ProfNet Experts Available on Shopping, Relationships, Post-Operative Delirium, More

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EXPERT ALERTS

• How to Keep Your Inheritance in a Divorce
• Are Gadget-Free Bedrooms the Secret to a Happy Relationship?
• Goal Pursuit Motivates Shoppers, Fuels Customer Loyalty Programs
• Preventing Postoperative Delirium
• Creating Omega-3 From Algae Provides a Sustainable Alternative
• Sleep Duration Can Impact How Much You Worry

MEDIA JOBS

• Reporter – Passaic Valley Today (NJ)
• Transportation Reporter – The Daily Press (OR)
• Reporter – Dow Jones (NY)

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• Upcoming #ConnectChat: How to Build Work/Life Balance
• Blog Profiles: Retail Blogs
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EXPERT ALERTS:

How to Keep Your Inheritance in a Divorce
Jacqueline Newman
Family Law Attorney and Managing Partner
Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd
Newman offers the following tips for keeping your inheritance in a divorce: 1) Negotiate a prenup: "While not always airtight, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements can help shield assets such as an inherited business, money, property or a rare art collection should a couple end up in divorce court." 2) Save documentation: "People should keep any paperwork that shows an inheritance was intended only for one partner." 3) Maintain separate accounts: "Couples shouldn't commingle inherited money or other assets in an account that also includes the other spouse's funds. Instead, they should put it in a separate bank or investment account." 4) Keep titles in one name: "In the absence of a prenuptial agreement, the best way to protect separately owned property, such as a vacation home bought and paid for before a marriage, is to avoid adding a partner's name to the deed."
Based in New York City, Newman's practice consists of litigation, collaborative law and mediation. She specializes in complex high-net-worth matrimonial cases and negotiating prenuptial agreements. She has appeared as a commentator on various television shows and has been quoted as an expert in numerous publications, including Glamour, Crain's New York Business, U.S. News & World Report, Woman's Day and The Huffington Post.
Media Contact: Ryan McCormick, [email protected]

Are Gadget-Free Bedrooms the Secret to a Happy Relationship?
Stacey Nelkin
Relationship Expert
Founder, The Daily Affair
"A study published last month in The International Journal of Neuropsychotherapy found that when one person in a relationship is using some forms of technology more than the other, it makes the second person feel ignored and insecure. Or, as your therapist may say, it brings up a whole lot of abandonment issues."
Website: http://www.thedailyaffair.com
Media Contact: Mark Goldman, [email protected]

Goal Pursuit Motivates Shoppers, Fuels Customer Loyalty Programs
Anastasiya Pocheptsova
Assistant Professor of Marketing
University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business
"Consumers' decisions are frequently driven by what might appear as arbitrary numerical markers. A promotion that rewards a consumer for spending X dollars or buying X number of products is processed by the shopper as an implicit goal or reference point suggesting that this an acceptable amount to spend. Normally, retailers place that spending target just shy of consumers' average spending to benefit from the fact that when a person is just shy of reaching its goal, he or she is the most motivated. Of course a 'prize' for reaching the goal that is relevant -- such as $50 in store credit for spending $500 -- helps as well. Thus, consumers not only walk away from the store with more products, but also with a feeling of accomplishment, something that money cannot buy."
Pocheptsova holds a Ph.D. in marketing from the Yale School of Management. Her research explores decision-making and focuses on the influence of goals, emotions and mindsets on consumer choices.
Expert Contact: [email protected]
Media Contact: Greg Muraski, [email protected]

Preventing Postoperative Delirium
Barry Friedberg, M.D.
Dr. Friedberg, a board certified anesthesiologist and author of "Getting Over Going Under: 5 Things You Must Know Before Anesthesia," applauds the American Geriatrics Society guidelines to prevent postoperative delirium: "Brain monitoring is the best available technology to reduce or eliminate anesthesia brain fog after surgery and it needs to be more widely used as the study suggests. The vast majority of Americans are routinely over-medicated during surgery because their anesthesiologist is not measuring their brain. There are cases every day where families are trying to determine what happened to their loved one's personality and cognitive skills after a surgery. Sadly, some of these patients will never be the same. The key is to monitor the brain during the surgical procedure."
Dr. Friedberg is the developer of propofol ketamine (PK) technique designed to maximize patient safety by minimizing the degree to which patients need to be medicated to create the illusion of general anesthesia, i.e., "no hear, no feel." Located in Los Angeles, Dr. Friedberg has been interviewed by FOX, CNN, truTV, Nancy Grace and People magazine, and commented throughout the Michael Jackson murder trial regarding the use of propofol.
ProfNet Profile: http://www.profnetconnect.com/barry_l._friedberg
Website: http://www.drfriedberg.com
Media Contact: Scott Lorenz, [email protected]

