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Findings on Serotonin Aid Mental Health Care

Friday, June 6th, 2008
New research suggests that the neurotransmitter serotonin, which acts as a chemical messenger between nerve cells, plays a critical role in regulating emotions such as aggression during social decision-making. Serotonin has ...  Read more... »

Kids With OCD Benefit From Family Therapy

Friday, May 16th, 2008
A new study provides some of the first evidence-based data on a successful intervention for early childhood OCD. The intervention, family-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), provides both child and parents with ...  Read more... »

Insights on Tourette’s and OCD

Thursday, May 15th, 2008
While authorities have noted that 30 to 50 percent of people with Tourette Syndrome are also affected with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), new research suggests the illnesses may be distinct entities ...  Read more... »

Brain Challenges for Compulsive Gamblers

Thursday, March 27th, 2008
A new research study finds that gambling addicts do not learn from their mistakes. The finding suggests differences in the prefrontal cortex of the brain may explain the development of impulsive ...  Read more... »

Help for Couples When a Partner has OCD

Friday, March 14th, 2008
While many Americans laugh at the lifestyle displayed by detective Adrian Monk, obsessive-compulsive disorder is a pervasive illness affecting as many as 5 million Americans. While attention to the disorder has expanded in recent years, ...  Read more... »

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 ...  Read more... »

Body Image Disorder Tied to Processing Hiccup

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
New imaging research finds that although they look normal, people suffering from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) perceive themselves as ugly and disfigured. The UCLA study, found in the December edition of ...  Read more... »

Genetic Link for OCD

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Government researchers have made inroads into understanding obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as lab advancements on mice demonstrates a strong genetic component. NIH scientists were able to reverse the mice behaviors with ...  Read more... »

Internet Obsession or Addiction

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
An Israel psychiatrist believes behaviors such as -- craving your computer mouse as the first thing you do after awakening, or obsessively checking email in the middle of the night – ...  Read more... »

Facial Expressions May Confuse

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
As many card players would attest, reading a face is a difficult task. A new Northwestern University study of electrical activity in the brain supports this ibelief confirming that deciphering the facial expressions of a ...  Read more... »
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