News tagged with psychiatric disease
Video gaming teens sleep less: study
Teens who play a lot of video games are likely to sleep less than the eight to nine hours a night recommended for the age group, researchers said Monday.
May 16, 2011 |
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Medicine's secret archives: How patients are harmed by the concealment of knowledge
No one knows how many mothers' and babies' lives have been saved by the obstetrical forceps. This device has been part of the standard equipment of every maternity room for about 250 years. However, a shadow lies over the ...
May 25, 2010 |
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Exposure to prenatal smoking may lead to psychiatric problems
It is well-known that maternal smoking during pregnancy can have long-term effects on the physical health of the child, including increased risk for respiratory disease, ear infections and asthma. New research shows that ...
May 04, 2010 |
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Quitting smoking especially difficult for select groups
With the national trend toward quitting smoking flat, psychologists are finding some success with treatments aimed at helping smokers from underserved groups, including racial and ethnic minorities and those with psychiatric ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 12, 2010 |
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Are young children prone to suicide? Signs to watch for
The story hit like a punch to the gut. Montana Lance, a 9-year-old with a toothy grin and a love of anything mechanical, had apparently committed suicide in a restroom at his elementary school in The Colony, Texas.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Gene Increases Susceptibility to Post-Traumatic Stress, Researchers Find
(PhysOrg.com) -- A gene variant makes people who experienced trauma as children or adults more susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Yale researchers have found.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Scientists demonstrate link between genetic defect and brain changes in schizophrenia
For decades, scientists have thought the faulty neural wiring that predisposes individuals to behavioral disorders like autism and psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia must occur during development. Even so, no one has ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Study shows that elderly women sleep better than they think, men sleep worse
A study in the Oct.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that elderly women sleep better than elderly men even though women consistently report that their sleep is shorter and poorer.
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Nature or nurture? New epigenetic model blurs the line in the debate
A research report published in the July 2009 issue of the journal Genetics complicates the debate over whether nature or nurture plays the most important role in complex diseases such as psychiatric disorders, heart diseas ...
Jul 21, 2009 |
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A genetic basis for schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a severely debilitating psychiatric disease that is thought to have its roots in the development of the nervous system; however, major breakthroughs linking its genetics to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment ...
Jul 21, 2009 |
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