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Overactive bladders play with the mind
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a5069303-84f6-4ddf-9503-a9754548de78/34860FA1-1C45-4444-91EC-559BFF62C089/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19926664.300-overactive-bladders-play-with-the-mind.html?feedId=online-news_rss20" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19926664.300-overactive-bladders-play-with-the-mind.html?feedId=online-news_rss20" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19926664.300-overactive-bladders-play-with-the-mind.html?feedId=online-news_rss20"><DIV class="floatleft" id="artheadcopy"> <H2 class="inline">Overactive bladders play with the mind</H2> <UL class="straptext notlist highlight colspacer"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> 23 July 2008 </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> From New Scientist Print Edition. <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/subscribe.ns?promcode=nsarttop" linkindex="46">Subscribe</A> and get 4 free issues. </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Bob Holmes</LI> </UL> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19926664.300-overactive-bladders-play-with-the-mind.html?feedId=online-news_rss20"><P>THE urge to pee too frequently might literally mess with your mind. Experiments in rats show that an overactive bladder changes brain activity. If the same is true in humans, it could in part explain the disrupted sleep, reduced ability to concentrate and confusion that often accompany ageing.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19926664.300-overactive-bladders-play-with-the-mind.html?feedId=online-news_rss20"><P>"If you have an overactive bladder, you don't just have a bladder problem. It has neurobehavioural consequences," says <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g319/p12450" linkindex="71">Rita Valentino</A>, a neuroscientist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19926664.300-overactive-bladders-play-with-the-mind.html?feedId=online-news_rss20">As much as 17 per cent of the US population is affected by the disorder, which is characterised by uncontrolled bladder contractions, leading to frequent urination.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19926664.300-overactive-bladders-play-with-the-mind.html?feedId=online-news_rss20">The study is the first to show that a bladder disorder can have a direct effect on brain function. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19926664.300-overactive-bladders-play-with-the-mind.html?feedId=online-news_rss20">This helps complete the puzzle of why overactive bladder symptoms are so disruptive to quality of life</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/34860FA1-1C45-4444-91EC-559BFF62C089/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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