them, like orange juice.
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The researchers presented their findings at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting in Pennsylvania, the largest scientific society in the world.
Investigators next plan to conduct human studies, to see whether it’s healthier to give citrus flavanones in juice or pill form, or whether they have the same effect.

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Colorectal cancer, which is a major health-concern among the Indian population can be cured.

New Delhi:  Colorectal cancer, which is gradually turning to be a major health-concern among the Indian population, can be prevented with early detection using enhanced technology, health experts said at an event here on Tuesday.

G-EYE, an endoscopy technology which is claimed to detect gastrointestinal diseases more accurately was introduced in India during the event, organised by Smart Medical Systems- manufacturer of gastrointestinal endoscopy devices along with enhanced technology products supplier Ventura Business Solutions.

Colorectal cancer which is mainly caused by genetic disorders or environmental factors, is gradually becoming a major health concern. Currently, around four per cent of Indians are diagnosed by colorectal cancer while it is the third most common cancer among men and second most common in women worldwide.

"There is a serious gap in detection of gastronomical diseases in many countries and colorectal cancer is becoming a growing reason for deaths in western countries. There is a high rate of colorectal cancer patients among Indians who have migrated to US," said Zamir Halpern, Professor, Tel Aviv University, Israel at the event.

The latest device is expected to make it easier to detect and improve the diagnosis and therapy of gastro-intestinal disorders and diseases.

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The device uses innovative balloon technology to uncover pre-cancerous polyps that are hidden behind the colon's natural folds and provides the ability to perform double balloon enteroscopy.

"Our presence in India provides a great opportunity to serve the medical community by enhancing physicians' capabilities during endoscopy procedures and providing better treatments," said Misha Krakowsky, Executive Director, Asia Pacific, Smart Medical Systems at the event.

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IANS  |  Tokyo  August 8, 2016 Last Updated at 11:26 IST

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Researchers have found that the spontaneous smiles seen in hominoids are also common in Japanese macaques, revealing that the origin of smiles goes back at least 30 million years, when old world monkeys and our ancestors diverged.
Spontaneous smiles -- considered the evolutionary origin of real smiles and laughter -- are facial movements that are characterised by raised lip corner that occur during irregular sleep or drowsiness without known external or internal causes.

These spontaneous smiles have been found in both human infants and infant chimpanzees.
For the study, the team observed 58 spontaneous smiles from seven macaque infants, all of which showed spontaneous smiles at least once.
"Spontaneous macaque smiles are more like short, lop-sided spasms compared to those of human infants. There were two significant similarities; they both happened between irregular rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and they show more lop-sided smiles compared to symmetrical, full smiles," said Lead author Fumito Kawakami from Kyoto University, in Japan.

"A major difference, though, is that the smiles were much shorter," Kawakami added.
The findings showed that spontaneous smiles don't express feelings of pleasure in chimpanzees and Japanese monkeys, rather, the smiles are more similar to submissive signals (grimaces) rather than smiles (play faces).
Further, the spontaneous smiles facilitate the development of cheek muscles, enabling humans, chimpanzees, and Japanese monkeys to produce smiles, laughs, and grimaces, the researchers said in the work published in the journal Primates.
However, some researchers argued that infants' spontaneous smiles exist to make parents feel that their children are adorable and to enhance parent-child communication.