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Helping the youngest stroke sufferers get a leg up

Toddlers who suffered a stroke as babies are learning how to walk thanks to research being conducted at the University of Alberta.

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

Most effective PTSD therapies are not being widely used, researchers find

Post-traumatic stress disorder affects nearly 8 million adults in any given year, federal statistics show. Fortunately, clinical research has identified certain psychological interventions that effectively ameliorate the ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Robot-delivered speech and physical therapy

(Medical Xpress)—In one of the earliest experiments using a humanoid robot to deliver speech and physical therapy to a stroke patient, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst saw notable ...

Medical research created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researcher finds exercise may be intervention for Down syndrome

(Medical Xpress)—Marcus Santellan's aunt says he's more talkative at home, using longer sentences, now that he's in an exercise program at Arizona State University. The young man with Down syndrome (DS) ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Prehospital antiplatelets improve graft intervention outcomes

(HealthDay)—Prehospital use of antiplatelet therapy, either aspirin/clopidogrel or dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), is associated with a lower incidence of major adverse cardiac events after saphenous ...

Cardiology created Jan 28, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First study of new treatment for early stage bipolar disorder

(Medical Xpress)—A North West clinical trial of people who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder for less than five years will be the first study of its kind to shed light on how new treatments could be more effective ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Dec 14, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

CBT proves effective at reducing depression in people who have not responded to antidepressants

"Until now, there was little evidence to help clinicians choose the best next step treatment for those patients whose symptoms do not respond to standard drug treatments", says Nicola Wiles from the University of Bristol ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Dec 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Preventing posttraumatic stress disorder by facing trauma memories

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a form of learning that begins at the moment of the exposure to extremely stressful situations and that grows in impact as trauma-related memories are rehearsed and strengthened repeatedly. ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Keep moving to ease pain of knee arthritis, review says

(HealthDay)—Adults with painful osteoarthritis of the knee should turn to exercise—aerobic, aquatic or strength training—as a good nonsurgical way to ease their pain and improve their functioning, a ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism created Nov 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FFR-guided PCI shows cost-effectiveness when compared to medical therapy for stable CAD

A strategy of up-front percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for lesions confirmed to be obstructive by fractional flow reserve (FFR) was shown to be cost-effective in terms of quality-adjusted life years when compared ...

Cardiology created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Review confirms value of combined approach to quitting smoking

Smokers who try to quit would be more successful if they combined medication or nicotine-replacement therapy with behavioral counseling, finds a new review in The Cochrane Library. Few lifestyle changes delive ...

Health created Oct 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mayo Clinic physicians ID reasons for high cost of cancer drugs, prescribe solutions

A virtual monopoly held by some drug manufacturers in part because of the way treatment protocols work is among the reasons cancer drugs cost so much in the United States, according to a commentary by two Mayo Clinic physicians ...

Cancer created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New intervention helps teens deal with their emotions through music

(Medical Xpress)—Using music to engage with and educate young people about their emotions, and how to tolerate and regulate their strong emotional states, is the focus of a new intervention developed by University of Queensland ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

BRAVE step for Australian-developed online anxiety therapy

A ground-breaking approach to treating childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders, based on University of Queensland (UQ) research, will soon be available to families in the UK, US and Europe.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

iPad app revolutionising therapy for autistic children

Australian researchers have harnessed tablet technology to develop an iPad app that is set to revolutionise the way parents around the world provide in-home therapy for their autistic children.

Autism spectrum disorders created Sep 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0