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In the first study in the Arab world to document mental illness and treatment on a national level, researchers from Lebanon have described the prevalence of mental disorders and their relation to exposure to war. Elie Karam and colleagues, who
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A team of researchers at the University of Washington and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories has uncovered genetic errors that may shed light on the causes of schizophrenia. The scientists found that deletions and duplications of DNA are more common in
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Reports of sudden deaths, strokes, heart attacks and hypertension in both children and adults taking drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are spurring new government study into the medications’ safety. Sales of drugs to treat ADHD have increased sharply
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Experts say about 8 percent of the general population will suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. The number gets much higher in the veteran population. How a person handles trauma – ranging from street crime to child abuse – may
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Will King was an Army infantryman in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. After 13 years and two wars, he was honorably discharged in 2003 for having asthma. However, other problems would soon surface. Prior to his
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Postnatal depression affects an estimated one in five New Zealand woman, writes The Marlborough Express in an editorial. Figures like that can be nebulous, but often taking a look around your own office or factory floor and working out how
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Changes in the location of a single protein in the brain could be used to tell whether a person with depression is responding to an antidepressant within days of taking the drug, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. People with depression
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Patients with social anxiety disorder who are seen in clinical practice commonly have additional psychiatric comorbidity, including alcohol use disorders. The first line treatment for social anxiety disorder is selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitors (SSRIs), such as paroxetine. However, the efficacy of SSRIs has
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Our objective was to assess the prevalence of panic disorder, its influence on quality of life (QoL), and the presence of further anxiety and depressive comorbid disorders in outpatients with chronic heart failure (CHF). In a cross-sectional study, anxiety and
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Jockeys are at risk of eating disorders and feeling depressed when trying to slim down for races, researchers have said. Fasting, excessive use of saunas and taking laxatives are all methods of keeping weight down, they said. Experts at Brunel
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Background: Studies have suggested that mood status is associated with an increased risk of stroke, though mostly based on measures of depression defined by symptoms alone rather than diagnostic criteria representative of clinically important distress and impairment. We investigated this
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Teenage mothers who suffer from depression are more likely to get pregnant again than their non-depressed counterparts, according to research published today. “Depression may be an important malleable risk factor” for subsequent pregnancy in teenage girls, Dr. Beth Barnet and
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