http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. When trouble approaches, what do you do? Run for the hills? Hide? Pretend it isn't there? Or do you focus on the promise of rain in those looming dark clouds? New research suggests that the way you regulate your emotions, in bad times and in good, can influence whether – or how much – you suffer from anxiety. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-suppress-explore-emotional-strategy-anxiety.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 13 May 2013 00:10:01 EST news287590065 Children prenatally exposed to methadone or Subutex (buprenorphine) are prone to developing cognitive difficulties. According to one researcher, these children still need close follow-up after they begin school. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-methadone-children-problems-school.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:00:02 EST news285309982 Individuals who drink excessively or are alcohol dependent (AD) have reduced central serotonergic neurotransmission, which can have an impact on planning, judgment, self-control, and emotional regulation. Childhood maltreatment has also been found to have a negative impact on central serotonergic neurotransmission. A new evaluation of the impact of childhood maltreatment on central serotonergic dysfunction in AD individuals has found that self-reported childhood emotional abuse is associated with a 90-percent reduction in central serotonergic neurotransmission in male AD individuals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-childhood-emotional-abuse-strong-male.html Addiction Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:05:54 EST news279302744 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the Black Dog Institute and University of NSW have used brain imaging technology to show that young people with a known genetic risk of bipolar but no clinical signs of the condition have clear and quantifiable differences in brain activity when compared to controls. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-brain-imaging-bipolar.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:25:25 EST news274955119 A new study has found that participating in an 8-week meditation training program can have measurable effects on how the brain functions even when someone is not actively meditating. In their report in the November issue of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston University (BU), and several other research centers also found differences in those effects based on the specific type of meditation practiced. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-meditation-emotional-brain.html Neuroscience Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:29:43 EST news271952958 An analysis of a school behavior strategy—known as School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS)—found that these types of programs significantly reduced children's aggressive behaviors and office discipline referrals, as well as improved problems with concentration and emotional regulation. The study, conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is the first randomized control trial to examine the impact of SWPBIS programs over multiple school years. The results were published October 15 in the journal Pediatrics as an eFirst publication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-school-wide-interventions-student-behavior.html Pediatrics Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:13:23 EST news269525596 Over the past decade, scientists have learned that sleep is one of the best memory aids available, but Mark Gluck wants to take that research further. The Rutgers professor, an expert in cognitive and computational neuroscience, is seeking to answer important questions about the complex interactions between natural fluctuations in sleep and their influence on cognitive and emotional wellbeing.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-impact-cognitive-emotional-well-being.html Medical research Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:30:13 EST news267777004 (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 (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 New treatments to lessen the severity of the more than 21,000 Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) cases that occur in Australia each year are on the horizon. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-traumatic-brain-injury.html Neuroscience Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:00:05 EST news261932619 Being born and raised in a major urban area is associated with greater lifetime risk for anxiety and mood disorders. Until now, the biology for these associations had not been described. A new international study, which involved Douglas Mental Health University Institute researcher Jens Pruessner, is the first to show that two distinct brain regions that regulate emotion and stress are affected by city living. These findings, published in Nature may lead to strategies that improve the quality of life for city dwellers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-stress-city-brain-biology-mood.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:00:04 EST news227965812