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Sleep-related eating disorder (SRED) can be associated with disrupted sleep, weight gain, and major chronic morbidity. In SRED—involuntary eating while asleep, with partial or complete amnesia—the normal suppression of eating…

Depression is one of the most common mental disorders worldwide. There are a number of depression subtypes, and there has been much debate about how to most accurately…

Bipolar disorder (also known as manic-depression) is a serious but treatable medical illness. It is a disorder of the brain marked by extreme changes in mood, energy, thinking and behavior.…

This study uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to learn how the brain functions in adolescents receiving fluoxetine (Prozac) cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)…

A new study supports earlier estimates of the prevalence of bipolar disorder in the U.S. population, and suggests the illness may be more accurately characterized as a spectrum…

Mental health issues often slip under the radar

Contractors who have worked in Iraq are returning home with the same kinds of combat-related mental health problems that afflict US…

Soldiers on peacekeeping missions who witness atrocities are at risk of developing mental health problems, as are those exposed to combat, a large study of Canadian military personnel shows.

The…

This article discusses the unexpected relationship between cosmetic breast implants and suicide that has been found in six epidemiological investigations completed in the last several years.

METHOD: The epidemiological studies are…

The present study examined the frequency and characteristics of panic disorder in children and adolescents who had been referred to a pediatric psychopharmacology clinic. Of the 280 children…

Many depressive symptoms are seen in the normal course of Parkinson’s disease (PD). As a result, depression—the most common neuropsychiatric disturbance in PD—is difficult to assess in PD and…

As suggested by the six epidemiological studies, there appears to be an association between cosmetic breast augmentation and suicide. The specific nature of this relationship, however, is…

It is still largely unknown which actions people take to improve their mood when they feel they are getting depressed. Using the five-factor model of…

Heroin-assisted treatment has been found to be effective for people with severe opioid dependence who are not interested in or do poorly on methadone maintenance.

To study heroin-assisted treatment in people on…

Language disorder in schizophrenia has been described since the early accounts of this illness. Further, it has been suggested that language and psychosis have a common evolutionary origin.

Although schizophrenic…

Persistent negative symptoms represent an alternative approach for assessing negative symptoms in the context of clinical trials.

Persistent negative symptoms are designed to capture those symptoms that lead to…

Any type of eating disorder can boost a woman’s likelihood of having irregular menstrual periods, a new study confirms.

Based on the findings, “when someone’s got irregular menstruation, eating disorders should be…

Researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute recognize children with autism earlier than ever before, paving the way for…

Patients seeking cosmetic rhinoplasty (“nose jobs”) often exhibited personality abnormalities, including obsessiveness, hypochondriasis, and making false statements that make them look better compared with others (“good faking”), according…

Everyone has an occasional night of bad sleep. For most people, insomnia lasts only a few days and goes away without…

In 2002, 264 children and adolescents ages 5–14 died by suicide in the United States, the fifth leading cause of death. Of these suicides, 260…

On May 2, 2007, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered that all antidepressant medications carry an expanded black-box warning incorporating information about an increased risk of suicidal symptoms in…

Improve patients’ health, help them kick addiction with this practical approach.

Mr. V, age 49, has stable but symptomatic schizophrenia and a 33-year cigarette smoking history. He is…

This study estimates the prevalence of eating disorders in lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) men and women, and examines the association between participation in the gay community…

The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between eating disorders and attentional biases. It is concluded that future research should establish whether such biases warrant specific therapeutic interventions.…

Anxiety has both functionally appropriate and inappropriate consequences. Among patients with cardiac disease, anxiety can be functionally appropriate when it prompts an individual to quickly seek treatment for acute cardiac signs…