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Medication may provide some benefit for older adults with anxiety disorder
Jan 20, 2009 |
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Preliminary research suggests that use of the drug escitalopram provided some improvement in symptoms for older adults with generalized anxiety disorder, although the overall benefits were diminished because of nonadherence ...
What Is The Best Strategy For Overcoming Constant Worries?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 07, 2009 |
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A group of German investigators has published a randomized controlled trial on how to overcome constant worries in the current issue of Psyhotherapy and Psychosomatics.
Expectant brains help predict anxiety treatment success
Jan 02, 2009 |
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A network of emotion-regulating brain regions implicated in the pathological worry that can grip patients with anxiety disorders may also be useful for predicting the benefits of treatment.
Cognitive behavior therapy helps older adults with anxiety reduce worry, improve mental health
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Older adults with generalized anxiety disorder who received cognitive behavior therapy had greater improvement on measures of worry, depression and mental health than patients who received usual care, according to a study ...
Anxiety disorders surprisingly common yet often untreated
Mar 12, 2007 |
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A new study by researchers led by Kurt Kroenke, M.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. reports that nearly 20 percent of patients seen by primary care physicians have at least ...
Brain scans show distinctive patterns in people with generalized anxiety disorder
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Scrambled connections between the part of the brain that processes fear and emotion and other brain regions could be the hallmark of a common anxiety disorder, according to a new study from the Stanford University School ...
Improving anxiety treatment through the help of brain imaging: A potential future treatment strategy
May 08, 2008 |
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Wouldn’t it be nice if our doctors could predict accurately whether we would respond to a particular medication? This question is important because research studies provide information about how groups of patients tend to ...
Targeting MMPs to halt advanced metastatic breast cancer
Jul 16, 2009 |
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An upcoming G&D paper reveals how two specific matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) proteins contribute to bone metastasis in advanced breast cancer - lending important new insight into the design of clinically useful small molecule ...
Michigan hospital launches gene therapy study for Parkinson's disease
Oct 06, 2009 |
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A Michigan hospital is embarking on a research study for advanced Parkinson's disease using a state-of-the-art treatment called gene transfer.
Promising biomarker and candidate tumor suppressor gene identified for colorectal cancer
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Researchers have identified a new candidate tumor suppressor gene in colorectal cancer and examined its use as a potential biomarker in stool samples, according to a new study published online June 17 in the Journal of th ...
Gene therapy shows significant improvement in Parkinson's disease
Jun 22, 2007 |
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Neurologix, Inc. today announced the publication in the June 23 issue of the journal The Lancet of positive results from the first ever gene therapy trial for Parkinson’s disease and the first report of direct gene transf ...
PET scans show gene therapy normalizes brain function in Parkinson's patients
Nov 19, 2007 |
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Brain scans used to track changes in a dozen patients who received an experimental gene therapy show that the treatment normalizes brain function - and the effects are still present a year later.
Schizophrenia linked to dysfunction in molecular brain pathway activated by marijuana
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Alterations in a molecular brain pathway activated by marijuana may contribute to the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journa ...
Scientists report major advance in search for genes associated with colon cancer
Jul 08, 2007 |
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A 10-year study involving thousands of Israeli Jews and Arabs, led by researchers from American and Israeli institutions, has yielded important new information in the search for the genes that make a person more likely to ...
Researchers Studying Model to Learn Why Certain Cancers Become Resistant to Drugs
Sep 21, 2007 |
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Resistance to chemotherapy treatments can be the worst news a cancer patient ever receives. A pair of researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia is working steadfastly to learn why some tumors eventually build a tolerance ...
