News tagged with psychiatric
Acute stress leaves epigenetic marks on the hippocampus
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Nov 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are learning that the dynamic regulation of genes -- as much as the genes themselves -- shapes the fate of organisms. Now the discovery of a new epigenetic mechanism regulating genes in the brain ...
Psychiatric disorders common among college-age individuals; few seek treatment
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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Psychiatric disorders appear to be common among 18- to 24-year-olds, with overall rates similar among those attending or not attending college, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. Almost ...
Scientists demonstrate link between genetic defect and brain changes in schizophrenia
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Oct 16, 2009 |
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For decades, scientists have thought the faulty neural wiring that predisposes individuals to behavioral disorders like autism and psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia must occur during development. Even so, no one has ...
New links between lucid dreaming and psychosis could revive dream therapy in psychiatry
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Jul 29, 2009 |
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Similarities in brain activity during lucid dreaming and psychosis suggest that dream therapy may be useful in psychiatric treatment, a European Science Foundation (ESF) workshop has found. This is strengthened by the potential ...
Evidence that cognitive therapy is of no value in schizophrenia
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Jun 26, 2009 |
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Research co-led by an academic at the University of Hertfordshire, concludes that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is of no value in schizophrenia and has limited effect on depression.
New schizophrenia genes uncovered
Jul 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered new genes linked to schizophrenia, it has been revealed. In two papers published in Nature today (July 30), scientists identify four mutated gene regions that m ...
Study examines relationship between low birth weight and psychiatric problems in children
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Low-birth-weight children appear to be at higher risk for psychiatric disturbances from childhood through high school than normal-birth-weight children, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of General Ps ...
Book demystifies psychiatry for the general public
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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Psychiatric disorders are underdiagnosed, poorly treated and highly stigmatized, according to psychiatrists Charles F. Zorumski, M.D., and Eugene H. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D. So these Washington University physicians ...
63 percent of RA patients suffer psychiatric disorders, with depressive spectrum conditions most likely
Jun 12, 2009 |
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Over half (63%) of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) also suffer from psychiatric disorders, with the majority of these (87%) occurring in the depressive spectrum, according to the results of a new study. Interestingly, ...
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Bridging the divide
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Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sufferers of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are being brought together in a major new study to determine the diseases? common genetic causes.
Tw studies examine medical consequences of police use of force during restraint
May 17, 2009 |
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Dr. Jared Strote at the University of Washington Medical Center led a group that examined the medical records of nearly 900 patients subdued by the Seattle Police Department with a Taser over a six-year period. Less than ...
Abortion and miscarriage bring psychiatric risk
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Drug and alcohol problems and psychiatric disorders are more likely in women who have had an abortion or miscarriage, a University of Queensland study has found.
Research moves a step closer to possibility of brain scan-assisted diagnosis for PTSD
Apr 03, 2009 |
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Florence, Italy: Preliminary research examining the difference in brain activity between soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder and those without it moves scientists a step closer to the possibility of being able one ...
A genetic basis for schizophrenia
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Schizophrenia is a severely debilitating psychiatric disease that is thought to have its roots in the development of the nervous system; however, major breakthroughs linking its genetics to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment ...
Brain-injured patients can relearn emotions
Feb 10, 2009 |
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The visitor in Barry Willer's office at the University at Buffalo was frustrated and deeply depressed. The man's wife had sustained a relatively mild traumatic brain injury, and he was doing all he could to support her. But ...
