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Schizophrenia Patients Don't Understand Nonverbal Actions

A large portion of the interactions we have with others daily is based on nonverbal actions and social cues, two components of communication that the brains of people suffering from schizophrenia cannot compile properly. A new study has revealed that impairment in an area of the brain responsible for processing such ...

25 May 2011
08:29 GMT

Poverty Linked to Mental Illness, Risk of Suicide

In a new investigation, experts were able to determine that a clear correlation exists between having a poor socioeconomic status and chances of developing a mental illness, or attempting suicide. In other words, being poor makes people more likely to develop neural afflictions, and also to attempt to take their ow...

5 April 2011
02:36 GMT

Depression Could Be Addressed with Neural Pacemaker

A team of investigators believes that severe cases of depression could be addressed by implanting pacemaker-like devices in the brain. These tools would provide relief in the case of patients that do not readily respond to standard therapies and medication. Official statistics show that an estimated 10 percent of all...

2 February 2011
09:13 GMT

Typical Personality for Male and Female Domestic Violence Perpetrators

A new study finds that female domestic violence characteristics are very similar to the three subtypes already established by prior studies in domestically violent men.The study's lead author Zach Walsh, assistant professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia's (UBC) Okanagan campus, says th...

11 August 2010
03:25 GMT

Connection Exists Between Mental Illness and Creativity

Researchers noticed some time ago that creativity tended to appear in the same people who exhibited symptoms associated with mental disorders. Among the most common disease creative people had was schizophrenia. Neuroscientists have been trying to determine how the two are connected ever since, and a new study shows ...

20 May 2010
06:46 GMT

Alzheimer's Causes Memory 'Fuzziness' Early On

A new scientific study has uncovered the fact that Alzheimer's patients find it difficult to separate important information from less important one even early in the onset of the disease. This is a very important find, as it could help researchers get a more thorough insight into how the disease acts on the huma...

4 May 2009
06:37 GMT

Stress Levels Could Increase in the UK

The leader of the UK liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, warned that people suffering from mental distress are very likely to plunge into despair and a deep state of stress if the economy of the country plunges into a recession, especially those who have large loans commissioned from commercial banks. Clegg pointed out th...

1 November 2008
05:19 GMT

Cannabis Exposes Teens to Mental Illness

Cannabis has been around for millennia - indeed, as archaeologists have proved, the miracle of cannabis smoke has been puzzling our ancestors ever since the Neolithic age, which means that yes, once humans have found something they really enjoy, it's unlikely they're going to give it up without a fight. Tod...

2 June 2008
05:26 GMT

Britney Hostage in Her Own Home

I never thought the day would come when I'll have to say I'm really sorry for Britney Spears, but that only goes to show that no one can ever know for sure what's going on in the life of a celebrity, even when that celebrity is under close media scrutiny day and night. Lynne Spears' official state...

6 February 2008
08:45 GMT

The Britney Disease Leaves No Survivors

It's Britney mania taken to a whole new level! Have a look at this nice compilation put together by one of my favorite gossip sites out there, and you'll see what I mean. If media attention was what Britney was after, then she sure got what she asked for - and then some. Saying that she is the talk of the d...

10 January 2008
06:07 GMT

I Will Take Everything Off for You, Baby...

Don't you just love strip joints? I mean, you go there, pocket full of small bills and lots of willingness just to have some good-old fun, without other people judging you or with the fear that your lover will elbow you very subtly right in between your ribs for looking at a hot girl that is not her (not that I ...

8 January 2008
08:20 GMT


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