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Research Scans Explain Why People Crave For Food

...g vulnerability to multiple forms of addiction and compulsive behaviours. He explained that the research demonstrates how the person’s reward sensitivity may also relate to their vulnerability to substance abuse, and that the brain network they have identified is a hyper-responsive to drug cues in addicts. Dr...

Meth Addiction On The Rise, US Health Authorities Concerned

...is eventually leads to addiction, characterized by compulsive drug seeking or craving. The stimulant, which can be smoked, snorted or injected, can also induce a loss in memory and psychotic behavior. In addition, there is also an increased risk of AIDS/HIV, hepatitis transmission, cardiovascular and brain da...

Baby Boomers Visit Doctors As Frequently As They Visit the Gym

Baby Boomers have been known for their compulsive exercise programs are now running for succor to operating rooms and to orthopaedics, to combat the effects of over-exercise on their weary bones.// This phenomenon has acquired a sobriquet, boomeritis, which has necessitated that many baby boomers n...

Costly mistakes help better understand OCD: obsessive compulsive disorder

...nxiety about errors or failures and the associated compulsive checking, washing and other repetitive responses associated with OCD." <br...

Compulsive Gambling Not A Chronic Addiction Always: Research

Pathological or compulsive gambling has been long regarded to be a chronic an...re starting to have a more nuanced picture of what compulsive gambling is - for some people it is something chronic and recurrent, for others it tends to remit wi...

Parkinson's Drug Leads To Increase in Gamblers

...treat Parkinson's disease could turn patients into compulsive gamblers. Scientists at the Food and Drug Administ...ve been established between dopamine enhancers and compulsive gambling. But this has not prevented some people to file lawsuits against drug manufacturers. They h...

Distinct Brain Sections Are Activated While Making Risky Decisions

...such risk-taking can become an addition or lead to compulsive gambling. The study results were published in the journal Neuron. The research was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and stroke and Duke. Scott Huettel, Ph.D., lead author and a...

Addiction To Internet Can Lead To Depression

...ears to have a counterproductive effect and boosts compulsive Internet behaviour," the IVO said. --Edited IANS...

Lost 8 M pounds and blames his medication!!!

...led to warn patients its medicine Requip can cause compulsive behaviour. In addition he is also suing seven casinos he alleges encouraged him to blow his millions while aware he had the disease and was taking the drug. In response to this GlaxoSmithKline said: "We'll investigate the allegations. We believe ...

Antidepressants still being prescribed to Teenagers despite being banned!

... disorders such as bed-wetting, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorders and phobic states. Given the large range of antidepressants in the list, it cannot be assumed that they were all being used to treat depression in children." Still there is the fear of suicidal tendencies, mood swings and other psychologi...

New 'PPUD Syndrome' Prevalent Among Indian Doctors In Britain

...the syndrome, according to Sareen are: Obsessive compulsive disorder: Patients check their CV again and again, showing it to every person they meet; constantly check their telephone in order not to miss any interview call (which never comes); keep checking the mail again and again; and are resistant to any co...

Eating Disorders Among Children Are Widespread

...h the object of losing weight, which later becomes compulsive behavior. There are also instances wherein many women are seeking help from the health service to overcome their anorexia and bulimia problems. The waiting time to see a specialist can be as long as 8 months. This is further complicated by the fac...

Shaking Legs Syndrome Is Curable

Restlessness and a compulsive need to shake legs while sitting or lying down is a treatable health problem, but the Indian medical fraternity is not aware of it.// The condition, called Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), makes it difficult for patients to sit down comfortably during...

Dominant Discoveries and The Darker Side Of Methamphetamine Drug Addiction

... to be associated with addiction, characterized by compulsive drug seeking or craving, followed by drug use. The drug can be snorted, smoked or injected. With decreasing effects of the drug, the drug users tend to display violent behaviour. Other conditions that can arise as a result of methamphetamine use in...

Guidelines For Better Management Of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

...order sufferers and the allied condition obsessive compulsive disorder. Also, cosmetic surgeons should question patients about their body image to screen out those with a mental disorder before agreeing to operate OCD is ranked as one of the 10 most disabling illnesses by the World Health Organiza...

Illegal Drug Use In England Mounting Up At An Alarming Rate

... progresses to an addictive stage characterized by compulsive drug craving, seeking and use. The effects of drug abuse can be disastrous especially in individuals with concomitant cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, hepatitis, AIDS/HIV, stroke and cancer. The finding of the present study warn that il...

Drug Pramipexole Usage Linked To Gambling Addiction In Parkinsons Patients

...nd 2004. Despite having had no previous history of compulsive gambling, one patient had lost more than $200,000 and another in excess of $100,000. Researchers also conducted a systemic review of previous cases linked to gambling and Parkinson’s disease admitted in Mayo Clinic and found that all the patients wi...

Suicidal Tendencies May Be Treated With Cognitive Therapy

...ression, anxiety, post traumatic stress, obsessive compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa etc.Suicidal tendencies: people who commit suicide are most at risk from attempts of suicide, also called suicidal tendencies. People with suicidal tendencies are 40 times more at risk from committing suicides than others. T...

PET scans can detect the results of cognitive behavior therapy

...ression, anxiety, post traumatic stress, obsessive compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa etc. Researchers of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who had conducted their research on patients of bulimia nervosa, found that cognitive behavior therapy affected the brains chemicals called opioids. These are...

MRI for distinguishing between dementia and Alzheimer’s diseas

...n behavior patterns characterized by repetitive or compulsive behavior, lack of inhibition or control, and changes in dietary and personal hygiene habits; or gradual language dysfunction. The researchers for the study had used blood flow in the areas of the brain to distinguish between two forms of neural dege...

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