http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—An experimental drug for autism did not improve levels of lethargy and social withdrawal in children who took it, but it did show some other benefits, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-drug-benefit-kids-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Thu, 02 May 2013 06:50:03 EST news286690569 Adding the dietary supplements folate and vitamin B12 to treatment with antipsychotic medication improved a core symptom component of schizophrenia in a study of more than 100 patients. The study focused on negative symptoms of schizophrenia – which include apathy, social withdrawal, and a lack of emotional expressiveness. While the level of improvement across all participants was modest, results were more significant in individuals carrying specific variants in genes involved with folate metabolism. The report from a team based at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) will appear in the journal JAMA Psychiatry (formerly Archives of General Psychiatry) and has been issued online. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-folate-vitamin-b12-disabling-schizophrenia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:01:07 EST news281808037 Children who are bullied online or by mobile phone are just as likely to skip school or consider suicide as kids who are physically bullied, according to a study led by a Michigan State University criminologist. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-online-bullying.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:50:21 EST news279798608 Elite female athletes often feel a sense of isolation and pressure to tackle personal and professional adversity on their own—even while struggling with issues such as bullying, eating disorders, depression and sexual abuse, according to research from the University of Alberta. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-female-athletes-adversity.html Health Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:40:01 EST news279797418 Magnetic fields produced by the naturally occurring electrical currents in the brain could potentially be used as an objective test for schizophrenia and help to better understand the disease, according to new research published today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-brain-insight-schizophrenia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:00:07 EST news278790004 Facebook activity provided a window into the psychological health of participants in a study at the University of Missouri. Social media profiles could eventually be used as tools for psychologists and therapists, according to study leader Elizabeth Martin, doctoral student in MU's psychological science department in the College of Arts and Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-analysis-social-media-therapists-view.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:12:51 EST news278327553 (HealthDay)—Following the Newtown, Conn., shooting on Dec. 14 by Adam Lanza, the question of social withdrawal and isolation needs to be addressed, according to a perspective piece published online Dec. 28 in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-social-isolation-young.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:00:01 EST news276516861 Reduced production of myelin, a type of protective nerve fiber that is lost in diseases like multiple sclerosis, may also play a role in the development of mental illness, according to researchers at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The study is published in the journal Nature Neuroscience. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-nerve-cells-contribute-mental-illness.html Neuroscience Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:36:13 EST news273324965 Step one: Mats out. Step two: breathe deep. Step three: assume poses. Step four: tense and relax muscles. Step five: sing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-daily-yoga-regimen-boosts-socialization.html Autism spectrum disorders Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:16:22 EST news269154859 Scientists studying a rare genetic disorder have identified a molecular pathway that may play a role in schizophrenia, according to new research in the October 10 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings may one day guide researchers to new treatment options for people with schizophrenia—a devastating disease that affects approximately 1 percent of the world's population. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-rare-genetic-disorder-molecules-role.html Genetics Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:00:01 EST news269020708 Even on the playground, our friends know us better than we know ourselves. New research has revealed that your childhood peers from grade school may be able to best predict your success as an adult. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-playground-peers-adult-personalities.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:56:49 EST news267364601 An investigational compound that targets the core symptoms of fragile X syndrome is effective for addressing the social withdrawal and challenging behaviors characteristic of the condition, making it the first such discovery for fragile X syndrome and, potentially, the first for autism spectrum disorder, a study by researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute and Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-drug-fragile-syndrome-potentially-autism.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:00:04 EST news267281867 A hormone with anti-diabetic properties also reduces depression-like symptoms in mice, researchers from the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio reported today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hormone-curbs-depressive-like-symptoms-stressed.html Medical research Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:00:32 EST news261064391 Schizophrenia is a mental illness that seriously affects social interaction. Recent studies have shown that people with schizophrenia have difficulty in interpreting others' intentions. One of the causes has just been identified by researchers at the Centre de Recherches Cerveau et Cognition (France) and the Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive de Lyon (France). They showed that schizophrenic patients use past experience wrongly when trying to anticipate the intentions of others. These results are published in the online version of the journal Brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-schizophrenia-doesnt-social-interaction.html Neuroscience Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:57:07 EST news244194991 Researchers at Vanderbilt University have identified chemical compounds that could lead to a major advance in the treatment of schizophrenia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-drug-like-molecules-schizophrenia-treatment.html Medical research Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:00:01 EST news235899586 Children and adults with social withdrawal due to Fragile X syndrome, the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability and the most common known single gene cause of autism, may benefit from an experimental drug under study by pediatric neurologists at Rush Children's Hospital at Rush University Medical Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-clinical-trial-medication-social-fragile.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:22:58 EST news230383370 Fatigue and poor health, anxiety and depression (physiological, affective and cognitive factors) may have a major impact on patients with functional dysphonia (FD), leading to time off work, reduced activity, and social withdrawal, all of which could further perpetuate and/or cause anxiety, low mood, fatigue and reduced voice use, according to new research published in the June 2011 issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-fatigue-perfectionism-patients-functional-dysphonia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:31:26 EST news226139467