News tagged with stress disorder

Psychedelic trips aid anxiety treatments in study

(AP) -- The big white pill was brought to her in an earthenware chalice. She'd already held hands with her two therapists and expressed her wishes for what it would help her do.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (39) | comments 26

New biological pathway identified for post-traumatic stress disorder

High blood levels of a hormone produced in response to stress are linked to post-traumatic stress disorder in women but not men, a study from researchers at Emory University and the University of Vermont has found.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Flashing glasses may help PTSD sufferers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychologists in the UK propose using spectacles with flashing lights at each side to identify people likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and possibly to treat them.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Use of cannabinoids could help post-traumatic stress disorder patients

Use of cannabinoids (marijuana) could assist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder patients. This is exposed in a recent study carried out at the Learning and Memory Lab in the University of Haifa's Department ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Acute impact on brain function in earthquake survivors

New research has found that the Wenchuan, China earthquake that occurred on 12 May 2008 had an acute impact on the brain function of physically healthy survivors and poses a risk to the mental health of these survivors. The ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Birds in captivity lose hippocampal mass

(PhysOrg.com) -- Being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new Cornell study.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Researchers unravel mystery behind long-lasting memories

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine may reveal how long-lasting memories form in the brain.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Of traffic jams, beach sands and the zero-temperature jamming transition

Researchers in condensed matter physics at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago have created an experimental and computer model to study how jamming, the physical process in which collections of particles ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

'American Diet' v. Atkins Diet

(PhysOrg.com) -- If people can learn anything from rats, what to eat might be one of the most useful lessons. University of South Florida Professor David Diamond, in the Departments of Psychology, Molecular ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Childhood adversity may lead to unhealthy stress response in adult life

Seemingly healthy adults, if they were abused or neglected during childhood, may suffer physiological consequences decades later. In research published online last week by the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, a team led by ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover gene that ties stress to obesity and diabetes

Weizmann Institute scientists have identified a gene that links mental stress to such metabolic diseases as obesity, diabetes and arteriosclerosis.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Trauma-induced changes to genes may lead to PTSD

A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health suggests that traumatic experiences "biologically embed" themselves in select genes, altering their functions and leading to the development ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers discover method to objectively identify PTSD

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA Medical Center have identified a biological marker in the brains of those exhibiting post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories

Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories, a team of neuroscientists has found in a study of laboratory rats. Their results, which appear in the journal PLoS Biology, may bolster our understanding of post-traumatic stress ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene linked to aging also linked to Alzheimer's

MIT biologists report that they have discovered the first link between the amyloid plaques that form in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and a gene previously implicated in the aging process, SIRT1.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 22, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast