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By Bill Freeman In a set of four papers published in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, the survey authors reported that a majority of Americans will have a mental health disorder at some time in their life, but that most are mild; that those disorders often go untreated; and that even when …
By Bill Freeman While lithium treatment has proven to be a godsend for many of the two million Americans with bipolar disorder, it is not without its downside. People on the drug may develop hypothyroidism, tremors, cognitive impairment, and excessive thirst and urination and gain weight. However, better treatments for bipolar disorder depend on a …
By Bill Freeman Newswise Newswise &emdash; A study commissioned by the American Psychiatric Association and led by a psychiatrist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has found that light therapy effectively treats mood disorders, including seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and other depressive disorders. A report of the study, which …
By Bill Freeman (Boston) (Boston) &emdash; What’s bad for your ticker may be good for your bean, according to research from a team of scientists at Boston University. The team looked at 18 years of data from the long-running Framingham Heart Study and found an association between naturally high levels of blood cholesterol and better …
By Bill Freeman Intriguing research into the mechanisms of age-related mental decline is discussed at Betterhumans. Scientists have identified a very low-level process in neurons that can be tweaked to at least partially negate “the cognitive decline that affects about 40% of people over 65. Although scientists don’t know the exact cause of age-related mental …
By Bill Freeman Doctors have found important new evidence to explain why mental function becomes less efficient with ageing. In the first study of its type in the world, a team at the University of Edinburgh found that inferior mental function is linked with abnormally enlarged channels around blood vessels in the brain. Doctors have …
By Bill Freeman You know the type: Bright kids who barely get by in school. Coworkers with a habit of missing deadlines. Friends who never get around to doing what they say they want to do. Lazy, you say. Dr. Mel Levine prefers another term. “They are not lazy; they have output failure,” Levine writes …