Schizophrenics and Marijuana Consumers

Teens who were heavy marijuana smokers, smoking every day for about three years, had a harder time doing memory tasks and had abnormal brain structure changes compared to those who had never used the drug. Researchers took non smoking teens, smoker teens, schizophrenic teens, and schizophrenic teens who smoke and performed memory tests on them and examined their brain scans.  It seems to be that schizophrenia and marijuana effect the same parts of the brain and could have similar complications.  The non-smoking teen scored 37 times better than the smoking teen and the schizophrenic teen scored 4 times better than the smoking schizophrenics.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/16/health/time-marijuana-brain/index.html?hpt=he_c2 

Mothers Selling their Daughters

Most of Cambodia sees sex trafficking as just another job.  Mothers are becoming the traffickers and selling their own daughters.  There seems to be many reasons why the mothers do it but their main excuse is because of lack of money.  In most of the stories of the families there is no man in the family and they need money to pay off debts.  Seeing as though most of the people of Cambodia see no wrong in sex trafficking mothers look over the consequences and start forcing their daughters to sell their bodies.  The women who got caught say that they would never repeat that mistake if they could go back in the past, but nothing can change the scarring memories that will haunt their daughters for the rest of their lives. http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/12/world/cambodia-child-sex-trade/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 

Smart Bra

Microsoft is designing a bra that will help women stay on track.  The bra is designed to detect women’s emotions and help them stay away from binge eating or eating out of stress, boredom, or being on edge.  They chose the bra because it should be something comfortable and something women can wear every day.  The bra is also close to the heart which needs to be tracked.  To stay away from the comfort food the bra has many sensors.   An electrocardiogram (EKG) sensor under the arm measured their heart rate, while an electrodermal activity (EDA) sensor tracked their perspiration. The bra was very good at detecting mood changes.  How does it work? The bra will send the smart phone a message alerting the woman to step away from the fridge or too make good decisions.  There has been a lot of feedback on the concept of the bra because it is not yet perfected nor is it Microsoft’s biggest worry.  http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/tech/innovation/microsoft-smart-bra/index.html?hpt=he_c2