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White Matter Change Linked to Balance and Movement Problems |
| Tuesday, March 18, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Preoccupied with the looming threat of dementia, few people pay attention to the many other, less dramatic, ways that the brain can degrade over time. Researchers from the Leukoaraiosis and Disability... more
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Past Abuse and Genetics Combine to Raise PTSD Risk |
| Tuesday, March 18, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Individuals who suffered abuse as children respond differently to adult traumas and are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder in the wake of a distressing event, especially if the ear... more
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Clinicians Observe Rise in Eating Disorders Among Middle-aged Women |
| Tuesday, March 18, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
The profile most often associated with eating disorders is that of a young, white woman, and while this group remains the one most likely to be diagnosed with an eating disorder, research is beginning... more
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Two New Acts to Help Soldiers |
| Tuesday, March 18, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue, more and more soldiers are coming home traumatized. Determined to treat mental causalities with as much care as physical casualties, Senators Joe Lieberma... more
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Gene Networks Could Contribute to Obesity Risk |
| Monday, March 17, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
A new technique for analyzing DNA has provided a team of researchers from Merck with a more comprehensive view of the genetic factors that may underly obesity. Rather than looking for genes that are m... more
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AADT Session Wrap-Up |
| Monday, March 17, 2008 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
Negative Outlook Increases Risk of Death in Heart Patients - Researchers from Duke University gave a psychological questionnaire to 2,800 coronary disease patients and found that those with posit... more
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Experiments Elucidate the Effects of Stress on Memory |
| Friday, March 14, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Stress puts the body on alert so that it can prepare for danger. In the process of boosting some emergency systems, others are deprived of energy or even actively turned off. For example, when the f... more
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Brain Patterns Explain Schizophrenic Memory Loss |
| Friday, March 14, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
In addition to aural hallucinations, jumbled speech patterns, compulsive behavior and alternately flat or dramatic displays of emotion, faulty memories are very common among individuals with schizoph... more
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ADHD May Boost Teen Girls' Risk for Eating Disorders |
| Friday, March 14, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 3 to 5% of school-aged children in America struggle with the hyperactivity, impulsiveness, and inattentiveness that characterize att... more
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Brain Fitness Industry Growing Rapidly |
| Friday, March 14, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
Sharp Brains, a business research firm, released The State of the Brain Fitness Software Market 2008 Report earlier this week. We reported last year about the nascent brain fitness industry, but it wa... more
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Rodent Model Closely Mimics Autism |
| Friday, March 14, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Mice are certainly not our closest mammalian relatives, yet they have been key in helping enlighten us with respect to the minutiae of our own neurology. Autism is a prime example of one of the most m... more
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Study Shows Weight Maintenance Possible Through Several Means |
| Thursday, March 13, 2008 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
One of the true limiting factors in the fight against obesity is a paucity of published research on successful interventions and weight loss techniques. In large part, this is a deficit born of the di... more
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Gene Interactions May Protect Against Depression |
| Thursday, March 13, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
In examining the role played by neurotransmitters in mental illness, many studies have identified serotonin, and the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) specifically, as a crucial influence in depress... more
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Incentives Raise Attendance of Substance Abuse Therapy |
| Wednesday, March 12, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
The majority of mental health media attention falls on new treatment or diagnosing techniques. State-of-the-art pharmaceuticals and brain-imagers are indisputably important, but they would be of littl... more
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Protein-Based Depression Test is a Possibility |
| Wednesday, March 12, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
In a development that could dramatically improve future depression treatments, researchers have discovered a unique protein placement pattern in the brain cells of severely depressed individuals. Th... more
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Epigenetic Changes Linked to Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder |
| Wednesday, March 12, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
In a study published this week in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers from the Krembil Family Epigenetic Laboratory at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), have reporte... more
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House Passes Updated Mental Health Parity Act to Senate |
| Wednesday, March 12, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
In a momentous development for anyone who cares about the state of mental health care, the United States House of Representatives has approved the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity A... more
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Smokers More Likely to Quit if Told Lung Age |
| Tuesday, March 11, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
General practitioners often advise their patients to give up smoking, but even when they warn of a myriad of health problems exacerbated by cigarettes, their patients rarely quit. The March issue of... more
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Study Illuminates Brain Activity During Jazz Improvisation |
| Tuesday, March 11, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
Without the ability to create and improvise, the unique and complex forms of art, music, and literature would be impossible, and recent studies have begun to use these artistic endeavors as tools for... more
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Settlement In Case Fuels Contentions of an Autism-Vaccine Link |
| Monday, March 10, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Senator John McCain stirred up a frenzied discussion last week when he linked vaccines and autism. While the scientific community considers this link to be implausible because numerous studies have ... more
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Difficulty Identifying Emotions Could Indicate Risk for Bipolar Disorder |
| Monday, March 10, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder has a large impact on the social functioning of affected individuals, and one part of this problem, as research has indicated, lies in the difficulty these individuals have in identif... more
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Military Mental Health Screenings Fall Short |
| Monday, March 10, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Amid recurring reports of a mental health crisis among American service members comes another disappointing systematic review of the military's psychiatric policies. Despite recent... more
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AADT Session Wrap-Up |
| Monday, March 10, 2008 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
Faulty Memory May Explain Kids Bad Grades - Researchers are zeroing in on "working memory"—what we might call the brain's RAM—as a potential source of learning problems, including ADHD.Should Children... more
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Low Testosterone Linked to Depression in Elderly Males |
| Friday, March 07, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
The greater vulnerability of women to depression has been the subject of many hypotheses. Some have suggested a social difference, perhaps comprised of the unique pressures facing women, while oth... more
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Study Finds No Effective Pharmaceutical Treatment for Dementia |
| Friday, March 07, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Dementia is a nebulous collection of progressive neurological disabilities that may be either a condition unto itself or evidence of a larger disease like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. It is also... more
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