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Coming out about mental health on social media

Susanna Harris was sitting in her lab class for her graduate program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she received an email that told her she had failed what she describes as "the most important exam in grad school," the doctoral qualifying exam. She took the rest of the day off, went home and baked cookies.

26 Aug 2019

Addiction clinics market pricey, unproven treatments to desperate patients

Jason was hallucinating. He was withdrawing from drugs at an addiction treatment center near Indianapolis, and he had hardly slept for several days.

23 Aug 2019

Animal-assisted interventions help reduce patient stress in aeromedical staging facilities

They're physically and emotionally wounded – most likely suffering from post-traumatic stress. Members of the United States military who serve abroad often return to the U.S. to treat their injuries and must be transported by aeromedical evacuation between medical facilities.

23 Aug 2019

Psychiatric disorders are prevalent among adults and kids with kidney failure

New research indicates that psychiatric illnesses are common in children and adults with kidney failure, and hospitalizations for such illnesses are associated with a higher risk of early death in adults.

22 Aug 2019

Anxiety, depression associated with increased opioid use following surgery

Surgeons wielding their life-saving scalpels, laparoscopic tools, or other implements to repair or remove what ails their patients understand all too well that pain is an unavoidable part of the healing process. Yet the current opioid crisis has made the standard prescribing practices for these highly effective analgesics fraught with risk.

22 Aug 2019

Improvement of PTSD symptoms linked to reduced type 2 diabetes risk

Traumatic experiences may affect a person in different ways. In some, these traumatic events may not pose a negative impact, but for others, they develop a mental health condition often triggered by a terrifying event – post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

22 Aug 2019

Swallowable balloon device for early detection of Barrett's esophagus receives FDA 510K clearance

Investigators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center developed the test for early detection of Barrett's esophagus that offers promise for preventing deaths from esophageal adenocarcinoma.

21 Aug 2019

MDMA, or ecstasy, shows promise as a PTSD treatment

The first time Lori Tipton tried MDMA, she was skeptical it would make a difference.

21 Aug 2019

Integrated approach unifies psychology and neurophysiology of chronic pain

An integrated approach that unifies psychosocial factors with neurobiology sheds light on chronic pain traits and their underlying brain networks, according to a study published August 20 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by A. Vania Apkarian of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and colleagues.

From PLOS ONE 21 Aug 2019

Alzheimer's drug reverses brain damage in rats exposed to alcohol during adolescence

A drug used to slow cognitive decline in adults with Alzheimer's disease appears to reverse brain inflammation and neuron damage in rats exposed to alcohol during adolescence.

20 Aug 2019

Traumatic childhood experiences change perception of social stimuli in adulthood

People with maltreatment experiences in their childhood have a changed perception of social stimuli later as adults. This is what scientists from the Division of Medical Psychology at the University of Bonn have discovered.

19 Aug 2019

Stress inhibits eating behavior

Many human beings can’t swallow a thing when faced with significant stress, among other strong emotional states. However, scientists don’t know much about how the brain brings about these emotion-related effects on eating behavior.

19 Aug 2019

Researchers find biological system that manages cells' response to opioid drug exposure

A team at Scripps Research in Florida has discovered a biological system that manages cells' response to opioid drug exposure. The unexpected discovery offers new ideas for improving the safety of the one of the most effective, and most abused, group of pain medications.

19 Aug 2019

Researchers discover how stress can decrease the desire to eat

Eating disorder researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have discovered a neurocircuit in mice that, when activated, increased their stress levels while decreasing their desire to eat. Findings appear in Nature Communications.

18 Aug 2019

Transgender college students more likely to experience mental health problems than their peers

The largest and most comprehensive mental health survey of college students in the US reveals that students who identify as transgender, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, and nonbinary face enormous mental health disparities relative to their peers.

18 Aug 2019

Therapeutic virtual reality can help reduce severe pain in hospitalized patients

Therapeutic virtual reality can be used to reduce severe pain in hospitalized patients, according to a study published August 14, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Brennan Spiegel of Cedars-Sinai Health System, USA, and colleagues.

From PLOS ONE 16 Aug 2019

Boosting a single brain molecule can change 'dispositional anxiety' in nonhuman primates

Boosting a single molecule in the brain can change "dispositional anxiety," the tendency to perceive many situations as threatening, in nonhuman primates, researchers from the University of California, Davis, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found.

16 Aug 2019

Anxiety News and Research

Latest Anxiety News and Research

Coming out about mental health on social media

Addiction clinics market pricey, unproven treatments to desperate patients

Animal-assisted interventions help reduce patient stress in aeromedical staging facilities

Psychiatric disorders are prevalent among adults and kids with kidney failure

Anxiety, depression associated with increased opioid use following surgery

Improvement of PTSD symptoms linked to reduced type 2 diabetes risk

Swallowable balloon device for early detection of Barrett's esophagus receives FDA 510K clearance

MDMA, or ecstasy, shows promise as a PTSD treatment

Integrated approach unifies psychology and neurophysiology of chronic pain

Alzheimer's drug reverses brain damage in rats exposed to alcohol during adolescence

Traumatic childhood experiences change perception of social stimuli in adulthood

Stress inhibits eating behavior

Researchers find biological system that manages cells' response to opioid drug exposure

Researchers discover how stress can decrease the desire to eat

Transgender college students more likely to experience mental health problems than their peers

Therapeutic virtual reality can help reduce severe pain in hospitalized patients

Boosting a single brain molecule can change 'dispositional anxiety' in nonhuman primates

Machine learning reveals links between genetic factors and behavior

New AAN guidelines includes recommendations for treatment of migraine in children, teens

Excess social media use harms teen health

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

Anxiety News and Research

Latest Anxiety News and Research

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

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