Rage Disorder Affects 7.3 Per Cent Of US Adults
Rage disorder, or Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED), affects 7.3% of US adults at some time during their lifetimes. The disorder comes with moments of unexpected anger in which the person may attack other people, other people's belongings and actuall
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Prozac Not Effective Against Anorexia Nervosa
Prozac does not help anorexia nervosa patients achieve their normal weight, says a new study carried out at New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, USA. It seems that Prozac is not good at preventing patients from experi
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First Full Face Transplant Could Happen In England
If the Royal Free Hospital Ethical Committee agrees, the first full face transplant could take place soon in England. Professor Peter Butler has been researching face transplants for nearly a decade and a half. On getting the green light, the surgical t
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Can Help Some Women Become Fertile Again
Some women can become fertile again after cognitive behaviour therapy alone, said researchers at a European Fertility Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. They found some perfectionist women who had stopped menstruating and ovulating benefited enormously
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New Book Explores Causes Of ADHD
Theories about what causes attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, are many and varied, with experts speculating on a wide range of probable causes - genetics, environmental pollutants, food allergies and challenging home environments. In his n
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Updated Product Information For Efexor, MHRA, UK
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has concluded its review into all the latest safety evidence relating to Efexor (venlafaxine), an anti-depressant belonging to a class of medicines known as serotonin and noradrenaline reuptak
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Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist Shortage Examined In New JAACAP Study
A new study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry shows that poor youth and children and adolescents living in rural areas are hardest impacted by the national shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists. Christopher
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Who Are We Up Against? Local Vs. Global Competition Influences Cooperative Behavior In Humans
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have shown that humans behave less cooperatively when they think they are in direct "local" competition with each other, and more cooperatively under circumstances of "global"-scale competition. The findings ho
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Do Angry Men Get Noticed?
By comparing how quickly human facial expressions of different types are detected in a crowd of neutral faces, researchers have demonstrated that male angry faces are a priority for visual processing - particularly for male observers. The findings are rep
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Intermittent Explosive Disorder Affects Up To 16 Million Americans
A little-known mental disorder marked by episodes of unwarranted anger is more common than previously thought, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has found. Depending upon how broadly it'
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Number Of Children And Teens Treated With Antipsychotics Increases Sharply
A steadily increasing number of patients younger than age 20 received prescriptions for antipsychotic medications between 1993 and 2002, according to a report published in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals
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Negative Body Image Related To Depression, Anxiety And Suicidality
Adolescents with negative body image concerns are more likely to be depressed, anxious, and suicidal than those without intense dissatisfaction over their appearance, even when compared to adolescents with other psychiatric illnesses, according to a new s
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First Whole-genome Scan For Links To OCD Reveals Evidence For Genetic Susceptibility
A federally funded team of researchers including several from Johns Hopkins have identified six regions of the human genome that might play a role in susceptibility to obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD. The study was published online June 6 in Molecul
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The Mystery Behind Love-Hate Relationships
People who see their relationships as either all good or all bad tend to have low self-esteem, according to a series of seven studies by Yale researchers published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In two of the studies participants wer
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Boys With ADHD Calm Down With Dance Therapy
Dance therapy can be a successful method for reaching children and adolescents with problems. This has been shown in a research project at Karlstad University and the University College of Dance in Stockholm, Sweden. Hyperactive and unruly boys with ADHD
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First Whole-genome Scan For Links To OCD Reveals Evidence For Genetic Susceptibility
A federally funded team of researchers including several from Johns Hopkins have identified six regions of the human genome that might play a role in susceptibility to obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD. The study was published online in June in Molecu
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The Mystery Behind Love-hate Relationships
People who see their relationships as either all good or all bad tend to have low self-esteem, according to a series of seven studies by Yale researchers published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In two of the studies participants wer
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Men Infer Sexual Interest Before Women Do
In the latest issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly, researchers find that men rate themselves and the women they just interacted with higher on sexual traits, such as flirtatiousness, than women rate men. The authors find that after a five-minute conver
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The Youth: Changing Values
Transformations in conditions of life are undoubtedly reflected in changes of a person's value system. Psychologists are particularly interested in changes of youth's vital values, since youth is the most sensitive and mobile part of the society. In Russi
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Psychiatrists Increasingly Use Telemedicine To Reach Patients In Rural Areas
The New York Times on Thursday examined how telemedicine is increasingly being used by psychiatrists to treat rural patients. Eighteen states now pay for telemedicine under their Medicaid programs, at least eight specifically include psychiatric treatment
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