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Does social anxiety disorder respond to psychotherapy? Brain study says yes

When psychotherapy is helping someone get better, what does that change look like in the brain? This was the question a team of Canadian psychological scientists set out to investigate in patients suffering from social anxiety ...

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created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Depression treatment rates increase over past decade, but psychotherapy declines

The rate of depression treatment increased between 1998 and 2007 but at a slower rate than during the previous decade, and the percentage of patients treated with psychotherapy continued to decline, according to a report ...

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created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Is Your Cognitive And Physical Functioning Ok? A New Instrument To Check It

A group of Italian and American investigators has published a new instrument for assessing cognitive and physical functioning (the Massachusetts General Hospital Cognitive and Physical Functioning Questionnaire, CPFQ), in ...

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created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Therapy for depression can be delivered effectively by non-specialists

Depression can be treated effectively with psychotherapy by mental health nurses with minimal training, according to new preliminary research findings.

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created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Family therapy for anorexia twice as effective as individual therapy, researchers find

Family-based therapy, in which parents of adolescents with anorexia nervosa are enlisted to interrupt their children's disordered behaviors, is twice as effective as individual psychotherapy at producing full remission of ...

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created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Violent video games may increase aggression in some but not others, says new research

Playing violent video games can make some adolescents more hostile, particularly those who are less agreeable, less conscientious and easily angered. But for others, it may offer opportunities to learn new skills and improve ...

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created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why does feeling low hurt?

When it comes to pain, the two competing schools of thought are that it's either "all in your head" or "all in your body". A new study led by University of Oxford researchers indicates that, instead, pain is an amalgam of ...

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created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Telephone therapy for depression? Study says yes

Treating clinical depression on the telephone is nearly as effective as face-to-face consultations, a new Brigham Young University study finds.

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created May 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Massage eases anxiety, but no better than simple relaxation does

A new randomized trial shows that on average, three months after receiving a series of 10 massage sessions, patients had half the symptoms of anxiety. This improvement resembles that previously reported with psychotherapy, ...

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created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Can Memory Be Improved? A Meta-Analysis Suggests It Does

A meta-analysis published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics by Swiss investigators B. Metternich and associates indicates the effectiveness of non pharmacological interventions on memory complaints.

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created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Psychodynamic psychotherapy brings lasting benefits, new study finds

Psychodynamic psychotherapy is effective for a wide range of mental health symptoms, including depression, anxiety, panic and stress-related physical ailments, and the benefits of the therapy grow after treatment has ended, ...

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created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Half of depressed Americans go untreated, study finds

A national survey of 15,762 households by UCLA/Wayne State University researchers found that only 21 percent of Americans suffering from clinical depression receive medical care consistent with American Psychiatric Association ...

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created Jan 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Psychotherapy offers obesity prevention for 'at risk' teenage girls

A team of scientists at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the National Institutes of Health have piloted psychotherapy treatment to prevent excessive weight gain in teenager girls deemed 'at risk' ...

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Making connections the key to overcoming shame

It would be difficult to find someone who has never felt shame in their life. Shame is a common reaction when someone feels that they have fallen below social norms or their own standards.

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created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Internet addiction center opens in US

(AP) -- Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing the video game "World of Warcraft." As a result, he flunked out of the University of Iowa.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0