by Lachlan Gilbert, University of New South Wales It is more difficult to learn lessons from harmful behaviour such as excessive drinking when our story for why we are suffering is not correct. Credit: Shutterstock Misunderstanding the link between our actions and consequences could be what makes giving up harmful habits so difficult, study shows. People...
by Leibniz-Institut für Resilienzforschung gGmbH Conceptual graphical overview. Following CSD and employing the STST, the single Defeated group is stratified based on social avoidance development toward the threat-associated cue (conditioned learning of aversive cues). The single subgroup of avoiders is further stratified based on social avoidance development toward the safe cue (threat–safety discrimination). The Discriminating-avoiders...
by Wiley Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a recent study, having depression before or after a breast cancer diagnosis was associated with a lower likelihood of survival. The findings are published in the journal Cancer. For the study, Bin Huang, DrPH, of the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center, and his colleagues analyzed data from the Kentucky Cancer Registry...
Sara Reardon Illustration by Adrià Voltà For Rick Doblin, 2023 could be a landmark year: the year that the US government decides whether it will allow the use of hallucinogenic drugs to treat mental illness. Doblin, who is based in Belmont, Massachusetts, is the founder and president of the non-profit organization Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies...
PARIS — A single 25-mg dose of a synthetic formulation of psilocybin appears to improve the core symptoms of treatment-resistant depression (TRD), a new analysis of phase 2 trial data suggests. Known as COMP360, the synthetic agent, a proprietary, purified form of psilocybin, improved symptoms related to mood and anhedonia while leaving aspects such as...
ELSEVIER Philadelphia, April 17, 2023 – A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier, identifies a therapeutic tool focused on emotional awareness that increased activation and connectivity of an emotion-regulating center in the brain. The therapy may be effective in the long-term treatment and relapse prevention of bipolar disorder (BD). Patients with BD experience...
by University of North Carolina Health Care Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Over the past few years, the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry in UNC’s School of Medicine have been working together to spearhead the development of a new “enhanced primary care” model to provide better primary care for patients who have severe...
by Habibeh Khoshbouei, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The nationwide shortages of Adderall that began in fall 2022 have brought renewed attention to the beleaguered drug, which is used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy. Adderall became a go-to drug for ADHD over the past two decades but quickly came under fire because of overprescription and misuse. In some cases, people who do not...
by Max Planck Society Mental health and that of our cardiovascular system have a complex interaction. Credit: Blueastro/Shutterstock.com Our mental health and that of our cardiovascular system have a complex interaction. A recent study from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig, Germany, now shows the links between higher...
by Yale School of Public Health Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A Yale School of Public Health study has found that older persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a common type of memory loss, were 30% more likely to regain normal cognition if they had taken in positive beliefs about aging from their culture, compared to those...
