�Pregnant women who brave out the psychological stress of being in a war zone are more likely to give birth to a tike who develops schizophrenia. Research published in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry supports a growing dead body of lit that attributes maternal exposure to severe stress during the early months of pregnancy to an increased susceptibility to schizophrenia in the offspring.
According to lead author Dolores Malaspina M.D., M.Sc.P.H., Anita Steckler and Joseph Steckler Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. "The stresses in question ar those that would be experienced in a lifelike disaster such as an earthquake or hurricane, a terrorist attack, or a sudden bereavement".
Data from 88,829 people, born in Jerusalem from 1964 to 1976, were collected from the Jerusalem Perinatal Study that joined birth records to Israel's Psychiatric Registry. The NYU authors discovered that the offspring of women wHO were in their second base month of pregnancy during the elevation of the Arab-Israeli war in June of 1967 (the "Six Day War") displayed a significantly higher incidence of schizophrenia o'er the following 21-33 days. The study also showed that the pattern was gender-specific, poignant females more than males.
Following the 1967 war, females who had been in their second gear month of fetal living during the conflict were 4.3 times more than likely to develop dementia praecox than females born at other multiplication. Males in their mo month of fetal life were 1.2 times more likely to develop schizophrenia. "It's a very striking confirmation of something that has been suspected for quite a some clock time", said Malaspina.
"The placenta is very sensitive to stress hormones in the mother," explains Malaspina, "these hormones were in all probability amplified during the time of the war."
The authors point out that the study, which assessed ongoing medical records, only supports, rather than proves, the hypothesis that the superlative vulnerability to schizophrenia is in the second calendar month of pregnancy. Limitations to the study include a small sample population as well as the absence of information on the exact duration of gestation, which makes it possible that developmental stages were underestimated.
Malaspina likewise points out that pregnant women in general should not be alarmed around handling daily stressors during pregnancy. "A developing fetus requires some exposure to maternal tension hormones as it normalizes their focus functioning," she says. "But women experiencing anxiety or excessive tension would do well to address it before a planned pregnancy and to have good social supporting systems."
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Located in the heart of New York City, NYU Langone Medical Center is unrivaled of the nation's premier centers of excellence in health concern, biomedical research, and medical education. For over 167 years, NYU physicians and researchers have made unnumberable contributions to the practice and scientific discipline of health care. Today the Medical Center consists of NYU School of Medicine, including the Smilow Research Center, the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, and the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences; the three hospitals of NYU Hospitals Center, Tisch Hospital, a 726-bed acute-care general infirmary, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, the first and largest facility of its kind, and NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, a leader in musculoskeletal concern; and such major programs as the NYU Cancer Institute, the NYU Child Study Center, and the Hassenfeld Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.
1. Acute maternal stress in pregnancy and schizophrenia in offspring: a cohort prospective study.
D Malaspina, C Corcoran, K R Kleinhaus, M C Perrin, S Fennig, D Nahon, Y Friedlander and S Harlap
BMC Psychiatry
2. The co-authors of this study are: Cheryl Corcoran, Karine R Kleinhaus, Mary C Perrin, Shmuel Fennig, Daniella Nahon and Yechiel Friedlander. The study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health: and from the National Alliance for Research of Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD).
3. BMC Psychiatry is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed enquiry articles in all aspects of the prevention, diagnosing and management of psychiatric disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology. BMC Psychiatry (ISSN 1471-244X) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar.
4. BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com/) is an independent online publishing menage committed to providing immediate access without charge to the peer-reviewed biological and medical research it publishes. This commitment is based on the view that open accession to research is essential to the rapid and efficient communication of skill.
