http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—A three-year multinational study has tracked and detailed the progression of Huntington's disease (HD), predicting clinical decline in people carrying the HD gene more than 10 years before the expected onset of symptoms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-huntington-disease-trials-track.html Neuroscience Tue, 21 May 2013 05:52:53 EST news288334365 Spanish researchers have studied how job stress affects cardiovascular health. The results, published in the 'Scandinavian Journal of Public Health', link this situation to dyslipidemia, a disorder that alters the levels of lipids and lipoproteins in the blood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-work-related-stress-linked-blood-fat.html Health Thu, 16 May 2013 10:28:41 EST news287918828 Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and VA Boston Healthcare System (VA BHS) have found that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help relieve pain for people with painful diabetic neuropathies. The study, which is the first of its kind to examine this treatment for people with type II diabetes mellitus, is published in the March issue of the Journal of Pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-goal-oriented-therapy-diabetic-neuropathies.html Diabetes Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:36:47 EST news281637384 The holidays are over and there's a calendar full of cold, gray days ahead. Some of us experience the "winter blues" and others experience a more serious kind of depression like seasonal affective disorder (SAD). It can bring lethargy, mood swings and curtail normal functioning. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-weathering-winter-blues.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:25:19 EST news278234702 (Medical Xpress)—School psychologists and counsellors are concerned that overbearing parents are raising children unable to cope with failure and life outside of home, a new QUT study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-overparenting-trend-psychologists.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:58:03 EST news277451736 Compulsive hoarders struggle to throw out their many possessions because their brains lack flexibility, new research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-hoarders-lack-decision-making-capacity.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:34:54 EST news276856485 Understanding the mindset of mass murderers, especially in the wake of last week's Newtown, Conn., tragedy in which 20 children lost their lives, can seem nearly impossible. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-senseless-psychologist-discusses-mental-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:00:01 EST news274963510 Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil analyzed the cerebral blood flow (CBF) of Brazilian mediums during the practice of psychography, described as a form of writing whereby a deceased person or spirit is believed to write through the medium's hand. The new research revealed intriguing findings of decreased brain activity during mediumistic dissociative state which generated complex written content. Their findings will appear in the November 16th edition of the online journal PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-brazilian-mediums-brain-trance-state.html Neuroscience Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:00:01 EST news272274780 (Medical Xpress)—High-risk children adopted from foster care do equally well when placed with gay, lesbian or heterosexual parents, UCLA psychologists report in the first multi-year study of children adopted by these three groups of parents. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-foster-kids-equally-gay-lesbian.html Health Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:23:36 EST news269850191 (HealthDay)—Feeling sleepy on the job and having trouble focusing? It could cost you—and the nation as a whole. A new study estimates that insomnia is responsible for 274,000 workplace accidents and errors each year, adding up to $31 billion in extra costs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-links-insomnia-billion-workplace-errors.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:00:02 EST news268336578 (Medical Xpress)—Using music to engage with and educate young people about their emotions, and how to tolerate and regulate their strong emotional states, is the focus of a new intervention developed by University of Queensland clinical psychologist Dr Genevieve Dingle. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-intervention-teens-emotions-music.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:47:47 EST news267266853 Family members who care for terminally ill patients at home can be helped by nurses throughout the course of the illness and particularly after the patient's death, according to Penn State nursing researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-nurses-caregiver-grief.html Health Sun, 16 Sep 2012 06:55:40 EST news266997320 (Medical Xpress)—A new University of Wisconsin-Madison imaging study shows the brains of people with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) have weaker connections between a brain structure that controls emotional response and the amygdala, which suggests the brain's "panic button" may stay on due to lack of regulation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-brain-imaging-reveals-people-anxiety.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 04 Sep 2012 06:18:35 EST news265958297 (HealthDay) -- Vaccinations among school-aged children can save lives and parents should be sure their children are fully immunized as part of their back-to-school preparations, according to a pediatric infectious disease specialist. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-vaccinations-parents-back-to-school-checklists.html Health Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:30:01 EST news264689088 (Medical Xpress) -- A world-first study of an integrated treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use, led by researchers from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, has found significant reductions in PTSD symptoms compared with usual treatment for substance use. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-trauma-addictions.