Young people who tend to overuse alcohol are much more likely to suffer from severe depression, anxiety or stress, according to a new study. About 6,000 school-attending teens (ages 12 to 19) and 8,000 young adults (ages 17 to 25) were surveyed for the study by the youth mental health organization Headstrong and psychologists at [...]
Researchers at the University of Chicago have uncovered a link between a metabolic byproduct and brain activity that could result in new treatments for anxiety and other psychiatric disorders. While testing the role of a gene called Glo1 in anxiety, scientists uncovered a new inhibitory factor in the brain: the metabolic byproduct methylglyoxal (MG). The [...]
About 1.1 million adults in the U.S. — or 3.6 percent of the nation’s adult population — are prone to sleepwalking, according to new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The research also showed an association between sleepwalking and psychiatric disorders, such as depression and anxiety. The study “underscores that fact that sleepwalking [...]
Women are more likely to suffer post-traumatic stress than men after leaving an intensive care unit (ICU), according to new research. The research also found that follow-up care — both psychological and physical — can reduce not only the stress, but also post-ICU depression. According to researchers, patients who have been in an ICU often suffer [...]
People who suffer from an anxiety disorder in addition to bipolar disorder are more likely to have severe symptoms of bipolar, such as suicidal behavior, more manic episodes, and more depressive episodes, according to new research led by Regina Sala, M.D. at the New York State Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University. Individuals with both disorders [...]
Researchers from the University of Arizona have identified five factors that lead to a positive body image for women. Shannon Snapp, Ph.D., and her colleagues said many women in contemporary Western cultures are dissatisfied with their bodies, setting them up for eating problems. This led researchers to examine factors that make women more resilient when it [...]
When there are high financial incentives to succeed, people can become so afraid of losing their potentially big payoff that their performance suffers. It is an unexpected conclusion, said researchers at the California Institute of Technology, who suggest that the prevailing notion is that the more people are paid, the harder they will work. But [...]
A study of five urban hospitals showed an average emergency department wait of more than 11 hours for people seeking psychiatric care, according to an article published online in Annals of Emergency Medicine. While the average wait was 8.2 hours, it was 11 hours or longer for those who were intoxicated, older and uninsured, said [...]
People tend to base the severity of their own depression on how depressed their friends and acquaintances feel. Researchers from the psychology department at the University of Warwick found that individuals make faulty judgments about their depression and anxiety symptoms, possibly leading to missed or false diagnoses. For example, people who are surrounded by others [...]
Eating grapes may help relieve anxiety and also minimize anxiety-related hypertension and cognitive impairments, according to a new rat study by researchers at the University of Houston. It is the antioxidants in the grapes that seem to play a protective role on anxiety-like behavior, learning and memory function, and hypertension. The research was presented at [...]
