Psychology & Psychiatry

A neurobehavioral signature of risk for mania

Mania, in which mood and energy level are extremely elevated for at least a week, and hypomania, which is less severe and lasts at least four days, are the defining features of bipolar spectrum disorders (BSD) and can be ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Brain imaging-based biomarker of depression identified

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is not only among the most common mental illnesses, affecting more than 8% of Americans, but it is also extremely variable from one person to another. Researchers have recently begun making ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Emotion-focused therapy for bipolar disorder targets the amygdala

A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, identifies a therapeutic tool focused on emotional awareness that increased activation and connectivity of an emotion-regulating center in the ...

Health

Heavy drinking in young adults tied to endocannabinoid pathway

Although heavy drinking in young adulthood increases the risk for alcohol use disorder (AUD), not all young heavy drinkers go on to develop AUD, globally the most common substance use disorder. Research has shown that individual ...

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