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Estrogen relieves psychotic symptoms in women with schizophrenia

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created Aug 04, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

When combined with antipsychotic medications, the estrogen estradiol appears to be a useful treatment in women with schizophrenia, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.





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Pelvic pain as prevalent in teens as older males

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created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Queen's University research team has found that a painful pelvic affliction associated with adult men occurs as frequently in adolescent boys. Chronic prostatitis or chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a urogenital ...


Recognizing children's successes in all areas may prevent teenage depression

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created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Students' successes in the first grade can affect more than their future report cards. In a new study, University of Missouri researchers found links among students' weak academic performance in the first grade, self-perceptions ...


Scientists discover new arenavirus associated with hemorrhagic fever

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created Apr 18, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of Bolivian health authorities, U.S. Navy health experts based in Lima, Peru, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has characterized “Chapare arenavirus,” a previously unrecognized arenavirus, discovered ...


Patterns of normal brain activity may predispose individuals to different symptoms of psychosis

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created Jun 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A new study released today offers a potential predictive technique to anticipate how individuals might behave during a psychotic episode. The study, in the June 18 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, related the brain ...


Formal education lessens the impact of Alzheimer's disease

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created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the Department of Psychiatry, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, investigated the effects of formal education on the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. They were able to show that ...


Witnessing violence affects kids' health

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created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

School-aged children who witness violence in urban communities show symptoms of post-traumatic stress. They also suffer physiological effects with a disruption to their normal cortisol production pattern during the day, which ...


Children with headache

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created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Family quarrels and a lack of free time can promote headaches in children. This is what Jennifer Gassmann and her coauthors concluded in their study on risk factors, which appears in the current issue of the Deutsches &A ...


Study: depression can lead to inflated reports of physical symptoms

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research shows people who feel depressed tend to recall having more physical symptoms than they actually experienced. The study indicates that depression -- not neuroticism -- is the cause of such over-reporting.


Fear of anxiety linked to depression in above-average worriers

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Anxiety sensitivity, or the fear of feeling anxious, may put people who are already above-average worriers at risk for depression, according to Penn State researchers. Understanding how sensitivity to anxiety is a risk factor ...


Negative mood-related drinking may mean vulnerability for major depression and alcohol dependence

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created May 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Major depression (MD) and alcohol dependence (AD) co-occur in individuals and within families at higher rates than expected by chance. This study looked at how mood-related drinking motives may explain the overlapping familial ...



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