Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a condition that affects approximately 8 percent of women in their child-bearing years. New research discovers the disorder, characterized by bouts of major depression and/or anxiety and severe irritability during the second half of ...
A national study lead by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago seeks to evaluate lithium for the treatment of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents.
"Lithium is the prototype mood stabilizer for treating adult bipolar disorder, but it is ...
Worldwide the obesity epidemic is rampant. Weight loss industries have evolved to help individuals partake on a healthy diet that controls caloric intake.
However, the urge or craving for high calorie foods, and the subsequent tendency to break a ...
Researchers hypothesize that the association or correlation between smoking and depression may stem from a common genetic link.
"Some people with a history of depression may become smokers as a way of self-medicating," said Qiang John Fu, M.D., ...
A new study is the first to draw a link between Parkinson's and manganese air pollution, and suggests industry-generated pollutants poses a greater health risk than traffic-generated manganese.
Murray Finkelstein of The University of Toronto worked with Berkeley professor ...
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