Psychology & Psychiatry

Bisexual men on the 'down low' run risk for poor mental health

Bisexual men are less likely to disclose and more likely to conceal their sexual orientation than gay men. In the first study to look at the mental health of this population, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Your body image is impacted by those around you

Spending time with people who are not preoccupied with their bodies can improve your own eating habits and body image, according to researchers from the University of Waterloo.

Neuroscience

Therapy for stroke patients improved

Painkilling drugs that make many therapies possible are a blessing for patients. Thanks to modern anesthetics, not only can surgical operations be conducted without causing pain, they are also used for various diagnostic ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Survey shows shift in language around mental health over 79 years

A new survey of nearly 340,000 texts spanning 79 years shows that generic terms in mental health have shifted away from words like "disease" and "disturbance" and toward "psychiatric" and "mental health," with "mental illness" ...

Cardiology

Men and women get sick in different ways

At the dawn of third millennium medical researchers still know very little about gender-specific differences in illness, particularly when it comes to disease symptoms, influencing social and psychological factors, and the ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Dementia: The right to rehabilitation

Rehabilitation is important for people with dementia as it is for people with physical disabilities, according to a leading dementia expert.

Oncology & Cancer

Mindfulness-based Tx doesn't cut distress in prostate cancer

(HealthDay)—For men with advanced prostate cancer (PC), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) does not reduce distress more than minimally enhanced usual care, according to a study published online Nov. 21 in the Journal ...

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