Age, gender, peers, life skills and quality of life influence risk of cell phone addiction among college teachers in Karnataka, India : a state level epidemiological analysis.

Background: Cell phones are an integral part of modern day life and have become companions for individuals irrespective of age, gender and socio-economic status. In this study, we assessed the factors affecting risk of cell phone addiction among teachers attending Life Skills Training and Counselling Services (LSTCS) program in Karnataka.

Methods: This cross sectional secondary data analysis utilised data from baseline assessment of trainees attending a Life Skills Training and Counselling Services program (LSTCP).

The medial septum acts through the medial preoptic area for thermoregulation and works with it for sleep regulation.

The chronic changes in sleep-wakefulness (S-W), body temperature (Tb), locomotor activity (LMA) and thermal preference were studied in male Wistar rats after the destruction of neurons in both the medial preoptic area (mPOA) and the medial septum (MS) by intracerebral injection of N-methyl-D-aspartic acid. An increase in the Tb, and a preference for higher ambient temperature (Tamb) of 30 degrees C were observed after the combined lesion of the mPOA and the MS. Similar changes were reported to occur after the lesion that was restricted to the mPOA.

Differences in the effects of medial and lateral preoptic lesions on thermoregulation and sleep in rats.

The effects of the destruction of the medial preoptic area and the lateral preoptic area with N-methyl-d-aspartic acid on sleep-wakefulness, brain temperature and thermoregulation were studied in two groups of male Wistar rats. Electroencephalogram, electrooculogram and electromyogram, along with brain temperature, were recorded for 3 days, prior to the destruction of the medial preoptic area and the lateral preoptic area, and on the 7th and 21st days after the destruction of these areas. The thermoregulatory capacity of the rats was assessed by recording their brain temperature when they were exposed to severe cold (5+/-1 degrees C) and heat (37+/-1 degrees C) before and after the lesion.

The changes in thermal preference, sleep-wakefulness, body temperature and locomotor activity in the rats with medial septal lesion.

The effects of the destruction of the medial septal neurons (MS) with N-methyl-d-aspartic acid on sleep-wakefulness (S-W), body temperature (Tb), locomotor activity (LMA) and thermal preference were studied in male Wistar rats. When these rats were given a choice of three ambient temperatures (Tamb) of 24, 27 and 30 degrees C, they preferred 27 degrees C before the lesion. But they chose 30 degrees C during the initial days and 24 degrees C by the third week after the MS lesion.