Source: Nadine Woloshin
NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine
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Monday, 18 August 2008
Ghostface�s Long-lost �Iron Man� Cameo Finally Leaks to Internet
Previously thought lost forever, Ghostface Killah's edited-out Iron Man cameo has, at long last, leaked. Seeing it here, it's hard not to wonder what might've been; sure, the film did okay at the box office ($317 million so far), and we opine critics weren't too gruelling on it (it has a not-terrible score of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes) � merely how much better would the reception have been had Jon Favreau not thoughtlessly excised the real Tony Starks from the movie? We think it's reasonable to assume that Iron Man would've performed at least twice as well in every possible respect.
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Ghotsface's Deleted "Iron Man" Scene Makes Me Want To Go Back To The Movies [Idolator]
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Friday, 8 August 2008
Calva Y Nada
Artist: Calva Y Nada
Genre(s):
Electronic
Rock
Industrial
Other
Latin
Discography:
Live
Year: 1999
Tracks: 5
Die Katze im Sack
Year: 1994
Tracks: 6
Monologe Eines Baumes
Year: 1993
Tracks: 16
El Pesto Perverso Lleva Mi Peluca
Year: 1990
Tracks: 13
Das Bose Macht Ein Freundliches Gesicht
Year:
Tracks: 16
Alex Calver and Mike Andrews
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Suede
Artist: Suede
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Pop
ROck: Alternative
Alternative
Indie
Discography:
Singles
Year: 2003
Tracks: 21
A New Morning
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Head Music
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Sci-Fi Lullabies (CD 2)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
Sci-fi Lullabies (CD 1)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Sci-Fi Lullabies (2 of 2)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 27
Coming Up
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Dog Man Star
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Suede
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Greatest Hits
Year:
Tracks: 16
Suede give up started the Britpop rotation of the '90s, delivery English indie pop/rock music away from the swirling layers of shoegazing and dance-pop fusions of Madchester, and reinstating such conventions of British pop as mystique and the three-minute individual. Before the band had even released a individual, the U.K. weekly music press was proclaiming them as the "Best New Band in Britain," but Suede managed to make it their heavy ballyhoo imputable to the songwriting squad of singer Brett Anderson and guitar player Bernard Butler. Equally divine by the glam scraunch of David Bowie and the quixotic bedsitting room pop of the Smiths, Anderson and Butler developed a sweeping, guitar-heavy well-grounded that was darkly sensual, sexually ambiguous, melodic, and unabashedly ambitious. At the prison term of the release of their number 1 undivided, "The Drowners," in 1992, few of their coevals -- whether it was British shoegazers or American soil rockers -- had whatsoever ambitions to be old fashioned, self-consciously controversial pop stars and the British iron and populace fell hard for Suede, making their 1993 debut the fastest-selling number 1 album in U.K. history. Though they had rocketed to the top in the U.K., Suede were plagued with problems, the least of which was an inability to get themselves heard in America. Anderson and Butler's relationship became antagonistic during the recording of their second record album, Dog Man Star, and the guitar player left the band in front its fall handout, which of necessity spite its sales. Instead of breakage up, the band soldiered on, adding novel guitarist Richard Oakes and a keyboardist earlier returning in 1996 with Sexual climax Up, an album that returned them to the top of the British charts.
Through and through all of Suede's incarnations, vocalist/lyricist Brett Anderson and bassist Mat Osman remained at the band's core. The son of a cab driver, Anderson formed the Smiths-inspired Geoff in 1985 with his class fellow Osman and drummer Danny Wilder. Anderson was the group's guitar player; Gareth Perry was the band's vocaliser. Geoff recorded iI demos before ripping up in 1986, as Anderson and Osman left to attend university in London. A few old age by and by, the partner off formed Suave & Elegant, which lasted only a few months. By the ending of 1989, the partner off had placed an advertizing in New Musical Express, asking for a "non-muso" guitarist. Bernard Butler responded, and the trinity began recording songs, primarily written by Anderson and Butler, with the financial backing of a drum machine. Taking the name Suede after Morrissey's "Suedehead" single, the ternion sent a demonstration tape, Particularly Suede, to compete in Demonstration Clash, a wireless show on GLR run by DJ Gary Crowley. "Wondrous Sometimes" won Demonstration Clash for five Sundays in a row during 1990, leading to a record shrink with the Brighton-based indie label RML. By the time the band gestural with RML, Anderson's girlfriend Justine Frischmann had united as a second guitarist.
