Psychology & Psychiatry
Your personality as a teen may predict your risk of dementia
(HealthDay)—Could your personality as a teen forecast your risk for dementia a half-century later?
Oct 17, 2019
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JAMA Psychiatry
JAMA Psychiatry (formerly Archives of General Psychiatry) strives to publish original, state-of-the-art studies and commentaries of general interest to clinicians, scholars, and research scientists in psychiatry, mental health, behavioral science, and allied fields. The journal seeks to inform and to educate its readers as well as to stimulate debate and further exploration into the nature, causes, treatment, and public health importance of mental illness.
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- Country
- United States
- History
- 1919--present
- Impact factor
- 12.01 (2011)
Psychology & Psychiatry
New research raises important questions on how mental illness is currently diagnosed
A study led by a psychologist from Trinity College Dublin raises important questions on how mental illness is currently diagnosed and whether these diagnoses accurately reflect the underlying neurobiology of mental illness.
Oct 09, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Early maternal anemia tied to intellectual disability, ADHD and autism
The timing of anemia—a common condition in late pregnancy—can make a big difference for the developing fetus, according to research at Karolinska Institutet published in JAMA Psychiatry. The researchers found a link between ...
Sep 18, 2019
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Medications
Antidepressant medications appear to be generally safe
Antidepressants are generally safe, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. By assessing evidence from 45 meta-analyses, which combined the results from many studies, the researchers did not find ...
Oct 02, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Placebo power: Depressed people who respond to fake drugs get the most help from real ones
When it comes to treating depression, how well a person responds to a fake medicine may determine how well they'll respond to a real one, new research finds.
Sep 30, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Teens taking oral contraceptives may be at increased risk for depressive symptoms
Ever since birth control pills first became available, researchers have been trying to understand the connection between oral contraceptive use and mood. A new study led by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital and ...
Oct 02, 2019
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Autism spectrum disorders
Youth on the autism spectrum overly sensitive to sensory stimuli have brains that react differently
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, a team of UCLA researchers has shown for the first time that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who are overly sensitive to sensory stimuli have brains that react differently ...
Jun 10, 2015
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Neuroscience
Researchers identify the source of the debilitating memory loss in people with psychosis
As disabling as its delusions and hallucinations, psychosis' devastating toll on memory arises from dysfunction of frontal and temporal lobe regions in the brain that rob sufferers of the ability to make associative connections, ...
Jul 22, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Social media use by adolescents linked to internalizing behaviors
A new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that adolescents who spend more than three hours a day on social media are more likely to report high levels of internalizing behaviors ...
Sep 11, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study links success in adulthood to childhood psychiatric health
Children with even mild or passing bouts of depression, anxiety and/or behavioral issues were more inclined to have serious problems that complicated their ability to lead successful lives as adults, according to research ...
Jul 15, 2015
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