A new clinical study to determine how people with
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) evaluate improvements in disease
symptoms will be carried out by the National Institute of
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS),
part of the Department of Health and Human Services’
National Institutes of Health.
A brain imaging study by the NIH’s National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH) has found that an emotion-regulating
brain circuit is overactive in people prone to depression –
even when they are not depressed. Researchers discovered
the abnormality in brains of those whose depressions
relapsed when a key brain chemical messenger was
experimentally reduced.
A genetic mechanism leading that makes people more or less prone to some psychiatric disorders, including depression was discovered by scientists from the Duke University Medical Center, U.S.
During the conference in Berlin organized by the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology researchers from the Center for Reproduction, Endocrinology and Diabetes at King’s College London, told that khat leaves have a chemical which causes sperm to become fertile faster, and stay fertile longer.
The Diagnostic and Statistical manual of the American Psychiatric Association (1968) defines alcoholism as drinking that chronically interferes with physical, personal or social functioning.
Mast.S.S. 16 yr old student is fed up with vertigo, dizziness on getting up, he gets breathless and is unable to control his anger experiences persistent headaches and feels pain and dryness in the eyes. He has to study hard and devote time to coaching for his forth coming Boards but find unable to cop up because of nagging pains and symptoms.
High stress in childhood and young adulthood can indicate depressive and anxiety disorders in young adulthood.
Exercise reduces the chances of a having a heart attack. Heart attack patients have a higher risk of having another episode if they are also depressed or socially isolated.
Depression is one of the common problems in clinical practice, which causes social, occupational, financial, and interpersonal difficulties. It also causes increased medical morbidity and mortality through suicide. Most of the subjects suffering from depression first go to their general physicians or family physicians. However, most physicians are very busy and preoccupied with general medical problems. Moreover, the general physician is not well acquainted with psychiatric problems. The difficulty is further compounded since a number of medical illnesses may cause either secondary or reactive depression.
There is more and more evidence building up that our emotional state of mind can affect our chances of developing heart disease down the road. A new research has revealed that post – traumatic stress disorder often increases the risk of heart disease.