Psychology & Psychiatry
Saffron spices up mental health research
Murdoch University researcher Dr. Adrian Lopresti saw promising results studying saffron as a treatment for depression and anxiety in adolescents.
Apr 16, 2018
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News tagged with health factors
Psychology & Psychiatry
For people with severe mental illness, cardiovascular disease risk may be underestimated
Current risk prediction algorithms for cardiovascular disease may be underestimating the disease risk for people with mental illness by as much as 60 percent, according to a study published September 18, 2019 in the open-access ...
Sep 18, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
With breast cancer risks, where you live matters, researchers find
Inadequate health care access, unhealthy diets and not enough exercise are all well-known risk factors for the number one cause of cancer-related deaths in women—breast cancer—but what was never clear is why death rates ...
Oct 20, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
People who are 'double jointed' may be at heightened risk of long COVID, says study
People who are "double-jointed," a condition formally known as generalized joint hypermobility, may be at heightened risk of long COVID, suggests a case-control study published in the open access journal BMJ Public Health.
Mar 19, 2024
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Medications
Heavy antibiotic use tied to development of Crohn's, colitis
The more antibiotics that seniors take, the greater their risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a new study suggests.
May 13, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Childhood emotional trauma linked to heightened multiple sclerosis risk among women
Childhood trauma may be linked to a heightened risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) in later life among women, finds research published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
Apr 4, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Vaccine resistance comes from childhood legacy of mistrust
Curious about why some people have been so passionately, often angrily, opposed to vaccination against the COVID-19 virus, a team of researchers with access to rare and unusual insights into the childhood forces that shape ...
Apr 4, 2022
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Neuroscience
Certain cells secrete a substance in the brain that protects neurons
USC researchers have discovered a secret sauce in the brain's vascular system that preserves the neurons needed to keep dementia and other diseases at bay.
Jun 24, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Message to parents: Babies don't 'start from scratch'
There's now overwhelming evidence that a child's future health is influenced by more than just their parents' genetic material, and that children born of unhealthy parents will already be pre-programmed for greater risk of ...
Aug 14, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
People who think luck decides their fate are at elevated risk of severe gum disease
People who believe that luck or chance determine what happens to them are more likely to have severe gum disease compared with those who think their own actions are mainly responsible. That's the finding of a study presented ...
Jun 17, 2022
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