Cocaine addicts may become trapped in drug binges - not because of the euphoric highs they are chasing but rather the unbearable emotional lows they desperately want to avoid. In a study published today online in Psychopharmacology, Rutgers University Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Professor Mark West, and doctoral student David Barker in ...
Date Posted: November 9, 2013
Categories: Addictions
GOSingapore -- More teenagers, some as young as 13, are being treated at Singapore's public hospitals for eating disorders. Figures from the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) show that 95 youngsters aged 13 to 19 suffered from anorexia or bulimia last ...
Nov 9
Categories: Eating Disorders
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In order for prolonged exposure therapy, an evidence-based psychotherapy for PTSD, to reach its full potential, any misperceptions or ruptures in trust and communication between therapist and client need fixing, according to a new Case Western ...
Nov 9
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a behavioral disorder characterized by the inability to focus and a lack of control over behaviors often leading to an overactive state. ADHD is often diagnosed in children, who are usually ...
Nov 8
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child and/or ...
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A lack of support and rehabilitation services is one of the major concerns for older people living with mental illness, new research by an Australian health charity has found.
SANE Australia’s study, Growing Older, Staying Well – Mental health ...
Nov 8
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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A lot of bad behaviour goes on at night. Too much drinking, eating, fighting and all the rest.
But is this just down to the fact that people are mostly at work during the day, or is it more than that?
Could it be that people’s self-control is ...
Nov 7
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There’s good news and there’s bad news. Which do you want to hear first?
That depends on whether you are the giver or receiver of bad news, and if the news-giver wants the receiver to act on the information, according to researchers at the ...
Nov 7
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SINGAPORE: Patients diagnosed with addiction disorders can now undergo acupuncture treatment on top of their existing psychiatric and psychological treatments.
A new acupuncture clinic has been set up by the National Addictions Management Service ...
Nov 7
Categories: Addictions
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For long, brain development and maturation has been thought to be a one-way process, in which plasticity diminishes with age. The possibility that the adult brain can revert to a younger state and regain plasticity has not been considered, often. In ...
Nov 6
Categories: Depression
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My colleague, Tim Wilson, has long advocated that the psychology department at the University of Virginia stop interviewing potential graduate students or job applicants.
We conduct unstructured interviews, as most departments do, meaning the ...
Nov 6
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Imagine if scientists discovered a toxic substance that increased the risks of cancer, diabetes and heart, lung and liver disease for millions of people. Something that also increased one’s risks for smoking, drug abuse, suicide, teen pregnancy, ...
Nov 6
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Parenting, Stress ...
GOPsychopathology may be represented as residing on a continuum, ranging from, at one end “psychotic” to at the other end, “normal”. “Personality disordered” and “neurotic” lie between the two. However, there are general differences in ...
Nov 6
Categories: Borderline Personality Disorder, Schizophrenia
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While popular media often depicts highly-involved parents negatively as “helicopter parents” or “tiger moms”, how does placing one’s children at the center of family life really affect parental well-being? This paper finds that parents who ...
Nov 5
Categories: Parenting
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Several weeks ago, on September 24th, Popular Science announced that it would banish comments from its Web site. The editors argued that Internet comments, particularly anonymous ones, undermine the integrity of science and lead to a culture of ...
Nov 5
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Researchers at the New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN), the University of Miami, and the Lionheart Foundation in Boston, found that mindfulness training, a meditation-based therapy, can improve attention skills in incarcerated youth, ...
Nov 5
Categories: Social Anxiety / Phobia
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Pedophilia is not a “sexual orientation,” and erroneous use of that phrase will be corrected soon in its new manual on mental illnesses, the American Psychiatric Association said Thursday.
The APA’s statement came in response to media ...
Nov 5
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