The obesity epidemic is a staggering public health problem and despite increased attention and education, the WHO still predicts the number of obese adults worldwide to increase from 400 million to 700 million between 2005 and 2015. More and more people are turning to bariatric surgery as a last resort. Despite a slow economy, demand remains strong, even despite its being classified as an elective procedure for most individuals.

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The Blount Memorial Weight Management Center, Foothills Weight Loss Specialists and Johnson and Johnson Ethicon Endo-Surgery hosted a Bariatric Surgery Fashion Show. The event celebrated seven years and more than 75,000 pounds lost at Blount Memorial. Weight-loss surgery patients took a walk down the catwalk, showed off their clothes pre-surgery and post-surgery, and then told others about how bariatric surgery changed their lives for the better.

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According to researchers at Texas A&M International University, the strongest risk factors for violent behaviour were depression and having delinquent peers. Other factors included a parent’s psychological abuse of a partner, anti-social personality, negative relationships with adults and family conflict, they said. Overall, the researchers found, the factors that did increase the risk of violent behaviour had pretty small effects.

Amnesia is a condition that severely disrupts the aptitude to create lifelong memories. Pertaining to the topic, the long-held hypothesis that our brains utilize diverse mechanisms for producing long-term and short-term memories has been confronted by a new study from UCL Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience. After observing patients with amnesia, this theory was created by neuroscientists. The team examined patients with a detailed type of epilepsy known as ‘temporal lobe epilepsy with bilateral hippocampal sclerosis’.