News tagged with mentally ill
Creativity linked to mental health
New research shows a possible explanation for the link between mental health and creativity. By studying receptors in the brain, researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have managed to show that ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 18, 2010 |
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Research backs theory on autism, schizophrenia
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Simon Fraser University evolutionary biologist Bernard Crespi reinforces his theory that autism and schizophrenia are diametric or opposite conditions based on genes.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Flow of potassium into cells implicated in schizophrenia
A study on schizophrenia has implicated machinery that maintains the flow of potassium in cells and revealed a potential molecular target for new treatments. Expression of a previously unknown form of a key ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 06, 2009 |
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'Top dogs' at school have better health in adulthood
Children who are the most popular and powerful at school also enjoy better health in adult life compared to counterparts at the bottom end of the pecking order, said a Swedish study published Tuesday.
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Material success and social failure?
It is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. Likewise, large inequalities of income are often regarded as divisive and corrosive.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Mad? Sad? Glad? People with severe mental illness can't easily 'read' their partner's feelings
(PhysOrg.com) -- For a healthy couple in a romantic relationship, getting along can be hard enough. But what if one person has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Captive chimpanzees show signs of compromised mental health
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Kent, UK, has shown that serious behavioural abnormalities, some of which could be compared to mental illness in humans, are endemic among captive chimpanzees.
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Brain signs of schizophrenia found in babies
Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental disorder affecting one in 100 people worldwide. Most cases aren't detected until a person starts experiencing symptoms like delusions and hallucinations as a teenager ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 21, 2010 |
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The war against mental illness
Professor Mike Owen, Director of the University’s new Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute has said the time has come to declare war on mental illness.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Schizophrenia gene linked with abnormal neurogenesis in adult and postnatal brain
Scientists now have a better understanding of a perplexing gene that is associated with susceptibility for a wide spectrum of severely debilitating mental illnesses. Two independent research studies published by Cell Press ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Major impacts of climate change expected on mental health
Leading mental health researchers are warning that some of the most important health consequences of climate change will be on mental health, yet this issue is unlikely to be given much attention at the UN climate change ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Mentally ill threat in nursing homes
(AP) -- Ivory Jackson had Alzheimer's, but that wasn't what killed him. At 77, he was smashed in the face with a clock radio as he lay in his nursing home bed.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Common mental disorders may be more common than we think
The prevalence of anxiety, depression and substance dependency may be twice as high as the mental health community has been led to believe.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Cultures of suicide
(PhysOrg.com) -- A UQ researcher has surveyed and interviewed students across three continents to understand the social representations, values, beliefs, attitudes and meanings associated with youth suicide.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 09, 2010 |
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Researchers identify structure of circadian clock protein
(PhysOrg.com) -- Feeling jet-lagged? You may need your internal clock reset. New Cornell research has taken a major step toward treating jet lag and other more serious syndromes by advancing our understanding ...
Nov 15, 2011 |
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