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Relaxation specialists, Lifehut.com, have released their latest audio/visual message for people in stressful situations, entitled "Finding Joy During Challenging Financial Times." Aimed at transforming negative emotions into positive ones, it is designed to allow people to enter an alpha state while focusing on a positive message. read more

Growth of the brain's long distance connections, called white matter, is stunted and lopsided in children who develop psychosis before puberty, NIMH researchers have discovered. The yearly growth rate of this brain tissue was up to 2.2 percent slower-than-normal in such childhood onset schizophrenia (COS). The slower the rate, the worse the outcome - suggesting that this Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) measure could someday lead to development of a biomarker that could aid treatment. read more

What: "Neuroscience 2008," the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting - Find out the latest news about the brain and its complexity from the world's top experts. Several Institute Directors and program leaders from the National Institutes of health (NIH) will be available to discuss success stories and new directions in neuroscience research during this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting.

The risk of depression is greater among Iraqi soldiers who took part in the Gulf War than among civilians. Surprisingly, on the other hand, neither of these groups showed any signs of post-traumatic stress ten years after that war-­with the exception of those Iraqis who have left Iraq. This is demonstrated in a study published in the new issue of the scientific journal New Iraqi Journal of medicine. read more