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Glucose metabolism and recidivism of severe violent crimes in alcohol intoxications
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 01, 2009 |
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It is commonly known that alcoholism and alcohol intoxications are connected with severe violent crimes such as homicides. For instance, in Finland even 80 per cent of these crimes happen in alcohol intoxications. It has ...
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Female sex offenders often have mental problems
May 14, 2008 |
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Women who commit sexual offences are just as likely to have mental problems or drug addictions as other violent female criminals. This according to the largest study ever conducted of women convicted of sexual offences in ...
Psychiatric disorders and sexual trauma are associated with lower urinary tract symptoms
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Depression, anxiety disorders and sexual trauma have all been implicated as risk factors in lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) such as incontinence and overactive bladder. The exact nature of these associations is unknown. ...
Shock therapy making a comeback
Jan 14, 2008 |
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Electroshock therapy is coming back into favor as a treatment for depression in the United States.
Psychiatric symptoms may predict Internet addiction in adolescents
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Oct 05, 2009 |
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Adolescents with psychiatric symptoms such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), social phobia, hostility and depression may be more likely to develop an Internet addiction, according to a report in the October ...
First-of-Kind Study Shows Model Can Be Used to Rate Courtroom Psychiatric Experts Performance
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Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What does it mean when expert psychiatric witnesses in a court case reach opposing conclusions on the same sets of evidence? A new study out of the University of Cincinnati College of Law suggests via mathematical ...
In cancer-ridden rats, loneliness can kill
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Socially isolated female rats develop more tumors -- and tumors of a more deadly type -- than rats living in a social group, according to researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago.
Could drugs for mood disorders, pain and epilepsy cause psychiatric disorders later in life?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Young animals treated with commonly-prescribed drugs develop behavioral abnormalities in adulthood say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. The drugs tested include those used to treat epilepsy, mood disorders ...
Resident physicians seldom trained in skin cancer examination
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Many resident physicians are not trained in skin cancer examinations, nor have they ever observed or practiced the procedure, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Dermatology.
Pregnant women risk early delivery from using psychiatric medication
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women with a history of depression who used psychiatric medicine during pregnancy have triple the odds of delivering a premature baby.
Study Shows Brain Functions Same Way Awake or Asleep
Nov 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have found strong evidence supporting the view that the sleeping mind functions the same as the waking mind, a discovery that could significantly alter basic understanding of the ...
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