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Most folks alive in the 1960s remember the “big” events – the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, and the Cuban missile crisis. But how about those lesser-known events that occurred during this fascinating decade? This week, Tidbits focuses on occasions you might not know about that happened during the ‘60s. • An item purchased in 1960 for $100 would be equivalent to about $800 today. So consider that the average income in 1960 was $5,315. This would translate into today’s dollars at $42,520. A new house averaged $12,700, equivalent to $101,600 these days. By 1969, the income was $8,540 and the house cost was $15,500. A new car could be purchased for $2,600, a price that increased to $3,270 by 1969. • Chemist Leo Sternbach was responsible for calming the anxieties of millions of Americans with his invention of Valium in 1961, just one of his 241 drug patents. Valium decreases the rate of brain activity, tranquilizing those areas of the brain responsible for sensing fear. Although it was the biggest-selling drug in the nation from 1969 to 1980, it was found to be addictive, with some users dependent on it in just two weeks. Many users were found to depend on Valium for life’s everyday troubles, as well as difficulty experiencing joy. turn the page for more!

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Don’t Spend It All In One Place Have you decided where you’re going to spend your Social Security windfall? The average recipient will see an increase of $5 in monthly benefits in 2017, a whopping 0.3 percent increase. Broken down into real numbers, the average retiree will now receive $1,360 in monthly benefits. Of course, this is a bonus after last year, when we saw no increase whatsoever, while prices around us rose on nearly everything: food, shelter, prescription drugs. The adjustment is based on the annual Consumer Price Index, which apparently rose just enough to get us that $5. If you’re under full retirement age and get Social Security benefits, the maximum income you can make (before they start taking $1 for every $2 you earn) will go up to $16,920 per year. The year you reach full retirement age, you can earn up to $44,880 before they take out a dollar for every $3 you earn. Once you reach full retirement age, there’s no limit on your earnings. Go online to www.ssa.gov/cola for more details. Don’t forget to scroll down and view the history of the Cost of Living Adjustments. It wasn’t that long ago that the increase was 3.6 percent (2012) and 5.8 percent (2009). If you’ll be filing for Medicare in 2017, but because of your age won’t be filing for Social Security, beware. It’s possible you’ll be in that group who will pay more per month for Medicare than others who are “held harmless” from increases. Go to Medicare.gov to read about the 2017 Part B premiums. So ... where shall we spend our windfall? There are approximately 60 million of us who will get that extra money starting in January. At $5 apiece, that comes to $300 million a month. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

November 29th, 2016

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A Physical Cause Found for PTSD It might well be that post-traumatic stress disorder has a physical cause after all. Specifically, for those who’ve been within 5 feet of a blast, a unique scarring is left on the brain -- the body’s attempt to repair itself. Even more specifically, that scarring is found in a certain spot in the brain, between the grey and white matter, the same area of the brain that correlates to symptoms showing up in traumatic brain injury. It happens rather quickly, within days. The results of a study, commissioned by the Department of Defense, was reported in the Lancet Neurology journal. The researchers’ main task was to determine whether different types of blasts produce the same damage patterns in the brain

that are seen with impact injuries. They compared the brains of both nearby and remote blast-injured veterans, civilians with no blast exposure, athletes, car-wreck victims and those with chronic exposure to opiates. Those who’d had blast exposure were the only ones that showed the unique interface astroglial scarring. Unfortunately, it doesn’t show up on neuroimaging as an abnormality. For all the veterans who’ve been told that their symptoms are their imagination or emotional in nature, this research goes a long way to show there’s a physical reason for what is happening to them. Sleeplessness, memory loss, anxiety, lack of concentration and depression may have been pinned on the wrong things in cases where there has been blast exposure. Consider: This has been going on a very long time, beginning in World War I when soldiers were accused of malingering and

cowardice or were given the diagnosis of “shell shock” when they suffered effects after a blast. Common treatments included electro-shock therapy, milk diets or walks in the countryside. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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