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A simple personality test could help doctors detect dementia with Lewy bodies, a form of dementia often confused with Alzheimer’s disease, sooner, according to a study published in the…

It is estimated that more than 20 million people in the United States suffer with depression. Depression is a medical condition that effects the brain by an imbalance of brain chemicals. Everyone feels “blue”…

In Appalachia, diabetes hits hard. Depression does, too. Together, they form a difficult pair to beat.

To help patients fight back, a team of Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine…

There is a prevalence of insomnia seen in psychiatric illness although insomnia itself can be a risk factor for psychiatric disorders. That’s according to research presented here on at the…

You run in the morning, train for your next marathon at night despite a nagging injury, and head to the gym to weight train in your free…

In people with mild cognitive impairment, up to one drink of alcohol a day may slow their progression to dementia, according to a study published in the May 22, 2007,…

Hospitals that use a simple strategy of enhancing communication with family members of patients dying in the intensive care unit can greatly reduce post-traumatic stress…

Some ethnic minorities could be twice as likely as white and Native American people to prefer counseling and prayer to medication for treating depression, according to a national Internet…

The increase in the number of diagnosed cases of autism in recent years has sparked concern that environmental toxins may cause this complex disorder. However, a new…

Psychiatric researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine will report important new findings from a study of patients with bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia at the…

Older patients with major depression whose primary care physicians team with depression care managers are 45% less likely to die within a 5-year time period than older…

Doctors screening young people for eating disorders must look beyond the stereotype of these patients as being white teenaged girls in order to identify everyone who needs help, two…

When all variations of bipolar disorder, or the entire “bipolar spectrum disorder,” are considered, the estimated lifetime prevalence in the general population is approximately 4 percent, investigators report in the Archives…

When Jo Adams was referred to the counsellor at her GP’s surgery, she expected to be given help for her severe depression. But that was not…

The likelihood of developing bipolar disorder depends in part on the combined, small effects of variations in many different genes in the brain, none of…

New research indicates that young children with autism have a difficult time recognizing ordinary words and more of their brains are occupied with this kind of task compared to…

Eating pistachios may reduce your body’s response to the stresses of everyday life, according to a Penn State study.

“A ten-year follow-up study of young men showed that those who had…

As the sports world prepares for this weekend’s National Football League draft and the excitement of promising young players entering the league, a new study from the University of Michigan Health System…

At least one-third of the time, the symptoms of bipolar disorder first appear in childhood or adolescence. However, in children, it can be difficult to distinguish bipolar symptoms from those…

Younger siblings of children with autism are at risk to suffer from delayed verbal, cognitive and motor development in their early childhood years.

This finding is…

Decisions about building casinos in the UK have not given enough weight to the potential health effects, argue two doctors in this week’s BMJ.

In March the House…

A study at the University Clinics of Bonn and Cologne gives people with therapy-resistant depression reason for hope. The doctors treated two men and a woman with what is known…

The benefits of drugs that treat depression in children and teens far outweigh the risk of suicide, and U.S. regulators should revise strict warnings that may have scared off some doctors and patients,…

Mothers of children with autism may be prone to depression if they feel responsible for the cause or outcome of their child’s disorder, a new study suggests.

Autism is…

The imbalance of fatty acids in the typical American diet could be associated with the sharp increase in heart disease and depression seen over the past century, a new study…