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Does masturbation cause depression or any other health problems?
The act of masturbation does not cause depression or any other health problem except occasional genital irritation, which is not
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Stress helps unlearn fear: New findings on extinction learning may prove useful for therapies
Stress can have a positive effect on extinction learning, which causes previously learned associations to dissolve. According to the findings
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Breakdown of brain’s visual networks linked to mental illness: Poor communication between brain regions responsible for understanding what we see may increase risk of mental illness
Individual regions of the brain have to team up to get things done. And like in any team, the key
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Long-term effects of pre-birth exposure to anti-depressants 12 years later
Selective serotonin reuptake (SSRI) antidepressant treatment during pregnancy is associated with better performance on a computerized task to measure cognitive
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Discovery of ketamine’s effect on depression is tempered with caution
In the early 1990s, Yale researchers noticed that chronically depressed patients experienced almost immediate—if transitory—relief from symptoms after taking the
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Chronic dizziness can result from, or trigger, psychiatric disorders: Journal of the American Osteopathic Association research notes psychiatric disorders present in 15 percent of patients with chronic dizziness
While most cases of chronic dizziness result from a physical disorder, psychiatric issues can be a cause — or a
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Engaging in physical activity decreases people’s chance of developing depression
An international team including researchers from King’s College London have found physical activity can protect against the emergence of depression,
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New method to discover drugs to treat epilepsy: Method uncovers a promising new use for a well-known cancer drug in stopping difficult-to-treat seizures
For more than a third of children living with epilepsy, the currently approved medications do not stop their seizures. This
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Disordered eating among teens tied to future depression
(HealthDay)—Disordered eating behavior among adolescents is associated with a significantly increased risk of future depressive symptoms and being bullied by
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