Brookhaven lab scientist wins Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
...PET centers to diagnose and study neurological and psychiatric diseases, to aid in the treatment of heart disease, and to diagnose cancer. In addiction studies at Brookhaven, Fowler was the first to show the binding sites of cocaine in the human brain. Fowler has also developed radiotracers for mapping the enzym...Parenting News: More than one hour of TV a day may lead to violence, Science study suggests
...such as childhood neglect, low family income, or a psychiatric disorder during adolescence. The youths in the study and their mothers were interviewed four times over the course of 18 years and assigned to three categories: those who watched less than one hour of television per day, between one and three hours ...NIMH awards new grants in response to terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
...increased activity in stress hormones, symptoms of psychiatric disability, and physical growth. Charles Marmar, M.D., at San Francisco VA Medical Center, to compare the effects of brief cognitive behavioral therapy to the usual treatment for New York City disaster relief workers with full or sub-threshold PTSD...HIV/AIDS education for women in jail could reduce epidemic nationally
.... The study, which was part of a larger study of psychiatric disorders among female jail detainees and funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, examined the sexual and injection drug use HIV and AIDS risk behaviors of 950 women in the Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago. According to Mc...Senior citizen drinking problems labeled invisible epidemic
... Twenty percent of the elderly who are admitted to psychiatric wards show symptoms of alcoholism or substance abuse. By some estimates, alcoholism today rivals heart attacks as a killer of senior citizens. A growing type of abuser is the late-onset alcoholic, according to author Susan Abrams, a UI law graduate ...Placebo, antidepressant may lift depression via common mechanism
...the supportive, therapeutic milieu of an inpatient psychiatric ward. PET scans traced the destination of a radioactive form of glucose - the brain's fuel - to detect brain activity patterns. After 6 weeks, brains of men who responded to either treatment showed "remarkable concordance:" Activity increased in pre...Venlafaxine significantly effective for children and teens with generalized anxiety disorder
...g Scale-Revised (CDRS-R). Moreover, no concurrent psychiatric disorders were allowed except simple phobia, as confirmed by KIDDIE-SADS-PL. Khans co-authors are Nadia R. Kunz, Pharm.D., Elizabeth Nicolacopoulos, B.S.N., Lisa Jenkins, Ph.D., Paul P. Yeung, M.D., M.PH., of Wyeth Research, Collegeville, Pa., which ...Value of community treatment orders in doubt
Researchers matched 228 psychiatric patients placed on a community treatment order wit...on to the need to provide appropriate services for psychiatric patients within limited resources, say the authors. It is important to examine what role such orders...Study: Cognitive therapy at least as effective as drugs in treating severe depression
...versity, undercut opinions now held by many in the psychiatric profession. Principal investigators Robert J. DeRu...ll be a surprising, controversial finding for many psychiatric professionals," said DeRubeis, professor and chair of psychology at Penn. "Most believe quite stron...Hazing underrecognized as cause of serious injury, says MGH physician
...idence; explain legal options and offer social and psychiatric services; and help patients make reports to law enforcement agencies. "There are important risk factors to watch out for, such as the patient's age, participation in athletic or military activities, and involvement of alcohol use," says Finkel. "But...UNC studies add new dimension to 'lock-and-key' theory of drug action
...cal playing a key role in several neurological and psychiatric diseases including Parkinsons disease, schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder, he said. The companion papers appear in the June 1 issue of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, which is published by the American Society of ...Clinical symptoms may aid early diagnosis of variant CJD
... provides a comprehensive description of the early psychiatric and neurological features of variant Creutzfeldt-J...variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are dominated by psychiatric symptoms, such as dysphoria, withdrawal, anxiety, and insomnia. A significant proportion of patients...Venlafaxine XR, first SNRI studied for social anxiety disorder
...l phobic patients." SAD is the third most common psychiatric disorder in the United States, occurring in approx...o 80 percent of all social phobics have coexisting psychiatric conditions. In particular, SAD patients have a 40 to 50 percent lifetime prevalence of coexisting m...Traditional healing may relieve symptoms of mental illness
...the day they left to return home, using recognised psychiatric rating scale scores. Family caregivers were also a...The researchers found a reduction of nearly 20% in psychiatric rating scale scores, representing a level of clinical improvement that matches that achieved by many...Schizophrenia may be caused by an interaction of genes and viruses in glia cells
... new hypothesis that may explain the causes of the psychiatric disease, schizophrenia. The hypothesis hinges on g...schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severe disabling psychiatric disease, which affects approximately 1 percent of the population. People with schizophrenia often su...Researchers identify brain pathway to explain how Fenfluramine causes weight loss
...t have long been thought to be involved in several psychiatric disorders." Finally, he notes, coupled with recent data from Cone's group at the Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, "An intriguing possibility emerges that the central melanocortin system is also involved in eating disorders includ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for July (second issue)
...ere free of heart and pulmonary disease, diabetes, psychiatric disorder, alcohol dependency, or malignancy at the study's start in 1991. They were investigated over a seven-year period. (In sleep apnea, a person repeatedly stops breathing during sleep long enough to decrease the amount of oxygen in the blood a...Demystifying irritable bowel syndrome
...ing that we cannot adequately explain, or probable psychiatric disease. We prefer to judge the disorder to be a discrete collection of organic bowel diseases, with characteristic morphological, psychological, and physiological changes now only being fully appreciated. We believe that such a view will benefit res...'Jolly fat' hypothesis doesnt carry weight
...tment." By this, Roberts says, they mean "whether psychiatric problems such as depression increase the risk of becoming obese and, in turn, whether becoming obese increases the risk of becoming depressed."...Emory researcher claims stress-induced changes in brain can create psychiatric disorders
...-induced changes in the brain may account for some psychiatric disorders, including Post-traumatic Stress Disorde...rture from the widely held view in psychiatry that psychiatric disorders are completely different from one another, and have different causes. The idea of trauma...