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November 20, 2024

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Neuroscientists Discover How the Brain Slows Anxious Breathing

Nov. 19, 2024 — Scientists discovered a brain circuit that allows us to regulate voluntary breathing, which connects the brain's emotional and behavioral cortical area to its automatic breathing brainstem area. The findings provide a targetable area for slowing ...

Psychotic-Like Experiences in Adolescents Linked to Depression and Self-Destructive Behavior

Nov. 19, 2024 — Psychotic-like experiences, such as suspiciousness and unusual thoughts, are common among adolescents who are referred to adolescent psychiatric care. The symptoms are often associated with ...

Multiple Sclerosis Drug May Help With Poor Working Memory

Nov. 18, 2024 — Fampridine is currently used to improve walking ability in multiple sclerosis. A new study shows that it could also help individuals with reduced working memory, as seen in mental health conditions like schizophrenia or ...

How Stress Is Fundamentally Changing Our Memories

Nov. 15, 2024 — In a new study, researchers identify the biological processes behind stress-induced aversive memory generalization and highlight an intervention which could help restore appropriate memory specificity for people with ...

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PTSD Patients Can Benefit Just as Much from Intensive Outpatient Programs as from Inpatient Clinics, New Study Shows

Nov. 14, 2024 — Post-traumatic stress disorder comes in many forms and affects each person differently. Some patients benefit more from residential, in-treatment ...

Metabolomic Changes Linked to Psychotic-Like Experiences and Cannabis Use in Adolescents

Nov. 13, 2024 — An exploratory study has examined metabolomic patterns associated with psychotic-like experiences in adolescents, highlighting the influence of ...

New Study Challenges Social Media's Mental Health Impact

Nov. 6, 2024 — A new study has challenged the perception heavy social media use has a significant impact on mental health, finding little to no relationship between the two. In fact, not only does the research ...

New Study Shows Combination Therapy Slows Cognitive Decline in at-Risk Populations

Oct. 30, 2024 — An important new study has demonstrated that a combination therapy can slow cognitive decline in older adults at risk for ...

The Couples Who Cope Together, Stay Together

Oct. 29, 2024 — A new study has lifted the lid on how couples living with rheumatoid arthritis cope with the debilitating disease finding that those who cope with problems together had less psychological distress ...

Childhood Attention Issues and Genetic Factors May Predict Psychosis Risk

Oct. 28, 2024 — Researchers have found that a person's risk of developing psychotic-like experiences may be influenced by both childhood attention problems and their genetic ...

Magnetic Field Applied to Both Sides of Brain Shows Rapid Improvement for Depression

Oct. 28, 2024 — A type of therapy that involves applying a magnetic field to both sides of the brain has been shown to be effective at rapidly treating depression in ...

Depression: Dysfunction of Neurons in the Amygdala May Be Behind Negative Perceptions of the Environment

Oct. 25, 2024 — One of the characteristics of depression is a tendency to perceive sensory stimuli and everyday situations in an excessively negative way. But the ...

Professional Ice Hockey: Depressive Symptoms and Burnout Linked to More Concussions

Oct. 25, 2024 — Elite ice hockey players with a history of concussion report heightened mental health symptoms, according to a new ...

Study of Chick Peeps Could Improve Understanding of Animal Emotions

Oct. 24, 2024 — Understanding animal emotions has been a long-running question at the forefront of welfare studies, but a new study may hold the key to decoding the chatter. The answer involves two baby chickens and ...

Depression Rates in LGBTQIA+ Students Are Three Times Higher Than Their Peers, New Research Suggests

Nov. 13, 2024 — New findings uncover an alarming rise in depression rates among all higher education students in the United States, but especially among sexual and gender ...

Researchers Use Genetics to Find Psychopathology Risks

Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers are identifying behavioral, environmental and neural factors through which genetic risk for mental health problems is expressed in ...

Fearful Memories of Others Seen in Mouse Brain

Oct. 16, 2024 — Researchers have revealed that the CA1 and CA2 regions in the brain respectively encode the locations and individuals linked with a threatening experience. The results show that, beyond simply ...