Suede placed an advert for a drummer, and former Smiths member Mike Joyce responded. Joyce appeared on the group's debut single for RML, "Be My God"/"Art." Scheduled to be released on a 12" in the precipitate of 1990, the single was scrapped shortly before its dismission, due a fight betwixt the band and the tag. Throughout 1991, the grouping rehearsed and recorded demos, finally adding drummer Simon Gilbert. Frischmann left wing Suede in early 1992 to manikin Elastica; she was non replaced. A few months later, Suede signed a two-single deal with the indie label Nude Records. Shortly afterward, the band appeared on the cover of Melody Maker, without having released any material. The weekly paper declared them the Best New Band in Britain.
"The Drowners," the band's number one single, appeared shortly after the Melody Maker cover, and it became a moderate murder, debuting at number 49 due to strong reviews and word of back talk. "Metal Mickey," released in the precipitate, became their breakthrough murder, reaching identification number 17 on the U.K. charts afterward a indicatory, controversial performance on Whirligig of the Pops. Anderson shortly became infamous for causing tilt, and his ill-famed input that he was "a bisexual isle of Man wHO never had a homophile experience" was significative of how the group both courted controversy and a sexually ambiguous, estranged consultation.
A short term of enlistment ahead the spring firing of their eponymous debut album was very successful, setting the stage for "Animal Nitrate" debuting at number seven. Shortly afterward, Suede leather entered the charts at number unitary, registering the biggest initial sales of a debut since Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasuredome. By the summertime, Suede had become the most popular band in Britain -- winning the honored Mercury Music Prize for Best Album that precipitate -- and they attempted to make head into the United States. Their progress was halted when Butler's father died in the fall, forcing the cancellation of their second spell; they had already begun to be upstaged by their opening move, the Cranberries, wHO received the support from MTV that Suede lacked. Shortly afterward, the band was forced to change its name to the London Suede in America, due to a suit from an isolated waiting area singer playing under the name Suede.
Tensions had begun to develop betwixt Bernard Butler and the rest of the band during the group's 1993 tours, and they peaked when they re-entered the studio to record a new single in former 1993. Butler conceived the vocal "Stay Together" as a sweeping heroic partly in tribute to his father, and piece it was a success upon its February 1994 release, debuting at number trey, the transcription was non easy. As they were working on Suede's second record album, Anderson and Butler began to fighting often, with the guitarist claiming in a rare interview that the vocalist worked also tardily and that his partner was to a fault concerned with careen stardom, frequently at the expense of the music. Butler left wing the band toward the goal of the roger Huntington Sessions for the second album, and the radical finished the record with Anderson playing guitar. Bernard's departure launched a ado of guess around Suede's future, and Weenie Man Star didn't answer any of those questions. A hoity-toity, ambitious, and heavily orchestrated double album, Cad Man Star was greeted with enthusiastic reviews but hushed commercial response. As Suede were functional on their second album, their remarkable commercial succeeder was eclipsed by that of Blur and Oasis, whose igniter, more than accessible music brought the groups blockbuster succeeder in the wake up of Suede.
