GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (August 28, 2019) — A new clinical study aims to identify blood-based biomarkers for suicide risk, laying the foundation for a test that could help physicians identify people who are likely to self-harm and allow for earlier, life-saving intervention.
A $3 million NIH grant will probe underlying biological changes of major depressive disorder, with a focus on epitranscriptomics. Early study of human postmortem MDD brains shows changes in amounts of enzymes that add or remove methyl groups to mRNA and changes in the mRNA targets of these enzymes.
Research shows that risk-taking behaviors, such as binge drinking, may increase throughout adolescence.
Epilepsy affects entire families. Research shows that uncontrolled seizures can lead to the development of PTSD in caregivers and siblings. Family members also may struggle with anxiety and depression, as well as guilt and fear.
It might seem that there’s no downside to successful epilepsy surgery. Who wouldn’t want to be free of seizures that limit their life? But there are challenges to seizure freedom after years of living with epilepsy. The “burden of normality” can disrupt a person’s life and their relationships.
Women who experience intimate partner violence, including physical, emotional, and controlling abuse, are more likely to suffer material hardship – the inability to purchase food, housing, utilities, medical care or other needs for a healthy life, according to a Rutgers-led study.
Children who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods are nearly one-third more likely to experience obesity as adults, according to new research from Cornell University.
Diet matters when it comes to depression. Teens who have a high-sodium, low-potassium diet are at a higher risk of depression.
Obesity is connected with a reduced response to taste, according to a new study featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State of University of New York.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that as premature babies grow, their mental health may be related less to medical challenges they face after birth than to the environment the babies enter once they leave the newborn intensive care unit.
Der Besitz eines Haustieres kann nach der ersten Analyse von Daten aus der Studie „Kardiozive Brno 2030“ zur Erhaltung eines gesunden Herzens beitragen, insbesondere wenn es sich bei diesem Haustier um einen Hund handelt. Die Studie untersucht den Zusammenhang von der Haustierhaltung - insbesondere der Hundehaltung - mit Risikofaktoren für kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen und die kardiovaskuläre Gesundheit.
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A new study, published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, suggests that the time adolescents are spending on their phones and online is not that bad.
Researchers at the University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT, Hall, Austria) and the University of the Balearic Islands (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) have confirmed the analgesic effects of social support - even without verbal or physical contact.
• Between 1996 and 2013, approximately 27% of adults, 21% of elderly adults, and 16% of children with kidney failure in the United States were hospitalized with a psychiatric diagnosis in the first year of kidney failure. • The prevalence of hospitalizations with psychiatric diagnoses increased over time across age groups, mostly due to secondary diagnoses.
The findings should encourage doctors to better manage mental health in patients with breast cancer and spur care providers to consider alternative pain management such as physical therapy, massage and acupuncture, the researchers say.
Dr. Antonello Bonci, a world-renowned neuroscientist and pioneer of innovative brain stimulation techniques, will leave his position of 9 years as Scientific Director of NIDA to be a founder and president of the Global Institutes on Addictions (GIA) in Miami, Florida.
Scientists have identified a specific gene they believe could be a key player in the changes in brain structure seen in several psychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia and autism.
Traumatic stress is a key factor associated with depression among immigrant mothers from Central America, reports a study in Family and Community Health: The Journal of Health Promotion & Maintenance – part of a special theme issue devoted to "Family Health in Hispanic Communities" that includes guest editors Paul Branscum, PhD, RD, and Daphne C. Hernandez, PhD, MSEd The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
Research from Saint Louis University finds treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that leads to an improvement in symptoms was associated with a 49 percent lower risk of incident type 2 diabetes. The study, “Clinically Meaningful PTSD Improvement and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes,” by Jeffrey Scherrer, Ph.D., professor in Family and Community Medicine, was published Aug. 21 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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