Mental in Biological News

Researchers develop 'brain-reading' methods

... there was little way to determine what specific mental tasks were taking place prior to the point of ... way to peer into the brain to uncover a person's mental state and what sort of information is being ... have provided direct evidence that a person's mental state can be predicted with a high degree of ...

Results from trials of DHA in Alzheimer's disease and age-related cognitive decline

... did not slow the rate of change on tests of mental function (ADAS-cog), global dementia severity ... a slower rate of decline on the primary test of mental function (the ADAS-cog). A trend in the same ... Mini-mental state examination, another test of mental function. "This is an intriguing exploratory ...

22nd Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Sept. 12-16, 2009, Turkey

... mental disorders are a global problem and represent one ... there are some 500 million people suffering from mental disorders, and in the European Union, mental disorders range as one of the leading causes of ...

Ability to literally imagine oneself in another's shoes may be tied to empathy

... our ability to manipulate, rotate and simulate mental representations of the physical world, including ... "We use spatial manipulations of mental representations all the time as we move through ... This may extend to our understanding of others' mental states," Katharine N. Thakkar, a psychology ...

Protein linked to mental retardation controls synapse maturation, plasticity, CSHL team finds

... have been previously linked with X-linked mental retardation. Indeed, problems at the synapse -- ... -- are thought to contribute to numerous mental and neurological disorders. "Great progress ... abnormalities and genetic changes involved in mental retardation (MR)," says Professor Linda Van ...

OHSU researchers study the idling brain

... will one day provide new tools for diagnosing mental health disorders and monitoring the progress of ... more rapidly diagnose and appropriately treat mental disorders." To observe brain function in ... with images taken from human subjects with mental disorders. The scientists believe doing so will ...

Flow of potassium into cells implicated in schizophrenia

... the brain memory hub of people with the chronic mental illness and linked to a hotspot of genetic ... M.D., director of National Institute of mental Health's (NIMH) Genes Cognition and Psychosis ... schizophrenia-like effects in brain circuitry and mental processing in perfectly healthy people who carry ...

Premier issue of Ecopsychology launched by Mary Ann Liebert Inc. publishers

... believes that ecopsychology places psychology and mental health disciplines in their true ecological ... will play an important role in the field of mental health and well being for children and adults of ... the relationship between environmental issues and mental health and well-being. The Journal examines the ...

Mothers of multiple births at increased odds of postpartum depression

... the multiple births status, reported talking to a mental health specialist or a general medical provider. ... "Mothers with a history of hospitalization due to mental health problems or a history of alcohol or drug ... association between multiple births and maternal mental health, given the rapidly increasing multiple ...

Mental fatigue can affect physical endurance

... a new study finds. The study also found that mental fatigue did not cause the heart or muscles to ... at the brain to find out exactly why people with mental fatigue perceive exercise to be more difficult. ... the same meal before each of the sessions. The mental fatigue sessions began with a challenging ...

Biofeedback from the zoo

... to check your email every five minutes and mental illness? According to new Tel Aviv University ... is, in effect, a reference database that gives mental health practitioners a way to classify different ... interest in the U.S. "OCD is a very severe mental disorder, but most often in America it is still ...

World breakthrough in treating premature babies

... breast milk or infant formula can help their mental development. The findings were published today ... 33 weeks' gestation, leading to possible impaired mental development. To counter this, increased doses ... on high-DHA diets had significantly delayed mental development compared with low DHA diets. ...

A walk in the park a day keeps mental fatigue away

... time in nature may be more beneficial for mental processes than being in urban environments. ... is not just being outside that is beneficial for mental functionsthe group who viewed the nature ... and thus having a restorative effect on our mental abilities. ...

Life Sciences Discovery Fund awards health research program grants

... technology, improving the delivery of mental health and substance abuse services in rural ... out to rural, underserved populations to improve mental health and substance abuse services. We are proud ... Program title: Program of Excellence in Rural mental Health and Substance Abuse Program focus: To ...

'Fly guy' makes memory breakthrough

... he manipulates their genes and then tests their mental abilities. He's called the "fly guy," and he may ... know that 87 per cent of the genes found in human mental retardation have homologs in fruit flies, so ... protein synthesis in the brain, enabling normal mental performance. After four years of research, ...

Siblings of mentally disabled face own lifelong challenges, according to researchers

... WASHINGTON People who have a sibling with a mental illness are more likely to suffer episodes of ... about the impact that a person with low IQ or mental illness has on the psychological and social ... siblings, to be more aware of their own mental health needs throughout their lifetimes." ...

USC researchers head global effort to study genetic risks that contribute to psychiatric diseases

... in funding from the National Institutes of mental Health (NIMH) for a groundbreaking effort to ... is on both determining genetic risks for serious mental illnesses and in developing a new model of care ... the risks that lead to the development of serious mental illness and dedicated to creating treatments for ...

Seasonal affective disorder may be linked to genetic mutation, study suggests

... institutions, including the National Institute of mental Health, and involved 220 participants 130 of ... with SAD, and 90 participants with no history of mental illness. Using a genetics test, the study ... mutation. "That is a very high effect for a mental illness, because ...

NJIT professor finds engineering technique to identify disease-causing genes

... such unknown molecular basis," Abdi said. "Many mental illnesses fall within this category." Effat ... said Emamian, whose research focuses on mental disorders. "We believe that complex human disorders, such as cancer, different mental disorders and some neurodegenerative disorders, ...

Indiana University research at American Public Health Association meeting

... ages 20 to 93, to see how their physical and mental quality of life and rates of obesity-related ... population. Their measures of physical and mental quality of life also were significantly better ... in physical activity improves both physical and mental health as well as the diseases people might ...

