Diagnosing patients with medical labels to describe mental health conditions or severe mental health illnesses such as 'personality disorder' or 'schizophrenia', can have negative impacts on professionals working with them ...
Aug 18, 2015
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Kids who experience severe stress are more likely to develop a host of physical and mental health problems by the time they reach adulthood, including anxiety, depression and mood disorders. But how does early life stress ...
Jul 18, 2018
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Harmful exposures during pregnancy, including some that occur even before pregnancy is recognized, appear to significantly increase a child's risk for psychiatric or behavioral problems early in life, researchers from Massachusetts ...
Apr 28, 2021
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Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, new research has shown.
Dec 5, 2011
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When a beating heart slips into an irregular, life-threatening rhythm, the treatment is well known: deliver a burst of electric current from a pacemaker or defibrillator. But because the electricity itself can cause pain, ...
Aug 28, 2013
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School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress.
Jan 30, 2012
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An international team spearheaded by researchers at McGill University has discovered a biological mechanism that could explain heightened somatic awareness, a condition where patients experience physical discomforts for which ...
Jun 19, 2019
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People taken ill by coronavirus infections may experience psychiatric problems while hospitalised and potentially after they recover, suggests an analysis of past research led by the UCL Institute of Mental Health with King's ...
May 18, 2020
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Mindfulness group therapy has an equally positive effect as individual CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) for the treatment of a wide range of psychiatric symptoms in patients with depression, anxiety and stress-related ...
Apr 13, 2017
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A study of nearly 600,000 people in England shows that suicide risk in the first three months following a dementia diagnosis for patients aged under 65 is nearly 7 times higher than in patients without dementia.
Oct 3, 2022
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