June 21st, 2006
Non-fatal, self-inflicted injuries by adolescent and young adult females are major public health problems and researchers have found physiological evidence that this behavior may lead to a more serious psychological condition called borderline personality disorder.
University of Washington psychologists have discovered that adolescent ...
June 20th, 2006
Taking a page from the treatment book on alcohol abuse, researchers from the University of Washington have successfully tested a brief, low-cost intervention to deal with depression, the No. 1 mental health problem in the United States.
Students with mild depression who received ...
June 19th, 2006
A study carried out by German researchers has failed to show that a popular antidepressant, paroxetine, causes congenital abnormalities if taken by pregnant women.
This study was presented today [June, 19/06] at the 22nd annual conference of the European Society of Human ...
June 19th, 2006
A Mayo Clinic study has shown that the onset of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) at a younger age appears to be connected to antidepressant use.
RBD is a sleep disorder where patients act out their dreams, which are often unpleasant and ...
June 19th, 2006
Women with higher levels of depression when suffering with long-term pain report greater disability than men in the same situation, according to new research published in the latest edition of the European Journal of Pain.
This suggests that by targeting their depression, ...
June 18th, 2006
Depression among youth is a growing public health concern, affecting one to two percent of elementary school-aged children and three to eight percent of adolescents.
To determine what programs are effective in preventing depressive symptoms, researchers from Vanderbilt University conducted a meta-analysis ...
June 16th, 2006
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, in collaboration with scientists at the City University of New York, have identified a striking dysregulation in neuronal receptor activity in the postmortem brain tissue from patients with schizophrenia.
By stimulating receptors in ...
June 16th, 2006
Non-fatal, self-inflicted injuries by adolescent and young adult females are major public health problems and researchers have found physiological evidence that this behavior may lead to a more serious psychological condition called borderline personality disorder.
University of Washington psychologists have discovered that ...
June 15th, 2006
Wiring the developing brain is like creating a topiary garden. Shrubs don't automatically assume the shape of ornamental elephants, and neither do immature nerve cells immediately recognize the "right" target cell.
Abundant foliage, either vegetal or neuronal, must first sprout and then ...
June 15th, 2006
Ask anyone who has been addicted to drugs and they'll tell you that the mere sight of someone using their drug of choice -- or even people, places, or objects associated with drug use -- can trigger an intense desire for the ...
