Improved Neural Development in Children Moved from Institutional Care
Researchers from Harvard, Tulane, the University of Maryland and Boston Children's hospital compared MRI and EEG scans of 20 normally developing Romanian children with...
Individualism a Risk Factor for Depression
Findings from a survey of 6,082 individuals, designed to explore racial and ethnic differences in mental disorders, reinforce the relationship between social support and...
Expressed Emotion in Families of 1-year-old Children
This study, in Child: Care, Health and Development, adds to the research that "high levels of expressed emotion (EE) in parents have been found...
Fear in Infants Predicts Guilt in Toddlers, Later Psychopathology
Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales find that fear in infants is a predictor of guilt in later life, and write in Development and...
Spanking is Associated With Mental Illness
Canadian researchers, publishing today in the journal Pediatrics, find that physical punishment such as spanking is associated with an increased risk of mental disorders....
Lowered Oxytocin in Schizophrenia
Researchers from Japan found, in a study of 27 persons with a schizophrenia diagnosis, 17 with major depressive disorder, and 27 controls, that negative...
Stress Reduces Gene Activity Thought to Protect Against Depression
Researchers at Yale University found that stress in rats blocks the activity of a gene that promotes healthy neural connections in the brain. The...
Chemical Imbalances and Other Black Unicorns
āWhat do you think caused your problems?,ā I asked.
āI have a chemical imbalance, a chemical imbalance, an imbalance in the brain that makes me ill.ā
Familial Factors Affect Depression, BD, OCD, PD, and Phobias
A study of 566 families with 1416 bipolar-disordered members, and 675 families with 1726 depressed members by researchers from Johns Hopkins and the University...
“Mental Illness” and the Spiral of Shame
A researcher from the University of California in Santa Barbara writes today in the Journal of Social Psychiatry that "one reason that theories of...
Amygdala Development and Caregiver Absence
A researcher from UCLA writes in Developmental Psychobiology of the effects of caregiver absence on the development of the amygdala, suggesting that caregiver deprivation...
Nevada Legislation Aims to Curb Psychotropics in Foster Children
A touching article in the Las Vegas Sun follows one child from abandonment through foster placements, polypharmacy, suicidality, delinquency and homelessness to stability off...
The Functional Neurology of Guilt in Depression
The University of Manchester in England, along with the D'Or Insitute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have found that differences in activity in the...
Antenatal Depression Associated w/Mom’s Childhood Maltreatment
Maternal antenatal depression is highly correlated with a history of the mother having been mistreated in childhood, and these two facts significantly increase the...
Eye Movement and the Schizophrenia Diagnosis
Researchers from the U.S., Germany and the U.K. found they were able to differentiate 88 persons with schizophrenia diagnoses from 88 controls with almost...
Childhood Stress Alters Memory and Brain Structure
Researchers from the universities of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New Orleans collected MRI scans and assessments of executive functioning and stress exposure from 61...
Children Raised in Institutions: Increased ADHD, Anxiety, etc.
Data drawn from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project show that children raised in institutions in Romania exhibit elevated symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, depression, and...
Stress Response in Individuals and Families Predicts Psychosis
Researchers from King's College, London, reviewed all studies examining psychological and biological markers of the stress response in both individuals at high risk of...
Similarity of Dissociation and Voice-Hearing in DID and Schizophrenia
A study of 40 patients with schizophrenia diagnoses and 40 patients with dissociative identity disorder (DID) found that "neither phenomenological definitions of dissociation nor...
Stress Sensitivity and Tolerance Associated With Psychosis
Researchers from Columbia and NYU found that stress sensitivity and impaired stress tolerance was greater in a cohort of 65 individuals deemed at high...
Discrimination Impacts Mental Health: Especially Among the Educated
A cross-sectional study of 1,994 individuals in a deprived area of Japan found that perceived discrimination was significantly associated with depressive symptoms and a...
Anxiety and the Severity of Mania
Researchers from Spain, noting that "anxiety has scarcely been studied in acute mania," analyzed data from 242 patients admitted for a diagnosis of acute...
Emotional Numbing Links Trauma and Callousness
A sample of 276 youth recruited from 2 juvenile detention centers found that the association between trauma exposure and callous-unemotional traits was mediated by...
Mental Illness is the Leading Cause of Military Hospitalizations
Since 2001 almost $2 billion have been spent on drugs to treat mental illness and PTSD in soldiers, but mental illness is still the...
Dissociative Experiences Mediate Childhood Trauma/Auditory Hallucinations
Researchers in SpainĀ assessed 71 patients diagnosed with psychoses for dissociative experiences, trauma, delusions and hallucinations. Childhood trauma was positively associated with dissociation (r =...