Spell Weenie Man Star sold well-nigh as a lot as Suede, the picture in the press was the group was apace dropping aside, and the band didn't assist matters when they replaced Butler with Richard Oakes, a 17-year-old amateur guitar player, in September. Suede embarked on a foresighted, toilsome international turn during late 1994 and the spring of 1995, earlier disappearance to lick on their third album. During the meanwhile, Butler had a Top Ten individual with vocaliser David McAlmont, and Gilbert, the only gay extremity of Suede, was attacked in a hate criminal offence in the hang. At a fanclub spear in January of 1996, the radical debuted several new songs, as well as their new keyboardist, Neil Codling, the cousin-german of Gilbert. Suede returned as a five-piece in September of 1996 with Sexual climax Up. A igniter, band-oriented social function than either of the group's two previous albums, Coming Up was an unexpected rack up, entrance the charts at number peerless and generating a remarkable string of basketball team Top Ten hits -- "Shabu," "Beautiful Ones," "Sabbatum Night," "Slothful," and "Filmstar." Approach Up was a hit end-to-end Europe, Canada, and Asia, merely it wasn't released in the U.S. until the spring of 1997.
Approach Up never did win an audience in America, partly because it appeared well-nigh a year after its initial handout and partially because Suede only supported it with a three-city enlistment. Nevertheless, the record was their well-nigh successful button to date, scene expectations high for the follow-up. Upon their reelect to the studio in the hang of 1998, the band distinct to ditch their longtime producer, Ed Buller, choosing to work with Steve Osborne, world Health Organization had antecedently produced New Order and Happy Mondays. The resulting album, Head Music, was released in May of 1999; an American release followed in June.
Monday, 23 June 2008
Slagerij Van Kampen
Artist: Slagerij Van Kampen
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
A Long Walk On A Short Pier
Year: 1989
Tracks: 9
Monday, 16 June 2008
Farrell feared ruining In Bruges
Colin Farrell has revealed he initially turned down the lead role in his forthcoming movie because he feared his presence might take away from the film.
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Farrell said that he felt the producers of 'In Bruges' were making a huge mistake when they asked him to star in the movie.
The star went on to say that he was thrilled to be approached for the film, which also stars Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes, but he became concerned that his reputation would overshadow the quality of the script.
Farrell said he begged the movie's writer and director, Irish Oscar winner Martin McDonagh, to cast an unknown actor in the role. McDonagh however was determined to have Farrell on board.
Farrell told the Hollywood Reporter: "I was chuffed to be part of it. It was just the best thing I ever read. But your public persona, people bring that in. And I met [McDonagh] in New York at the Hilton Hotel one afternoon and I tried to convince him he should cast an unknown in the part ... It was so good, I thought it would be good not to cast me."
'In Bruges', which tells the story of assassins who are forced to hide out in Belgium, will open this weekend's Dublin International Film Festival. It goes on general release from 7 March.
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Farrell said that he felt the producers of 'In Bruges' were making a huge mistake when they asked him to star in the movie.
The star went on to say that he was thrilled to be approached for the film, which also stars Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes, but he became concerned that his reputation would overshadow the quality of the script.
Farrell said he begged the movie's writer and director, Irish Oscar winner Martin McDonagh, to cast an unknown actor in the role. McDonagh however was determined to have Farrell on board.
Farrell told the Hollywood Reporter: "I was chuffed to be part of it. It was just the best thing I ever read. But your public persona, people bring that in. And I met [McDonagh] in New York at the Hilton Hotel one afternoon and I tried to convince him he should cast an unknown in the part ... It was so good, I thought it would be good not to cast me."
'In Bruges', which tells the story of assassins who are forced to hide out in Belgium, will open this weekend's Dublin International Film Festival. It goes on general release from 7 March.
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Monday, 2 June 2008
Jesse McCartney: 'Leona Lewis Took Bleeding Love to a Whole New Level"
Jesse McCartney has nothing but praise for Leona Lewis -- whose single, Bleeding Love, he co-wrote for the singer.
He insists Leona transformed the song -- and has no regrets that he didn't release the track himself.
He says, "Leona took the song to a whole new level with the vocals she delivered. She did an incredible job.
"We put it on a European version of my album but we decided it would be a better record with a female vocalist.
"Leona was looking for her first single at the time and Simon Cowell heard the song and thought it would be appropriate for her - and I guess he was right."
The 21-year-old -- who was in boyband Dream Street at the age of 13 -- is now set to release his third solo album, Departure, in which he's using a more RnB influence that he feels will have a more "universal" appeal.
