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UK researchers discovered that antisocial behaviour may have a biological basis rooted in the inability of some male adolescents to have normal stress
responses that help regulate circulating levels of the stress hormone cortisol causing them to behave less cautiously and with more anger and impulsiveness
at times of stress.
The study Read the rest of this entry »

Conversations about the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan tend to focus on whether we should be there and how we can bring them to a close. What’s less discussed is how these conflicts will profoundly affect health care and academic medicine in the years to come.
The first event in a new series, the Stanford Health Policy Forum, will address that very issue with Read the rest of this entry »

Dartmouth researchers with the National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research are preparing to visit the Galveston, Texas area on their first field mission in early November to study the impact of Hurricane Ike, which hit in late September.
The NCDMHR, established last year with funding from the National Institutes of Health, aims to study long-term recovery from disasters, focusing on mental health. Hurricane Ike is Read the rest of this entry »

Music therapy can reduce psychological stress among pregnant women, according
to research just published in a special complementary and alternative therapy
medicine issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing.
Researchers from the College of Nursing at Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan,
randomly assigned 116 pregnant women to a music group and 120 to Read the rest of this entry »

A doctoral thesis carried out at the University of Granada has proved that patients with serious anxiety disorders (panic disorder with and without agoraphobia, social Read the rest of this entry »

You see it in movies or while viewing your favorite sitcom; a scene at the doctor’s office where the character inevitably gets a little woozy which leads to a fainting spell. It may seem funny when watching it all Read the rest of this entry »

As families across the country face losses of nest eggs, homes or jobs, their young children and teens need emotional support.
Child psychologist Michele C. Thorne, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical psychology at the Indiana University School of Medicine and clinical director of the Consult Liaison Service at Riley Hospital for Children, says that parents should Read the rest of this entry »

Psychological stress and anxiety have been shown to produce an activation of coagulation and fibrinolysis. Resulting hypercoagulability is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, and could therefore contribute to an increased prevalence of coronary artery disease in anxiety patients. generic Read the rest of this entry »

Stress during pregnancy can have unfortunate consequences for children born under those conditions - slower development, learning and attention difficulties, anxiety and depressive symptoms and possibly even autism.
That such stress during a mother’s pregnancy can cause developmental and emotional problems for offspring has long been observed by behavioral and biological researchers, but the objective measuring and timing of that stress Read the rest of this entry »

Current research suggests that stress may activate immune cells in your skin, resulting in inflammatory skin disease. The related report by Joachim et al., "Stress-induced Neurogenic Inflammation in Murine Skin Skews Dendritic Cells towards Maturation and Migration: Key role of ICAM-1/LFA-1 interactions," appears in the November issue of The American Journal Read the rest of this entry »

Ute Lawrence is a survivor of one of the most horrific car pile-ups in Canadian history, involving 87 vehicles and killing eight people. Buy synthroid pills The trauma changed her life, bringing personal distress and the end of her 22-years Read the rest of this entry »

UCSF researchers investigating the appropriate use of procedures to open narrowed coronary arteries — such as angioplasty and stenting — found that less than half of Medicare patients had documented noninvasive stress testing prior to elective percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI, the clinical name for such procedures.
The team analyzed a 20 percent random sample of 2004 Medicare claims data, amounting to 23,887 patients Read the rest of this entry »

Long-term survivors of adult cancers are almost twice as likely to report psychological distress severe enough to cause moderate to serious problems functioning in social, work or school situations, compared to the general population, according to a large, national study presented September 24, 2008, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology’s 50th Annual Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone gets stressed, even babies.
Now, it appears how infants respond to stress is linked to if they have a particular form of a certain gene, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Just as significantly, researchers say they have also found that good parenting - as early as within the first year of a child’s life - can Read the rest of this entry »

During tough financial times, many people try to demonstrate their value at work by working harder and longer. But, if you don’t also make time to take care of yourself, success may come at a hefty cost: your health.
"Buy viagra pills Many people feel like they have to push themselves to unhealthy Read the rest of this entry »

In infancy, genes are the key influence on a child’s ability to deal with stress. But as early as 6 months of age, parenting plays an important role in changing the impact of genes that may put infants at risk for responding poorly to stress.
That’s the message from a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania State University, the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Read the rest of this entry »

The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) is delighted to announce the publication of a comprehensive toolkit "Understanding generalised anxiety disorder" which represents a major advance in helping people understand this debilitating condition. The toolkit provides essential, up-to date information about generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) in both adults and children, its current treatments, and the effects of stigma Read the rest of this entry »

The American Society of Plastic Surgical Nurses presented its Plastic Surgical Nurses (PSN) Editor’s Award to Marlene Rankin, a Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member, and her two co-authors, during its annual convention in Chicago Nov. 1.
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Trubion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
(Nasdaq: TRBN) announced positive data from a Phase 1/2a study
demonstrating that repeat administration with TRU-015 continues to produce
persistent responses and significant improvements in rheumatoid arthritis
(RA) signs and symptoms based on American College of Rheumatology (ACR)
criteria. Trubion also announced positive results following preliminary Read the rest of this entry »

We are all familiar with the question - "Are you a man or a mouse?" What if the answer is "a little of both"? Because of the power of molecular genetics research in animals and the maturation of animal models, the path to identifying genes involved in particular types of behavior, such as fear, is much clearer Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Mullen, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently proposed that all returning combat troops undergo screening for post-traumatic stress disorder with a mental health professional, according to USA Today. Troops currently fill out questionnaires after combat tours that aid in assessing their mental health and are examined by physicians Read the rest of this entry »

The declining state of the Nation’s
economy is taking a physical and emotional toll on all people nationwide,
yet financial stress is impacting women and Hispanics in particular,
according to data from the American Psychological Association’s newly
released 2008 Stress in America survey.
When asked about the recent financial crisis, almost half of Read the rest of this entry »

An estimated 35.1 million Americans live in "food insecure" households, meaning that at some time during the previous year they were unable to obtain or were uncertain of having enough food to fulfill their basic needs. Consequently, many of those people seek aid from federal sources including the Food Stamp Program. Now, a University of Missouri poverty expert has found that, depending on the food stamp benefit amount, the Read the rest of this entry »

Americans are feeling more stress
than they did six months ago, according to a new national stress study. The
survey of 1,000 men and women, ages 18 and older, revealed Read the rest of this entry »

Stress is
unavoidable. What’s critical is knowing when one is moving from good stress
to bad stress — and leaders often are not aware of the difference,
according to research from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL(R)), a
top-ranked, global leadership education and research organization.
When one’s resources meet or exceed the demands put on a person, stress
can show its Read the rest of this entry »