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Scientists are testing the idea that the stress of modern city life is a breeding ground for psychosis. 
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New research finds the season in which a baby is born is linked to risk of later mental disorders, such as depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) -- an irregular heart rhythm -- is known to increase a person’s risk of stroke.
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There is a great deal of music in the world, and no one knows exactly why. But it does have its ready uses. The music business can make you rich and famous.
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A multi-media production with a musical narrative set in the day room of a psychiatric hospital, Inside a Quiet Mind brought together Cambridge Neuroscientists and mental health service users to perform side by side, in this way breaking conventional barriers that exist between the two groups.
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Extracting DNA from a museum collection of jellied autopsied brains dating back to the 1890s may give researchers a new take on the study mental disorders...
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Upheavals in the outer world are secondary, in the long sweep of history, to inner revolutions. We may be on the verge of such a one.
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Experience may contribute to mental illness in a surprising way: by causing...
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New research identifies the brain chemicals and circuits involved in mental illnesses like schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety, giving potential new directions to their treatment.
Hilary J.'s curator insight,
February 13, 2014 8:10 PM
The field of research on brain chemistry and mental illness is still young, though the research that has been done is promising. This new field is allowing clinicians to develop different and more effective treatments for several mental illnesses. Specifically, research on childhood anxiety and brain structure has shown that anxiety experienced in childhood may change the way that the amygdala connects to other regions of the brain. The amygdala plays a role in emotion regulation and is considered to be part of the limbic system. This finding can possibly explain how early life stresses contribute to future emotional and behavioral issues. If anxiety can be traced back to childhood, then treatment interventions as an adult may be different then if anxiety wasn't experienced in childhood. |
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Drew McWilliams, a clinician and the Chief Operating Officer at Morrison Child and Family Services in Portland, Ore., suggests that amid the underwater mortgages, chronic unemployment and other fallout of the recent recession, a less obvious but equally worrying phenomenon has emerged: the troubled minds of children. Via Thabo Mophiring, Rexi44
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According to one of the leading scholars in the field, there is an emerging consensus among scientists that animals share functional parallels with humans' conscious metacognition -- that is, our ability to reflect on our own mental processes and guide and optimize them.
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(Medical Xpress) -- A daily mental ‘work-out' has given a group of over 50s the brain performance of people several years younger, a Swinburne University of Technology clinical trial has shown.
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About 20% of American adults experienced some form of mental illness over a year's time, but the majority of them were never treated for it, a government survey found.
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These are the “culture-bound syndromes”: mental illnesses that psychiatrists officially acknowledge occur only within a particular society. Depending on whom you ask, the notion that some cultures have their own ways of going crazy is either the ultimate in cultural sensitivity or the ultimate in Western condescension. (...) To these critics, *the very notion of a “culture-bound illness” is an outdated relic from the days of European empires*.
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Cognitive skills may start to decline earlier than previously thought, a new study says.
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(Medical Xpress) -- New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort. It's the kind of...
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For black American adults, perceived racism may cause mental health symptoms similar to trauma and could lead to some physical health disparities between blacks and other populations in the United States, according to a new study published by the...
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July 13, 2014 8:28 AM
I really think that racism is something that must be stopped in this world. From this article, i have learnt that Racism can lead to severe consequences such as the deterioration of mental and physical health. Racism against black Americans is one such example of the many scenes of racism that occurs all around the world.
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An interesting and daring theory on the past emergence of evolutive advantages, re-opening the present understanding of normalcy and projecting serious future dilemmas for genetic screening.
archaeologist Penny Spikins at the University of York, UK, "I think that part of the reason Homo sapiens were so successful is because they were willing to include people with different minds in their society - people with autism or schizophrenia, for example."
By embracing the unique skills and attributes that came with unusual ways of thinking, early humans became more inventive and adaptable
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Some researchers describe such genes as "orchid genes": nurture them and the carrier thrives, neglect them and a maladaptive personality trait appears. If Spikins is correct, many other genes associated with developmental conditions and mental illness should possess such Jekyll-and-Hyde characteristics. Our ancestors may have benefited from this. Via starwalker, FastTFriend
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