He adds, "As a listener of music, I always found myself leaning towards soulful music.
"I was thinking 'why don't I make more of this kind of album?'
"The thing with Elvis Presley was - he's a white guy making soulful music, and I think he was one of the reasons I was like - 'I should do this'.
"At an early age I didn't think I was mature enough and into the right headspace - until now."
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Daft Punk start work on new album
Daft Punk have begun work on a new album in their Paris studio.
The dance duo are currently recording the follow-up to 2005's 'Human After All'.
Their long-time manager Busy P explained to In The Mix: "The boys are in a studio in Paris at the moment. And I can't wait to listen to their new stuff! The good thing is that they are making music at the moment.
"They are slow, you know, they are taking their time, and they have a right."
Busy P also revealed that he has stepped down as the band's manager to spend more time on his label Ed Banger.
The dance duo are currently recording the follow-up to 2005's 'Human After All'.
Their long-time manager Busy P explained to In The Mix: "The boys are in a studio in Paris at the moment. And I can't wait to listen to their new stuff! The good thing is that they are making music at the moment.
"They are slow, you know, they are taking their time, and they have a right."
Busy P also revealed that he has stepped down as the band's manager to spend more time on his label Ed Banger.
Fans steal Madonna cut outs
Melbourne (ANI): Fans getting hysterical after Madonna is something expected, but what one may not imagine is fans actually walking away with life-size cut-outs of the pop diva. That's what happened in Hong Kong where Madge's cardboard cut-outs in provocative poses used to advertise her new album have been stolen from music shops all around the city, according to reports. The cut-outs for the promotion of the album 'Hard Candy' show the 'Material Girl' wearing thigh-length boots. According to reports from the Sunday Morning Post, almost 10 of the 30 1.6-metre-high cut-outs have been taken from shops ever since they went on display last week.
Corrie's David just 'wants to be loved'
'Coronation Street' actor Jack P Shepherd has claimed that his character David Platt is misunderstood and "just wants to be loved".
According to the show's official website, the actor told InsideSoap Yearbook: "David can do some malicious things but I think he just wants to be loved. He craves a bit of affection."
"He's never had much attention from his mum, Gail. She was always running around after David's brother, Nick, and Sarah and then she moved on to caring about Bethany, so David just feels like he was pushed to one side," he said.
"He's found that by being bad he gets lots of attention. That's the only time Gail really notices him."
Shepherd said: "David could go down a really dark path, but there are different sides to him. David is an emotional character and he can do comedy - he's quite a comedian sometimes."
"I think he does have different dimensions to his character, which makes him so much fun to watch. But probably his main strength is being a nasty, evil, twisted little git."
According to the show's official website, the actor told InsideSoap Yearbook: "David can do some malicious things but I think he just wants to be loved. He craves a bit of affection."
"He's never had much attention from his mum, Gail. She was always running around after David's brother, Nick, and Sarah and then she moved on to caring about Bethany, so David just feels like he was pushed to one side," he said.
"He's found that by being bad he gets lots of attention. That's the only time Gail really notices him."
Shepherd said: "David could go down a really dark path, but there are different sides to him. David is an emotional character and he can do comedy - he's quite a comedian sometimes."
"I think he does have different dimensions to his character, which makes him so much fun to watch. But probably his main strength is being a nasty, evil, twisted little git."
Clint Eastwood - Eastwood Encourages Clinton
Veteran actor CLINT EASTWOOD has urged presidential hopeful HILLARY CLINTON to keep fighting in the ongoing race leading up to the next U.S. election.
The Dirty Harry star, a supporter of Republican presidential candidate John MCCain, has told the New York senator and former First Lady not to give up - despite the fact her rival Barack Obama currently has the majority of pledged delegates for the Democratic nomination.
He says, "Everybody's trying to talk her into folding, but it doesn't seem like the spirit of America.
