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Treat Childhood Trauma by Building on Parental Memories of Loving Care

... Most of the parents are mothers, often living in violent relationships or fleeing domestic violence. While they are referred to the CTRP clinic because of the infant’s or child’s behavioral or developmental problems, most mothers also have life histories of trauma and abuse. “Trauma has a very disruptiv...

A Shot at the Gun

...n September, the FBI released 2005 figures showing violent crime had risen 2.3 per cent nationally. The strong correlation between posession of firearms and homicide rates, proved by the research is bound to pose some tough questions to those who lobby for firearm posession. AN...

Binge Drinkers on the Rise

... drug abuse, suicidal tendencies, fights and other violent behaviors. Binge drinking is associated with many health problems, including unintentional or intentional injuries, alcohol poisoning, children born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, high blood pressure, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases as well...

Video Games Fun but Pose Social, Health Risks

...re to blame." Most parents know to watch out for violent and graphic video games, but even educational games may not be as beneficial as they seem in commercials. Many games that claim to be educational aren't evaluated to find out if children are actually learning from them, Vandewater said. "Parents ne...

Death Does Not Take Place in Most Suicidal Attempts Through Antidepressants

...s explained by, "by a decrease in the incidence of violent and more fatal methods of suicide attempts, such as hanging and shooting." The Food and Drug Administration issued a "black-box warning" –to indicate the most serious type of antidepressants which included all SSRIs. According to the administratio...

Violent Video Games Leave Deep Impressions in Brain

...es, if they are habituated to excessive viewing of violent video games. This was reported by a study conducte... of Medicine in Indianapolis. Teenagers exposed to violent video games are less inclined to be self controlled and poised and more emotionally excitable. In t...

Women Are More At Risk For PTSD Than Men

...ere also more likely to become irritable, angry or violent after traumas. Understanding that responses to trauma can vary from person to person will help better determine if a person has experienced a trauma, said Tolin. An example of how subjective trauma symptoms can be illustrated in research investigat...

Steroid Use Linked to Crimes

... users were no more likely than nonusers to commit violent crimes such as murder, assault, rape and property ...ciated with increased aggressiveness and impulsive violent outbursts and criminal behavior. They looked at people using steroids without a doctor's prescriptio...

Inroads into triggers of road rage

... on patients, with a view to gauging the degree of violent behavior has shown that crime related to the abuse...often lined to the use of weapons rather than just violent behavior. According to Fia Kl?tz, M.D., of Uppsala University steroid abusers were found to be sus...

Impatient hospital? Violent patients will pay heavily, rules hospital

...ll lead the recent plan by the government to check violent behavior in hospitals. This move is after much deliberation following many acts of violence in hospitals where security staff have had to pull away people from the casualty department after they indulged in distasteful behavior. Richard Parris, con...

Fish Oils Supplements Could Cool Violent Children

...al School in Norwich and found that they had fewer violent outbursts while taking daily doses of the fatty ac...ct was on pupils who had been involved in the most violent incidents. One youngster had to be restrained 10 times prior to the trial but recorded no incidents ...

Rape – a Common Crime in South Afric

...revealed about 8 per cent who admitted to sexually violent behavior towards their spouse or other intimate partners, while 16.3 per cent admitted to having raped a non-partner or participated in some form of gang rape. South Africa with a population of 47 million has been found to have one of the highest r...

Gene therapy Beneficial in Parkinson's Disease

...s treated for a mild genetic disorder died after a violent reaction to the procedure. in 2005 trials were again brought to a standstill after three French children who was treated for inherited immuno- deficiency disease developed leukemia and one of them died. Hood said, ``It's very encouraging that two c...

Effects of the Drug Ice- A Tip of the Iceberg!

...still unclear about the link between this drug and violent psychosis. Beaver Hudson, a consultant nurse in emergency psychiatry at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, explained that while scientists grope for the confirmed link, the behavior of patients in casualty wards is a tell-tale evidence of the link ...

Mental Health: Mind at Peace or in Pieces?

...uestered treatment, maybe even a lock up, to avoid violent encounters. This is perhaps the mother of all myths. Post rehabilitation, most mentally ill patients begin to lead productive lives within their communities. The stigma that surrounds mental illness can be dissipated only by creating awareness foc...

High Testosterone Destroys Nerve Cells

...y proven to cause hyper excitability, volatile and violent nature, and suicidal tendencies. According to Barbara Enriches, the professor of Pharmacology and physiology, and senior author such behavioral patterns may be an evidence of changes in neurological functions modified by steroids used. To quote Pro...

Alcoholics Anonymous: A Blessing For The Addicted

...nd to offer some beneficial reduction in aggregate violent incidents – in this case, mortality." Researcher...ortality." Researchers also found that alcohol's violent effects seem more pronounced among males than females. Asbridge said that he was not particularly ...

Newer Antidepressants May Trigger Violent Behavior

...new study// that the newer antidepressants trigger violent behavior in people who use them. People who used GlaxoSmithKline’s antidepressant Paxil were twice as likely to experience a hostile event as those on a placebo. The researchers used several sources of information in the study including data present...

Anticipation Could Have An Intense Effect On Memory

... minutes after the researchers had shown dozens of violent images, they quizzed study participants on how well they remembered the pictures they had just seen. "We found that the more activated the amygdala and hippocampus had been during the anticipation [of the pictures], the more likely it was that a pe...

Doctor Slipped into Coma after Being Beaten by Crowds

...g on the troubled spot, opened fire to contain the violent crowd injuring five people in the process. Source-IANS...

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