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Brain Structured to Make Human Beings Religious, Claims a US Scientist

...r studying how the brain works in neurological and psychiatric conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, depression and anxiety, Dr. Newberg took that brain-scanning technology and turned it toward the spiritual. His specialization is called neurotheology. Franciscan nuns, Tibetan Buddhists, and ...

HIV Vagabond Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison for Infecting Ex-girlfriend

...positive and had turned reclusive. She also needed psychiatric help for sometime. The specialist attending to her explained that she could develop full-scale AIDS. It is crucial that she continues treatment throughout her life. While pronouncing the sentence, the Judge told Giovanni Mola: "What you did showe...

Depression Increases the Risk of Disease Progression and Death in HIV-positive Women

...mes and a reduced food uptake. The prevalence of psychiatric disorders among HIV-infected African women is not ...d to assess social support among the patients. A psychiatric nurse provided individual counseling in the clinic and facilitated a weekly peer support group for w...

Being Sad Can Kill You

...d saliva tests and their moods were assessed using psychiatric tests. It was seen that there were significantly higher levels of the stress hormone Corticotropin –releasing hormone (CRH) in the depressed women. It was also seen that significantly, the length of pregnancy in average, was much shorter in depre...

Emergency Department Strain As Ice Problems Grows

...nd the largeproportion of patients with underlying psychiatric illness and a history of drug dependence. "With increasing availability and use of amphetamines, the burden on emergency services willcontinue to grow." About half of all patients admitted for amphetamine use were aged between 20 and 29 years, th...

Ireland’s ‘Forgotten’ Patients To Be Given Better Cre

...st harness psychiatrists, occupational therapists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, speech and language therap...gotten”, she added. One-in-eight patients are in psychiatric wards mainly due to intellectual disability, yet they have practically no specialist supports, the r...

Brain Tissue Reveals Possible Genetic Trigger for Schizophrenia

...ophrenia patients than in persons who were free of psychiatric illness. “In many genetic diseases, such as Hunt...f people with schizophrenia and persons who had no psychiatric illness, the researchers found for the first time a significant difference in the microRNA expressio...

Mixed Sex Wards Still Continue For Psychiatric Patients

...al health units in England and Wales revealed that psychiatric patients continue to remain in mixed wards//. This...imes, abuse, harassment and intimidation among the psychiatric patients. When the government came to power in 1997, it had pledged to abolish mixed wards but the...

Managing Emotions to Prevent HIV

...222 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18 with psychiatric disorders and found that feelings do matter when it comes to making decisions about safe sex. Specifically, the findings suggest that lack of self-efficacy (the belief that one could effectively engage in a particular behavior) when confronted with t...

Early Psychosis Is Dangerous

...pisode of psychotic illness should be treated as a psychiatric emergency, with a lower threshold for initiating involuntary treatment. The main reasons for lethal assault were frightening delusional beliefs in which the patient believed they were in immediate danger. In a related MJA editorial, Dr Megan Ka...

Women Who Deny or Hide Pregnancies Get Little Psychiatric Care

...egnant until giving birth may not be getting// the psychiatric care they need, according to a new survey. In th...ur of 81 of these reluctant new mothers — received psychiatric referrals, “although infants were frequently discharged to the care of mothers who had denied or con...

All Forms of Ill Treatment Cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-PTSD

...or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychiatric conditions. The participants reported an average of 19 war-related stressors and 19.3 types of torture. An average of 96.3 months had passed since their last torture experience. More than three-fourths (174) of the survivors had PTSD related to the...

Children Under Stress Develop More Fevers

...ver the course of the study. They were asked about psychiatric symptoms, such as depression and anxiety, and they were asked about their relationship with their children, such as whether they felt detached from their child or overwhelmed by their parenting responsibilities. In addition, parents reported on exter...

Childhood Obesity Linked to Early Puberty.

... the potential drawbacks of early puberty like the psychiatric disorders, early initiation in to alcohol consumption, sexual intercourse, teenage pregnancy and high risk of reproductive cancers and adult obesity. Dr. Lee opined that in addition to finding the reasons for association of obesity with early puber...

Alberta's Mental Health Act Welcomed

... said that it would aid in the timely treatment of psychiatric patients. The bill is also expected to introduce community treatment orders under which the mentally ill patients should strictly follow the treatment and supervision plans planned by their doctors to live in the community. The bill would be ready fo...

Severe PTSD Damages Children's Brains: Study

...ficits arising from stress hormones interfere with psychiatric therapy and prolong symptoms. The children in the study were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, as a result of undergoing physical, emotional or sexual abuse, witnessing violence or experiencing lasting separation and loss. Thi...

Couple Therapists Plays Vital Role in Keeping Couples Bond Intact

...h Letter. Couples therapists make little use of psychiatric diagnosis, but they do use many of the same methods employed by therapists who work with individuals: interpreting emotional conflicts and the influence of the past; assigning exercises for behavior change; challenging beliefs; offering advice and su...

Abnormalities in Eye Movements and Attention can Predict Schizophrenia

... in their biological family members, but not other psychiatric illnesses. “What was very exciting for us is that this method allows you to assign a probability to every person in the sample with respect to likelihood of risk for schizophrenia liability,” Lenzenweger said. “By doing this, one can generate very ...

Improving Body Image Key to Treating Eating Disorders

...ger Clinic is an international nonprofit specialty psychiatric center, providing treatment, research and educatio... years, Menninger has been named among the leading psychiatric hospitals in U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of America's Best Hospitals. Menninger is a 5...

ADHD Drugs To Have Warnings On Contra Indications

...arly to the patients, the significant// ones being psychiatric and cardiovascular risks. Dr. Steven Galson, dir...nd cardio vascular ailments. Adverse effect on the psychiatric front is also reported in a few cases. FDA’s Pediatric Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and ...

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