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:52:32 EST news264318742 (Medical Xpress) -- An exchange of knowledge is possible between the separate identities of people with an disassociative identity disorder (DID). This is apparent from experiments by NWO researcher Rafaele Huntjens from the University of Groningen. Although the patients investigated stated that they remembered nothing of other identities, objective data revealed the contrary. The research results have important implications for the treatment and diagnosis of the disorder. The clinical psychologist published her research on July 18 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-patients-disassociative-identity-disorder.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:10:01 EST news262421739 (HealthDay) -- A small study gives a snapshot into the financial anxieties that plague many patients with advanced cancer and their spouses, even as they struggle against the disease itself. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-financial-cancer-patients-burden.html Cancer Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:20:01 EST news258208039 A new study, supported in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, suggests that a combination of mobile technology and remote coaching holds promise in encouraging healthier eating and physical activity behavior in adults. The study focused on the best way to change multiple health behaviors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-mobile-technology-diet-physical-behavior.html Health Mon, 28 May 2012 16:00:01 EST news257416387 A newly developed paediatric concussion kit will help parents identify crucial signs of traumatic brain injury (TBI), one of the leading causes of acquired disability and death in children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-parents-cautioned-common-brain-injury.html Health Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:06:03 EST news254729149 (Medical Xpress) -- Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behavior such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has found an upside to texting, especially for people who feel stressed out, isolated and alone. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-uok-text-messages-automated.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:15:23 EST news253268116 A recent study conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has found that female cancer survivors receiving screening mammography have "worse health behaviors" than women receiving mammography screening and who had never had cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-female-cancer-survivors-worse-health.html Cancer Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:10:23 EST news248537415 If, in New Years past, a steadfast resolution to get your butt to the gym has resulted in your butt remaining steadfastly planted on your couch, it may be time to introduce your butt to hyperbolic discounting. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-gym-youll.html Health Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:00:01 EST news245069656 Why do so many postmenopausal women who are treated for estrogen-sensitive breast cancer quit using drugs that help prevent the disease from recurring? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-women-breast-cancer-drugs-early.html Cancer Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:21:49 EST news242680893 A new pilot study is getting underway in Rhode Island aimed at improving depression in nursing home rehabilitation patients, all through telemedicine. Geriatric mental health specialists from Rhode Island and The Miriam hospitals will work with patients in the Evergreen House Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in East Providence to test the program. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-depression-nursing-home-rehab-patients.html Health Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:00:01 EST news242315256 A Florida State University clinical psychologist has identified factors that could cause some women with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to have chronic, persistent symptoms while others recover naturally over time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-chronic-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:41:55 EST news241796506 In a recent study conducted by scientists at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions involving 154 heavy-drinking college students whose sexual behavior put them at risk for HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), there were two expected findings and one surprise. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-ways-college-risky-sex.html Addiction Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:00:01 EST news238406392 For most of his life, 24-year-old Steven Bringas so feared humiliating himself if he spoke that only an emergency would get him to enter a store. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-stanford-vanquishes-social-anxieties-drugs.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:20:01 EST news232967949 Rae and Bruce Hostetler not only work very hard, they also relax just as well. Numerous vacations help the suburban Indianapolis couple to maintain their health and emotional well-being -- and it's no surprise to health care professionals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-benefits.html Health Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:19:28 EST news232625897 High schools in Virginia where students reported a high rate of bullying had significantly lower scores on standardized tests that students must pass to graduate, according to research presented at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-bullying-contribute-scores.html Psychology & Psychiatry Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:39:35 EST news231943155 Researchers at Macquarie University are developing an innovative approach to helping people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The team at the eCentreClinic are exploring the use of internet-based treatments to provide people with OCD with a convenient, low-cost and effective alternative to face-to-face therapy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-dot-clinic-people-ocd-online.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:58:28 EST news231415087