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Recent findings show that self-help books and Internet-based help can benefit even severely depressed people. “Depression is a major cause of disability,” said Professor Peter Bower of Manchester University, UK,… [...]
A majority of veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan are reporting symptoms of a condition known as chronic multisymptom illness (CMI), according to a new Veterans Affairs study of… [...]
The chicken-and-egg question regarding obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), for the most part, is usually answered by identifying obsessive fears as driving the behaviors such as repetitive hand-washing. A new study effectively reverses… [...]
In what some may see as a role reversal, scientists are studying the way children learn in an effort to improve artificial intelligence systems used in computers. Although computers are… [...]
Mental illness related to early childhood trauma may be passed from generation to generation, according to new research appearing in JAMA Psychiatry. The study, which looked at adults whose parents… [...]
Incessant media coverage during the course of a natural disaster has led some parents to fear that young children may become overexposed to distress and carnage. For adults, the stories… [...]
For former tobacco smokers, e-cigarettes appear to be less addictive than regular cigarettes, and this could shed new light on the role that various nicotine delivery devices play on addiction,… [...]
Postpartum depression can be experienced shortly after giving birth and last for months thereafter. However new studies show that moderate to severe depression symptoms are prevalent in disadvantaged women well… [...]
While new methods to purportedly sharpen our mental abilities are found in brain training games, apps and websites, a central question is “do they work?†New research suggests that brain… [...]
A new study finds that long-term exposure to periodontal bacteria leads to inflammation and degeneration in brain neurons in mice similar to the effects of Alzheimer’s disease in humans. Periodontitis… [...]