http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Just as a global positioning system (GPS) helps find your location, the brain has an internal system for helping determine the body's location as it moves through its surroundings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-brain-gps.html Neuroscience Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:10:01 EST news281866364 Batten disease is a rare, fatal genetic disorder that affects children. Currently, no effective treatment exists for the disease, which ultimately kills all who are affected. Dachshunds also suffer from Batten disease, and now researchers from the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine and School of Medicine, in collaboration with BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., have developed a treatment for the disease that has significantly delayed the onset and progression of symptoms in the Dachshunds. The effectiveness of the treatment in the dogs has been so encouraging that plans are underway to initiate human trials of the therapy in children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-effective-treatment-late-infantile-batten.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:20:01 EST news279819926 Fluoxetine was the first drug approved by the FDA for major depressive disorder (MDD) in children and adolescents, and to this date, it remains one of only two selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) registered for treatment of MDD in children and adolescents, despite reports that indicate this class of drugs is associated with side effects, such as agitation, hostility and aggression. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-fluoxetine-aggressive-behavior-affects-brain.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:19:44 EST news268327168 The traditional approach to psychiatric diagnosis is based on grouping patients on the basis of symptom clusters. This approach to diagnosis has a number of problems, as symptoms are not necessarily specific to a single diagnosis. Symptoms may vary among patients with a particular diagnosis, and there are no clear diagnostic biomarkers or tests for psychiatry as there are for other areas of medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-neural-circuit-dysfunctions-neuroeconomics.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:45:51 EST news262345545 Medicine and technology are converging in patient care at a faster pace than most people realize. Space age advancements from point-of-care health technologies like telemedicine to medical robots performing surgery are fast becoming commonplace in many hospitals. What's next? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-hot-medicine-technology-converge.html Health Thu, 26 May 2011 13:40:40 EST news225636016