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NC coal plant emissions might play role in state suicide numbers

New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center finds that suicide, while strongly associated with psychiatric conditions, also correlates with environmental pollution.

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 13, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Body clocks of depressed people altered at cell level, researchers show

Every cell in our bodies runs on a 24-hour clock, tuned to the night-day, light-dark cycles that have ruled us since the dawn of humanity. The brain acts as timekeeper, keeping the cellular clock in sync ...

Medical research created May 13, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (19) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Study finds gender, employment status and social conditions key factors in development of mental disorders

Being a woman, unemployed and living in a situation of social adversity are the three strongest trigger influences in subjects with a genetic predisposition to mental disorder. Moreover, in Andalusia, over 20% of the population ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 13, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

World first clinical trial supports use of Kava to treat anxiety

(Medical Xpress)—A world-first completed clinical study by an Australian team has found Kava, a medicinal South Pacific plant, significantly reduced the symptoms of people suffering anxiety.

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

To suppress or to explore? Emotional strategy may influence anxiety

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 ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 13, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Mutation causing wrong-way plumbing explains one type of blue-baby syndrome

Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC), one type of "blue baby" syndrome, is a potentially deadly congenital disorder that occurs when pulmonary veins don't connect normally to the left atrium of the heart. This ...

Medical research created May 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Reseachers develop new 3-D technology to treat atrial fibrillation

Researchers at the Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center have developed a new 3-D technology that for the first time allows cardiologists the ability to see the precise source of atrial fibrillation ...

Cardiology created May 11, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stem cell researchers move toward treatment for rare genetic nerve disease

(Medical Xpress)—UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to advance disease-in-a-dish modeling of a rare genetic ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 10, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Exercise for patients with major depression: What kind, how intense, how often?

Exercise has been shown to be an effective treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD), both when used alone and in combination with other treatments. There's now sufficient research data to provide specific guidance on ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 10, 2013 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

When teen dating turns abusive and violent

(HealthDay)—When teens start dating, parents' worries grow—and experts say that dating violence should be on their list of concerns.

Pediatrics created May 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study supports alternative model for personality disorders in upcoming DSM-5

A new "alternative model" included in the upcoming Fifth Edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM -5) lines up well with the current approach to diagnosis ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The Lancet Series on bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder – where patients experience recurrent episodes of mood disturbance, ranging from extreme elation (mania) to severe depression – is thought to affect roughly 2% of the world's population in its most pronounced ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds link between sexual harassment and 'purging'—in men

Men who experience high levels of sexual harassment are much more likely than women to induce vomiting and take laxatives and diuretics in an attempt to control their weight, according to a surprising finding ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 09, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nobody likes a 'fat-talker,' study shows

(Medical Xpress)—Women who engage in "fat talk"—the self-disparaging remarks girls and women make in relation to eating, exercise or their bodies—are less liked by their peers, a new study from the ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Real-time brain feedback can help people overcome anxiety

(Medical Xpress)—People provided with a real-time readout of activity in specific regions of their brains can learn to control that activity and lessen their anxiety, according to new findings published ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0