May 15, 2020

Evidence and experience suggest that mental health-focused mobile apps hold the potential to overcome barriers to treatment in primary care. While safe and effective apps exist, evaluating and integra...

May 04, 2020

Physicians and nurses working in the ED are often the first to recognize sings of sexual abuse and identify children currently being abused. Although these emergency medicine professionals can serve m...

Apr 30, 2020

Data suggest that the ascendancy of medicalization, legalization, and social acceptability of marijuana has resulted in an overall rise of past-year marijuana use from 11.0% (25.8 million) in 2002 to ...

Apr 30, 2020

THURSDAY, April 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The presence of a mental disorder is associated with an increased risk for many subsequent medical conditions, according to a study on a Danish population ...

Apr 30, 2020

THURSDAY, April 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The incidence of Alzheimer disease (AD) is significantly higher in patients with psoriasis versus individuals without psoriasis, according to a Korean stud...

Apr 29, 2020

Evidence suggests that disordered eating (DE) is a growing problem among adolescent athletes, with a negative impact on both physical and mental health. Additionally, DE can progress to eating disorde...

Apr 28, 2020

Recently, we identified a novel orexin 2 (OX ) receptor antagonist, SDM-878 (2-(3-(2-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)nicotinoyl)-3,8-diazabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-8-yl)-3-methoxyisonicotinonitrile). The purpose of the pr...

Apr 28, 2020

The aim of the present study was to investigate various aspects of tiagabine (TGB) effectiveness in Bulgarian patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. This open, prospective study recruited the patients...

Apr 28, 2020

Sleep is one of the most important body mechanisms responsible for the proper functioning of human body. Cyclic alternating patterns (CAP) play an indispensable role in the analysis of sleep quality a...

Apr 28, 2020

At the extreme spectrum of consciousness during sleep, some patients with rare hypersomnias reported experiencing a specific night 'blackout' when sleeping, i.e., an absence of experiences or recall o...

Apr 28, 2020

Impairments of social cognition are considered core features of schizophrenia and are established predictors of social functioning. However, affective aspects of social cognition including empathy hav...

Apr 28, 2020

Early life adversity in humans is linked to cognitive deficits and increased risk of mental illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, with evidence for different vulnerabil...

Apr 28, 2020

Normal brain-aging occurs at all structural levels. Excessive pathophysiological changes in the brain, beyond the normal one, are implicated in the etiology of brain disorders such as severe forms of ...

Apr 28, 2020

Schizophrenia (SZ) is found to be associated with dysconnectivity between the various regions of the brain. These aberrant connections in brain networks responsible for various mental processes in sch...

Apr 28, 2020

Some patients with schizophrenia have impaired hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function. However, there is a dearth of studies focusing on corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) levels in the brain...

Apr 28, 2020

Physiological regulation is so fundamental to survival that natural selection has greatly favored the evolution of robust regulatory systems that use both reactive and preemptive responses to mitigate...

Apr 28, 2020

Family caregivers encounter many challenges when managing pain for their loved ones. ​​There is a lack of clear recommendations on how to prepare caregivers in pain management.To evaluate existing...

Apr 28, 2020

NIMHANS ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) model uses a video conferencing app to connect multiple community health care teams simultaneously with addiction treatment specialists and b...

Apr 28, 2020

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive brain disorder characterized by memory loss and the accumulation of two insoluble protein aggregates, tau neurofibrillary tangles and beta-amyloid plaques. Wi...

Apr 28, 2020

Defective proprioceptive integration may play a role in the pathophysiology of motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD). Dysfunction related to proprioceptively-evoked postural reactions in PD patie...