News tagged with anxiety levels

Does Borna disease virus cause mental illness? New study may end two decades of suspicion

Over the past 30 years, numerous studies have linked Borna disease virus (BDV) with mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorder and dementia. Genetic fragments and antibodies to this RNA virus, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

School absenteeism, mental health problems linked

School absenteeism is a significant problem, and students who are frequently absent from school more often have symptoms of psychiatric disorders. A new longitudinal study of more than 17,000 youths has found that frequently ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists point to link between missing synapse protein and abnormal behaviors

(Medical Xpress) -- Although many mental illnesses are uniquely human, animals sometimes exhibit abnormal behaviors similar to those seen in humans with psychological disorders. Such behaviors are called endophenotypes. Now, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Strong attachment to local communities made oil spill more stressful for many coastal residents

A major concern related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was the impact on people living in coastal areas. News reports provided anecdotal evidence that those living along the coast and reliant on the fishing or ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

We are what we experience: study

the ups and downs, and everything in between -- shape us, stay with us and influence our emotional set point as adults, according to a new study led by Virginia Commonwealth University researchers.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Marijuana blocks PTSD symptoms in rats: study

Marijuana administered in a timely fashion could block the development of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in rats, a new study conducted at Haifa University has found.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Yoga boosts stress-busting hormone, reduces pain

A new study by York University researchers finds that practicing yoga reduces the physical and psychological symptoms of chronic pain in women with fibromyalgia.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Sundowning,' an anxiety syndrome in elderly dementia patients explained in a new study

New research provides the best evidence to date that the late-day anxiety and agitation sometimes seen in older institutionalized adults, especially those with dementia, has a biological basis in the brain.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Panic symptoms increase steadily, not acutely, after stressful event

Just like everyone else, people with panic disorder have real stress in their lives. They get laid off and they fight with their spouses. How such stresses affect their panic symptoms hasn't been well understood, but a new ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Access to personal medical records increases satisfaction among new cancer patients

A new analysis has found that allowing full access to personal medical records increases satisfaction without increasing anxiety in newly diagnosed cancer patients. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journa ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Diagnosis uncertainty increases anxiety in patients

Have you ever felt uneasy sitting in a doctor's waiting room or climbed the walls waiting for your test results? That feeling of anxious uncertainty can be more stressful than knowing you have a serious illness, according ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Is anxiety contagious? Surprising research finds common stress levels in social groups

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anxiety, or the reaction to a perceived danger, is a response that differs from one animal or human to another -- or so scientists thought. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University are challenging ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Do men with early prostate cancer commit suicide more frequently?

The introduction of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing as a screening tool for early detection of prostate cancer (PCa) in the beginning of the 1990s drastically increased the detection of PCa. The risk of suicide is ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yoga reduces cytokine levels known to promote inflammation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Regularly practicing yoga exercises may lower a number of compounds in the blood and reduce the level of inflammation that normally rises because of both normal aging and stress, a new study has shown.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

International research tests language tests

Unique Queen's University research will shed light on how motivation and anxiety affects language test scores, and on the relationship between the test scores and the social and educational contexts of the tests.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0