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Antipsychotic Weight Gain May Be Avoidable |
| Thursday, January 17, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Medication Info
One of the most unfortunate side effects of the atypical antipsychotic medications so crucial to many schizophrenic and bipolar patients is dramatic weight gain. Patients have been known to ... more
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Nature, Nurture Team up in Depression Equation |
| Thursday, January 17, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Nearly every one of the endless set of human variables has been drawn into the nature vs. nurture debate. Trends in academic performance, physical prowess, subtance abuse, personal relationshi... more
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Anxious Babies Suffer More Nightmares Later in Life |
| Wednesday, January 16, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Babies cannot fill out the Myers-Briggs personality test, but many mothers believe that their cries and fidgets signal the type of child that they will grow into. While prior research precludes the po... more
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Former Big Leaguer Says Fear Driving MLB Drug Issues |
| Wednesday, January 16, 2008 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
On Tuesday, several high ranking officials testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in response to the MLB sponsored drug investigation that was conducted by former Sena... more
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Lithium's Neural Mechanisms Uncovered |
| Wednesday, January 16, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Bipolar Disorder
Lithium, an elemental salt first discovered in the early 19th century, was coincidentally found to counter various mood disorders while used as a salve for conditions like gout, and it has been... more
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Aggression Reinforced by Reward Mechanism |
| Tuesday, January 15, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Violence can be extremely frightening, but a quick look at the most popular movies and video games will reveal that it can also be exciting. Those who engage in aggressive sports such as boxing often ... more
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Study Links Amygdala to Overeating |
| Tuesday, January 15, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Researchers continue to study the elements, both environmental and biological, underpinning the increasing number of overweight or obese individuals in today's society, and the results of a ... more
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Study: Kids Pick Up Smoking from Watching Movies |
| Tuesday, January 15, 2008 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
It was early in 2007 that the Motion Picture Association of America, the group responsible for handing out movie ratings, finally bowed to public pressure and agreed to begin considering the presence ... more
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Media Report Finds Violence Rising Among Returning PTSD Soldiers |
| Tuesday, January 15, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
A minor media firestorm looks to erupt in response to the first in a recurring series of New York Times articles on the mental and emotional price of war. This entry in particular focuses on rep... more
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Effectiveness of Alcohol Screening by Primary Care Physicians Studied |
| Monday, January 14, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Primary Care Physicians
Doctors have grown comfortable talking with their patients about the dangers of smoking, but they are usually much more reticent to discuss alcohol consumption. This is not because doctors are uncon... more
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AADT Session Wrap-Up |
| Monday, January 14, 2008 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
A Link Between Anxiety and Heart Attacks - Research from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology helped to better illustrate the relationship between anxiety and the risk for heart problems.... more
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Researchers Focus on the Mental Health of Immigrants |
| Friday, January 11, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
According to previous research, Latino immigrants are less likely than native-born Americans to develop psychiatric disorders, and researchers have surmised that foreign nativity offers some... more
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Frontline Investigates Psychiatric Medications for Children |
| Friday, January 11, 2008 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
PBS's news magazine Frontline has a long history of tackling dense and difficult subject matter. In 2001, the program turned its lens on the rising number of children who were being prescribed power... more
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New Anti-Munchies Obesity Treatment Based on THC Model |
| Friday, January 11, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Building on the same chemical model responsible for marijuana's well-established "munchies" effect, researchers have created a drug designed to curb the frequent binge-eating urges of dangerou... more
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Types of Exposure Therapy Compared, Focus on Fearful Object Recommended |
| Thursday, January 10, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
If you fear the right things at the right times, you will be safer. However, the fear response is easily mis-triggered, leading to phobias that can greatly impair quality of life. When phobias are abo... more
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Spontaneous Chromosome Variations Linked to Autism |
| Thursday, January 10, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
The specific causes of and contributors to autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) remain shrouded in medical mystery despite ongoing research, repeated press mentions and blossoming public interest. Mo... more
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Study Finds Link Between Bipolar Disorder and Later Substance Abuse |
| Thursday, January 10, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Bipolar Disorder
Mood disorders and substance use disorders commonly occur together, but few long-term studies have questioned whether specific subtypes within these disorders are more likely to coexist. In a study pu... more
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Alzheimer's Treatment Seems to Act in Hours |
| Wednesday, January 09, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) inches the brain insidiously towards oblivion, and it sometime seems like researchers are moving just as slowly and bereft of hope towards an effective treatment. Most of th... more
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Latest Report on SSRI Prescriptions Tempers Concern with Caution |
| Wednesday, January 09, 2008 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Depression
The latest report on the effects of the FDA's antidepressant warnings, published in this month's edition of the Archives of General Psychiatry, concluded that the warnings did result in a leveling-off... more
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Gene Therapy Curbs Alcoholic Behavior |
| Wednesday, January 09, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Working from the model of an obscure genetic variation responsible for alcohol intolerance among those of East Asian descent, researchers recently succeeded in curbing the addictive urges of... more
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Genetic Factors Could Enhance Risk of Depression Following Stress |
| Wednesday, January 09, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Genetic and environmental factors can interact and increase an individual's chances of developing mental illness, as researchers demonstrated in a 2003 study published in the journal Science. In the s... more
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New Evaluation More Accurately Predicts Schizophre |
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is the most common psychosis, and one of the most devastating, but its dark image is slowly brightening. For most of the 20th century, it was considered a disorder that struck without ... more
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Autism Rates Rise Despite Removal of Thimerosal from Vaccines |
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
The prevalence rates of autism continue to rise, with the CDC now estimating that 1 in ever 150 children have autism, and researchers have made some progress in investigating possible causes of the ... more
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Psychiatric Genetic Counseling Grows More Popular |
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
The last century's technological advances have granted us an astounding amount of insight into the genetic codes and microscopic structures that make us who we are. A combination of curiosity and conc... more
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Rare Childhood Infections Linked to Schizophrenia |
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
The debilitating influence of schizophrenia has long been linked to genetic and environmental irregularities encountered by children in the periods directly before and after birth. Early i... more
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