Press Release – Zonta Club of Wellington Seeking natural cures for human ailments based on traditional medicines drives the research of Dr Helen Woolner, the winner of the 2020 Zonta Club of Wellington Science Award. Helen is a chemical scientist and holds a New Zealand Health Research Council …
Seeking natural cures for human ailments based on traditional medicines drives the research of Dr Helen Woolner, the winner of the 2020 Zonta Club of Wellington Science Award.
Helen is a chemical scientist and holds a New Zealand Health Research Council Pacific Post-doctoral Research Fellowship. She is a Health Research Council of New Zealand assessing committee member, and a member of the Te Vairanga Kite Pakari Cook Islands Research Association. Once borders re-open, Helen says “the Zonta prize will allow her to travel to the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany”.
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Growing Evidence That Mentally Ill Youths Become Less Healthy Adults
A new pair of studies from a Duke research team’s long-term work in New Zealand make the case that mental health struggles in early life can lead to poorer physical health and advanced aging in adulthood.
But because mental health problems peak early in life and can be identified, the researchers say that more investment in prompt mental health care could be used to prevent later diseases and lower societal healthcare costs.
“The same people who experience psychiatric conditions when they are young go on to experience excess age-related physical diseases and neurodegenerative diseases when they are older adults,” explained Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke, who is the senior author on both studies.
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DURHAM, N.C. A new pair of studies from a Duke research team s long-term work in New Zealand make the case that mental health struggles in early life can lead to poorer physical health and advanced aging in adulthood.
But because mental health problems peak early in life and can be identified, the researchers say that more investment in prompt mental health care could be used to prevent later diseases and lower societal healthcare costs. The same people who experience psychiatric conditions when they are young go on to experience excess age-related physical diseases and neurodegenerative diseases when they are older adults, explained Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke, who is the senior author on both studies.
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