News tagged with abnormal behavior
Fish exposed to SSRIs exhibit abnormal behavior, study finds
Fish exhibit abnormal behavior and lower levels of anxiety when exposed to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI), which are common drugs used to treat depression, among other disorders. The study, by Baylor University ...
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Scientist shows link between diet and onset of mental illness
Changes in diet have been linked to a reduction of abnormal behaviors in mentally ill people or animals, but a Purdue University study shows that diet might also trigger the onset of mental illness in the first place.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Study links immune protein to abnormal brain development
UCLA scientists have discovered that exposing fetal neurons to higher than normal levels of a common immune protein leads to abnormal brain development in mice.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Can chaos theory help predict heart attacks?
Chaos models may someday help model cardiac arrhythmias -- abnormal electrical rhythms of the heart, say researchers in the journal CHAOS, which is published by the American Institute of Physics.
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Teaching self-control skills to children reduces classroom problems
Children taught skills to monitor and control their anger and other emotions improved their classroom behavior and had significantly fewer school disciplinary referrals and suspensions, according to a study by University ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 05, 2010 |
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Study confirms association between tobacco smoke and behavioral problems in children
The scientists observed that the impact of tobacco smoke was especially detrimental during gestation. The results of the study have been published in the current online issue of the renowned journal Environmental Health Pe ...
Dec 09, 2009 |
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'Fear detector' being developed
(PhysOrg.com) -- British scientists are aiming to develop a device that can detect the smell of fear, and that could one day identify terrorists, drug smugglers, and other criminals.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Could drugs for mood disorders, pain and epilepsy cause psychiatric disorders later in life?
Young animals treated with commonly-prescribed drugs develop behavioral abnormalities in adulthood say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. The drugs tested include those used to treat epilepsy, mood disorders ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Tamiflu 'may be tied to abnormal behavior'
Influenza patients between ages 10 and 17 who took Tamiflu were 54 percent more likely to exhibit serious abnormal behavior than those who did not take the antiflu drug, according to a final report, released Saturday, from ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Sociability traced to particular region of brain
People with a genetic condition called Williams syndrome are famously gregarious. Scientists, looking carefully at brain function in individuals with Williams syndrome, think they may know why this is so. The researchers ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 27, 2009 |
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