Paranoia rife among us, researchers say March 31, 2008 Courtesy Wellcome Trust and World Science staff Paranoia afflicts as many as one in three people,...
Rates Of Rare Mutations Soar Three To Four Times Higher In Schizophrenia In a major step toward solving the puzzle of schizophrenia, researchers have found...
Mental disorders and exposure to war in Lebanon In the first study in the Arab world to document mental illness and treatment on a national level, researchers...
Restrictive drug policies often cause schizophrenic patients to discontinue medication Policies requiring authorization before physicians can prescribe newer...
April Fool jokes a laughing matter for world's media Media around the world regaled their audiences with stories of stretched French presidents and bisexual...
Uterine Stem Cells Create New Neurons That Can Curb Parkinson's Disease ScienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2008) - The injection of uterine stem cells trigger growth of new...
Why we don't always learn from our mistakes If you are struggling to retrieve a word that you are certain is on the tip of your tongue, or trying to perfect a...
Majority Of US Physicians Favor National Health Insurance ScienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2008) - The largest survey ever of American physicians' opinions on health-care...
Young black men are at higher risk of suicide than their white counterparts A study examining suicide rates and pre-suicide clinical symptoms in people from...
Insomnia may perpetuate depression in some elderly patients In addition to being a risk factor for a depressive episode, persistent insomnia may perpetuate the...
Virtual reality underground ride reveals extent of public paranoia Computer people (avatars) on a simulated underground train. The virtual reality simulation...
Want docs to treat the underserved? Make sure they train at community health centers University of Washington researchers have found that community health...
New study finds glamorization of drugs in rap music jumped dramatically over 2 decades A new study finds that references to illegal drug use in rap music...
Published online 1 April 2008 | Nature 452, 510-511 (2008) | doi:10.1038/452510a Drug markers questioned A recent spate of worrying clinical-trial data has...
Published online 1 April 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.715 Laughter brings out a red nose Clown make-up may have a foundation in biology. Lori Floap A...
Exposure to War as a Risk Factor for Mental Disorders David M. Benedek, Robert J. Ursano Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this article. ...
Schizophrenic Brains Show Sex Pattern Reversal, Compared With General Population Differences in activation of brains, in white, of men (top row) and women...
Fear Of Messing Up May Cause Whites To Avoid Blacks ScienceDaily (Apr. 2, 2008) - Democratic consultant Donna Brazile brought home America's reluctance to talk...
It just takes a little black humour and a few white lies to avoid being yellow cowards. PtP ... From: Kekahuna Keaweiwi To: Livingnation ; Hui Pu ; Hawaii...
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Kids' terror plot 'motivated by revenge' By staff writers April 03, 2008 08:34am Tiny terrors ... why did a group of children plan to knock their teacher...
Lack of sleep can provoke sleepwalking Sleepwalkers are advised to keep a regular bedtime to avoid unwanted evening strolls, according to research from the...
Yale study suggests evolutionary source of alcoholism's accidental enemy Some change in the environment in many East Asian communities during the past few...
Brain DNA 'remodeled' in alcoholism Reshaping of the DNA scaffolding that supports and controls the expression of genes in the brain may play a major role in...
Hypnosis - the key to unlocking the delusional mind? Researchers at Macquarie University have developed an original new approach to the study of delusions,...
The Lean Gene: Thinness Is An Inheritable Trait New research suggests that a woman's waistline may have less to do with rigorous exercise and abstaining from...
Interesting/amusing: I just had a conversation the other day where I expressed a speculation about an apparent emphasis on delusional thinking in psychiatry as...
Alcohol alters prefrontal cortex activity through ion channel disruption Researchers have long believed that abnormal function in the prefrontal cortex (PFC)...
Kicking the habit Neuroscience Gateway (April 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngw1811 A new treatment that blocks a neurotransmitter receptor involved in anxiety may...
Childhood mental health problems blight adult working life Mental health problems in childhood blight adult working life, suggests research published ahead of...
