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Psychological scientists at the University of California have found a strong link between daily-life stresses to long-term mental health. The main questions they were trying to investigate was whether or not emotional experiences accumulate to cause overall detrimental effects, or … Continue reading →

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have found distinct differences in brain functioning between children at risk of developing schizophrenia and those who are not. In this study, fMRI was performed on 42 subjects aged 9 to 18, half … Continue reading →

It has been announced that the next edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will be adding a new type of somatic symptom disorder. The new category will eliminate the requirement that somatic … Continue reading →

Researchers at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center have reported that twenty-three percent of women who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This PTSD diagnosis is especially seen … Continue reading →

Behaviourists from ETH Zurich have demonstrated that the interplay between infection during pregnancy and stress in puberty may play a key in the development of schizophrenia in mouse models. The prevalence of schizophrenia is around one percent, and this disorder … Continue reading →