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 function and advance mental health.
Researchers discovered significant ...
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 was found to increase the risk of ...
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 were an average of 75 years old, ...
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 when a positive outcome had been accomplished ...
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 asthma risk factors.
“It is increasingly clear that ...
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 of military deployment, researchers in San Diego ...
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 axon guidance pathway genes and identified several ...
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 is published by the American Psychological Association. ...
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 violent sports tracing back to Roman gladiators ...
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 drugs.
The experts express their opinion in the ...
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