The psychostimulant effects of caffeine could provide therapeutic benefits in the treatment of depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders, reveals the new research. Caiffeine exer...
Traumatic brain injury experienced by children can put them at greater risk of developing headache, depression, and intellectual or mental disorders up to five years after the event, reports...
A molecule that aids the process of discarding weak and unwanted neural circuits in the brain, if malfunctioning, could lead to disorders such as autism and dementia, according to a study fr...
A new pluripotent stem cell technology helps understand patients with neuropsychiatric disorders who have either extra copies or missing copies of the CHRNA7 gene, reveals a new study. ...
New comprehensive treatment recommendations to help guide the management of youngsters with neuropsychiatric conditions have been developed by a panel of leading clinicians and researchers a...
Our genes are not the only deciding factor for whether or not we will develop certain diseases and their influence varies depending on the disease. For the first time, a UCLA study ch...
The well-known mechanism of gene expression control - dynamic changes in DNA methylation - is also involved in changes to the excitability of neural cells, suggested researchers from Univers...
Coprophagia refers to a condition in which an individual eats one's feces. It is common in animals but rarely seen in humans. Coprophagia carries a risk of infection and even death. May...
Varenicline (Chantix) and bupropion (Zyban) which aid in smoking cessation may not increase neuropsychiatric adverse events, reports an international team of researchers in a study published...
Recurrent Group A streptococcus (S. pyogenes) infections, which cause 'strep throat', have been linked to autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders, notably Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric...
Evaluating the abrupt onset of neuropsychiatric symptoms in children has to be based on a consensus statement recommending the evaluation process. A panel of leading clinicians and researche...
A British man suffered from a rare condition that made him think that he is no longer alive for the last nine years. The man, who has been identified only as Graham, suffered from a cond...
Conventional genetic approach has not helped in the identification of genes that contribute to a susceptibility to complex neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, major depression ...
It is common knowledge that narcolepsy is a rare disorder characterized by an excessive urge to sleep at inappropriate times and places. Narcoleptics are also often subject to "catapl...
Research has shown that the brain works because 100 billion of its special nerve cells called neurons regulate trillions of connections that carry and process information. The behavior...
Walking Corpse Syndrome or Cotard''s Syndrome is an uncommon neuropsychiatric disorder in which patients experience delusions that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying or have lost their vital organs.
Delusions are firm beliefs by the person of something that is not logically or practically possible. The cause of delusions is believed to be unrealistic expectation and reasoning of a situation.
Victims of an uncommon neuropsychiatric disorder known as Cotard delusion, or walking corpse syndrome think they are zombies.
A British man suffered from a rare condition that made him think that he is no longer alive for the last nine years.
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