Research team sweeps the board with intensive care innovations
... significant chunk of their lives can have serious psychological repercussions, which in turn can slow down their p... patient and in the wider world, it can help their psychological recovery. "Our online approach takes this a stage further, allowing people to add multi-media cont...Exercise reduces menopausal symptoms and improves quality of life
...ir average scores on scales measuring physical and psychological functioning and positive state of mind, with the control group showing reduced averages. Women taking part in the study were recruited from a health centre near Grenada following a thorough health assessment by both a doctor and nurse. The 48 women,...Extreme personality poses risk of ADHD, conduct disorder
...e whether the personality traits are shaped by the psychological disorders or vice versa. "Developmentally, it makes sense that the personality comes first," she said. "But to say that one causes the other is too simplistic. I think they become intertwined."...Increased cognitive control in Tourette's syndrome
... of another's words (echolalia). Understanding the psychological processes and neural mechanisms that give rise to the execution of tics is of considerable clinical importance. A widely held view is that the inability to suppress unwanted movements in Tourette's syndrome results from a failure of cognitive control...Women with breast cancer who choose preventive mastectomies
...current study, there was little information on the psychological and social outcomes of the mastectomy. "Our research suggests that preventive mastectomy prevents future breast cancer and that women's psychosocial outcomes are driven more strongly by issues related to aging and surviving breast cancer than by thei...'Spirituality' is related to depression among young physicians
...of significant depressive symptoms. "Mood or other psychological problems among primary-care residents, or any other health-care provider for that matter, could negatively affect patient care," said Dr. Yi. "Our findings suggest that screening residents for depression and other mood problems may be warranted." "In...Corrective cosmetics may not boost quality of life for women with severe facial blemishes
... with a severe blemish on their face contends with psychological issues, until this study, no one had systematicall...fect a woman's health," he said. "In this case the psychological impact often outweighs the physical aspects of the problem the women in our study reported having m...Mental stress effects on heart more common than previously known
... changes in blood flow. "The basic message is that psychological stress or behavioral stressors are important. The effects are hard to measure, but several groups of researchers are interested in them and I think we are going to find out a lot more about them in the years to come," Dr. Sheps said. "We and others a...Depression, anxiety in girls linked to higher body mass index in women
...tion in the article. Understanding the social and psychological conditions that are associated with obesity could ...evention efforts. Previous evidence suggests that psychological disorders may be one factor associated with weight gain, but studies in the area have been limited, ......somatic Society, which deals with the influence of psychological factors on physical health. "Women who are hostile are more likely to have atherosclerosis [hardening of the coronary arteries], especially if their husbands are hostile too," Smith says. "The levels of dominance or control in women or their husban...Disclosing study outcomes to participants may backfire
...good by exposing study participants to unnecessary psychological stress, according to a new commentary. Published in the April 1, 2006 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the commentary suggests investigators have an ethical...New technology likely to facilitate independence for older Americans
...ogy, where efforts are being focused on developing psychological and computer science to support home activities. Helpful technologies can provide alerts to an emergency or hazardous situation (e.g., a stove left on), give support for daily activities such as medication monitoring, or support social communication ...New treatments based on human behaviour could reduce drug prescribing
New psychological treatments - behavioural medicine - could significantly reduce the need for drug treatments for some conditions, cutting health system costs says an editorial in this week's BMJ. Behavioural medicine - using treatments borrowed from psychology such a...Defining the beginning and end of life
... by arguing that the pre-conscious fetus lacks the psychological unity that might bind it to its future self. It thus lacks substantial moral status and does not have a right to remain alive. In the last article of the symposium, George Khushf argues the need to add questions of human value and purpose to publi...NIH grant to support research on new treatment for severe OCD
...mately 20 percent of OCD patients for whom neither psychological nor drug therapy works," said Suzanne Haber, Ph.D., a professor within the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. "Some patients have been able to venture out to work and school for ...NIH seeks strategies to preserve brain health
...older people involve a number of physiological and psychological processes going on at the same time," says Thomas Insel, M.D., Director of NIMH. "This report highlights the need to better understand this interrelatedness if we are going to devise effective ways to maintain brain health." The evaluation committee ...A link is found between morphine addiction and the tendency to explore
...a direct relationship has been found without other psychological characteristics, such as anxiousness, that might a...direct relationship without the influence of other psychological factors, such as anxiousness. A team of researchers from the Institute of Neuroscience, the Departme...Dartmouth study finds how the brain interprets the intent of others
...intentions of others. Scott Grafton, professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Antonia Hamilton, a post-doctoral fellow, have learned that the brain's parietal cortex handles how we understand the goals of other people's actions. Their study was published on January 25 by The Journal of Neuroscience. "W......ch experiments, they said, will help determine the psychological importance of where monkeys and babies look in their numerical matching paradigm. Such studies have broad implications for understanding the evolutionary origins of numerical ability and how that ability has developed in humans, they said.......diseases can also involve diet, lifestyle changes, psychological therapy, screening, monitoring and education. Each boosts the effect of the other." "Research is increasingly showing how their timely use can prevent people from becoming far sicker than they otherwise would become. "For example, five-year survival ...