News tagged with psychiatric
Israelis develop 'cannabis without the high'
Israeli scientists have cultivated a cannabis plant that doesn't get people stoned in a development that may help those smoking marijuana for medical purposes, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
May 30, 2012 |
3.1 / 5 (8) |
24
Twenty-year protein mystery solved with surprising results
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of the CRYM protein, previously connected with deafness and cancer, has now proven that it has an enzymatic function. This opens up new implications for the treatment of neurological ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
|
Combating mood disorders: New approach simplifies the search for more specific drugs
Many psychiatric conditions are caused by aberrant metabolism of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Researchers in the Department of Pharmacy at LMU have now developed a new screening method, which will facilitate the search ...
Sep 30, 2011 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
0
Interest in shock treatment is growing despite decades-old controversy
Recently, actress and writer Carrie Fisher told Oprah Winfrey that she receives electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) regularly to treat depression caused by her bipolar disorder. Taken aback, Winfrey asked, "They still do that?"
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 02, 2011 |
3 / 5 (2) |
0
Key diagnostic deadline draws near for psychiatrists and 'new' DSM conditions
"Where are we going to put the narcissists?" It was a question asked urgently by one of the hundreds of psychiatrists gathered here last week for their professional society's annual meeting. With doctors in the thick of a ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 25, 2011 |
not rated yet |
2
Kept in chains: Mental illness rampant in Somalia
(AP) -- Hassan Qasim lies shackled to a wall in a hallway with 25 other patients at a clinic for the mentally ill. He whispers under his breath and spits at his neighbors. Torn and dirty clothes hang off ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 20, 2011 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
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 |
not rated yet |
1
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 |
not rated yet |
0
Neglectful and controlling parents linked to mental health problems in children
(PhysOrg.com) -- Children’s perception of how they are parented is a major predictor of whether they will develop mental health problems as teenager, according to research by the University and the Medical Research Council.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 25, 2011 |
3.9 / 5 (8) |
5
|
Higher prevalence of psychiatric symptoms found in children with epilepsy
A newly published report reveals that children with epilepsy are more likely to have psychiatric symptoms, with gender a determining factor in their development. Findings showed that girls had more emotional problems, while ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 25, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
'Knowing it in your gut' is real
A lot of chatter goes on inside each one of us and not all of it happens between our ears.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 23, 2011 |
5 / 5 (15) |
5
Computerized systems reduce psychiatric drug errors
Coupling an electronic prescription drug ordering system with a computerized method for reporting adverse events can dramatically reduce the number of medication errors in a hospital's psychiatric unit, suggests new Johns ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 21, 2011 |
not rated yet |
1
Children’s psychiatric symptoms improve after depression remission in mother
Children of mothers with major depressive disorder showed improvement in their own psychiatric symptoms in the year after their mothers’ depression responded to treatment, according to a study appearing in the online ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 16, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Chasing the pot of gold: Researchers study gambling subtypes and treatment outcomes
Approximately two million adults in the United States meet criteria for pathological gambling, and another four to six million are considered problem gamblers, according to the National Council on Problem Gambling. A study ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 15, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Toxoplasmosis: The strain explains severity of infection
Providing clues into why the severity of a common parasitic infection can vary greatly from person to person, a new Johns Hopkins study shows that each one of three strains of the cat-borne parasite Toxoplasma gondii sets o ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 14, 2011 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
