Search results for borderline personality:
Full recovery now possible for an 'untreatable' mental illness
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Patients coping with the chaos and misery of Borderline Personality Disorder now have reason for strong confidence in making major life changes through a new treatment, Schema Therapy. For the first time, three major outcome ...
Adding tools against breast tumors
Oct 27, 2009 |
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At the end of a 10-year, coast-to-coast study of women with an unusual form of breast cancer, Richard J. Barth Jr., M.D., and three fellow researchers are making the case for a particular combination of treatments to stop ...
Many childhood cancer survivors have uncomplicated pregnancies, healthy babies
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Women who survived cancer in childhood or adolescence or women whose male partner is a childhood cancer survivor do not appear to have an increased risk of major complications during pregnancy, having babies with birth defects ...
Studies find few risks to newborn offspring of parents who are childhood cancer survivors
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Whether they can have children is one of the major concerns for adult survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer because fertility can be compromised by cancer treatment. For cancer survivors who can have children, two ...
No major role for fish in the prevention of heart failure
Sep 30, 2009 |
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'No major role for fish' in the prevention of heart failure; only a possible beneficial effect in those with diabetes
New ways to predict violent behavior?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 25, 2009 |
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In the future, diagnosing severe personality disorders, evaluating the childhood environment, assessing alcohol consumption and the analysis of the MAOA genotype may provide more accurate means for assessing risk among violent ...
Scandinavians are descended from Stone Age immigrants
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Today's Scandinavians are not descended from the people who came to Scandinavia at the conclusion of the last ice age but, apparently, from a population that arrived later, concurrently with the introduction ...
Treatment of personality disorders by psychotherapy: A French multicenter study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 23, 2009 |
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A French multicenter study headed by Jean Cottraux (Lyon) has investigated the role of psychotherapy in borderline personality disorder.
Study reveals complexities of female arousal
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Challenging the idea that women's sexual motivations are tied exclusively to romantic emotions or reproduction, a new study by psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin found women's sexual decisions ...
A New Cloaking Method: This is not a 'Star Trek' or 'Harry Potter' Story (w/ Video)
Aug 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, ...
High cholesterol in midlife raises risk of late-life dementia, study finds
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Elevated cholesterol levels in midlife - even levels considered only borderline elevated - significantly increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia later in life, according to a new study by researchers ...
Invisible ink? What Rorschach tests really tell us
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 30, 2009 |
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One of the most well-known psychological tools is the Rorschach Inkblot Test. A viewer looks at ten inkblots, one at a time, and describes what they see. The rationale behind this test is the idea that certain aspects of ...
If bipolar disorder is over-diagnosed, what are the actual diagnoses?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 29, 2009 |
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A year ago, a study by Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University researchers reported that fewer than half the patients previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder received an actual diagnosis of bipolar disorder after using ...
Scientists use high-pressure 'alchemy' to create nonexpanding metals
Jun 15, 2009 |
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By squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a material that does not ...
Genes influence impulsive behavior, preceding the development of alcoholism
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Numerous studies have shown that highly impulsive behavior - defined as the tendency to choose small, immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards - is more prevalent in drug addicts and alcoholics compared to individuals ...
