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Therapy More Effective than Medication for Kids with Social Phobia

Friday, December 28th, 2007
A NIMH-funded research study discovers a behavioral therapy program designed to treat children diagnosed with social phobia helped them overcome more of their symptoms than the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac). The study ...  Read more... »

Sexual Disorder Associated With Mental Distress

Monday, November 19th, 2007
A new study suggests women suffering from Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD), a condition marked by unprovoked, intrusive and persistent sensations of genital arousal that are unrelieved by one or several ...  Read more... »

Link Between Asthma and Depression

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Researchers discover young people with asthma are about twice as likely to suffer from depressive and anxiety disorders as are children without asthma. The finding is the first to link ...  Read more... »

New Insights on Behavioral Control

Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Why is it so difficult for humans to 'just say no' to temptations leading to drug abuse, obesity and crime? A new study offers an account of what is happening in the brain when our ...  Read more... »

Panic Attacks Increase Risk in Older Women

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
A new report suggests older women who experience at least one full-blown panic attack have an increased risk of having a heart attack or stroke within the next five years. The ...  Read more... »

Brain Response to Anxiety

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Anxiety disorders are a common psychiatric condition with nearly a dozen different disorders classified in medical literature. New research finds differing patterns of brain activity associated with each of two types of anxiety: anxious apprehension ...  Read more... »

Meds or CBT for Panic Disorder

Monday, May 28th, 2007
Why a pharmaceutical approach helps some individuals with a mental health disorder, yet fails to help others, is a salient research question. A group of Dutch investigators describe individual characteristics which may ...  Read more... »

Anxiety/Mood Disorders Link

Thursday, May 10th, 2007
New research suggests Americans living with depression or bipolar disorders are also likely to have significant problems with anxiety. Often the conditions, both diagnosed and undiagnosed, receive inadequate care compromising quality of life. An online ...  Read more... »

Mental Health is Underserved

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
A recently published study shows that nearly 30 percent of the general population would benefit from mental health care; however, only 10 percent of the population actually receives help. According to study authors, this was ...  Read more... »

Blood Test for Panic Disorder

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
The ability to predict or test for certain behavioral and mental conditions appears to be on the doorstep of the rapidly evolving ring of medical genetics. University of Iowa researchers say blood tests for panic ...  Read more... »
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