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
Apr 23, 2010 |
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'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
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Acute stress leaves epigenetic marks on the hippocampus
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are learning that the dynamic regulation of genes -- as much as the genes themselves -- shapes the fate of organisms. Now the discovery of a new epigenetic mechanism regulating genes in the brain ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 24, 2009 |
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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
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Coming undone: How stress unravels the brain's structure
The helpless behavior that is commonly linked to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is preceded by stress-related losses of synapses—microscopic connections between brain cells—in the brain's hippocampal ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Finding fear: Neuroscientists locate where it is stored in the brain
Fear is a powerful emotion and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain. Fear conditioning is a form of Pavlovian, or associative, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 07, 2009 |
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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
Aug 11, 2009 |
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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.
Jul 22, 2010 |
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College students exhibiting more severe mental illness, study finds
Severe mental illness is more common among college students than it was a decade ago, with more young people arriving on campus with pre-existing conditions and a willingness to seek help for emotional distress, according ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 12, 2010 |
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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
Oct 07, 2010 |
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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.
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Forget it! A biochemical pathway for blocking your worst fears?
A receptor for glutamate, the most prominent neurotransmitter in the brain, plays a key role in the process of "unlearning," report researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their findings, published in the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 24, 2009 |
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No Direct Link Between Panic Attacks, PTSD
New Geisinger-lead research dispels a recent notion in psychiatry that if a person experiences a panic attack during a traumatic event that they will likely suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the future.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Bias towards negativity predicts vulnerability to stress
(PhysOrg.com) -- People who naturally notice negative information over positive information are more susceptible to stress, research has revealed. The findings increase our understanding of what makes people ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 02, 2010 |
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Post-traumatic stress: A condition both more prevalent and more treatable than previously thought, researcher says
(PhysOrg.com) -- Terry Keane, a longtime PTSD researcher and associate chief of staff for research and development at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, says researchers in recent years have learned ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 24, 2010 |
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