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Painkiller use in pregnancy tied to schizophrenia
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Nov 04 04
Babies exposed to painkillers during the later stages of pregnancy appear to have an increased risk of developing schizophrenia in adulthood, according to the…
Start gambling early, get a losing hand
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Nov 02 04
Teenagers who gamble are more likely than other people their age to say they also drink alcohol and take drugs, new research reports.
Young…
Smaller drug packets bring down UK suicide rate
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 29 04
Selling painkillers in smaller sized packs has slashed the number of suicides caused by overdoses in Britain by almost 25 percent, a study released…
Behavior therapy helps kids with mental disorder
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 26 04
The best initial treatment for children and teens with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is cognitive-behavior therapy - either alone or in combination with an antidepressant…
Mental health is losing out in Scotland
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 25 04
The government says it is prioritising mental health. But Richard Norris says that in Scotland less money is being spent on mental health than…
Want help? Then let me film inside psychiatric wards
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 25 04
Nearly two years ago, a high-profile strategy was launched to reduce the stigma of mental illness. The ‘see me’ campaign is funded by…
Study backs link between father’s age, schizophrenia
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 22 04
Children born to older fathers have a higher than normal risk of developing schizophrenia later in life, Swedish scientists said on Friday.
They suspect…
Testosterone shut-off doesn’t affect men’s mood
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 19 04
Testosterone levels in men decline with age, and this could have an effect on their mental well-being. However, experiments in healthy young men indicate…
Gulf War illness may never be explained - scientist
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 18 04
Veterans of the Gulf War suffer more health problems than other members of the military but the causes of the mysterious array of…
Human lie detectors almost never miss, study finds
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 15 04
As he lies, the young man shrugs, flutters his eyelids and shakes his head. Another, on a witness stand, grimaces for a millisecond as…
Personality disorders change over time
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 14 04
Experts have long believed that personality disorders - types of mental illness in which people have trouble functioning with others - were relatively inflexible,…
China says mental illness becomes major problem
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 12 04
Mental illness has become a major public health problem in China as the country modernizes and family traditions fade, Xinhua news agency said Tuesday.
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Two schizophrenia drugs tied to small diabetes risk
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 29 04
Two drugs commonly prescribed for schizophrenia - clozapine and olanzapine - may carry a small risk of an increased risk of diabetes, new research…
Playing “boy” games helps girls, and vice versa
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 26 04
Ten-year olds who spend more time engaging in activities typically associated with their gender tend to have more stereotypical academic interests, skills and characteristics…
Children of teen mothers have raised suicide risk
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 26 04
Babies of teenage mothers and infants who have a low birth weight have a higher risk of committing suicide later in life than other…
Good form can take pain out of raking leaves
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 26 04
If the job of raking the leaves falls to you, experts advise approaching it like a sport: warm up, cool down and watch your…
External factors play part in schizophrenia
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 17 04
Schizophrenia, more common in men than in women in most parts of the world, is more prevalent in women in China, suggesting several external…
Mother’s touch seen to be linked to infant feeding
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 17 04
How a mother touches, or doesn’t touch, her infant may predict the baby’s risk of developing severe feeding problems such as refusing food or…
Israeli doctors often give fake pills to patients
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 17 04
New research from a survey conducted in Israel suggests that doctors often give inactive “placebo” pills to their patients and, in most cases, tell…
Elderly gamble a little, win good health
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 16 04
Gambling good for your health? Perhaps among the elderly, according to a new report.
A phone survey revealed that elderly people who said they…
Can’t talk during exercise? Slow down
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 16 04
If you can talk while exercising, you are likely doing it right, new research indicates.
U.S. investigators found that when exercisers on a treadmill…
Americans suspicious of terror plans, survey shows
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 14 04
Most Americans would not cooperate as officials expect during a terror incident such as a smallpox or dirty bomb attack, U.S. researchers said on…
MMR vaccination not linked to autism, yet again
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 10 04
New research shows that measles-mumps-rubella vaccination does not raise the risk of pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs), such as autism.
The current report is the…
U.S. Congress passes teen suicide prevention bill
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 10 04
The U.S. Congress on Thursday easily passed a bill to help prevent teen suicide, legislation named for a senator’s son who took his own…
Alcohol abuse may follow onset of eating disorder
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 09 04
It’s known that women with eating disorders often abuse alcohol, but new research shows that it’s typically the eating disorder that arises first -…