Panic in Biological News

Research exposes the risk to infants from the chemicals used in liquid medicines

... Dr Andrew Currie, Consultant at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust who was also part of the research team said "Parents should not panic about these findings. These chemicals can be found in foods all around the world. What the study highlighted is that we have a greater ...

Fish choose their leaders by consensus

... "A good example here is the stock exchange," he said. "Just now there is a lot of discussion about traders unable to make their own assessment and panic selling because others are selling. In these instances, this behavior seems somewhat irrational. But in lots of other scenarios, such behavior is ...

Mental disorders are disorders of the brain

... Depression, anxiety disorders such as panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorders, alcohol and drug dependence, dementia and Parkinsons disease are just a few examples of disorders of ...

Doctors learn to control their own brains' pain responses to better treat patients

... The response in this circuit, which includes the anterior insula, periaqueducal gray and anterior cigulate cortex, is automatic and may reflect a panic response developed evolutionally as a means of avoiding danger. The research by Decety and the Taiwanese team shows for the first time that people ...

Anxiety disorders surprisingly common yet often untreated

... Medicine. The GAD-7, a seven-question, self-administered screening tool, identifies patients with undiagnosed generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder or social anxiety disorder. The new study, which looked at 965 patients in 15 primary care clinics, found ...

Hopkins scientists show hallucinogen in mushrooms creates universal 'mystical' experience

... also reporting transient feelings of paranoia," says Griffiths. "Under unmonitored conditions, it's not hard to imagine those emotions escalating to panic and dangerous behavior." The researchers' message isn't just that psilocybin can produce mystical experiences. "I had a healthy skepticism going ...

Expert dispels bird flu paranoia

... off their cockatiel." Dr Doneley, Queensland's only registered bird specialist, said he wanted to clear up some of the confusion and unnecessary panic about the virus. He said bird flu was a viral disease of all birds, usually spread by water birds but normally only causing disease in poultry. ...

Does manganese inhaled from the shower represent a public health threat?

... Editor : Note that it was published in the Medical Hypotheses journal, so don't panic just yet! A new analysis based on animal studies suggests that showering in manganese-contaminated water for a decade or more could have ...

Oceans turning to acid from rise in CO2

... Editor : A 0.1 change over 200 years? I'd like to see how they calculated that, and their standard error - but as with the last article, don't panic just yet! Still, if it's a real trend, it could be alarming. Oceans are quite ... It takes a lot of acid to change its pH, I guess! A report ...