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Personality Changes may Help to Identify a Form of Dementia

...ople with dementia with Lewy bodies showed passive personality changes, such as diminished emotional reaction, in...y bodies were two times more prone to have passive personality traits at the time of the first assessment than people with Alzheimer's disease. By the time of deat...

Heart Attack Risk Increased by Unfair Treatment

..., chronic job stress unfair treatment at work, and personality traits, such as hostility. But the results still showed that the higher the sense of injustice, the greater was the risk of a heart attack or angina. Researchers noted that people in the "high" category were 55 percent more likely to have serious...

Brooding Could Kill, Warn Psychologists

...0 men ages 40 to 90. At the start, they were given personality tests. They were tracked for 17 years to see how a trait called neuroticism affected survival. Those who score high in the neurotic trait are "worrywarts" who cope poorly with stress and tend to be highly anxious or depressed, says study leader Dan...

Spouse may "drive You to Drink" but also can Protect You from Alcohol

...ood or socio-economic background but also alike in personality and other behaviors. We found that people at risk for alcohol dependence tend to marry others who are at risk." Alcohol dependence is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Genetic influences explain about half of the variance in a p...

Anxiety Disorders Show in Tiny Tots

...ildren it really starts to look like part of their personality they appear shy, withdrawn, upset if confronted with something new, scared more than most kids if their mother leaves the room or they are left alone,' Professor Rapee said. 'It's sad when you see it particularly in really young children. It can ...

Biology, Not Only Parents, Turns Sweet Kids into Delinquents

...onment leads to increased instances of maladaptive personality change. As a part of their study the researchers...igh family risk predicted substantial increases in personality change and behaviour problems. The researchers observed the children four separate times over the...

Pride, Even the Hubristic Kind, Allows Us to Survive

...ile authentic pride was connected to more positive personality characteristics than the hubristic type, the researchers propose that both emotions must have offered some survival help for our ancient ancestors. Jessica Tracy and Richard Robins of the University of California, Davis, reviewed a number of past s...

AMSA Hosts Largest Medical Student Conference in Southern Hemisphere

...ng anti-nuclear activist Dr Helen Caldicott, media personality Dr Sally Cockburn, Australian of the Year Sir Gustav Nossal, CEO of the Cancer Council Professor Ian Olver, and author of the critically acclaimed Maos Last Dancer, Li Cunxin. Held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, the AMSA National Convention boa...

Childhood Abuse Increases the Risk of Alcoholism

...hildhood sexual abuse on alcoholism and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) in women, says Dr. Ducci. She and her colleagues analyzed DNA samples from a group of American Indian women living in a community in which rates of alcoholism and ASPD are about six times higher than the average rates among all U.S....

Domestic Abuse Led Wife Killing Her Preacher Husband

...t-traumatic stress disorder, depression and a mild personality disorder. Winkler was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in April for shooting Matthew Winkler in the back as he lay in bed in the family parsonage on March 22, 2006. In her trial, Winkler told the juror that it was the emotional, physical and se...

Men Could Overcome Erectile Dysfunction Through Group Psychotherapy

...o benefit from it and if effectiveness depend upon personality factors, psychiatric co-morbid diagnosis, length of therapy time, says Melnik....

Study Finds Genetic Link Between Smoking Addiction and Major Depression

...y be more likely to smoke or to be depressed. That personality trait may be based in their genes, he said. The ...n a new direction to determine the influences of a personality trait. In addition, clinicians could use the findings to identify those who are at risk of developin...

Extrovert People Drink More Alcohol

...eople in particular, people who score high on the personality dimension friendliness, are sensitive to the influence of others on their alcohol use. Besides genetic disposition, drinking behaviour is affected by culture, upbringing and the immediate social environment. Among young people alcohol use is a form...

Male Wallflowers-Watch Your Heart

...en with the questionnaires to understand each mans personality type. Their analysis revealed that the most of th...ations, or there is a link between their introvert personality and that section of the brain that keeps the heart operating smoothly. This is not the first such...

Scientists Identify New Genetic Mutation Behind Common Dementia

...control behaviour and language. Language problems, personality changes, and inappropriate social behaviour are its symptoms. Unlike Alzheimer's disease, this Frontotemporal dementia does not affect memory in the early stages, according to the background information in an article published in the journal Neuro...

Smoking Linked to Lower Parkinson's Disease Risk

...tective, negating the possibility that a premorbid personality influences smoking behavior among those who later develop Parkinson's disease," they conclude. The report appears in the July issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....

The Hospital Superbugs

...st killer super bugs. Its patron is Actress and TV personality Leslie Ash, who almost died and was left virtually paralysed after contracting MSSA, a strain related to MRSA, in a London hospital. The work carried out by The University of Nottingham in healthcare associated disease will feature on BBC Radio 4 ...

Australian Father Gets 15 Year Jail Term for Forcing Bestial Acts on His Daughters

... the man had been diagnosed with severe borderline personality disorder and had shown little remorse for his paedophilic and zoophilic deviant sexual behaviour at the time. He sentenced the man to 15 years jail, giving credit for his guilty plea and the fact he had not reoffended since. He will be eligible f...

One-third of Adults Have Had Some Form of Alcohol Use Disorder During Their Lifetimes

...hat among respondents who had drug abuse, mood and personality disorders," the authors write. It was also obser...Significant associations between mood, anxiety and personality disorders and alcohol dependence were reduced in number and magnitude when controlling for other com...

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