"I watch Clinton and feel sorry for her and wonder, 'What are all these people telling her to run away for?'
"She's showing her strength by hanging in there. Put yourself in her place. You've gone out there and made a thousand speeches, shaken a million hands and been out there working your ass off. Then somebody comes up and says, 'Why don't you just drop out of it?'"
Obama has now claimed a 1,961 delegates compared to Clinton's 1,779, according to Fox News. The winner will go on to fight Republican candidate MCCain to become U.S. President in the nationwide vote later this year (08).
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Joan Collins - Collins Cheated Death On Turbulent Flight
Veteran actress JOAN COLLINS once cheated death on a turbulent flight to the Caribbean - but was shocked when one of her fellow passengers refused to be frightened by the ordeal.
The star was travelling to the region on an old plane when she noticed English actor James Mason was calmly reading his newspaper while those around him - including herself - panicked.
She says, "(I asked) James - aren't you terrified? It's so bumpy we could even crash. (He replied) 'Oh no, my dear. I'm never frightened of planes. I fly so much, what is there to be anxious about?'
"That's when I realised his newspaper was upside down."
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Bruce Springsteen, Emirates Stadium, London
A third of a century has passed since a young Bruce Springsteen came to London to play his debut UK gig at what was then the Hammersmith Odeon. Horrified to arrive at the venue and find his record label billing him as "the future of rock'n'roll", he famously ran around the streets before the show tearing down the offending posters.
Springsteen's modesty was laudable, even if the over-enthusiastic marketing hype was to prove unusually prescient, and more than three decades on, his performance and persona have hardly changed. He still strides on stage, a rugged everyman in blue jeans, work shirt and suspiciously jet-black hair, and fires out a never-ending series of dynamic, insatiable, big-hearted rock songs.
It would be forgivable, at 58, if he took his foot off the gas, and he has described his recent dates as "victory laps" at the twilight of a formidable career. But tonight Springsteen shows no signs of slowing down. The opening Tenth Avenue and Radio Nowhere set the tone for the evening, being heartfelt, yearning songs, rich in observational detail, performed with an energy and brio that verge on the pathological.
Springsteen's legendary charisma is so winning that he performs the miraculous feat of making a stadium show appear intimate. He has no shortage of crowdpleasing tricks, regularly ambling into the throng and returning with a sheaf of song requests. But tonight is free of showbiz schmaltz: the vivacious Atlantic City and Because the Night sound like earnest declarations of his eternal faith in the healing, redemptive powers of rock'n'roll.
The material from last year's thoughtful Magic album is so immediate that it sounds as familiar as his peerless back catalogue. Before Livin' in the Future, awash with sepia nostalgia for pre-Bush liberal America, he mumbles incredulity at what is going down in his land: "Rendition, illegal wire-tapping and the rolling back of basic civil liberties." The album's title track is described as "about the troops" and is sung in a monotone as low and wearied as a soldier returning from war broken by having seen too much, too clearly.
Yet the E Street Band's raw, raucous rock is too vibrant for spirits to dip for long, and a lengthy encore including Born To Run, Glory Days and Dancing in the Dark has 50,000 delirious fists punching the Emirates' night air.
Bruce Springsteen has been on stage for three hours, and it doesn't seem a minute too long.
· At Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, on June 14. Box office: 08705 582582.
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Angelina Jolie in plane collapse?
Actress Angelina Jolie has reportedly collapsed while on an 18-hour flight.
According to The Sun, the star, who is reported to be pregnant, began to feel ill on a flight from Iraq and was attended to by airline staff, who gave her oxygen.
A passenger on the flight told the newspaper: "She started to get nosebleeds and cramps. She fainted."
According to The Sun, the star, who is reported to be pregnant, began to feel ill on a flight from Iraq and was attended to by airline staff, who gave her oxygen.
A passenger on the flight told the newspaper: "She started to get nosebleeds and cramps. She fainted."
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