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Three psychiatrists were honored with leadership awards at the AMA’s National Advocacy Conference Day in Washington, D.C., last month. Vice Adm. John Mateczun (left) was one of nine recipients of the AMA’s Nathan Davis Award for Government Service. Jerry Halverson,
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Sometimes the brain is idling, sometimes it’s roaring down the neural highway. Shifting from one mode to the other may differentiate people with PTSD from their healthy peers. The most familiar analogy to the brain is usually the computer, but
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People with narcolepsy are highly susceptible to social anxiety and panic attacks, but the types of treatment that might best counter their anxiety have yet to be identified. People who have narcolepsy may experience social anxiety or panic attacks, a
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Many of us are familiar with postpartum depression (PPD), due in large measure to high-profile survivors – such as New Jersey’s former First Lady Mary Jo Codey and actress Brooke Shields – who spoke out with courage and conviction about
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What Chocolate Has to Do With Depression Feeling depressed might put you in the mood for chocolate, a new study suggests. Of nearly 1,000 adults studied, those diagnosed with depression ate an average of 8.4 servings of chocolate per month
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Have you ever noticed that people who are nervous and/or depressive often seem to smoke? This might not be a coincidence since there is scientific research that shows that there is definitely a correlation between smoking and anxiety disorders .
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People who are depressed eat more chocolate than people who are not, U.S. researchers said on Monday, in a study that puts numbers behind the link between mood and chocolate. They said people who were depressed ate an average of
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Cocaine toxicity due to drug overdose results in more than half a million emergency room visits annually. Despite these alarming statistics, there is no Food and Drug Administration-approved pharmacotherapy specifically designed to treat cocaine toxicity. Emergency medical personnel are limited
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There has been an explosion of new information on the issues and challenges facing children with autism and their families in the past ten years. However, most coverage ignores the fact that these children grow up. A special issue of
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For those suffering from borderline personality disorder, friends and a job may be harder to secure than symptom relief, according to a new study. “There’s been this idea that if people had fewer symptoms of the disorder, then they would
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Might gossip magazines soon start featuring tales of TV and Hollywood personalities going into “tanning rehab”? A new report claims indoor tanning – already linked by studies to cancer and faster skin aging – may also be addictive. And while
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A new study from the Journal of Marital & Family Therapy warns of the dramatic rise in the use of psychotropic medications for children. One in every fifty Americans is now considered permanently disabled by mental illness, and up to
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