Mice born without a key brain protein developed obsessive compulsive symptoms that went away when treated with anti-anxiety drugs, giving new clues about the brain mechanism behind the disorder, researchers said…

Non-medicinal interventions are highly effective in preventing the behavioral and academic problems associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to a five-year study led by researchers at Lehigh University’s…

Ineffective or even dangerous fad treatments for autism, always a problem, seem to be growing more pervasive, according to researchers who studied the problem.

“Developmental…

Two University of Chicago psychologists, Louise Hawkley and John Cacioppo, have been trying to disentangle social isolation, loneliness, and the physical deterioration and diseases of aging, right down to the cellular…

Increasing numbers of people with intellectual disability are now living well into old age. This paper will review the recent literature pertaining to the mental health of…

Are too many people now diagnosed as having depression? Two experts give their views in this week’s BMJ.

Professor Gordon Parker, a psychiatrist from Australia says the current threshold for…

Patients with age-related macular degeneration, a frequent cause of vision loss in the elderly, are less likely to develop depressive disorders in the short-term if they’re taught problem-solving skills, new…

To analyze data from a randomized clinical trial to determine the cost-effectiveness of using contingency management (CM) and motivational/skills building therapy (motivational enhancement therapy/cognitive-behavioral therapy: MET/CBT) to treat young…

Children whose mothers are depressed are less likely to develop problem behaviors if their fathers are actively engaged in family life, a Saint Louis University researcher finds.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have discovered a treatment that counteracts the effects of cocaine on the human cardiovascular system, including lowering the elevated heart rate and blood pressure often…

Treatment of psychiatric disorders in epilepsy is largely opinion-led, with little evidence from systematic randomized control trials (Krishnamoorthy 2003).

Pre-ictal and ictal depression do not usually require treatment; an improvement in seizure…

Depression in epilepsy is multifactorial in nature and has been shown to be influenced by a number of factors.

Gender
In contrast to the increased prevalence of depression in females,…

Forced normalization
In the 16th century, Cardenus (Whitwell 1936) wrote about a case of melancholia alternating with epilepsy, describing what is possibly the first case of forced normalization associated with epilepsy.…

“Melancholics ordinarily become epileptics, and epileptics melancholics: what determines the preference is the direction the malady takes; if it bears upon the body, epilepsy, if upon intelligence, melancholy” (Lewis, 1934).Epilepsy…

To assess aggression, irritability and hostility in children at risk for bipolar disorder (BP).

Methods:
Using the parent and the child versions of the…

The long-term risk of suicide is tripled for women who have undergone cosmetic breast implant surgery, concludes a study in the August Annals of Plastic Surgery, published by Lippincott…

Violence associated with personality disorders is usually best viewed separately from psychiatric diagnosis, as a syndrome of violence rather than a syndrome of diagnosis.

The authors describe eight categories of violence…

Depression is prevalent, costly and often undertreated.

Depression has a community prevalence of 10% (Singleton et al, 2001), and is associated with physical morbidity and social impairment (Spitzer et al,…

This study sought to characterize cognitive functioning in elderly patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), as compared with normal comparison subjects and patients with major depression.

Methods: The cognitive…

In spite that the causes of depression have not still been fully identified, scientists acknowledge that genetic and environmental factors play a common role in the onset of this…

The objective of the study was to investigate the incidence rate of postpartum-onset major depression (PPMD) and to examine associated sociodemographic characteristics, obstetric factors, and personality disorders.

Method
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The main explanatory hypothesis for the distinction between social phobia (SP) and avoidant personality disorder (APD) has been the severity continuum hypothesis, stating that APD only differs…

To investigate whether cannabis use predicted the first incidence of mood and anxiety disorders in adults during a 3-year follow-up period.…

A preliminary study of 85 patients with bipolar disorder shows that a drug used to treat patients with sleep disorders might also control the depressive symptoms associated…

A variation in a gene called GRIK4 appears to make people with depression more likely to respond to the medication citalopram (Celexa) than are people without the…