Increasing ghrelin levels during hunger can negatively affect decision making...
Never make a decision when you are hungry. The hormone ghrelin - that is released before meals and known to increase appetite - has a negative effect on both decision making and impulse control. Such...
View ArticleStudy shows women, young individuals under age 35 more likely to experience...
Women are almost twice as likely to experience anxiety as men, according to a review of existing scientific literature, led by the University of Cambridge. The study also found that people from Western...
View ArticleParkinson's disease medications could lead to impulse control disorders
Drugs commonly prescribed to treat Parkinson's disease have been linked to impulse control disorders such as pathological gambling, compulsive buying, hypersexuality and binge eating in some patients,...
View ArticleMajority youths with autism or intellectual disability receive...
About one in ten youths treated with an antipsychotic are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or intellectual disability. Conversely, one in six youths diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder has...
View ArticleScientists use optogenetics technique to increase memory in mice brain
Raül Andero Galí, one of the heads of the "Neurobiology of Stress and Addiction" research group at the Institut de Neurociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and researcher at Harvard...
View ArticleLower attention ability in early adolescence linked to increased genetic risk...
University of Texas at Arlington researchers have found that low attention control in early adolescence is related to a genetic risk factor for four different anxiety disorders. Young teens who suffer...
View ArticleDuke University study provides new mechanistic understanding of OCD
A single chemical receptor in the brain is responsible for a range of symptoms in mice that are reminiscent of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to a Duke University study that appears...
View ArticleRisk of suicide among OCD patients much higher than previously thought
Patients with OCD are 10 times more likely to commit suicide, contrary to what was previously thought. In a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, is also...
View ArticleScientists detect common brain impairments in children with ASD, ADHD and OCD
A team of Toronto scientists has found similarities in brain impairments in children with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
View ArticlePriory Group opens Wellbeing Centre in Greater Manchester to help young...
The Priory Group, the leading provider of mental healthcare in the UK, most commonly known for treating celebrities with addictions, has opened its first Wellbeing Centre in Cheadle, Great Manchester.
View ArticleResearchers identify process in the brains of mice that may explain...
Three-year-old Naomi slaps her forehead a few times, bites her fingers and toddles across the doctor's office in her white and pink pajamas before turning her head into a door with a dull thud.
View ArticleUAB investigators receive BRAIN Initiative award to study new DBS technology...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received a BRAIN Initiative grant of $7.3 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to study new technology that could improve outcomes...
View ArticleMaternal smoking linked to increased risk for Tourette syndrome and tic...
A study published in the September 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found an association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and an increased...
View ArticleResearchers find common brain abnormalities shared across multiple emotional...
Researchers have long known that emotional disorders have a lot in common. Many often occur together, like depression and social anxiety disorder. Treatments also tend to work across multiple...
View ArticleScientists reveal molecular elements that bridge anxiety and metabolism
Metabolic and anxiety-related disorders both pose a significant healthcare burden, and are in the spotlight of contemporary research and therapeutic efforts. Although intuitively we assume that these...
View ArticleNew program at Seattle Children's Hospital helps kids find freedom from OCD
Since Eva Tomassini was 4 years old, she remembers her life being controlled by rules. Not from her parents, or school, but rules she created in her head, like having to arrange things in a certain way...
View ArticleResearchers develop mouse model to investigate behavioral effects of eating...
Giving mice a gene mutation linked to eating disorders in people causes feeding and behavior abnormalities similar to symptoms often seen in patients with eating disorders. Only female mice are...
View ArticleHigh resting heart rate and blood pressure predict increased risk for later...
A high resting heart rate and blood pressure in youth predict an increased susceptibility for anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder later in life, reveals an extensive...
View ArticleNeuroimaging markers may help predict psychotherapy response in patients with...
Brain imaging scans may one day provide useful information on the response to psychotherapy in patients with depression or anxiety, according to a review of current research in the November/December...
View ArticleTreating anxiety disorders in children with CBT
“Anxiety disorders” refers to a broad range of psychiatric conditions, where people are anxious. It covers things like obsessive-compulsive disorder, general anxiety disorder and phobic disorder....
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