Trastornos de Ansiedad
El papel que desempeñan las investigaciones para mejorar el entendimiento y el tratamiento de los trastornos de ansiedad Los trastornos de ansiedad afectan a aproximadamente 40 millones de adultos estadounidenses de 18 años de edad o m& [... more]
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Cells May Provide Target for New Anxiety Medications
A specific population of brain cells could provide a target for developing new medications aimed at helping people learn to mute the fears underlying anxiety disorders, according to NIMH-supported scientists. As a way of modeling anxiety ... [... more]
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Learning Disability Reversed in Mice
Just as traffic signals enable safe traversing of the roadways, so too does the brain's machinery for learning and memory rely on its own stop-and-go signals. An NIMH grantee has traced a human learning disability to an imbalance in signals that ... [... more]
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Tomorrow's Antidepressants: Skip the Serotonin Boost?
New research adds to evidence of potentially better molecular targets in the brain to treat depression and other mental disorders, according to NIMH-funded scientists. The researchers suggest that imbalances in the activity of an enzyme called ... [... more]
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Caffeine No Substitute for a Nap to Enhance Memory
Hoping to improve your tennis serve? It's probably better to catch a few winks than load up on java after a lesson, results of a NIMH-supported study suggest. Caffeine impaired such motor learning and verbal memory, while an afternoon nap ... [... more]
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About The Community Guide
Individual and group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) were the only interventions found effective in an evaluation of seven commonly-used approaches to reduce the psychological harm to youth who experience trauma. Evidence for the five other ... [... more]
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What's next
By age 2, children with autism show unusual patterns of eye contact compared with typically developing children. This symptom appears to be related to a child's level of impairment and may be a useful biomarker for diagnosing autism at an earlier ... [... more]
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Psychotherapies
Psychotherapy, or "talk therapy," is a way to treat people with a mental disorder by helping them understand their illness. It teaches people strategies and gives them tools to deal with stress and unhealthy thoughts and behaviors. [... more]
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First Family-Based Study of its Kind Taps Large NIMH Sample
In the first study of its kind, researchers have pinpointed four genes likely associated with risk for the most common, late-onset form of Alzheimer's disease, including a very strong candidate on chromosome 14. NIMH grantee Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D., ... [... more]
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
A detailed booklet that describes ADHD symptoms, causes, and treatments, with information on getting help and coping. (2008) For more information on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder What is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? What ... [... more]
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Symptoms Persist as Bipolar Children Grow Up
Bipolar disorder (BD) identified in childhood often persisted into adulthood in the first large follow-up study of its kind. Forty-four percent of children diagnosed with BD continued to have manic episodes as adults, in the study by NIMH grantee ... [... more]
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Front-to-Back Wave Envelopes Brain as Child Grows Up
Growth of the brain's long distance connections, called white matter, is stunted and lopsided in children who develop psychosis before puberty, NIMH researchers have discovered. The yearly growth rate of this brain tissue was up to 2.2 percent ... [... more]
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