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Being Teased Predicts Poor Psychological Functioning in Youth With Cleft Lip

...late reported greater symptoms in all areas except anxiety and self-esteem. Having been teased was related to poor psychological functioning, more so than having a cleft lip and/or palate. Psychological assessment should be given to children and young adults with cleft problems, specifically focusing on thei...

Songs Could Help to Overcome Flood Trauma

... "Our data suggests that women are suffering from anxiety disorders. Body pain, sleeplessness and uneasiness are common complaints," said Mehta. Source-IANS...

Excessive exercise common among women with eating disorders

...ous and may have fatal consequences. Targeting the anxiety and obsessive tendencies is the right way to treat eating disorder. In spite of knowing that excessive exercise is a characteristic feature of eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, the doctors are still not clear about which women are likely ...

Delhi Police Seized 4,400 kg of Banned Drug Mandrax

... uses, especially to treat high blood pressure and anxiety attacks. However, the drug's abuse potential soon surfaced leading to its being listed in the 1971 United Nations (UN) Convention on Psychotropic Substances. Subsequently it was banned in most countries. Methaqualone is currently listed in the UN C...

Benefits Of Aromatherapy

...e it has many potential uses ranging from managing anxiety and nausea to helping with sleep, general relaxati...tment safely and effectively, soothe pre-treatment anxiety and manage loss-of-memory issues in cancer survivors. SIDEBAR 1: FIVE OILS TO REDUCE STRESS AND RE...

Anxiety In Children Prior To Surgery Might Complicate Recovery

...ar and up to 45% experience significant stress and anxiety prior to surgery. In his five-year study support...nophen and had a higher incidence of postoperative anxiety and sleep problems. "The results of our study indicate that decreasing the anxiety of children bef...

Novel Way to Overcome Needle Phobia

...ere fear and 62 per cent showed moderate to severe anxiety when exposed to conventional syringes. However ...to reduce the aversion in patients by 68 per cent, anxiety by 53 per cent and fear by 53 per cent. Wilmer Sibbitt, a professor in UNM's School of Medicine, ...

Not Enough Support For The Young Homeless Of UK With Mental health Problems

...ho were surveyed had explained regular feelings of anxiety and depression, mainly as they were homeless. It was further mentioned that the report indicated that a fifth of the people had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder or clinical depression prior to becoming homeless. The report expla...

Committee Set Up to Review Safety of CT Scans

... last year warned that scans can cause unnecessary anxiety as they pick up abnormalities, which are found to be benign after further tests or even surgery. A BMA spokesman said: "We are only in favor of screening when it is part of a national evidence-based program. Whole body CT scans can cause false alar...

Children With OCD Are Often The More Bullied Lot

... About one in 100 children struggle with OCD, an anxiety disorder that leads people to engage in rituals su...of those problems, but problems like depression or anxiety and loneliness may still exist," he said. "If you address the OCD without addressing the peer proble...

Parenting skills to manage bad behaviour

...ake parenting more pleasant. Minimizing stress and anxiety levels in parents by altering children’s behaviour was the aim. Researcher, Penny Sellers, who will develop it further, is assessing this program. According to her, early results reveal that it is working well. "The anecdotal evidence and feedback ...

Treating Depression may Raise Anxiety Levels

...temporal lobe. But the same molecule increased the anxiety levels when present in another region called "amyg...llular level, to show that low depression and high anxiety can coexist in the brain," Chattarji, who is an international fellow of the Wellcome Trust, told IAN...

A Protein In Brain Regulates Anxiety And The Consumption Of Alcohol

...that maintains the nerve cells might also regulate anxiety and alcohol consumption. // Their study was publis...earchers had first recognized a gene that controls anxiety and alcohol consumption. Dr. Subhash Pandey, the professor of psychiatry and anatomy and cell biolog...

More People Seeking Treatment for Mental Illness in Strife-torn Kashmir

...who are biologically predisposed to depression and anxiety are now displaying schizophrenic tendencies," added Hussain, who attended a conference here on the role of women in Jammu and Kashmir. "Of the total number of patients we see every day, over 50 percent are women. Cases of women suffering from depre...

Positive Religious Beliefs Might Help In Coping Through Medical Crisis

...beliefs were linked to less post-op depression and anxiety for patients who used ‘positive religious coping styles’ in their everyday lives. Ai said, “Those who perceive more support at this critical moment may feel more hopeful about their recovery.”...

Doctors Wary after Shipman Affair

...r in ten GPs. The study also reported an increased anxiety among doctors, with a quarter of GPs saying that they were more worried about prescribing pain relief in case of accidental overdoes to terminally ill patients. In addition it was found that a third of GPs have increased their referrals to hospital...

Childhood Anxiety Reduced with Breast-feeding

...were among them. Teachers were asked to rate their anxiety level on a scale of 0-50. While there was a higher...fed children coped better. Montgomery said, "The anxiety was much less obvious in children who were breast-fed." The researchers have not yet understood wh...

Breast Milk: The Mother of All Milk for Infants

...motes a feeling of calmness in the mother, reduces anxiety and prepares her for the labor of love. It also pays to know that children who have been exclusively breast-fed during the initial three months of their lives are 34 percent less likely to develop juvenile, insulin-dependent diabetes as compared to...

Students of Dharamsala Hospitalized for Diarrhoea

... The onset of monsoon has always been a cause of anxiety for the 700-odd students of the Sherap Gatsel school, nestled in the foot of a hillside, not far from the lower Tibetan Children's Village (TCV) School. "As of now all the students have recuperated well and are attending classes," a school director...

New Studies Show The Efficacies Of Virtual Realities Vis-à-vis Pai

...arable levels of pain. It was found that levels of anxiety were reduced during the exposure, and the side eff...ll as a loss of control, leading to an increase in anxiety and pain; other patients see it as positive that they cannot see and perceive what the medical pract...

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