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Mental Health Problems on Rise in Himachal Pradesh

...de those taking treatment for clinical depression, schizophrenia and other related problems. Around 90 percent of the hill folk of the state, with six million people, live in villages. The state has one of the highest literacy rates at about 80 percent but also a high unemployment rate. (Source: IANS News)...

Number of Children, Teens Being Treated for Mental Disorders is on Rise

...edications used to treat mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and mania that may involve loss of contact with reality. Several studies have indicated that prescriptions for these medications have been increasing among children and adolescents, raising concerns among professionals and the public. However, no nat...

Skin Test plus DNA Testing To Detect Mental Illness

... can help the physicians to detect illness such as schizophrenia and autism. The skin tests are to be developed at the first genetics laboratory in the Highlands, which opened near Inverness. By the end of 2008 these kits can be used in remote areas, many miles from specialist psychiatric help. As a progenitor t...

Schizophrenia impairs body language comprehension

...y Paradiso and Andreasen showed that patients with schizophrenia have trouble deciphering emotion from human facial...an information from the body language. People with schizophrenia are not as good at extracting this kind of information to guide their social interactions." The stud...

Australia Set To Implement A national Strategy Tackle Cannabis Abuse

...concerns that it may trigger psychotic illness and schizophrenia prompted the council to develop a national cannabis strategy. There has been extensive government and community consultation in Australia on the creation of a national cannabis strategy since 2004. Although there may have been some decline in the u...

Need for More Talking Therapies for Treating Depression

..., obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder. The charity also warns that GPs have to give pregnant women who are depressed depression pills instead of therapy because of the shortage although research has suggested that there could be a risk that the baby w...

Australian Government To Fund For A Stem cell Research Center

...and brain disorders including Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia and motor neuron disease. Mr. Abbott also said that the center’s work would complement the existing national stem cell center in Melbourne. According to the current laws, scientists are allowed to use only spare IVF embryos for stem cell research. ...

Human Intelligence Gene Identified By Scientists

...udy involved 213 unrelated Caucasian patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and 126 unrelated heal...paired in carriers of the risk variant in both the schizophrenia group and the healthy volunteers as compared with the non-carriers. 'While our data suggests the d...

The Price Of Autism

...ardation ($51 billion); anxiety ($47 billion); and schizophrenia ($33 billion). Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) that involves severe deficits in a person’s ability to communicate and interact with others. Children with autism often have trouble using their imagination, have a limited range of...

JRRD Focuses On Issues Such As Spinal Cord Injury and Prosthetics

...T) along with work services may help veterans with schizophrenia participate and succeed in existing vocational rehabilitation programs. It was found that Veterans who received CBT worked more weeks and had better work performance than veterans who received standard support. It was concluded that individuals wi...

Sex Determination Gene Blamed For High Incidence Of Parkinson’s In Me

...isorders with a higher incidence in males, such as schizophrenia or addiction,' remarked the researchers. Following this finding, the researchers hypothesize that men with low SRY levels could face an increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease. Furthermore, genetic variations in the SRY gene could confer a...

Sunny Side Up - Vitamin-D deficiency linked to Schizophrenia

... their diet, lending credence to the incidences of schizophrenia being more common amongst people born in winter or spring. Though it is still a little premature in the day to recommend pregnant women with Vit D supplements , the day might not be far off once this study proves conclusive. Psychiatrist Philip Mitc...

No Increased Schizophrenia Risk With Use Of Cannabis

The possibility of cannabis use leading to schizophrenia has been ruled out according to a latest report fr...ing of cannabis can increase the susceptibility to schizophrenia by just 1%. This extent of metal health impairment is not comparable to that induced by Class B sub...

Gene for Schizophrenia identified

...perimental mice resulted in memory loss similar to schizophrenia in humans. // The mice were trained to identify food treats buried in the sand with the assistance of external clues. Then hey were injected with the viral vector, which had the ability to delete NR1 gene, which is responsible for learning and memo...

Campaigners Say No To Cannabis Reclassification

...the drug has to be conducted, as it can worsen the schizophrenia condition. The existing classification is being insisted upon by drugs campaigners. After the reclassification of the drug, its use among the younger generation has declined, according to Martin Barnes, of DrugScope. In spite of its reclassificati...

Complications During Delivery Related To Eating Disorders

...to show some resemblance to what has been found in schizophrenia and, with less evidence, in other severe psychiatric disorders. However, this observation should lead to a search for other more specific risk factors that interact with perinatal factors and are able to predict the development of one particular psyc...

Adolescent Marijuana Smokers Face Risk Of Developing Schizophrenia

...in males. On the contrary, females tend to develop schizophrenia later, in their mid-20s and beyond possibly due to...d the drug daily for at least one year, adolescent schizophrenia patients who didn't smoke marijuana, schizophrenia patients who regularly used marijuana regularly a...

Concern Over High Smoking Rates Among Young

...f psychiatric disorders, including mood disorders, schizophrenia and substance disorders, among others. Early smoking is shown to increase the risk for emergence of certain anxiety disorders (e.g., panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder), and that presence of certain anxiety disorders (e.g., social anxiety...

A Step Towards Unraveling The Schizophrenia And Depression Mystery

...usly discovered gene known to increase the risk of schizophrenia and depression. Scientists from the Universities... plays an important role in the risk of developing schizophrenia or bipolar affective disorder. The new genetic link we have made to PDE4B and how that links back to...

Estrogen therapy not effective in curing Schizophrenia

...ane Library. It is found that women suffering from schizophrenia seemed more vulnerable to psychotic symptoms during life phases associated with dips in estrogen levels during the period after childbirth and during menopause. Moreover use of estrogens are linked to increased side effects such as risk of heart at...

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