Survey Finds 25% of Adults Suspect They Have Undiagnosed ADHD

Oct. 14, 2024 — Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- also known as ADHD -- is typically thought of as a childhood condition. But more adults are realizing that their struggles with attention, focus and ...

A New Target for Anxiety Disorders

Oct. 11, 2024 — By generating mice with genetic mutations that disrupt the brain's TrkC-PTP protein complex, researchers find a key way that brain cells ...

New Research Identifies Key Mental Health Risk Factors for Children After Trauma

Oct. 10, 2024 — A new study has shed light on why some children and adolescents develop mental health disorders like PTSD, anxiety, or depression after experiencing a traumatic ...

Hoarding Disorder: 'Sensory CBT' Treatment Strategy Shows Promise

Oct. 3, 2024 — Rehearsing alternative outcomes of discarding through imagery rescripting shows promise as a treatment strategy for people who hoard, a study by psychology researchers has ...

Digital Biomarkers Shedding Light on Seasonality in Mood Disorders

Sep. 25, 2024 — Wrist-based activity sensors worn by individuals with depression and those without over the course of two weeks provided evidence for the relationship between daily sunlight exposure and physical ...

Specially Designed Video Games May Benefit Mental Health of Children and Teenagers

Sep. 24, 2024 — Scientists conclude that some video games created as mental health interventions can be helpful -- if modest -- tools in improving the mental well-being of children and teens with anxiety, depression ...

Common Brain Network Detected Among Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injury Could Protect Against PTSD

Sep. 24, 2024 — Researchers analyzed 193 patients from the Vietnam Head Injury Study with penetrating traumatic brain injury to determine if the location of shrapnel damage to their brains influenced risk of ...

New Research Identifies Critical Gaps in Mental Health Care for Adults With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

Sep. 23, 2024 — New research finds that adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders have high rates of comorbid mental and substance use disorders and significant social and economic disadvantages, and only 26% ...

Social Media Posts May Provide Early Warning of PTSD Problems

Sep. 23, 2024 — Scientists have analyzed millions of tweets to identify COVID-19 survivors living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- demonstrating the effectiveness of using social media data as a tool ...

Mental Health Concerns Are a Huge Part of Primary Care Practice

Sep. 19, 2024 — An examination of millions of patient visits to primary care physicians shows that mental health concerns are second only to musculoskeletal complaints in everyday care. One in nine patients was ...

Researchers Achieve a Significant Advancement in Early Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder in Adolescents

Sep. 19, 2024 — Researchers report significant strides in enhancing early diagnosis of bipolar disorder in adolescents. They demonstrate the efficacy of integrating multimodal MRI with behavioral assessments for ...

Improving Eye Tracking to Assess Brain Disorders

Sep. 16, 2024 — Using piezoelectricity, an engineering team developed wearable sensors to examine eye movement to assess brain disorders or damage to the ...

Anxiety and Depression Linked to Chronic Pain in Children

Sep. 9, 2024 — Young people with chronic pain are three times more likely than their peers to also have clinical anxiety or depression, a new review has ...

People Experiencing Relatively Mild Cases of Mental Ill-Health May Be Perceived Differently by Others Depending on Whether or Not Diagnostic Labels Are Provided

Aug. 28, 2024 — Diagnostic labels for people experiencing what some consider to be relatively milder forms of mental-ill health may affect how others perceive them for better and worse, according to a new ...

Crucial Insights on Loneliness and Death Ideation Among Older Adults

Aug. 28, 2024 — New research highlights the growing problem of death ideation and the increasing rates of both loneliness and suicidal thoughts among older individuals. The study explores the critical issue of ...

Knowing You Have a Brain Aneurysm May Raise Anxiety Risk, Other Mental Health Conditions

Aug. 26, 2024 — Even if the risk is small, the potential of a debilitating brain vessel rupture may be a psychological burden, finds new ...

Inflammation During Childhood Linked to Onset of Mental Health Issues in Early Adulthood

Aug. 21, 2024 — Children who have persistently raised inflammation are at a higher risk of experiencing serious mental health disorders including psychosis and depression in early ...