Thousands of World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers were still suffering serious mental health effects three years after the disaster, the Health Department reported today. New findings released from the World Trade Center Health Registry show that one in eight rescue and recovery workers (12.4%) likely had post-traumatic stress disorder when they were [...]
A brain circuit that underlies feelings of stress and anxiety shows promise as a new therapeutic target for alcoholism, according to new studies by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In preclinical and clinical studies currently reported online in Science Express, [...]
Researchers in the US found that either cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or the antidepressant sertraline (brand name Zoloft) were more effective than a placebo drug in treating a range of childhood anxiety disorders, but a combination of Zoloft and CBT worked even better.
The Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS), which took part in six separate [...]
How can pensioners with little if any computer skills successfully cope with a digital information system? According to Dutch researcher Henk Herman Nap, the design of an accessible system needs to incorporate large letter types and keys, the mother language, and a touch screen and ABCDE keyboard as input devices. Furthermore, positive feedback is important [...]
A PhD thesis defended at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has investigated the relationship between adolescents’ perception of their physical qualities and their psychological well-being and unwellness.
Self-concept may be defined as the totality of perceptions that each person has of themselves, and this self identity plays an important role in the [...]
According to a study that appears in the current issue of SCAN (Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience), researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discuss how men and women differ in their neural responses to psychological stress.
“We found that different parts of the brain activate with different spatial and temporal profiles [...]
1. ATP Receptor Involvement in Neuropathic Pain Kimiko Kobayashi, Hiroki Yamanaka, Tetsuo Fukuoka, Yi Dai, Koichi Obata, and Koichi Noguchi
Nerve injury often leads to neuropathic pain, such as thermal hyperalgesia and mechanical allodynia, a painful response to normally innocuous stimuli. Microglia are thought to play a prominent role in neuropathic pain, in part [...]
Low birth weight children may be at a greater risk of stress related health problems as adults, according to a new study accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).
Findings from this study show that low birth weight (below the 10th percentile) can lead later in life to low concentrations [...]
Five years ago today the worst terrorist attacks in our nation’s history took place – on the World Trade Center, on the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa. The impact of these attacks, however, has been felt throughout the entire country, especially with regard to mental health consequences. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) marks [...]
Patients with posttraumatic stress disorder show reduced pain sensitivity, a pattern that may be related to altered pain processing in the brain, according to a report in the January issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that may occur in individuals [...]
