Wouldn’t it be nice if our doctors could predict accurately whether we would respond to a particular medication? This question is important because research studies provide information about how groups of patients tend to respond to treatments, but inevitably, differences among groups of patients with the same diagnosis mean that findings about groups of patients [...]
Going through puberty at a young age might foretell problems to come, report researchers who found early puberty is associated with abnormal eating behaviors and anxiety in young adults. Results of the study were reported at the 6th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology (ICN 2006).
Researchers who study puberty say it is more than [...]
Thanks to advances in critical care medicine, patients admitted to the intensive care unit today are more likely than ever to survive their stay.
Yet outliving the physical trauma or illness that required ICU treatment often leaves long-lasting psychological scars, a new CIHR-supported review finds.
“The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms [...]
Pfizer Inc said today that the European Commission has approved Lyrica(R) (pregabalin) for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in adults. In the European Union, it is estimated that nearly 12 million patients suffer from GAD on a yearly basis yet only one-third of these patients are properly diagnosed and even fewer received effective [...]
Until recently, it was assumed that the fear memory could not be deleted. However, Klindt’s team has demonstrated that changes can indeed be effected in the emotional memory of human beings.
Storing changes
Before fear memories are stored in the long-term memory, there is a temporary labile phase. During this phase, protein [...]
The Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC) released its 2008 Think Tank report entitled, “Extreme Productivity: Are Your Employees Hitting the Wall?” This in-depth report addresses the urgent challenges faced by employers trying to maintain employees’ full engagement in their work while promoting health and wellness and reducing stress.
The topic is critical, given the severe [...]
Special skills workshops for parents of anxious young children could offer a breakthrough in addressing this difficult problem, according to psychologists at The University of Manchester.
Providing psychological treatments for children under ten with anxiety disorders is problematic for health professionals, as the approaches that are most successful with teenagers and adults are [...]
Depression, well known to reduce workplace productivity, causes significantly greater productivity declines when accompanied by common co-occurring conditions such as fatigue, sleep problems or anxiety, according to a large new study presented today at the American Psychiatric Association’s 160th Annual Meeting in San Diego.[i] The study also showed that co-occurring fatigue or sleep problems significantly [...]
PLoS ONE publishes a study showing that inhalation of carbon dioxide (CO2) triggers emotional distress and a panic response in healthy individuals. The findings of the study posit panic as an inborn survival-oriented response. The results may be relevant for a better understanding and the further prevention of emotional disorders.
It has been known [...]
People with fragile X syndrome, as well as those who carry the gene, are likely to have additional conditions that include attention problems and anxiety, according to a study by researchers at RTI International.
The study, published in the Aug. 15 issue of American Journal of Medical Genetics, surveyed more than 1,000 parents of [...]
