Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
...st, the traditionalists were not able to take in a behavioral perspective as they saw addiction as an innate disease; therefore external circumstances should not affect an addicted person's behavior. But those ideas are changing now, and that change is part of our story." The National Institute of Drug Addictio...Autistic children's abnormal metabolic profile findings
...markers, diagnosis currently is made entirely on a behavioral basis. Dr. James and colleagues measured plasma le...a diagnostic test for autism to support the purely behavioral diagnosis currently in use. It also would be important, she says, to determine whether the abnormal ...Study shows light therapy to effectively treat mood disorders, including SAD
...ase, jet lag, insomnia, eating disorders and other behavioral problems. A more recent light therapy approach is "dawn simulation," which attempts to simulate an earlier dawn through exposure to artificial light. This follows the theory that SAD is triggered by the reduced period of bright daylight during winter...Different antipsychotic medications may have different effects on brain volume
...ate that treatment effects on brain volume and the behavioral pathology of the illness may be associated," the authors write. "Although these results must be confirmed, they suggest that a significant difference exists between a typical antipsychotic (haloperidol) and an atypical agent (olanzapine) that is due ...Metabolic side effects of antipsychotics are known, but rarely monitored
...rst determine the drugs' impact on cognition, with behavioral tests as well as to analyze the drugs' impact on different circuitry involved in memory function. The early findings he's presenting in Savannah show a modest reduction in this circuitry with long-term use of risperidone or Risperdal. "What we are fi...Exercise, stress management show physiological benefits for heart patients
... flow-mediated dilation, patients who received the behavioral treatments displayed nearly a 25 percent improvement when compared to those patients who only received usual medical care. "To our knowledge, this is the first study to show that stress management might reduce cardiovascular risk in part through bene...Patients with heart disease can lower cardiovascular risk factors with exercise, stress management
...eived increased attention. However, the effects of behavioral interventions to reduce adverse cardiac events has...m, N.C., and colleagues compared the impact of two behavioral intervention programs, aerobic exercise and stress management training, with routine medical care on...OHSU researchers demonstrate how Alzheimer's disease impacts important brain cell function
...blished by IOS publishers. While the cognitive and behavioral impacts of Alzheimer's can be clearly witnessed in patients, the disease's cellular function and methods for disrupting thought and memory have not been well understood. By conducting this research, NSI scientists and their collaborators have demonst...Lack of vigorous activity linked to functional decline in older adults with arthritis
...nents demographic, biological, socioeconomic, and behavioral that contribute to functional decline in arthritis patients. Toward this goal, a team of researchers at Northwestern University conducted a long-term study of various risk factors, based on a large national sample of older adults with arthritis. T...UPenn receives 2005 Templeton Research Lectures Grant
...ship includes the study of cognitive neuroscience, behavioral genetics, religious and spiritual experiences and concepts, issues related to love and compassion, and epistemological problems. Such scholarly pursuits hold critical importance for many fields including cognitive neuroscience, theology, philosophy,...OHSU scientist helping explain basis of psychotic behavior
...e supersensitivity is only determined by observing behavioral changes, and the high-affinity D2 is verified pharmacologically, "what we're showing is a very strong correlation between the presence of a higher proportion of high-affinity D2 in a population of receptors in animals that show supersensitivity to do...Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease reduces uncontrolled movements
...both GPi and STN ( 89 v 62 percent). Cognitive and behavioral complications were observed only in combination with STN stimulation." "At this point, it appears that stimulation at either STN or GPi improves off-medication motor scores and levodopa-induced dyskinesia for at least one year, and there is no clear ...Evaluating virtual reality therapy for treating acute post traumatic stress disorder
...iveness of using a virtual reality based cognitive behavioral treatment for U.S. warfighters suffering from acute PTSD....Exercise variety - not intensity - appears to reduce some Alzheimer's disease risk
...ine G. Lyketsos, M.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins and senior author on the report. The study included 3,375 men and women age 65 years or older who participated in the Cardiovascular Health Cognition Study from 1992 to 2000 and who did not have dementia at the onset of the ...Pessimism and depression increase dementia risk
...sonality' is a modifiable cognitive, emotional and behavioral style. For example, a pessimistic person can acquire the skills and habits of looking at the whole picture, i.e., the positive, negative and neutral, rather than habitually discounting the positive and neutral and magnifying the negative." This stud...Hormone aids recovery in rats with hemorrhagic stroke
...ietin-treated rats also showed greater recovery in behavioral and functional tests. "Our result suggests that erythropoietin could be a novel drug for treatment of hemorrhagic stroke. It not only reduces inflammation and cell death, but also improves functional recovery after stroke," said Sinn....Alcohol-impaired driving on the increase, study shows
... or noise in the data," he added. "This is a true behavioral change." The authors point out that motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death in the United States for people between the ages of 1 and 34. Thirty percent of Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash in their lifetimes. Su...Child sex abuse policy recommendations published in Science magazine
...Health David Spiegel, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, said publication of this summary of research and its implications in the nation's leading general science journal "is a tremendous opportunity to shed light on an important and neglected area." ...Exercise slows development of Alzheimer's-like brain changes in mice, new study finds
...ow shown in an animal model system that one simple behavioral intervention--exercise--could delay, or even preve...se. "These results suggest that exercise--a simple behavioral strategy--in these mice may bring about a change in the way that amyloid precursor protein is metabo...M. D. Anderson announces collaboration with India's largest yoga research institution
...ulty also conduct research into the biological and behavioral effects of mind/body-based interventions; the anti-cancer potential of natural compounds; and acupuncture to treat common cancer treatment-related side effects. Research that Cohen published last year in the journal Cancer found that cancer patients ...