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Good Vibrations: Mediating Mood Through Brain Ultrasound

By Guest PostJuly 19, 2013Health, Scienceairport code, analog, anatomical structures, anesthesiology, anxiety, blood vessels, brain stimulation, brain ultrasound, clinical trial, depression, good vibrations, high frequency vibrations, human brains, jamie tyler, jay sanguinetti, john allen, mediating mood, megahertz frequencies, microtubules, mood scale, neurotrek, organs, placebo, protein structure, psychiatric disorders, psychological, silicon valley, stuart hameroff, tms, transcranial magnetic stimulation, tucson, ultrasound machine, ultrasound vibrations, university of arizona, vams, virginia polytechnic institute, visual, womb

Ultrasound vibrations applied to the brain may affect mood, UA researchers have discovered. The finding potentially could lead to new treatments for psychological and psychiatric disorders.

University of Arizona researchers have found in a recent study that ultrasound waves applied to specific areas of the brain appear able to alter patients’ moods. The discovery has led the scientists to conduct further investigations with the hope that this technique could one day be used to treat conditions such as depression and anxiety.

Dr. Stuart Hameroff, professor emeritus of the UA’s departments of anesthesiology and psychology and director of the UA’s Center for Consciousness Studies, is lead author on the first clinical study of brain ultrasound, which was published in the journal Brain Stimulation. (more…)

Living in Poor Area as Teen Could Increase Risk for Chlamydia in Young Adulthood

By Guest PostJune 12, 2013Healthaccessed data, bacterial infection, behavioral issues, census data, christopher browning, depression, jodi ford, multiple sex partners, ohio state university, poor area, risk for chlamydia, risky sexual behaviors, sexual activity, sexual risk, sexually transmitted infection, sti, sti risk factors, teen, young adulthood

Study Points to Need for Interventions That Address Neighborhood Poverty

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Living in a poor neighborhood as an adolescent is linked to an increased risk of getting the sexually transmitted infection (STI) chlamydia in young adulthood, according to new research.

Ohio State University researchers analyzed data from a large national study that tracked youths over time. The analysis suggested that children who lived in poor neighborhoods during their teenage years had an almost 25 percent greater risk of having chlamydia in their early 20s – even if they themselves weren’t poor – than did teenagers living in wealthier settings. (more…)

Blast concussions could cause pituitary deficiencies in war vets

By Guest PostJune 3, 2013Healthafghanistan, behavioral sciences, blast concussions, brain injuries, charles w wilkinson, clinical evaluation, depression, elaine r peskind, elizabeth a colasurdo, frequency, hormones, hypopituitarism, Iraq, jane b shofer, kathleen f pagulayan, mental health, oxytocin, pituitary deficiencies, pituitary hormone levels, post traumatic, ptsd, sexual function, stress disorder, university of washington, vasopressin, veterans, war vets

Many veterans suffering from blast concussions may have hormone deficiencies that mimic some of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, according to researchers with the Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System and the University of Washington.

The researchers screened 35 veterans with blast injuries. They found that 42 percent had irregular hormone levels indicative of hypopituitarism, a condition that can often be controlled by replacing the deficient hormones. (more…)

Is this Peptide a Key to Happiness?

By Guest PostMarch 17, 2013Healthashley m blouin, biological cause, brain chemistry, charles l wilson, depression, disorder, happiness, happy, hypocretin, itzhak fried, jerome siegel, key, kidney dialysis, mch, melanin concentrating hormone, neurochemical changes, neurotransmitter, peptide, psychiatric disorders, pursuit of pleasure, radioimmunoassay procedure, richard j staba, social interactions, ssris

UCLA findings suggests possible new treatment for depression, other disorders

What makes us happy? Family? Money? Love? How about a peptide?

The neurochemical changes underlying human emotions and social behavior are largely unknown. Now though, for the first time in humans, scientists at UCLA have measured the release of a specific peptide, a neurotransmitter called hypocretin, that greatly increased when subjects were happy but decreased when they were sad. (more…)

UCLA Study First to Image Concussion-Related Abnormal Brain Proteins in Retired NFL Players

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Technique may lead to earlier diagnosis, tracking of brain disorders in athletes

Sports-related concussions and mild traumatic brain injuries have grabbed headlines in recent months, as the long-term damage they can cause becomes increasingly evident among both current and former athletes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that millions of these injuries occur each year.

Despite the devastating consequences of traumatic brain injury and the large number of athletes playing contact sports who are at risk, no method has been developed for early detection or tracking of the brain pathology associated with these injuries. (more…)

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Proves Effective at Reducing Depression in People Who Have not Responded to Antidepressants

By Guest PostDecember 12, 2012Healthantidepressant medication, antidepressants, australia, bristol, cbt, chris williams, cobait team, cognitive behavioural therapy, controlled trial, depression, emer oneill, exeter, first line treatment, glasgow, john campbell, mood disorders centre, nicola wiles, patients, psychological treatments, symptoms, talking therapy, treatment, uk, universities, willem kuyken, World Health Organisation

Antidepressants are the most widely used treatment for people with moderate to severe depression.

However, up to two thirds of people with depression don’t respond fully to this type of treatment. New findings have shown cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), provided in addition to usual care, can reduce symptoms of depression and help improve patients’ quality of life.

This is the first large-scale trial to test the effectiveness of CBT – a type of talking psychotherapy- given in addition to usual care that includes antidepressants. The National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA)-funded CoBalT study aimed to determine the best ‘next step’ treatment for people whose depression had not responded to medication alone. (more…)

Multiple Media Use Tied to Depression, Anxiety

By Guest PostDecember 4, 2012Healthanxiety, cyberpsychology, depression, media multitasking, mental health problems, multiple media use

Using multiple forms of media at the same time – such as playing a computer game while watching TV – is linked to symptoms of anxiety and depression, scientists have found for the first time. (more…)

Science Supports Sex Addiction as a Legitimate Disorder

By Guest PostOctober 24, 2012Healthanxiety, Bible, bipolar disorder, commercial, cybersex, depression, disorder, dsm 5, healthy sex, heather mckittrick, hypersexual behavior, hypersexual disorder, life, margarit davtian, masturbation, mental health, pornography, psychiatric condition, psychiatric diagnose, psychiatry, radio, rory reid, scientific evidence, sex addiction, sex workers, sexual activity, sexual addiction, sexual behavior, sexual fantasies, sexually transmitted infection, sheila garos, substance abuse, talk show, timothy fong, ucla

UCLA researchers test proposed criteria for diagnosing ‘hypersexual disorder’

The idea that an individual might suffer from a sexual addiction is great fodder for radio talk shows, comedians and late night TV. But a sex addiction is no laughing matter. Relationships are destroyed, jobs are lost, lives ruined.

Yet psychiatrists have been reluctant to accept the idea of out-of-control sexual behavior as a mental health disorder because of the lack of scientific evidence.

Now a UCLA-led team of experts has tested a proposed set of criteria to define “hypersexual disorder,” also known as sexual addiction, as a new mental health condition. (more…)

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