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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Scientists unlock the 'gates' on sudden cardiac death (w/ Video)
Australian researchers have come one step closer to understanding how the rhythm of the heartbeat is controlled and why many common drugs, including some antibiotics, antihistamines and anti-psychotics, can cause a potentially ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 28, 2011 |
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Alcohol use curbed by anti-nausea medication, study finds
Alcoholics who were given a medication approved for quelling nausea were able to cut back on their alcohol intake, researchers reported this week. The medication, ondansetron (Zofran), could become a readily available therapy ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Research on resting brains finds there's a lot going on even when 'idle'
The resting brain is anything but idle -- that simple proposition would be clear if you could peer into Mike Mrazek's noggin as he putters around his kitchen preparing his daily morning feast of scrambled ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 03, 2010 |
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Mental maturity scan tracks brain development
(PhysOrg.com) -- Five minutes in a scanner can reveal how far a child's brain has come along the path from childhood to maturity and potentially shed light on a range of psychological and developmental disorders, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Scientists identify new gene for memory
A team led by a Scripps Research Institute scientist has for the first time identified a new gene that is required for memory formation in Drosophila, the common fruit fly. The gene may have similar functions in humans, sheddi ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Early life influences risk for psychiatric disorders
For more than a century, clinical investigators have focused on early life as a source of adult psychopathology. Although the hypothesized mechanisms have evolved, a central notion remains: early life is a period of unique ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 18, 2010 |
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Rare disorder makes people think they smell bad
(PhysOrg.com) -- A rare psychiatric disorder called olfactory reference syndrome makes its victims think they smell bad when they don’t, and while this delusion may on the surface seem less serious than thinking you don’t ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 27, 2010 |
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Molecule-sized bait used by researchers to fish for new drug targets
(PhysOrg.com) -- The new technique, in which molecules are used as bait to capture and study large biomolecules, could lead to a new generation of psychiatric medications.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 14, 2010 |
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Link found between passive smoking and poorer mental health
Second hand smoke exposure is associated with psychological distress and risk of future psychiatric illness, according to new UCL research that suggests the harmful affects of passive smoking go beyond physical health.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Study finds 'law-like' patterns in human preference behavior
In a study appearing in the journal PLoS ONE, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) scientists describe finding mathematical patterns underlying the way individuals unconsciously distribute their preferences regarding approa ...
May 26, 2010 |
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Nobel winner ties mental illness to immune defect
A Nobel Prize-winning University of Utah geneticist discovered that bone marrow transplants cure mutant mice who pull out their hair compulsively. The study provides the first cause-and-effect link between ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 27, 2010 |
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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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