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More than 140,000 dementia patients in Britain are given anti-psychotic drugs needlessly and overprescribing of the medicines is linked to an extra 1,800 deaths in elderly people each year, a report said on Thursday. The government-backed review showed that only
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We are the parents of two children with what are often termed “invisible disabilities.” Invisible disabilities can include learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders and Asperger’s syndrome, Tourette’s syndrome and other tic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other anxiety disorders, mood disorders
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About a year and a half ago, just before I started my third year at Queen’s, my life changed dramatically. The black cloud of major depressive disorder spread over my life, so slowly and insidiously that I was unaware of
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It’s a common complaint in any communication breakdown: “It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it.” For professor Sandy Pentland and his group at MIT’s Media Lab, the tone and pitch of a person’s voice, the length and
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Recent discoveries made by Dr M. Belle and Professor H. Piggins of the Faculty of Life Sciences have revolutionised the decades-old theory on how scientists interpret the internal setting of the body’s natural clock, the circadian rhythm. Their research is
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I don’t think anyone should be surprised the answer is no. As per the United States Army’s regulation 40-501, the Standards of Medical Fitness, mental illnesses are disqualifying. Section 2-27 Learning, Psychiatric and Behavior Disorders provides an extensive list of
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Your head says it’s time to lose a few pounds, but your hand reaches for another cookie. Why is it that even when we want to be good, we end up being so bad? It’s a question that nags at
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Biofield therapies, which claim to use subtle energy to stimulate the body’s healing process, are promising complementary interventions for reducing the intensity of pain in a number of conditions, reducing anxiety for hospitalized patients and reducing agitated behaviors in dementia,
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Illinois nursing home patients often receive psychotropic drugs without cause, which poses various health dangers and even death, the Chicago Tribune reports as part of its Compromised Care series. “Frail and vulnerable residents of nursing homes throughout Illinois are being
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A group of investigators of the University of Bologna suggest a new way of approaching emotional disturbances in children by improving their psychological well-being. The study is published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. Anxiety, mood disorders and
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It has been known for several years that antipsychotic medications can cause weight gain in adults and increase the risk for serious metabolic disorders. Scientists at The Zucker Hillside Hospital and The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research embarked on a
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There are increasingly precise molecular insights into ways that stress exposure leads to fear and through which fear extinction resolves these fear states. Extinction is generally regarded as new inhibitory learning, but where the inhibition originates from remains to be
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