News tagged with mental disease

Study identifies protective factors that help women recover from childhood violence

Children who witness domestic violence are more likely to be in abusive intimate relationships and experience psychological problems such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adulthood, according to the Centers for ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Unlawful killing of newborns soon after birth 5 times higher than thought

Although rare, the true incidence of neonaticides - the unlawful killing of a baby within the first 24 hours of its life - is more than five times as common as official estimates suggest, suggests research published online ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 14

Sleep disturbances show clear association with work disability

Sleep disturbances increase the risk of work disability and may slow the return to work process. This is especially true in cases where work disability is due to mental disorders or musculoskeletal diseases. These results ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Certain psychiatric disorders linked with risky sexual behavior in teens

Although research has shown that teens with mental health disorders are more likely to engage in high risk sexual behaviors, like unprotected sex, a new study from the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center suggests there ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Overprotective parents may impact heart anxiety in adults with congenital heart conditions

Adults with congenital heart disease are more likely to suffer heart-focused anxiety - a fear of heart-related symptoms and sensations - if their parents were overprotective during their childhood and adolescence. Dr. Lephuong ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Skin condition associated with depression, anxiety and suicidal feelings

Individuals with psoriasis appear to have an increased risk of depression, anxiety and suicidality, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Research links huntingtin to neurogenesis

New research finds that a protein that is often mutated in Huntington's disease (HD) plays an unexpected role in the process of neurogenesis. The research, published by Cell Press in the August 12 issue of the journal Neuron, provid ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Worse mental health associated with worse pain in osteoarthritis: study

How much pain osteoarthritis sufferers feel is directly related to their mental health, a new study by researchers at UC Davis School of Medicine has found. In the study, people with better mental health felt less pain, and ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Not what the doctors order

A Northeastern University faculty researcher said the elderly often fail to take their medications as prescribed, creating quality-of-life issues, especially for older people with multiple chronic diseases.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fatal assaults 30 times higher among poor Scots than among most affluent

Fatal assaults among the most disadvantaged in Scotland are more than 30 times as high as they are among the most affluent sectors of society, reveals research published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community He ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Do we want a kind of work that doesn't ruin our lives?

The way people's work is organised can harm their health by causing a range of ailments, from cardiovascular disease to problems with mental health. A new research study shows that the best way of working ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers identify new syndrome

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a new syndrome affecting potentially thousands of hospital inpatients. Coined SHAKE (Supplement-associated Hyperammonemia After C(K)achetic Episode), ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Combat wounds not the leading cause of evacuations

(AP) -- American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan were more likely to be medically evacuated for health problems such as a bad back than for combat injuries, a new study says.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists hope to end sleeping sickness by making parasite that causes it self-destruct

After many years of study, a team of researchers is releasing data today that it hopes will lead to new drug therapies that will kill the family of parasites that causes a deadly trio of insect-borne diseases and has afflicted ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Delinquent boys at increased risk of premature death and disability by middle age

Men who have a history of delinquency in childhood are more likely to die or become disabled by the time they are 48, and not just from the obvious consequences of antisocial behaviour, new research indicates.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1