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Limiting Eligibility For Medical Studies Can Omit Women And African-Americans
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryA new analysis has found that many alcohol treatment studies are designed in ways that inadvertently omit women and African-Americans from participation. The Stanford University School of Medicine researcher who led the effort said the findings should remind all scientists that strict study eligibil ...
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Thu May 2007
Girls' Ability To Perform In Other Academic Areas Undermined By Stereotype-Induced Math Anxiety
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryA popular stereotype that boys are better at mathematics than girls undermines girls' math performance because it causes worrying that erodes the mental resources needed for problem solving, new research at the University of Chicago shows.The scholars found that the worrying undermines women's worki ...
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Wed May 2007
Who Are The Patients Who Respond To Drug Treatment Of Panic Disorder?
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryA group of Dutch investigators have published a study in the May issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, which unravels the characteristics of patients who are more likely to respond to drug treatment in panic disorder.Beliefs about the controllability of a disorder may be relevant in the causati ...
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Tue May 2007
How Depression Begins: Look At Warning Signs
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryGiovanni Fava and Eliana Tossani of the University of Bologna review the literature on how depressive illness begins. Depression does not come out of the blue. There are clear warning signs that patients should know and allow an early intervention.The aim of this review was to survey the available l ...
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Tue May 2007
Restrictive Medical Studies Exclude Blacks And Women
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryTreatment studies that exclude the homeless, illicit drug users or people with mental problems disproportionately curb the number of African-Americans and/or women eligible to participate in medical research, according to a new study from investigators at Stanford University. Lead researcher Keith H ...
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Tue May 2007
In New Study, Duloxetine Was Equally Effective, Regardless Of Switch Method, In Reducing Painful Symptoms In SSRI
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryThe antidepressant duloxetine hydrochloride was equally effective in reducing painful symptoms in depressed patients who did not respond, or responded only partially, to treatment with a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), regardless of whether those patients were switched from an SSRI ab ...
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Tue May 2007
Can You Heal From Chronic Fatigue?
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryA group of investigators of the Dutch and British Universities have studied what happens to patients with chronic fatigue syndrome after intensive treatment in the May issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) leads to a decreas ...
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Tue May 2007
What Is Really Important When You Are Depressed?
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryWhat are the values and inconsistencies in patients who are depressed? A group of investigators of the University of Jena has attempted to identify these aspects in the May issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. In this study, the Authors used the Intrapersonal Conflict Test to assess cognitive ...
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Tue May 2007
No Significant Impairment In Middle-of-the-Night Balance, Mobility Or Memory In Older Adults Using Ramelteon
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryA new study presented today showed that ramelteon did not impair middle-of-the-night balance, mobility or memory performance in older adults with insomnia, relative to placebo. This study also demonstrated, as in previous studies, that patients treated with zolpidem did have impaired performances on ...
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Sun May 2007
Iloperidone Results Show Favorable Akathisia Profile
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryAccording to study results presented today at the 2007 American Psychiatric Association annual meeting, iloperidone, an investigational atypical antipsychotic, was shown to have a favorable akathisia profile. Akathisia a debilitating sensation of restlessness that manifests as an inability to sit st ...
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Sun May 2007
No Satisfaction Zaps Motivation, Fsu Psychologist Says
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryYou can't always get what you want, as the song goes, but if a Florida State University researcher's new theory on motivation holds true, you may not want it anymore anyway. Francis Eppes Professor Roy Baumeister, a renowned social psychologist, has conducted several experiments to learn how satisfa ...
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Sun May 2007
New Study Analyses Explore Once-Daily Seroquel XR? Extended-Release Profile As A Treatment For Schizophrenia
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryAstraZeneca announced that two analyses from a large-scale study that investigated the efficacy of SEROQUEL XR? (quetiapine fumarate) Extended-Release Tablets, a once-daily medicine for the treatment of schizophrenia in adult patients, were presented today at the annual meeting of the American Psych ...
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Thu May 2007
Revealing The Origins Of Morality -- Good And Evil, Liberal And Conservative
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryHow much money would it take to get you to stick a pin into your palm? How much to stick a pin into the palm of a child you don't know? How much to slap a friend in the face (with his or her permission) as part of a comedy skit? Well, what about slapping your father (with his permission) as part [c ...
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Thu May 2007
NIDA Offers Psychiatrists A Look At State-of-the-Science On Addiction And Mental Illnesses
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryThe Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today challenged psychiatrists to learn more about the importance of substance abuse as a factor in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. At the American Psychiatric Association A ...
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Wed May 2007
Seoul Journal: Tracking an Online Trend, and a Route to Suicide
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryThere is a disturbing trend in South Korea: people using the Web to trade tips about suicide and, in some cases, to form suicide pacts. ...
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Wed May 2007
Patterns: Treatment of Depression May Lead to Longer Life
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryFor reasons that are unclear, the reduction in deaths seemed to come almost entirely in the group of patients who had cancer. ...
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Wed May 2007
New Study Suggests No Significant Impairment In Middle-of-the-Night Balance, Mobility Or Memory In Older Adults Using Ramelteon
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryA new study presented today showed that ramelteon did not impair middle-of-the-night balance, mobility or memory performance in older adults with insomnia, relative to placebo. This study also demonstrated, as in previous studies, that patients treated with zolpidem did have impaired performances on ...
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Wed May 2007
Blood Levels Of Paliperidone Extended-Release Tablets Are Not Increased By Common Antidepressant
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryAfter administration of paliperidone extended-release (ER) tablets, blood levels of the drug were not affected when given with a common antidepressant, according to new data presented today at the 160th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Paroxetine, a selective serotonin reupta ...
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Wed May 2007
Antipsychotic Iloperidone Results Show Favorable Akathisia Profile
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatryAccording to study results presented today at the 2007 American Psychiatric Association annual meeting, iloperidone, an investigational atypical antipsychotic, was shown to have a favorable akathisia profile. Akathisia -- a debilitating sensation of restlessness that manifests as an inability to si ...
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Wed May 2007
New Publications Highlight Thoroughly Updated Editions Of Classic Titles - American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc
Categorie : Psychology / PsychiatrySeveral new titles are now available through the American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI), the world's premier publisher of books, journals and multi-media on psychiatry. Recent releases include the much anticipated sixth edition of the Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology, a thoroughly revise ...
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Tue May 2007
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