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New Insights to Understanding and Managing Intellectual Disorder

New Insights to Understanding and Managing Intellectual Disorder

A new mechanism and a potential therapeutic strategy to decrease associated cognitive impairment in an intellectual disorder (ATR-X) syndrome has been investigated by researchers at Tohoku U...

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Alzheimer's: New Tool Helps Develop Personalized Treatment

Alzheimer's: New Tool Helps Develop Personalized Treatment

A novel computational tool has been developed that helps personalize brain stimulation for individual patients suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, reveals a new study. Lazaro Sanchez-R...

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Decoding Dementia: Dementia Action Week 2018

Decoding Dementia: Dementia Action Week 2018

Cognitive screening programmes for the elderly, and public education policies designed to increase awareness of dementia are needed if interventions for individuals with potentially manageab...

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Brain Abnormality Linked to Mental Illness Risk

Brain Abnormality Linked to Mental Illness Risk

A signature abnormality shared between common forms of mental illness, which could help clinicians assess a patient's general risk for developing a psychiatric disorder, revealed study publ...

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Cognitive Training Reduced Freezing of Gait (FoG) in Parkinson's Patients

Cognitive Training Reduced Freezing of Gait (FoG) in Parkinson's Patients

Freezing of gait (FoG) is a disabling symptom of Parkinson’s Disease, characterized by patients becoming stuck while walking and unable to progress forward, often describing the feeling as b...

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Depression in Men can Lower Pregnancy Chances

Depression in Men can Lower Pregnancy Chances

Depression in men was found to be linked to lower pregnancy chances among infertile couples. Men who had major depression were 60 percent less likely to have a baby than those who did not ha...

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Risk of Mood Disorders may Rise With More Biological Clock Disruptions

Risk of Mood Disorders may Rise With More Biological Clock Disruptions

Circadian rhythm disruptions have been linked to mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder. These rhythms are nothing but natural variations that occur in a day in our behaviors...

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Reducing Job Strain can Lower Risk of Depression and Anxiety

Reducing Job Strain can Lower Risk of Depression and Anxiety

High job strain may increase the risk of developing common mental illnesses like depression and anxiety among middle-aged workers. However, reducing their job strain can prevent new cases fr...

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Simple Visual Screening Tool Can Improve Dementia Prediction

Simple Visual Screening Tool Can Improve Dementia Prediction

Simple visual screening tool can help identify people who are at high risk of developing dementia, suggests a new study. In people with a minor decline on the Mini-Mental-State-Examinat...

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Identifying PTSD Could be Affected Under Proposed Changes to Global Diagnostic Tool, Reveals Study

Identifying PTSD Could be Affected Under Proposed Changes to Global Diagnostic Tool, Reveals Study

New research finds fewer individuals across the globe would be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) under proposed changes to the most widely used diagnostic tool - potential...

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People With OCD may Respond to Distress Differently

People With OCD may Respond to Distress Differently

Individuals who have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) feel more distress in certain situations when compared to their unaffected siblings, finds a new study. The findings of this study ar...

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Brain’s Visual Networks Linked to Mental Illness

Brain’s Visual Networks Linked to Mental Illness

Poor communication between brain regions responsible for understanding what we see may increase risk of mental illness, said Duke researchers. The results show that a person's risk of...

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Patient’s Risk of Memory Problems After Heart Surgery can Now be Predicted

Patient’s Risk of Memory Problems After Heart Surgery can Now be Predicted

Six minutes simple walking test could help determine whether a patient will develop memory problems after heart surgery, finds a new study. The findings of this study are published in the Jo...

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Should ‘Shock Therapy’ for Depression Treatment Start Sooner?

Should ‘Shock Therapy’ for Depression Treatment Start Sooner?

The modern form of the ‘shock therapy’ approach called electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) should be made more available sooner to patients who fail to get relief from two other types of treatme...

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Depression Causes Memory Problems

Depression Causes Memory Problems

Depression risk in older people may be associated with problems related to memory and thinking skills, according to a new study published in Neurology ® . "Since symptoms of depressio...

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