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| Magic Mushroom Ingredient Psilocybin Improves Late Stage Cancer Anxiety | Mon, 06 Sep 2010 |
| The hallucinogen psilocybin appears to be safe and feasible to give to patients with advanced-stage cancer and anxiety - a study published in Archives of General Psychiatry reports it had a promising effect on mood. Psilocybin is the active ingredient in an illegal Class A drug in the UK called magic mushroom... | |
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| More Work Needed To Implement Evidence Base In Psychooncology In Cancer Care, Australia | Mon, 06 Sep 2010 |
| An integrated approach to cancer care needs to be developed in Australia that incorporates psychosocial and biological interventions, according to an article published in a Medical Journal of Australia supplement. The Anxiety, Depression and Cancer supplement is the product of a partnership between beyondblue and the Cancer Council Australia... | |
| Depression Significantly Improved By Non-Invasive Therapy | Mon, 06 Sep 2010 |
| Major depression is a common and disabling brain condition marked not only by the presence of depressed mood but also by its effects on sleep, energy, decision-making, memory and thoughts of death or of suicide. Major depression affects 15 million adults in the U.S... | |
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| Why Does Anxiety Target Women More? FSU Researcher Awarded $1.8M Grant To Find Out | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 |
| Anxiety disorders afflict women twice as often as men, but estrogen might not be the reason. Testosterone, though, could be. That is one of the preliminary findings in the lab of Florida State University researcher Mohamed Kabbaj, associate professor in the College of Medicine. He recently was awarded a five-year, $1... | |
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| Less Than 5 Hours Sleep Linked To Higher Mental Illness Risk | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 |
| Young healthy adults aged between 17 and 24 years who get less than an average of 5 hours' sleep each night have three times the risk of developing a mental illness compared to individuals of the same age who sleep eight to nine hours every night, according to a study carried out by the George Institute on Global Health, published in the medical journal Sleep... | |
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| New Social Intervention To Help Pakistani Women With Depression | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 |
| Researchers from the University of Manchester have developed a social intervention to help British Pakistani women with depression. Their 10-week programme, which was trialled in the north-west of England, helped the women feel more positive and improved their satisfaction and social functioning. The findings are published in the September issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry... | |
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| Neural Clues To The Calming Effects Of Self-Harm | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 |
| The notion that cutting or burning oneself could provide relief from emotional distress is difficult to understand for most people, but it is an experience reported commonly among people who compulsively hurt themselves. Individuals with borderline personality disorder experience intense emotions and often show a deficiency of emotion regulation skills... | |
| Defining Depression At The Neurobiological Level | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 |
| Depression is actually defined by specific clinical symptoms such as sadness, difficulty to experience pleasure, sleep problems etc., present for at least two weeks, with impairment of psychosocial functioning. These symptoms guide the physician to make a diagnosis and to select antidepressant treatment such as drugs or psychotherapy... | |
| Circadian Rhythms: Their Role And Dysfunction In Affective Disorder | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 |
| All humans are synchronised to the rhythmic light-dark changes that occur on a daily basis. Rhythms in physiological and biochemical processes and behavioural patterns persist in the absence of all external 24-hour signals from the physical environment, with a period that is close to 24 hours... | |
| Ecopsychology Journal Explores The Devastating Psychological Effects Of The BP Gulf Disaster | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 |
| Anger, depression, and helplessness are the main psychological responses being seen in response to the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and they are likely to have long-lasting effects, according to an interview in Ecopsychology, a peer-reviewed, online journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The interview is available free online here... | |
| Gay Byrne Calls On Older Irish People To Look After Their Mental Health | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 |
| Broadcaster Gay Byrne launched a new campaign to raise awareness of depression and the importance of mental health in later life. The campaign, by Lundbeck (Ireland) Ltd and supported by Age and Opportunity, is targeting older people who may be reluctant to talk to their doctors about their mental health. Many factors can trigger a period of depression... | |
| Teenage Smoking Linked To Higher Depression Risk | Mon, 30 Aug 2010 |
| According to a recent sub-study, part of long-term Nicotine Dependence in Teens (NDIT) study based at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre, University of Toronto and the University of Montreal, professionals discovered that smoking can increase depressive symptoms in teens... | |
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| Smaller Babies Delivered By Depressed Mothers | Sun, 29 Aug 2010 |
| Clinical depression and anxiety during pregnancy results in smaller babies that are more likely to die in infancy, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Public Health. The study, which focused on women living in rural Bangladesh, provides the first finding of its kind in a non-Western population... | |
| Mothers Abused By Partners See Decline In Mental Health Even After Relationship Ends | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 |
| Even after leaving a violent or controlling relationship, the mental health of mothers may actually get worse before it gets better, a new study suggests. Researchers found that in the two years after the end of an abusive relationship, mothers showed poorer mental health, became more depressed and maintained high levels of anxiety... | |
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