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? Helping children face their fears may be more productive than focusing on other techniques to help them manage their anxieties, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Amer...

Patients suffering from psychosis are at elevated risk of suicide, with at least 20% of making a suicide attempt in their lifetime. factors associated with suicidality in early psychosis include depression, hopelessness and negative psychotic symptoms. In this study, researchers examined the rates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in all patients diagnosed with first episode psychosis in a defined catchment area over a 2-year period.

This study investigates the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) in relation to demographic, illness and methodological factors using a systematic review of published studies of DUP and available DUP distributions. The results showed that DUP is shorter in samples that include patients with affective-psychosses, and longer in samples with a greater proportion of patients with schizophrenia.

Impulsiveness can be a common feature of mania, particularly the inability to inhibit behavioral responses. This neuroimaging study examined bipolar patients during their first episode of mania to clarify the brain functioning associated with response inhibition in this early phase of illness. 16 first-episode bipolar patients and 16 healthy subjects were underwent functional MRI scanning (fMRI) while performing a response inhibition task.

A new study in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy explored how men and women perceive online and offline sexual and emotional infidelity. Results show that men felt sexual infidelity was more upsetting and women felt emotional infidelity was more upsetting. Monica T. Whitty and Laura-Lee Quigley of Queen's University Belfast surveyed 112 undergraduate students and asked them questions about sexual and emotional infidelity both offline and on the internet.

0 posts An epidemiological study performed in Spain discloses a relationship between high blood pressure and depression in the elderly in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. A posi...

Moving Moods, a free wellness fair with demonstrations and participation, will be presented by the Sullivan University Wellness Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the university's Louisville Ma...

Washington, Oct 30 : A new study has suggested that kids who are breastfed are less likely to suffer from behavioral or mental health issues than those who are not nursed.

0 posts A new report released today by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found evidence that people treated for depression in primary care clinics that provide coordinated services for m...

Are human beings "blank slates" that are molded by the cultures into which they are born? Or are our values and predispositions genetically based, shaped solely by evolution? The controversy around evolution and human behaviour has been a hot topic of scientific research since Charles Darwin reframed the debate about the origin of our species 150 years ago. On Nov. 6, McGill University will host the fourth annual Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium.