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In a potentially seismic move, the National Institute of Mental Health - the world's biggest mental health research funder, has announced only two weeks before the launch of the DSM-5 diagnostic ma...
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A good move that will lead to some actual progress on research in mnetal health. Delete the scoop?
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Juts like obesity and happiness, it seems depressive cognitive style can also spread via networks - say based on who your college room mate is! Delete the scoop?
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Schizophrenia patients experiencing relapse are 29 times more likely than healthy individuals to have a urinary tract infection, researchers report.Urinary tract infections, which can cau
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Many infections (esp UTI) can be a trigger for Schizophrenia relapse , it seems! Delete the scoop?
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Vaughan Bell: New research is challenging polarised views of how best to define, diagnose and treat conditions such as schizophrenia
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The judge in the case of 'Colorado shooter' James Holmes has made the baffling decision that a 'narcoanalytic interview' and 'polygraph examination' can be used in an attempt to support an insanity...
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In India, this flawed technique is routinely used and held up by courts!! Delete the scoop?
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Certain painful experiences are more likely to precede depressive episodes than others. And some forms of loss can trigger depression more quickly than previously realized
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depression is a result of chronic stress...and an interpersonal loss is typically chroninc in nature. Delete the scoop?
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Some people with severe mental illness are capable of high levels of achievement.
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By implanting electrodes in the brains of patients, doctors seem to have successfully reversed some severe depressions — and provided a new way of thinking about mental illness. Delete the scoop?
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New Findings Suggest that Religiosity and Autism Are at Odds... Delete the scoop?
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Most people bounce back from trauma — but some never recover. Scientists are trying to work out what underlies the difference. Delete the scoop?
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For my recent Observer article I discussed how genetic findings are providing some of the best evidence that psychiatric diagnoses do not represent discrete disorders. As part of that I spoke to Mi... Delete the scoop?
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Research suggests that mental illnesses lie along a spectrum — but the field's latest diagnostic manual still splits them apart.
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For Wired's 20th anniversary, Steve Silberman chronicles the birth of neurodiversity -- a neologism that called attention to the fact that many atypical forms of brain wiring also convey unusual skills and aptitudes.
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A new study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that Google searches for information across all major mental illnesses and problems followed seas
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summers better for mental health than winters:-) the sunshine effcet:-))
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People with schizophrenia don't have a Master's degree in Neuroscience. I'm simply too intelligent to have schizophrenia, right?
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People with mental illness can still achieve significantly- the trick is to keep one's symptoms/ disease in rein; either by medications/ therapy or some other means. Delete the scoop?
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Brain injury is often messy and not as clear cut and exposing dissocitaions as depicted by popular neurologists. Delete the scoop?
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By implanting electrodes in the brains of patients, doctors seem to have successfully reversed some severe depressions — and provided a new way of thinking about mental illness. Delete the scoop?
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It’s arcane, contradictory and talks about invisible entities which no-one can really prove. Yes folks, the new psychiatric bible has been finalised. The American Psychiatric Association have... Delete the scoop?
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It appears we may have at least two main modes of thought, one that focuses on social interactions and the mental states of others, and another that focuses on inanimate objects and the physical principles that make them work. Delete the scoop?
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People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia, according to researchers whose large-scale Swedish registry study... Delete the scoop?
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What using a club drug to treat depression reveals about the brain... Delete the scoop?
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Genes influencing depression also bolstered our ancestors' immune systems -- an understanding that's informing experimental therapies. Delete the scoop?
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