Coping behaviors linked to female chromosome
...ffecting Children and Adolescents and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Joseph Takahashi, professor of neurobiology and physiology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, collaborated on the study. Coping stra...Sleep apnea, depression linked in Stanford study
... disorder," said Ohayon, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. His study appears in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. These disorders include such breathing anomalies as chronic, disruptive snoring and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, a disorder in which people st...Gender differences in brain response to pain
...hor Dr. Bruce Naliboff, UCLA clinical professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, and co-director of CNS. According to Naliboff, these gender differences in brain responses to pain may have evolved as part of a more general difference in stress responses between men and women. Men's cognitive areas may...Drug improves brain structure in Alzheimer's patients
...an, M.D., lead author of the study and chairman of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. "We discovered that, among the patients taking donepezil, levels of a brain chemical called N-acetylaspartate increased and the hippocampus deteriorated more slowly than among the patients who received a placebo. Th...Will stop-smoking patch help slow memory loss?
...s disease," said Paul Newhouse, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and research director of The Memory Center at Fletcher Allen Health Care. Funded by a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, th...Common drug, given promptly, reduces incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder, small study finds
... VA Medical Center and professor and vice chair of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. "The study is based on the new theory that PTSD is most likely to occur in patients who experience a particularly severe and prolonged response to trauma. If this model proves accurate after five or ten rep...New drug proves helpful for treating long-term insomnia
...M.D., lead study author and associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Sleep Research Laboratory and Insomnia Clinic at Duke. "It greatly extends the period of time that a medication has been definitively shown to help people suffering from insomnia and it establishes that studies of longer-term drug...Cognitive impairment worse than expected in seniors, says University of Pittsburgh study
...teven T. DeKosky, M.D., professor of neurology and psychiatry and director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and James T. Becker, M.D., professor of psychiatry, neurology and psychology....Mild depression breeds prolonged inflammation in caregivers
...ter, explained Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, professor of psychiatry and psychology at Ohio State University. From this work, we get a clear picture of how the body responds differently depending on whether a person is even mildly depressed or not. The researchers looked at a group of 47 people who were either current...Study finds few substance abuse treatment programs for elders
...rably," said Stephan Arndt, Ph.D., UI professor of psychiatry and study author. Arndt also conducted a 2002 stud...s." Susan Schultz, M.D., UI associate professor of psychiatry and a staff physician with the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Jill Liesveld, M.D., U...Stages of memory described in new study
...first author, Matthew Walker, Ph.D., instructor of psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. "Once the file has been created, if you don't hit the 'save' button before shutting off the computer it will be lost. Our new research helps explain the process in our brains that en...Post-stroke treatment with antidepressants appears to reduce death rate
...aid Ricardo Jorge, M.D., UI assistant professor of psychiatry and the study's co-investigator. "The study implications are impressive because they indicate patients with stroke may benefit from prevention strategies that use antidepressants to improve recovery and also reduce mortality," Jorge said. "The findin...High blood pressure is a factor in some 'senior moments'
...ard Jennings, Ph.D., study author and professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Since memory does "lose its edge" as a person ages, Jennings said that one way to look at high blood pressure is to think of it as adding a few years to mental age. "For several years, r...Anticonvulsant drug promising therapy for cocaine abuse
...Dr. Jonathan Brodie, the Marvin Stern professor of psychiatry at NYU and lead author of the study. "All eight of these subjects have remained clean for at least another 4 weeks despite no longer being on GVG and have indicated that craving has not returned," he adds. "Hence, they have all been drug free for a m...NIMH funds $1.98 million study of advance directives for patients with mental illnesses
... Jeffrey Swanson, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke and principal inve... Marvin Swartz, M.D., head of social and community psychiatry at Duke and the study's co-principal investigator. "Advance directives are being seen as a possible ...Alcohol may compound its damaging effects through frontocerebellar circuitry
...d Edith Sullivan, a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and the sole author of the study. "Other neuroscience research provides evidence that, despite their geographical distance in the brain, the prefrontal cortex, which is at the frontal...Chronic drinking increases cortisol during intoxication and withdrawal
...noff, Distinguished Professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, medical director of the Substance Abuse Team at the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System in Dallas, and first author of the study. "In this study, we show that even persons...Video game used for study of human navigation
...Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. "Damage to these groups of cells can cause people to lose their ability to negotiate their environment and remember new surroundings." "The success of this project is also an important il...Early nicotine use may lead to lasting addiction, study finds
...brain," said Edward Levin, Ph.D., professor in the psychiatry and behavioral sciences department at Duke University Medical Center and a researcher at Duke's Nicotine Research Center. The study was supported by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health. Most to...... for worse," says Metzl, an assistant professor of psychiatry and director of the Program in Culture, Health and Medicine at the U-M Medical School and a member of the Women's Studies Program. "Stereotypes are, of course, often based in lived experience," he continues. "But at the same time, many articles impl...