Researchers propose a new approach to understanding common psychiactric treatments
(Medical Xpress)—Drugs for psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia often require weeks to take full effect. "What takes so long?" has formed one of psychiatry's most stubborn mysteries. ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 21, 2012 |
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Is Facebook a factor in psychotic symptoms?
As Internet access becomes increasingly widespread, so do related psychopathologies such as Internet addiction and delusions related to the technology and to virtual relationships. Computer communications ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 20, 2012 |
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Adolescents with low status among peers are more likely to become adult smokers
A new study from Sweden reveals that having low peer status in adolescence is a strong risk factor for regular and heavy smoking in adulthood. Researchers from Stockholm University in Sweden used a large database that followed ...
Addiction
Nov 20, 2012 |
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Social exclusion and binge drinking in young people attracted to more than one gender
A report by the University of Otago, Wellington shows that many young people attracted to more than one gender tend to binge drink because they feel stigmatised and socially excluded.
Health
Nov 12, 2012 |
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Mental fatigue impairs midbrain function in cocaine-addicted individuals, researchers find
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have revealed a new connection between drug addiction and a distinct part of the brain that may govern ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 09, 2012 |
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Study shows young adults with addiction benefit from active twelve step group participation
Young adults undergoing addiction treatment benefit from regular participation in Twelve Step-based self-help groups after discharge, according to a naturalistic study published electronically and in the journal Drug and Al ...
Addiction
Nov 08, 2012 |
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Tendency to binge drinking runs in the blood
Mice drink more alcohol during the dark cycle compared to daytime. The discovery made by scientists from Portland Alcohol Research Center and The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at University of ...
Addiction
Nov 08, 2012 |
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Study: Alcohol, drug abuse counselors don't always require total abstinence
Compared to a survey conducted nearly 20 years ago, about twice the proportion of addiction counselors now find it acceptable for at least some of their patients to have a drink occasionally – either as an intermediate ...
Addiction
Nov 02, 2012 |
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Meth vaccine shows promising results in early tests
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have performed successful tests of an experimental methamphetamine vaccine on rats. Vaccinated animals that received the drug were largely protected from ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 01, 2012 |
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Traumatic consequences long after fall of the Berlin Wall
Previously, there had been a lack of reliable data in Germany on the long-term psychological consequences of political imprisonment in the GDR. Professor Andreas Maercker, Head of the Department of Psychopathology and Clinical ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 25, 2012 |
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Challenging Parkinson's dogma
Scientists may have discovered why the standard treatment for Parkinson's disease is often effective for only a limited period of time. Their research could lead to a better understanding of many brain disorders, from drug ...
Medical research
Oct 24, 2012 |
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Young people who go out drinking start earlier and consume more and more alcohol, Spanish study shows
Teenagers and university students are unaware of the negative consequences of alcohol consumption or the chances of developing an addiction as a result. In addition, they start at a younger and younger age ...
Addiction
Oct 19, 2012 |
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Set of criteria for 'hypersexual disorder' proposed as new mental health condition
(Medical Xpress)—The idea that an individual might suffer from a sexual addiction is great fodder for radio talk shows, comedians and late night TV. But a sex addiction is no laughing matter. Relationships are destroyed, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2012 |
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Rising opiate and heroin abuse among young adults a public health epidemic
(Medical Xpress)—Prescription pain killers – a leading cause of youth addiction and easily accessible in the family medicine cabinet – have caused an alarming rise in heroin abuse in New Jersey and ...
Addiction
Oct 18, 2012 |
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Overcoming memories that trigger cocaine relapse
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have identified mechanisms in the brain responsible for regulating cocaine-seeking behavior, providing an avenue for drug development that could greatly reduce ...
Neuroscience
Oct 17, 2012 |
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