Measurements of brainwaves in kids with extreme irritability suggest that different brain mechanisms are at play, depending on the disorders the kids have. This finding brings us a step closer to the day when clinicians can use biological measurements — rather than depending only on behavioral symptoms or self-reports — to diagnose psychiatric disorders.
Three new studies by a University at Buffalo psychologist offer the first known evidence that some people anxiously expect that they will be rejected by others because of their physical appearance, and that this sensitivity, if not mitigated, has serious implications for their mental and physical health.
Talk to your child about drugs before they get to middle school, when they are most likely to encounter drugs for the first time.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have been awarded a three-year $2.1 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop a new drug to treat bipolar disorder.
A new study says early termination of the highly effective breast cancer drug tamoxifen may negatively affect treatment efficacy.
After a heart attack, fear, anger and depression are common reactions. According to the January issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource, recovering emotionally from a heart attack is vitally important to your physical health and well-being.
A review of published data on use of human growth hormone by healthy elderly people found that the synthetic hormone was associated with small changes in body composition but not in body weight or other clinically important outcomes. Further, people who took GH had increased rates of unhealthy side effects such as soft tissue swelling, joint pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and, in men, abnormal breast development and were also somewhat more likely to develop diabetes.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) appears more effective than repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for short-term treatment of severe depression. This was the conclusion of a research study by Dr Savitha Eranti and colleagues that has been presented in the January 2007 issue of The American Journal Of Psychiatry (AJP).
The longer Black Caribbean immigrants stay in the U.S., the poorer their mental health becomes. That?s one finding from a new study that examined the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among Black individuals in the U.S. The study appears in the January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
The longer Black Caribbean immigrants stay in the US, the poorer their mental health becomes. That’s one finding from a new study that examined the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among Black individuals in the US .