Good News for Young Researchers

Early caregiving and adult depression: good news for young caregivers.

PURPOSE Limited information is available on the effects of caregiving experiences on the adult development of caregivers under 21 years old in the United States. The current study provided an examination of the effects of youthful caregiving on the mental health of these persons when adults. DESIGN AND METHODS Twelve individuals, 23 to 58 years old, were given brief phone interviews with semi...

Good news for mice!

Each December, science reporters dutifully sit down and compose stories about all the good things science has done for humanity in the past year. As my colleagues and I at National Public Radio contemplated this annual rite, we reluctantly came to the conclusion that 1999 hasn’t been all that notable a year, scientifically, for human beings. But it has been a spectacular year for mice. The firs...

NO news is good news for plants.

The organization of redox signaling and the use of nitric oxide (NO) to transmit information, modulate biological processes or create cellular damage are highly complex. Recent reports provide an exceptional picture of NO production, of the regulation of NO bioactivity through detoxification reactions and of biochemical events by which NO transduces signals into cellular responses, in particula...

No News is Good News

It seems plausible that an increase in stock market volatility raises required stock returns, and thus lowers stock prices. We develop a formal model of this volatility feedback effect using a simple model of changing variance (a quadratic generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic, or QGARCH, model). Our model is asymmetric and helps to explain the negative skewness and excess ku...

NO news is good news.