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Yearning -the Most Intense Emotion in Bereavement

...n Medical Association, recommend that the standard psychiatric reference, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, should be revamped to focus less on depression after the death of a loved one. As part of their experiments, they interviewed 233 people in the Yale Bereavement Study for up to ...

GMC Disapproves Internet Doctor

...ng sixty sedatives to a teenager with a history of psychiatric disorder. The boy consumed an overdose of the same drugs later. The General Medical Council (GMC) is considering withdrawal of license for Dr. Eden to practice. They termed his attitude as highly inconsiderate and casual with no respect to the pati...

Study Links Attempted Suicide With Genetic Evidence

...and her team -- DNA samples, medical histories and psychiatric evaluations -- came from an independent study, CHIP, conducted at the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Intramural Program. The purpose of CHIP, initiated in 1988 and funded through at least 2010...

Dizziness Linked To Anxiety Disorders

... Surgery, chronic dizziness may be attributed// to psychiatric or neurologic conditions of the patient. This study investigated 345 men and women who had suffered dizziness for an extended period of time. These people were in the age group of 15 to 89. It was found that 339 of them were diagnosed as suffering ...

Compulsive Gambling Linked to Parkinson's Disease Medications

...ciation was found with medication-induced mania [a psychiatric disorder involving excessive physical and mental activity and impulsive behavior]." Pathological gambling was also weakly linked to younger age, Parkinson's disease that began in the brain's left hemisphere and a high score on a scale measuring the...

Strep, Psychiatric Symptoms Possibly Linked in Some Children

...ts and disruptive behaviors associated// with some psychiatric disorders. In an eight-month study of 693 childr...une system to interact with brain cells that cause psychiatric symptoms in a small percentage of young patients. In findings published this month in the Journal ...

Scientists Identify Genetic Link to Schizophrenia

...bits genetic variation. Several neurological and psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, alcoholism, and Parkinson’s disease, are associated with changes in the brain that affect the nerves that communicate with each other through the naturally-produced chemical dopamine. One protein that is crucial...

Funds Increased for Treating Bhopal Gas Victims

...n children born after the tragedy suffer from deep psychiatric disorders and stunted growth. Women have severe gynaecological problems," said Rachna Dhingra, coordinator of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB). "The contamination of groundwater in the neighbourhood of the Union Carbide fact...

Mental Health of Kashmiris Needs Urgent Attention: Survey

...report points to an acute need for a wide range of psychiatric and psychosocial support in Kashmir. There is only one mental asylum at Rainawari in Srinagar to cater to the needs of the entire state. The findings of the survey reveal a bleak picture of the mental health of people in the conflict-afflicted reg...

Is Extreme Irritability - a Childhood Bipolar Disorder?

...iological measurements, such as EEGs, to help make psychiatric diagnoses, in combination with clinical symptoms. ... be able to use neuroscience techniques to improve psychiatric diagnoses. Pediatric BD has some of the most pressing needs in this regard, because of its severity ...

Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene may Protect from Developing Alcoholism

...sm in order to gather information on demographics, psychiatric diagnoses, personal drinking, and drug-use history. Each participant was genotyped at the ADH1B locus through a blood sample, and also provided a number of other health measures. "As predicted, we found a relatively high prevalence of the ADH1B*3 ...

No Evidence to Support Many Off-label Uses of Atypical Antipsychotics

...s of Americans for depression, dementia, and other psychiatric disorders// without strong evidence that such off-label uses are effective, according to a new analysis by HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality The federally funded comparative effectiveness review of these drugs – called atypical antips...

Redundancies Boost Mental Health Problems for Those Who Keep Their Jobs

...ecognised in large scale preventive strategies for psychiatric disorders,” they add. Source: British Medical Association...

A New Therapy for CFS

...stent symptoms. Although many genetic, infectious, psychiatric and environmental factors have been proposed as possible causes, none has been nailed down. It was often derided as "yuppie flu," since it seemed to occur frequently in young professionals, though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says i...

Women With Migraines More Likely to Have Depression

... causing the link between migraine and depression, psychiatric disease such as depression complicates headache management and can lead to poorer outcomes for headache management,” said Tietjen. Source-Newswise SRM...

Mental Health Risks Vary Within the U.S. Black Population

...g from a new study that examined the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among Black individuals in the U.S. The study appears in the January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. David R. Williams, lead author and professor in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvar...

Researchers Looking for Genes That Control the Brain

...antly dealing with from the side of neurologic and psychiatric illness, research areas where it’s difficult to ga...cally in people with mental illness. So we [in the psychiatric community] are constantly questioning, ‘Is this change [in the brain] a cause of the illness? A resu...

Sway Schizophrenics With Incentives to Avail Regular Treatment

...o know that nearly 20% to 50% of patients availing psychiatric services play truant with their medication. Amid such a scenario, a novel think-tank// has come up with a strategy, designed to entice schizophrenics to take their medicines. Patients who rely on outreach services may have huge numbers of them who do...

Sleep Disturbances, Nightmares - Common Among Suicide Attempters: Report

...es of 18-68, who were admitted to medical units or psychiatric wards at Sahlgrenska after a suicide attempt. It was discovered that 89 percent of subjects reported some kind of sleep disturbance. The most common complaint was difficulties initiating sleep (73 percent), followed by difficulties maintaining sleep ...

Research on Bipolar Disorder Launched

...linical populations at Zucker Hillside, a renowned psychiatric hospital in Glen Oaks, NY, with state-of-the-art molecular tools available at CSHL in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, and The Feinstein Institute in Manhasset, NY. Commonly referred to as manic depression, BPD is a mood disorder that goes beyond the day's o...

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