Study finds breathing in laughing gas can help reduce depression symptoms
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo, Scott Brinkman, chief of Stowe Department of Emergency Medical Services, demonstrates how nitrous oxide is used in an ambulance, in Stowe, Vt. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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A new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis found that the effects of inhaling nitrous oxide gas, which is better known as laughing gas, can help reduce the symptoms of depression.
The study was published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine.
A more balanced, sustainable approach to consuming food from livestock one that meets nutrition needs and focuses on local production methods is essential for delivering on global commitments to combat malnutrition in all its forms, said .
Cultural Translations (Francisci, Happel, Speer)
Europe and the Ottoman Empire through three 17th-century writers
Even a casual perusal of seventeenth-century European print production makes clear that the Turk was on everyone’s mind. Europe’s confrontation of and interaction with the Ottoman Empire in the face of what appeared to be a relentless Ottoman expansion spurred news delivery and literary production in multiple genres, from novels and sermons to calendars and artistic representations. The trans-European conversation stimulated by these media, most importantly the regularly delivered news reports, not only kept the public informed but provided the basis for literary conversations among many seventeenth-century writers, three of whom form the center of this inquiry: Daniel Speer (1636-1707), Eberhard Werner Happel (1647-1690), and Erasmus Francisci (1626-1694). The expansion of the Ottoman Empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries offers the opportunity to v
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