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For depressed physically ill patients, antidepressants can prove beneficial
Washington, Mar 17 (ANI): Antidepressants are effective at treating depression in patients suffering from physical illnesses, according to a new study.
The systematic review was done by Cochrane researchers at King’’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre in the UK.
The review included 51 studies comparing antidepressants to placebos. Most studies trialled selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or [...]
Kids with emotional difficulties at increased adult obesity risk
Washington, Sept 11 (ANI): Children with emotional difficulties are at higher risk for obesity in adult life, according to a new study.
To reach the conclusion, Andrew Ternouth, David Collier and Barbara Maughan from the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute [...]
Brain function of earthquake survivors gets acutely affected
Washington, Sep 1 (ANI): The earthquake that jolted Wenchuan, China, in 2008 has had an acute impact on the brain function of physically healthy survivors, and even poses a risk to their mental health, according a new research.
Working with collaborators from universities in China, the US and Liverpool, researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry focussed [...]
Genetic variations lined to brain size
Washington, August 19 (ANI): In what may help improve the scientific understanding of autism and other neurological disorders, an international team of researchers have for the first time shown that natural variations in a specific gene influence brain structure.
Co-led by Scripps Research Institute scientists, the research grew out of a larger project called the Thematic [...]
Common variation in a gene may lead to structural changes in the brain
Washington, August 18 (ANI): Common variations in a gene behind Retts Syndrome, autism, and mental retardation have been found to be linked with differences in brain structure in both healthy individuals and patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders, says a report.
“We studied not only the gene itself – a gene called MECP2, which is [...]
Few people altered their behaviour in early stages of swine flu outbreak
London, July 7 (ANI): Perceptions of the swine flu outbreak led only few people to alter their behaviour, suggests a study.
Scientists at Institute of Psychiatry King’s College London and the Health Protection Agency carried out the research to assess public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the outbreak.
Partakers were quizzed about their recent [...]
Rock-solid self-confidence is in the genes
London, July 2 (ANI): If you always attributed a rock-solid self-confidence to upbringing and other environmental factors then better think again, for an unshakeable self belief is in the genes, according to a new study.
The psychiatrists behind the study say that [...]
Continuing to work in later life may help ‘avoid dementia’
London, May 18 (ANI): Alzheimer’s disease may be kept at bay by continuing to work later in life, say scientists.
Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London came up with proposition after analysing data from 1,320 dementia patients, including 382 men.
The researchers found that continuing to work even in old age [...]
‘Cannabis safer than alcohol,’ UK Government helpline tells kids
London, Apr. 19 (ANI): The British Government’s drugs helpline is telling children that cannabis is safer than alcohol, and its ecstasy won’t harm their health, a shocking Sunday Times report has revealed.
The advice, given to reporters who rang the helpline posing as young people, has alarmed anti-drugs campaigners.
In one call, where the reporter claimed to [...]
Many autistic people do have savant-like skills
London, Apr 15 (ANI): A new study has shown that one-third of adults with autism have savant-like skills – such as astounding memory, perfect pitch or the ability to multiply very high numbers together.
The study of about 100 autistic patients revealed that a larger number of people have skills that stand out, both in comparison [...]
Childhood abuse raises psychosis risk in women
Washington, Apr 1 (ANI): Women with a history of childhood abuse are twice as likely to suffer from severe mental problem, suggests a new study.
However, the same association has not been found in men, which suggests that both boys and girls respond to traumatic and upsetting experiences differently.
During the study, the researchers looked at people [...]
Soon, drugs that could stop Alzheimer’s in its tracks
Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): Revolutionary new drugs that could stop Alzheimer’s disease in its tracks are being tested by scientists.
Professor Simon Lovestone, of the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, told the annual meeting of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust that the drugs are undergoing clinical trials.
Current treatment [...]
Scientists successfully use stem cells to replace stroke-damaged tissue in rats
Washington, March 9 (ANI): Scientists have achieved a significant success in using stem cells to replace stroke-damaged tissue in rats.
Led by Dr Mike Modo of King’s College London, the research project was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
The study conducted at the Institute of Psychiatry and University of Nottingham has [...]
Why insomniac ‘Macbeth’ became increasingly paranoid revealed
Washington, January 11 (ANI): Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ suggested a link between sleeplessness and paranoid – with the insomniac title character increasingly becoming paranoid that it will be discovered that he had killed the king – and now his artistic theme has been seconded by a Wellcome Trust-funded study.
Published online in the journal ‘Schizophrenia Research’, the [...]
