News tagged with anxiety disorders
Navigating the neurochemical space by computer-aided molecular design
Pharmaceutical scientists from VU University Amsterdam and colleagues from the University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna have gained new insights into the molecular basis of the GABAA receptors, ...
Apr 06, 2012 |
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Green spaces reduce stress levels of jobless, study shows
Stress levels of unemployed people are linked more to their surroundings than their age, gender, disposable income, and degree of deprivation, a study shows.
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Feb 15, 2012 |
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Mexican migrants to the US risk 'clinically significant' mental-health problems, study finds
Mexican migrants to the U.S. risk "clinically significant" mental-health problems, study finds.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Low income associated with mental disorders and suicide attempts
Low levels of household income are associated with several lifetime mental disorders and suicide attempts, and a decrease in income is associated with a higher risk for anxiety, substance use, and mood disorders, according ...
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Apr 04, 2011 |
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Post-disaster health woes plague New Orleans: study
The effects of a major natural disaster can linger and cause heart attacks and other health woes for years, according to a study released Sunday of New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina.
Apr 03, 2011 |
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Scientists discover anti-anxiety circuit in brain region considered the seat of fear
Stimulation of a distinct brain circuit that lies within a brain structure typically associated with fearfulness produces the opposite effect: Its activity, instead of triggering or increasing anxiety, counters ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Study examines prevalence and severity of bipolar disorder worldwide
Despite international variation in prevalence rates of bipolar spectrum disorder, the severity and associated disorders are similar and treatment needs are often unmet, especially in low-income countries, according to a report ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Discrimination creates racial battle fatigue for African-Americans
Just as the constant pressure soldiers face on the battlefield can follow them home in the form of debilitating stress, African Americans who face chronic exposure to racial discrimination may have an increased likelihood ...
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Mar 03, 2011 |
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Researchers develop standardised model for treating child anxiety and depression
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research shows that about one in 10 children and adolescents suffer from an anxiety disorder. Further, about five to eight percent suffer from depression. Both these relatively common psychological disturbances ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Which symptoms of PTSD do the most damage?
In the case of post-traumatic stress disorder, not all symptoms are created equal.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 01, 2011 |
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New biological pathway identified for post-traumatic stress disorder
High blood levels of a hormone produced in response to stress are linked to post-traumatic stress disorder in women but not men, a study from researchers at Emory University and the University of Vermont has found.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Does social anxiety disorder respond to psychotherapy? Brain study says yes
When psychotherapy is helping someone get better, what does that change look like in the brain? This was the question a team of Canadian psychological scientists set out to investigate in patients suffering from social anxiety ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Chinks in the brain circuitry make some more vulnerable to anxiety
(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some people fret over the most trivial matters while others remain calm in the face of calamity? Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified two different ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Neural mechanisms linked with vulnerability to anxiety
New research examines the anxious brain during a fear conditioning task and provides insight into why some individuals may be more or less prone to anxiety disorders. The study, published by Cell Press in the February 10 ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Turning off stress
Weizmann Institute scientists reveal the actions of a family of proteins that "turn off" the stress response. Their findings could be relevant to PTSD, anorexia, anxiety disorders and depression.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Anxiety disorder
Anxiety disorder is a blanket term covering several different forms of abnormal and pathological fears and anxieties which only came under the aegis of psychiatry at the very end of the 19th Century. Current psychiatric diagnostic criteria recognize a wide variety of anxiety disorders. Recent surveys have found that as many as 18% of Americans may be affected by one or more of them.
For more information about Anxiety disorder, read the full article at
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