Creating Omega-3 From Algae Provides a Sustainable Alternative
Dr. Isaac Berzin
CTO and Founder
Qualitas Health
"With 7 billion people in the world, and with shrinking farmland and overfished oceans, we need to develop new sources of protein, new sources of food. After many years in the algae industry, and understanding how these amazing organisms have the possibility to revolutionize the world, it is thrilling to see us meet a major commercial milestone. Creating omega-3 from the original marine source – algae – provides a sustainable and 'green' alternative for the future."
Qualitas Health is developing a range of other algae-based health and food products, including Omega-7, anti-oxidants and protein replacements, as well as algae-based protein products, including meat replacements.
Berzin holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He graduated with a B.S. chemical engineering degree in biotechnology, summa cum laude, from Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He completed his post-doctoral research at Robert Langer's lab at MIT. Berzin was named one the 100 most influential people in politics, business and science in 2008 by the Time Magazine for his work in alga-culture. His work in alga-culture has won awards, including the Frost and Sullivan Award, Platts Global Energy Award and American Society of Competitiveness (ASC) Awards. He is available to discuss biotechnology and algae, as well as bio-fuel and Omega 3 food supplements sourced from algae. He is based in Imperial, Texas, and Tel Aviv, Israel.
Media Contact: Hadas Weisman, [email protected]

Sleep Duration Can Impact How Much You Worry
Meredith Coles
Binghamton Anxiety Clinic Director
Binghamton University
"Studying the relation between reductions in sleep duration and psychopathology has already demonstrated that focusing on sleep in the clinic also leads to reductions in symptoms of psychopathology. If further findings support the relation between sleep timing and repetitive negative thinking, this could one day lead to a new avenue for treatment of individuals with internalizing disorders."
According to researchers at Binghamton, the time you go to bed and how long you sleep at a time might actually make it difficult for you to stop worrying. The study, led by Coles, found that people who sleep for shorter periods of time and go to bed very late at night are often overwhelmed with more negative thoughts than those who keep more regular sleeping hours. The findings appear in Springer's journal Cognitive Therapy and Research, being published this month.
Website: http://www.binghamton.edu
Expert Contact: [email protected]
Media Contact: Ryan Yarosh, [email protected]

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OTHER NEWS & RESOURCES:

Following are links to other news and resources we think you might find useful. If you have an item you think other reporters would be interested in and would like us to include in a future alert, please drop us a line.

• UPCOMING #CONNECTCHAT: HOW TO ACHIEVE WORK/LIFE BALANCE. It's challenging enough to find a balance between your work life and your professional life without the holidays, but when you add the holidays to the mix, you are forced to find ways to manage everything all at once. Join us for a Twitter Q&A with writer extraordinaire Rachel Weingarten as she shares her tips for on managing your personal and professional obligations during the hectic holiday season. Details here: http://prn.to/1AkYYj4
• BLOG PROFILES: RETAIL BLOGS. Every week, PR Newswire's media relations manager, Christine Cube, profiles a handful of blogs that do a good job with promoting, contributing and blogging about an industry/subject. This week, she takes a look at a few retail blogs: http://prn.to/1AbWJOQ
• GIVING THANKS: 11 OF OUR FAVORITE BLOGGING TOOLS: When you run a blog, one of the biggest perks is that you're in charge. You're writer, editor, photographer, videographer, graphic designer, programmer, marketer and more. This also makes blogging one of the biggest challenges, because not many of us start out skilled in those areas. Fortunately, there are many resources and guides to remove the mystery from blogging. Better yet, many of them are free or incredibly inexpensive to use. We asked bloggers from all over PR Newswire to share their favorites: http://bit.ly/1vJHm28

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