Individuals with many different psychiatric disorders have a higher tendency to choose smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards, a
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Researcher decodes the brain to help patients with mental illnesses: Study demonstrates that network-level brain activity can detect specific types of mental effort
Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the United States experience mental illness in a given year. Severe mental illnesses cause
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Boosting amino acid derivative may be a treatment for schizophrenia
Many psychiatric drugs act on the receptors or transporters of certain neurotransmitters in the brain. However, there is a great
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Teaching happiness to dementia caregivers reduces their depression, anxiety: Simple positive emotion skills yield benefits in physical and emotional health
Caring for family members with dementia — which is on the rise in the U.S. — causes significant emotional and
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Big data study identifies drugs that increase risk of psychosis in youth with ADHD
Certain drugs prescribed to teens and young adults with ADHD increase their risk of psychosis, say researchers at McLean Hospital
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Young people at risk of addiction have differences in key brain region
Young adults at risk of developing problems with addiction show key differences in an important region of the brain, according
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Maternal depression and natural disaster-related stress may affect infants’ temperament
A new Infant Mental Health Journal study demonstrates that prenatal maternal depression has important consequences for infant temperament. Furthermore, the
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Common test for mental health understanding is biased, study finds
How do clinicians rate how well a patient understands what other people are thinking and feeling? That is to say
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Immune system and postpartum depression linked? Research in rats shows inflammation in brain region after stress during pregnancy
The immune system might play an important role in the development of postpartum depression after a stressful pregnancy, new research
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Omega-3s help keep kids out of trouble: How diet, biology can prevent bad, even criminal behavior
Something as simple as a dietary supplement could reduce disruptive, even abusive behavior, according to newly released research by a
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