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...iving itself has been associated with "compromised mental and physical health and increased risk for mortality." In these situations, both caregiver and recipients can be at risk for long-term negative outcomes. The article states that potentially harmful caregiver behavior can be an early warning sign of e...Marijuana ingredient may stall decline from Alzheimer's
...ijuana may reduce the inflammation and prevent the mental decline associated with Alzheimer's disease. "This research is not only a major step in our understanding [of] how the brain reacts to Alzheimer's disease, but may also help open a route to novel anti-Alzheimer's drugs," says Raphael Mechoulam, profe...NYU Child Study Center receives grant from the American Red Cross September 11 recovery program
...ield Foundation recognized the need to address the mental health needs of the children bereaved by the loss ...y in children is strongly associated with maternal mental health problems. This September 11 recovery grant from the American Red Cross Liberty Disaster Reli...Researcher explores ways to make hypnosis a more effective therapeutic technique
...ngs," but the more they try to push away unwelcome mental experiences, the more those experiences come back to trouble them, Lynn said. By learning to observe and accept whatever flows through their minds, "individuals can come to desensitize themselves to unsettling thoughts and feelings." Lynn and his gra...Psychiatric disorders greatly underdiagnosed in hospital emergency departments
... Caucasian physicians being more familiar with the mental disorder symptoms of Caucasians, the tendency of A... lack of psychiatric expertise, a belief that many mental disorders are relatively unimportant threats to health, and the inability to provide continuity of c...Hyperactive kids three times as likely to be removed from their families
...rents can no longer cope, than children with other mental health or behavioural problems, reveals research in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Hyperactivity is the most common neuropsychiatric disorder diagnosed in children. And around 1% of kids in the UK are thought to have the most extreme form - hyperk...Women should be advised not to drink alcohol in pregnancy
...they argue, including hyperactivity, problems with mental organisation, and difficulties in understanding the consequences of one's behaviour. Symptoms may also overlap with conditions such as autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Previously the syndrome was thought to be caused by mo...Unemployed women at higher risk for cardiovascular disease
...in and stroke. They also faced a deterioration of mental health such as increases in stress, depression and...g at high risk for cardiovascular disease and poor mental health," she said. "We are surmising that the unemployed women have more social stress in response ...Researchers track program's success in curbing aggressive behavior
...biostatistics whose research focuses on preventing mental health problems in youth. "Their rates of criminal...ck record of improving the educational success and mental health of children and encourage wider use of these programs....Next generation body scanner launched by the University of Manchester
...rchers working in the fields of cancer, stroke and mental illness will be among the first to benefit from th...ll also benefit researchers carrying out work into mental illness and will play a major role in the University's research into schizophrenia. The scanner wil...Alcohol's damaging effects on adolescent brain function
... The symposium concluded that many serious adult mental disorders have their onset during childhood, and are risk factors for heavy alcohol involvement, especially attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and bipolar spectrum disorders. The nature and extent of alcohol'...Hypothyroidism associated with reduced breast cancer risk
...nctions, and can slow patient functioning, causing mental and physical sluggishness. Other researchers contributing to the M. D. Anderson study include: Gabriel Hortobagyi, M.D., chairman of the Department of Breast Medical Oncology; Richard Theriault, D.O.; Therese Bevers, M.D.; Sara Strom, Ph.D.; Savitri ...Age should not be a factor in determining heart transplantation eligibility, researchers say
..., a drug or alcohol addiction, excess weight, or a mental disease, Wang said. However, Wang added that more than half of all institutions that currently offer heart transplants in North America consider age a contraindication and will not perform the surgery on patients who are 65 and older. "But our resear...Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
...nditions, including those associated with pain and mental illness, where the adaptation story many be quite different. There was no difference between the 49 patients and the 49 healthy participants in the average hour-by-hour rating of their overall mood, which on the whole tended to be on the positive si...Herbal extract as effective as commonly prescribed anti-depressant
...s asked 301 participants of both sexes from German mental health centres to take part in the trial. The two drugs were taken by the patients aged 18-70 over a six week period during 2000 -2003. At the end of the trial half (61 out of 122) of those who took St John's Wort found their symptoms in decline, wh...Elderly people cared for by spouse are at greater risk for abuse, Pitt researchers find
... is also suffering from his or her own physical or mental problems. Scott Beach, director of survey research in Pitt's University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR); Richard Schulz, professor of psychiatry and director of UCSUR; and colleagues at the University of Georgia and the University of Tex...Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
...ldren's services in England, covering youth crime, mental health, special needs provision for under-fives, neuro-rehabilitation and assessment of child development. Agencies and specialists involved included police, court workers, psychologists, social services, probationary, voluntary sector, education and...Methamphtetamine's ruinous effects on children documented in Midwest study
...udy found. "These kids are at a very high risk for mental health and substance-abuse disorders, and yet we have very little descriptive information about their psychological development and well-being," said Wendy Haight, the Illinois social work professor who is leading the research. Despite the spread of ...Yale opens Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) in India
...al factors related to HIV secondary prevention and mental health in India. The training will be used to desi...vention for promoting HIV secondary prevention and mental health among serodiscordant couples (HIVpositive males and uninfected wives) in India....University of Washington joins new Autism Treatment Network to provide better medical services
...g, but many children with autism have some form of mental retardation. "For other developmental disorder, such as Down syndrome, physicians are alerted to the kinds of medical conditions that these children suffer and have guidelines for treating them, but there is nothing like this yet for autism," said D...