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.
Using a new molecular genetic technique, scientists have
turned procrastinating primates into workaholics by
temporarily suppressing a gene in a brain circuit involved
in reward learning. Without the gene, the monkeys lost
their sense of balance between reward and the work required
to get it, say researchers at the NIH’s National Institute
of Mental Health (NIMH).
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.
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.
Extracts of sage and lemon balm may help to improve memory and behavioral problems in people with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.
The word schizophrenia originated from Greek word Schiz(o) – means division, divided. phrenia – means mental disorder.
Social aspect – Till few decades ago joint family system was in vogue in our country. Most of the younger generation used to adopt and continue the family profession. In the joint family system it was the tradition that the eldest person in the family used to be the head of the family and used to have the governance of the whole family in his control.
“The human being is an integrated whole acting all the time through three distinct levels: the mental, the emotional and the physical. The mental level being the most important, while physical the least.” -Dr. George Vithoulkas
The mood was very sentimental on the last day of our college when we were to part ways with our friends. After all of them left, I looked bemusingly at the sprawling, lush green campus, standing all alone. I had to meet one important person–my professor