NARSAD announces 2008 Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in Research on Mental Health Disorders

... NARSAD, the world's leading charity dedicated to mental health research, will award its annual prizes ... strides in the understanding and treatment of mental illness. The prizes will be presented at ... Council, a volunteer body of leading experts in mental health research, include: Irving I. ...

Pregnancy not turning minds to mush: Study

... not turning mums' brains into mush, according to mental health researchers at The Australian National University. The study conducted by the Centre for mental Health Research (CMHR) at ANU suggests that ... true. The findings have been released as part of mental Health Week, which runs until tomorrow ....

Healthy Minds Across America features 48 public forums on mental health research, Sept. 14

... 2, 2008) People concerned about the toll that mental health disorders are taking on their families and ... research will report on the state of mental health research and how breakthroughs over the ... NARSAD, the world's leading charity dedicated to mental health research, has organized the day of events, ...

Risks and benefits of antipsychotics in children and adolescents

... will fulfil a diagnostic criterion for a mental disorder before reaching adulthood. The presence of a major mental illness is certainly no less serious in children ... a worse illness course. Early manifestations of mental disorders may substantially impact the childs ...

Large-scale investment catapults CAMH's mental illness and addiction research forward

... The Centre for Addiction and mental Health (CAMH) is proud to announce a landmark ... intervention, treatment and prevention of mental illness and addiction to the next level of ... will drive real change for people impacted by mental illness and addiction," said CAMH Vice President ...

Brain tweak lets sleep-deprived flies stay sharp

... down our brains, scientists have long recognized. mental performance is at its peak after sleep but ... should help us find methods for maintaining mental acuity that have more specific effects, are less ... taste of quinine. "This tests the flies' mental capacity in two ways: First, they've got to ...

Advances in the field of schizophrenia research: New genetic factors identified

... Schizophrenia is one of the most serious mental illnesses and is accompanied by symptoms that ... a few of the potential symptoms of this severe mental illness." Symptoms may also include a blunted ... Altogether, the illness is among the most severe mental illnesses known. According to estimates, ...

Scientists learn how food affects the brain

... exercise can also protect the brain and ward off mental disorders. "Food is like a pharmaceutical ... have the potential to alter our brain health and mental function. This raises the exciting possibility ... and memory and helping to fight against such mental disorders as depression and mood disorders, ...

'Mind's eye' influences visual perception

... from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery--what we see with the "mind's ... might give us a metric to measure the strength of mental imagery in individuals and how that imagery may ... debate in the research community over whether mental imagery is visualthat one imagines something just ...

Drug reverses mental retardation caused by genetic disorder

... other recent studies suggest that some forms of mental retardation can be reversed, even in the adult ... that abnormal brain development is to blame for mental impairment in tuberous sclerosis," added first ... how the brain works, often causing severe mental retardation. Even in mild cases, learning ...

Great apes think ahead

... planning for future needs relies heavily on two mental capacities: self-control or the suppression of immediate drives in favor of delayed rewards; and mental time travel or the detached mental experience of a past or future event. In a ...

At Boston symposium, NARSAD researchers report on genes and family traits

... NARSAD, the world's leading charity dedicated to mental health research, and conducted by ... Presented at NARSAD's 3rd annual Boston mental Health Research Symposium on May 30 at the ... some of the most severe, chronic and disabling mental illnesses that collectively affect an estimated ...

New gene discovered for new form of intellectual disability

... The Centre for Addiction and mental Health (CAMH) has discovered a new form of intellectual disability involving mental retardation (MR) along with the eye defect ... also known as developmental delay or mental retardation, are a group of disorders defined by ...

Mental stress reduces blood flow to the heart in patients with gene variation

... especially vulnerable to the physical effects of mental stress to the point where blood flow to the ... worse prognosis than in patients who do not have mental stress-induced ischemia in terms of overall ... broader category of patients also are prone to mental stress ischemia. Past studies have shown that ...

Genetic tags reveal secrets of memories' staying power in mice

... Institutes of Health's National Institute of mental Health (NIMH), have developed a way to pinpoint ... fact that they are altered in various forms of mental retardation, like Fragile-X syndrome, suggests a critical importance in mental function. The researchers discovered the ...

People not always needed to alleviate loneliness

... to describe a gadget in terms of humanlike mental states. In another experiment, the team made ... if it wasnt their own pet, as having humanlike mental states that were related to social connection, ... connection are less likely to perceive humanlike mental states in people who seem different from them. ...

Study finds first-ever genetic animal model of autism

... Fragile X, the most common cause of inherited mental impairment, and Rett Syndrome, a childhood ... by slowed brain and head growth, seizures, and mental retardation. Autism is a neuropsychiatric ... (people who have a severe developmental or mental handicap as well as ...

University of Minnesota releases first ever comprehensive report of the health of college students

... Service. The report examines everything from mental health and obesity to financial health and sexual ... tracks a wide range of student health issues from mental health and financial health to tobacco, ... selected to participate. Report findings mental health Results show that 27.1 percent of ...

Nationwide Children's Hospital involved in expanded access program for treatment of PKU

... in infants and children, can result in severe mental retardation. Currently, there are eight patients ... causing brain damage that can result in severe mental retardation, seizures, tremors, phobias and general mental and behavioral decline. The only way that PKU ...

NARSAD presents 2007 prizes for outstanding achievement in neuroscience and psychiatric research

... NARSAD -- The Worlds Leading mental Health Research Charity --Presents 2007 Prizes ... schizophrenia, depression, anxiety and childhood mental disorders NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 16, 2007Five of ... NARSAD, the worlds leading charity dedicated to mental health research, at its annual New York gala ...