We do not wish to unduly distress pregnant women. More work is now needed to better understand the mechanisms of that relationship and the implications to the unborn child. While evidence in the scientific literature suggests that maternal stress in humans can affect the developing child, the mech…

More than one third of the 1,747 mothers participating in the study reported at least one parenting stressor that boosted their risk of mental health problems, Dr. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mothers of young children who feel they lack emotional support or help in caring for their children have mo…

Article By: A. B. Curtiss, board-certified cognitive behavioral therapist and author of the book BRAINSWITCH OUT OF DEPRESSION.

There is no reason to endure agonizing feelings more than a few minutes. Most of our anxiety is very shallow considering it is the fear of what isn’t, an illusion, like…

Adults with epilepsy in the community (n = 515) were identified through primary care records and sent validated questionnaires, which included the Hospital Anxiety and depression Scale (HADS). The mailout plus included items on demographic and clinical variables. It is crucial to be aware of these…

Taken from Dr Schwart’z book, Brain Lock (Regan Books, 1996) A Cognitive Behavioral based guide to self-treating OCD.Original post by Anxiety Insights

This analysis highlighted a number of areas that separate OCD from anxiety disorders including: Its potential onset during puberty whereas other anxiety disorders have a later age of onset Its equal prevalence amongst men and women as opposed to depressive and anxiety disorders which are more commo…

Other psychological assessments standardized the pool of participants by removing those with mood disorders or other complicating factors. To tryout whether neural activation patterns supported the speculation that these two categories of anxiety are distinct, the researchers selected 42 subjects f…

The World Health Organization reports that mental illness makes up to fifteen percent of disease in the world. Yoga Asana Sessions Increase Brain GABA Levels: A Pilot Study J Altern Complement Med. “The development of an inexpensive, widely available intervention such as yoga that has no side effe…

More… ©Current Medicine Group Ltd However, it is notable that SSRIs additionally inhibit platelet activation, which may affect outcomes in ACS patients. Patients with coronary artery disease often have anxiety, depression, and other related conditions, and SSRIs are commonly used to treat su…

But precisely how depression might affect taste is unknown. Dr Lucy Donaldson from Physiology and Dr Jan Melichar from Community-based Medicine devised a pop quiz to find out. Many depressed public have reduced appetite and in the severely depressed that may be linked to a reduced ability to detec…