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Drinking Problem Plagues 30% Americans

...s characterized by impaired control over drinking, compulsive drinking, preoccupation with drinking, tolerance to alcohol and/or withdrawal symptoms. Alcohol abuse was defined as drinking tied to domestic violence, car crashes and fetal alcohol syndrome. Alcohol abuse is also characterized by failure to fulf...

Patients Not Complying With Their Dermatologic Problem

...ication with me. And I tend to be on the obsessive compulsive side! Patient forgetfulness is just one part of the problem, he said. Sometimes, patients consider treatment the worst part of the disease. For example, scalp psoriasis may seem resistant to treatment, he said. Actually, psoriasis treatments probab...

Violent Videogames Attract Criticism Again

...t type issue. There may be certain kids who have a compulsive component to what they are doing," he said in an interview. But addictive or not, too much time spent playing video games takes away from other important activities. "The more time kids spend on video games, the less time they will have sociali...

Now a Green Agenda for Mental Health

... also in conditions like panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder, and eating disorders. The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) block the ability of the nerve endings to bind and break down serotonin so that more serotonin is available to help the brain process nerv...

Drink, Binge and the Genetic Link

...ep towards understanding them. Alcoholism is the compulsive consumption of alcoholic beverages. This dependence on alcohol cannot lay claim to a single cause and is believed to vary with social, emotional and hereditary factors. 50% of the total risk for alcoholism is attributed to heritable factors. More th...

Health Effects of Casinos Have Been Ignored: Experts

...acknowledge that most casino customers will not be compulsive gamblers, they believe that the minor effects on large numbers of the population previously unexposed to casino gambling will be pervasive. Research on lotteries shows that they tend to gather money from poor people to be spent on amusements for we...

Don't Gamble With People's Health, Warn Experts

...acknowledge that most casino customers will not be compulsive gamblers, they believe that the minor effects on large numbers of the population previously unexposed to casino gambling will be pervasive. Research on lotteries shows that they tend to gather money from poor people to be spent on amusements for w...

Drug Addicts-you Could Blame Your Genes

...tention deficit, hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and compulsive brain disorders such as drug addiction.” The fin...o more targeted treatments for addiction and other compulsive behavior disorders with fewer side effects than current options, opine the researchers. NN...

Compulsive Gambling Linked to Parkinson's Disease Medications

...ehaviors associated with impulse control—including compulsive shopping, hypersexuality, binge eating and patholo...ing the relationship between dopamine agonists and compulsive gambling, the likelihood of gambling problems was unrelated to the medication dosage. This suggests ...

Medications for Restless Legs Syndrome may Trigger Compulsive Gambling

...ew Mayo Clinic study is the first to describe this compulsive gambling in RLS patients who are being treated wit...uggest that physicians screen all RLS patients for compulsive behaviors while taking a thorough medical history prior to prescribing dopamine agonists. Patients s...

Increased Mental Disorders In Children

...e Syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, obsessive// compulsive disorders and hyperkinetic illnesses. This study was published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. Researches are not sure if this ascend could be attributed to the increased awareness about these diseases or the environmental fac...

Cataplexy During Status Cataplecticus Resembles REM Sleep

...is one of the symptoms of// narcolepsy, which is a compulsive disorder to fall asleep. In narcolepsy there are compulsive sleep attacks and the person has an irresistible urge to sleep even in the most unlikely circumstanc...

Excessive Male Hormones can Cause Bulimia in Women

...m polycystic ovarian disease. It is described as a compulsive eating disorder .It is conventionally regarded to be caused due to psychological causes. It is usually treated by implementing cognitive behavioral therapy. Menstrual disturbances are often associated with this disorder. These women have low levels o...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Helps Children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

...havioral therapy reduces the severity of obsessive compulsive disorder in children and adolescents, according to...spect of contemporary CBT treatment. Children with compulsive washing, for example, would be required in a graded way to touch objects that they fear lead to cont...

Internet – Boon or Bane

...eloped their questions by extrapolating from other compulsive and addictive conditions. The researchers found that 68.9 percent were regular Internet users, which is consistent with previous studies, and that:· 13.7 percent (more than one out of eight respondents) found it hard to stay away from the Internet ...

Mental Health: Mind at Peace or in Pieces?

... or irrational fears, and sometimes even obsessive compulsive behavior. Mood disorder is another type of mental illness characterized by depression, manic depression or mood swings. Such patients may display extreme sadness or elation, and swings in activity and energy levels. One of the extreme consequences of...

Even Men Shop Till They Drop

...ord University research initiative says that while compulsive shopping disorder affects women more than men, the...udy says that around 15 percent of US shoppers are compulsive ones who cannot control excessive shopping. Such disorders can increase the risk of depression and e...

Children of Alcoholics More Likely to get Addicted

...led that 70 percent children of alcoholics develop compulsive behavior about either alcohol, drugs, food, sex, work or gambling, while a half ended up marrying alcoholics. According to the new study by medical journal 'Priory' that reviewed existing data on crime, abuse and alcoholism, the children of alcoho...

Prozac Gets Conditional Clearance For Treating Children

...cturnal enuresis (bed-wetting), anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and phobic states."...

Do Food Images Encourage Binge Eating and Obesity ?

...e vulnerability to multiple forms of addiction and compulsive behaviors. This gives an idea about drug cues in case of drug addicts. Dr Ian Campbell, an expert in obesity from Nottingham and medical director of the charity Weight Concern, said that loss of appetite control in dieters was not just about losing t...

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