Gambling among adolescents and young adults associated with psychiatric problems
...more likely than nongamblers to have substance use disorders and psychiatric problems, according to an article in the November issue of The Archives of General Psychiatry , one of the JAMA/Archives journals. According to the article, approximately 68 percent of the U.S. adult population gambled legally in the...Majority of cigarettes in the US smoked by nicotine-dependent or psychiatrically ill persons
...d higher smoking rates in persons with psychiatric disorders than those without. Bridget F. Grant, Ph.D., Ph.D...e dependence, alcohol and drug use disorders, mood disorders (e.g. depression, mania), anxiety disorders (e.g. social phobia, generalized anxiety), and personali...Nicotine dependence & psychiatric disorders
Adults with nicotine dependence and/or psychiatric disorders consume 70 percent of all cigarettes smoked in the... dependence and a broad array of other psychiatric disorders including alcohol and drug abuse and dependence, mood and anxiety disorders, and personality disorde...Psychotherapy, meds best for youth with obsessive compulsive disorder
...tion was superior. This underscores that different disorders in adolescents respond to different treatments," noted NIMH Director Thomas Insel, M.D. "We believe that the results of this study will contribute to the appreciation by non-physician mental health clinicians of the strengths and limitations of phar...Journal of Alzheimer's disease to publish ISOA Catalyst Conference
...phic Lateral Sclerosis and other neurodegenerative disorders was highlighted by 15 contributions addressing potential therapies and treatments for these devastating illnesses. Writing in the lead article, Lorenzo M. Refolo, Ph.D., scientific director of ISOA, and Howard M. Fillit, M.D., executive director of I...FDA approves Fosrenol(R) in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients
...n suffer serious health complications such as bone disorders and life-threatening heart and circulation problems. Final launch preparations begin immediately and we anticipate that U.S. physicians will be able to prescribe FOSRENOL to their patients from the end of the year."...Marijuana-like compounds may aid array of debiliating conditions ranging from Parkinson's to pain
...evy of debilitating conditions, ranging from brain disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson's disease, to pain and obesity. The new research was presented at the 34th Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego. In past studies, researchers determined that the main active ch...Sleep disorders often indicate multiple health conditions
...cated that 28 patients suffered from neuromuscular disorders and mood and anxiety disorders. Ten patients suffered from primary neuromuscular disorders, such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, or multiple sclerosis; 14 patients suffered from a primary psychological disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder...New hope for ALS seen with genetic techniques, growth factors
...rk opens a therapeutic avenue to neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson's or Huntington's disease," says Aebischer. In another study, Erik Storkebaum and Diether Lambrechts, PhD--working in the laboratory of Peter Carmeliet, MD, PhD, at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium--rescued the motor ...Gender and sex hormones affect the brain's pain response and more, according to new studies
...the gender difference in depression and other mood disorders is not entirely clear," says Steiner, "but the dif...en who develop hormone-related depression and mood disorders have a genetic predisposition to them, Steiner adds. Further research is needed, he says, to identif...Promise of stem cells amplified
...d Huntington's disease. Both diseases are movement disorders that specifically kill off neurons that use the neurotransmitter dopamine. "Replacement of dopamine neurons using embryonic stem cells has long been the holy grail," says Clive N. Svendsen, PhD. "But stem cell transplantation can introduce serious pr...Mothers have brains primed for care
... are chronic and incurable. "I believe that these disorders can be improved or even reversed by the body's natural peptide systems, through family therapy that restores effective maternal nurturing and/or through combined peptide therapy that enhances the mechanisms of maternal nurturing," Welch says....Parkinson's patients get bilateral benefits with unilateral brain stim
...ith advanced Parkinson's disease or other movement disorders to help control their symptoms. Now, researchers have discovered that surgically implanting electrical stimulators on just one side of a patient's brain could help alleviate symptoms on both sides of the body, potentially cutting the surgery risk for...UIC team develops new screening tool for pediatric bipolar disorder
... says Dr. Pavuluri, director of the pediatric mood disorders clinic at UIC and principal investigator of the st...lly. For more information about the pediatric mood disorders clinic at UIC, visit www.psych.uic.edu/pmdc...Laughter helps patients communicate emotion in therapy sessions
...ing treated for common outpatient mood and anxiety disorders in previously established patient-therapist relationships. Participating therapists practiced psychodynamic therapy, an approach that uses the therapeutic relationship to help patients develop insight into their emotions. Throughout the therapy...Gastric bypass and stomach-stapling patients should recognize risk of nerve injury post-surgery
...later developed peripheral neuropathy. Three nerve disorders were identified in the study patients: 1) sensory predominant neuropathy, marked by pain and/or sensory loss, usually in the feet, 2) mononeuropathy, involving individual nerves, as in carpal tunnel syndrome, and 3) radiculoplexus neuropathy, marked ...Exercise prevents Parkinson's symptoms in lab model mimicking human form of the disease
...rotection against stroke, seizures and other brain disorders that are also caused by free radical damage. Although GDNF is found only in the brain, previous research by others has found that exercise somehow protects the heart from free radical damage. "So exercise, one way or the oth...U. Va. researchers unravel a central mystery of how hearing happens
...ent of new gene therapies for deafness and balance disorders in the next five to ten years," Holt said. "Essentially, if we could take a correct copy of the gene and reintroduce it into the cells of the inner ear, we might be able to restore hearing and balance function in people with hereditary inner ear diso...Surgical treatment for obesity appears effective for weight loss and related disorders
...rative mortality outcome, and four obesity related disorders (diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea). The bariatric surgery procedures included gastric banding, gastric bypass, gastroplasty, biliopancreatic diversion or duodenal (part of small intestine) switch, and others (such as...MRI shows brain changes underlying language deficits in autism
... a single disorder, and more a grouping of related disorders with overlapping symptoms. "It is well-known that ... treat people with debilitating neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and SLI."...