Diagnosing depression prior to it begins

Other authors of the paper are Dina Hirshfeld-Becker, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Joseph Biederman, director of pediatric psychopharmacology at Massachusetts General Medical facility (MGH); Mai Uchida, an assistant professor of …See all stories on this topic

Jessica Alba Has OCD: Dual Psychotherapies Can Relieve Condition

Or I ‘d double-check every door in my house making sure it was locked in the evening.” The research study is published in the Journal of Scientific Psychiatry. “We understand that exposure and response prevention therapy (EX/RP) can benefit these patients,” said lead …See all stories on this subject

Decades of failing to recognize ADHD in ladies has created a “lost generation” of females

In between 2003 and 2011, parents reported an increase of ADHD diagnoses of 55 % for girls, compared to 40 % for children, according to a 2015 study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. And yet women continue to be misdiagnosed in spades, with alarming …See all stories on this topic

Anxiety, weight problems typical amongst bipolar clients with tired stress system

Martin Maripuu, doctoral student at the Department of Scientific Sciences, Department of Psychiatry, has studied the connection in between low cortisol levels, so-called hypocortisolism, and poor psychiatric and somatic health in patients with recurrent …See all stories on this subject

Researchers begin to understand how the environment impacts state of mind

In their newest research study, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have revealed that an enzyme called Dnmt3a is essential in how the frontal cortex mediates stress-induced stress and anxiety. Adjustment of this enzyme may represent a brand-new …See all stories on this subject