Archive for January, 2008

OCD Therapy Improves Brain Function

Friday, January 18th, 2008
An innovative study has shown that intensive cognitive-behavioral therapy can change activity in certain areas of the brain. The discovery could have important clinical implications on how talk therapies improve brain ...
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Parasite May Lead to Schizophrenia

Thursday, January 17th, 2008
An amazing new finding suggests a common parasite carried by animals may increase the risk of schizophrenia. Toxoplasma gondii parasite, an organism carried by carried by cats and farm animals ...
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Mixed Finding on Cholesterol Drugs and Alzheimer’s

Thursday, January 17th, 2008
A new report contradicts prior studies that suggested statins, a revolutionary class of drugs that lowers cholesterol, can also help protect against Alzheimer's disease. Investigators studied 929 Catholic clergy members who ...
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Antidepressant Effectiveness May Be Exaggerated

Thursday, January 17th, 2008
A new report discovers the effectiveness of some antidepressant medications may be less than what is presented. The source of the misrepresentation is the tendency for researchers to submit manuscripts only ...
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Mother’s Stress Linked to Child’s Asthma

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Emerging research suggest children whose mothers are chronically stressed during their early years have a higher asthma rate than their peers, regardless of their income, gender or other known ...
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PTSD Triples Among Military

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Self-reported post-traumatic stress disorder has elevated 3-fold among combat-exposed military personnel since 2001, according to a study reported in the British Medical Journal. In response to concerns on the health impact ...
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New Method to Predict Parkinson’s and ALS

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
A new study investigates a unique method to predict brain aging disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease) and Parkinson's disease. Mayo clinic researchers studied common variations within ...
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Bisexual Women Have Firm Identity

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
New research finds that bisexuality in women appears to be a distinctive sexual orientation and not an experimental or transitional stage that some women adopt "on their way" to lesbianism. The study ...
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Brain Views Aggression As A Reward

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Researchers have discovered that the brain processes aggression as a reward similar to sex, food or drugs. The insight may explain our propensity to fight and our fascination with ...
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Should Psychotherapy Be Regulated?

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
According to the opinion of two UK experts in psychological medicine, psychotherapies such as cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) are under-regulated and should be subject to the same standards of evidence as ...
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