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Researchers discover how old memories are re-saved and changed
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at McGill University have discovered a series of molecular mechanisms that regulate how our brains call up, restore and even change old memories.
Capturing the birth of a synapse
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 27, 2009 |
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Researchers have identified the locking mechanism that allows some neurons to form synapses to pass along essential information. Mutations of genes that produce a critical cell-adhesion molecule involved in ...
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 ...
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Psych stress can worsen skin disorders
Dec 11, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists have found inhibiting glucocorticoid, a type of steroid, can prevent skin abnormalities induced by psychological stress.
New approach to detect autism earlier
Jan 24, 2008 |
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A new way of understanding autistic disorders, incorporating both psychological and biological factors, could lead to the conditions being picked up earlier, research from UNSW has found.
Psychological impact found in adolescents with kidney transplants
Feb 05, 2009 |
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A new study describes the psychological profile of adolescents who have received kidney transplants and compares them to those of healthy peers. The findings reveal a significantly higher prevalence of psychiatric conditions ...
Boys have greater psychological well-being than girls, due to a better physical self-concept
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Self-concept may be defined as the totality of perceptions that each person has of themselves, and this self identity plays an important role in the psychological functioning of everyone. To date, however, there has been ...
Mad genius: Study suggests link between psychosis and creativity
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. Sylvia Plath stuck her head in the oven. History teems with examples of great artists acting in very peculiar ways. Were these artists simply mad or brilliant? According to new research reported ...
Biracial Asian Americans and mental health
Aug 17, 2008 |
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A new study of Chinese-Caucasian, Filipino-Caucasian, Japanese-Caucasian and Vietnamese-Caucasian individuals concludes that biracial Asian Americans are twice as likely as monoracial Asian Americans to be diagnosed with ...
A little anxiety pays sometimes, study shows
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 03, 2008 |
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Anxiety gets a lot of bad press. Dwelling on the negative can lead to chronic stress and anxiety disorders and phobias, but evolutionarily speaking, anxiety holds some functional value. In humans, learning to avoid harm is ...
Psychotherapy may improve course of medical disorders
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Somatic symptom disorders are common, disabling and costly. This meta-analysis indicates how short-term dynamic psychotherapy may be effective on physical symptoms, psychiatric symptoms and social adjustment, even in the ...
The genetics of fear: Study suggests specific genetic variations contribute to anxiety disorders
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Mar 10, 2009 |
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Polymorphisms are variations in genes which can result in changes in the way a particular gene functions and thus may be associated with susceptibility to common diseases. In a new study in Psychological Science, a journa ...
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, ...
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