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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... »

TB Med Helps OCD

Friday, July 20th, 2007
University of Minnesota researchers discovered a drug originally developed to fight tuberculosis may help people with obsessive-compulsive disorder make more progress in therapy sessions. Now they want to see if this drug ...  Read more... »

Repress Emotional Memories With Practice

Friday, July 13th, 2007
New research may have profound implications for those suffering from conditions ranging from post-traumatic stress disorder to depression. The University of Colorado at Boulder study measured brain activity among test subjects who were trained to ...  Read more... »

Nose Jobs and Personality Disorders

Thursday, July 5th, 2007
A new obervational study suggests many individuals who seek cosmetic rhinoplasty ("nose jobs") often exhibit personality abnormalities, including obsessiveness, hypochondriasis, and making false statements that make them look better compared with others ("good faking"). The ...  Read more... »
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