Most would agree that recovering from illness at home is better psychologically than receiving care in a hospital.
Now, new evidence shows that for some patients, the outcome of home care is the ...
Preliminary research suggests that use of the drug escitalopram (known by its brand name Lexapro) provided some improvement in symptoms for older adults with generalized anxiety disorder.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), one of the ...
A new study suggests that women have a more difficult time suppressing their hunger in response to their favorite foods, while men do not have similar difficulty.
"Our findings may help us understand ...
Women who are victims of intimate partner violence tend to have different patterns of facial injury than women who experience facial trauma from other causes.
This information, and other key characteristics such as a ...
New imaging studies suggest an overactive brain system may blur internal and external realities among individuals with schizophrenia.
The traditional view of schizophrenia is that the disturbed thoughts, perceptions and emotions ...
A new study shows that people who are socially active and not easily stressed may be less likely to develop dementia.
The study involves 506 older people who did not have dementia when first ...
A new Swedish study has discovered a similar genetic origin for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The results throw the current separate classification of the diseases into question.
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (also known ...
A new study has discovered patients ages 30 to 74 who took atypical antipsychotic medications had a significantly higher risk of sudden death from cardiac arrhythmias and other cardiac causes than patients who did ...
We all know that many video games emulate violence. However, a new study finds the enjoyment from playing the game likely stems from the healthy pleasure of mastering a challenge rather than from ...
In what sounds like a plot of a current television series, scientists have developed a mathematical model of the mating game to help explain why courtship is often protracted.
The study, by researchers at ...
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