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Naps in the Afternoon may Harm Your Kids

...from getting a good night's sleep, and thus impair mental performance. As a part of their study, the researchers measured how well the group of kids could solve puzzles requiring planning and organisational skills. According to the New Scientist, the researchers found that kids who took longer naps tend...

Mentally Ill Patients are Affected by Their Own Negative Perceptions

...one in four U.S. adults suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder according to the National Institute of Me...professor of sociology, examined how the stigma of mental illness affects patients who have recently been diagnosed with a mental disorder. Specifically, sh...

Living With Stress

...anything. Stress is a demand on the physical and mental energies of an individual. It is, in effect, a r...you seek! Meditation Yoga Physical and mental exercises Music therapy Breathing exercises Massages Danzae Pace says, 'Stress is ...

Routine Hib Vaccination Could Save Innumerable Asian Children

... as deafness, learning disabilities, paralysis and mental retardation. "This simple, life-saving vaccine can prevent Hib pneumonia and meningitis in children, often called the 'invisible cause of forgotten child killers' in Asia. Immunization programs, including Hib, are an essential component of USAID's...

Researchers Identify Five Distinct Subtypes of Alcoholism

...tative epidemiological study of alcohol, drug, and mental disorders. It suggested that only about one-fourth...ow rates of co-occurring substance abuse and other mental disorders, a low rate of family alcoholism, and who rarely seek any kind of help for their drinking....

Hib Vaccination can Prevent Pneumonia

... as deafness, learning disabilities, paralysis and mental retardation. This simple, life-saving vaccine can prevent Hib pneumonia and meningitis in children, often called the invisible cause of forgotten child killers in Asia, said Dr. Kent R. Hill, Assistant Administrator, Global Health. Immunization pro...

Benoits Son Suffered from Fragile X Syndrome, a Rare Mental Disability

...te wrestler Chris Benoits son suffered from a rare mental disability called Fragile X Syndrome. He had ha... is a defect of the X chromosome which causes mild mental retardation. The disorder occurs more frequently and severely among males than females. This conditi...

INVEGA Receives Marketing Authorization In EU For Treatment Of Schizophrenia

...tment to develop new treatment options for serious mental illnesses. INVEGA is the first and only treatmen...ps schizophrenia, one of the most serious types of mental illness. In the United States, there are currently 2,000,000 people with schizophrenia, with men and...

Hoarding can Endanger Lives, Says New Study

...is known about what causes hoarding, but like many mental disorders, it is believed in part to have a geneti...arder's home-a temporary solution at best. Without mental health counselling, hoarders usually will go back to hoarding again. For severe cases of hoarding...

INVEGA(TM) Gets Marketing Authority from EU to Treat Schizophrenia

...tment to develop new treatment options for serious mental illnesses. INVEGA is the first and only treatmen...ps schizophrenia, one of the most serious types of mental illness. In the United States, there are currently 2,000,000 people with schizophrenia, with men and...

Art in Hospitals to Enhance Patient Care

...onment, and as therapy, especially for people with mental health problems. But the arts are also playing an ...ing, help keep them active and contribute to their mental and physical wellbeing. There is a whole range of different ways in which the arts and health can ...

Gulf War Veterans Exhibit Memory Impairment

...he exposure to wartime chemicals. The physical and mental symptoms experienced by the gulf veterans could be due to exposure to bio-warfare agents such as toxic pesticides and sarin gas. Comparison of the brain scans showed that the size of the entire cortex, or grey matter, was on average 5% smaller in t...

Breastfeeding and Omega-3 Fatty Acids Help New Moms Fight Depression

...her than something that lessens the risk. Mothers' mental health is yet another reason to intervene quickly when breastfeeding difficulties arise."...

Malfunction of Gene Causes Schizophrenia, Depression

...ventative strategies for certain symptoms of major mental illness." They wrote that "our findings lend further credence to the growing recognition that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share, at least in part, the common genetic etiologies and thus underlying molecular mechanisms"....

Migraines may Be a Symptom of Other Problems for Iraq Soldiers

...who evaluate combat veterans for headaches perform mental health screening in order to ensure that psychiatr...ldiers returning from deployment presently undergo mental health screening. The American Academy of Neurology, an association of over 20,000 neurologists a...

A Fit of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgery

...e condition is left untreated, it could also cause mental retardation. This condition does not improve with medication. Dr Schneider, co-chief of the hospital's pediatric neurosurgery unit, after examining the child, took a decision of operating upon the child. He did this by dividing the lobes of the li...

One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems

...ts. One, soldiers are at an ever greater risk of mental health problems. Second at the current level of st...d high levels of combat or screened positive for a mental health problem were nearly twice as likely to mistreat non-combatants as those who had low levels of...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...he chance that the woman's child will be born with mental retardation. Around 140 British families claim that their children are suffering from fetal anti-convulsant syndrome because their mothers took valproate during pregnancy. The syndrome includes a range of neural, behavioral and physical disorders s...

Cousins Recovering from His Substance Abuse Problem

...detrimental to the individual's physical health or mental health, or the welfare of others. The disorder is distinguished by a pattern of continued pathological use of a medication, non-medical drug or toxin, that results in repetitive adverse social consequences connected to drug use, such as failure to ...

Major Mental Disorders Cut Life Span by Ten to Fifteen Years

...test, it has been stated that adults with serious mental illness and treated in public systems die about 25...he gap has widened since the early '90s when major mental disorders cut life spans by 10 to 15 years. "We're going in the wrong direction and have to change...

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