Mental Health News
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Preference for Alcohol in Adolescence May Lead to Heavy Drinking
DURHAM, N.C. – Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have shown a connection between early drinking patterns and a tendency to be a heavy...
05/05/2008 -
People with Mentally Demanding Jobs Reap Cognitive Benefits into Retirement
DURHAM, NC – Doing a job that is intellectually demanding creates thinking abilities that pay dividends into retirement -- regardless of intelligence...
05/05/2008 -
One in Three People Over 70 Have Memory Impairment
DURHAM, NC – More than a third of people over age 70 have some form of memory loss according to a national study by a team of researchers at Duke...
03/17/2008 -
Negative Outlook Increases Risk of Death in Heart Patients
Baltimore, Maryland – Cardiac patients who have pessimistic beliefs about their recovery are twice as likely to die early than those who feel more...
03/13/2008 -
Monthly Personal Counseling Helps Maintain Weight Loss
DURHAM, N.C. – In the largest and longest study to date of weight loss maintenance strategies, researchers at Duke University Medical Center found...
03/11/2008 -
Duke Researchers Discover How Lithium Works
Despite more than 30 years of widespread use of lithium to control psychiatric disorders, such as bipolar disorder, scientists have been uncertain...
01/14/2008 -
Gender and Stress Alter Depression Rates among People with Common Genetic Variant
DURHAM, N.C. -- A common variation in genes puts women who are under chronic stress at risk for increased depressive symptoms, but has the exact...
11/27/2007 -
Chemical Maps Hint at Drugs' Effects on Schizophrenia
DURHAM, N.C. -- Antipsychotic drugs do most of their work in the brain, but they also leave behind in the bloodstream a trail of hundreds of chemicals...
05/15/2007 -
Brain Scans Reveal Cause of Smokers' Cravings
Video of Jed Rose explaining the regions of the brain that control craving
03/19/2007 -
Diabetes, Depression Together Increase Risk for Heart Patients
DURHAM, N.C. -- Having both depression and type 2 diabetes increases the risk of death for heart patients. Each factor had been known to increase the...
03/09/2007
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