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Illicit drug use and abuse may be genetic
Researchers have found that genetic factors may play an important role in a person's use, misuse or dependence of illicit drugs like marijuana, stimulants, opiates, cocaine and psychedelics.   view more (2006-07-06)

Breastfeeding and good fats help new moms fight depression
Breastfeeding and the good fats in Omega-3 fatty acids help new moms fight depression, according to a new article published in the most recent issue of the International Breastfeeding Journal by a University of New Hampshire researcher.   view more (2007-05-03)

Children's emotional distress after hurricane linked with parents' stress levels
Many families who lived through the destruction of Florida's Hurricane Charley in 2004 are likely still struggling with the storm's effects on their mental health.   view more (2006-05-16)

Monkeys can perform mental addition
Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated that monkeys have the ability to perform mental addition. In fact, monkeys performed about as well as college students given the same test.   view more (2007-12-18)

Liberian fighters exposed to sexual violence have more mental health disorders after war
Men and women who experienced sexual violence while fighting in Liberian civil wars report higher rates of symptoms of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and thoughts of suicide than non-combatants or other former combatants who were not exposed to sexual violence.   view more (2008-08-13)

New study has surprise findings on childhood depression
A child's social environment may have only a modest effect on whether very young children become depressed, according to new Australian research.    view more (2005-06-01)

Researchers develop new method for studying 'mental time travel'
Neuroscientists at Princeton University have developed a new way of tracking people's mental state as they think back to previous events - a process that has been described as "mental time travel."   view more (2005-12-23)

New study shows that infants have 'mind-reading' capability
One of the unique characteristics of humans that distinguish us from the animal kingdom is the ability to represent others' beliefs in our own minds. This sort of intuitive mind-reading, according to experts, lays the cognitive foundations of interpersonal understanding and communication.   view more (2007-08-06)

Adaptive Brain Interfaces (ABI) - Reading your Mind
In today's fast paced world, information and communication technologies are dramatically transforming industries, economies and the quality of our lives. Access to new emerging technologies can be taken for granted. Unfortunately, not everyone can enjoy the benefits provided by information and... view more (2000-11-16)

Community Victimises Mentally Ill - University of Ulster Survey
Mentally ill people released from hospital often face a life of harassment, violence and abuse in the community, research from the University of Ulster has revealed.   view more (2002-04-30)

Exposures to the insecticide chlorpyrifos in pregnancy adversely affect child development
Children who were exposed prenatally to the insecticide chlorpyrifos had significantly poorer mental and motor development by three years of age and increased risk for behavior problems.   view more (2006-12-05)

Rutgers Scientists Discover Brain Cell Development Process Implicated in Mental Retardation, Finding May Lead to New Drug Therapies
Scientists at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have discovered a biological process in brain cell development that may help explain some causes of mental retardation. This understanding may one day help other researchers develop therapies that can reduce specific forms of retardation.   view more (2007-08-01)

Happy home and social life makes living in a poor neighbourhood more bearable for adolescents
Individual and family attributes may make some adolescents more 'resilient' to the effects of living in a disadvantaged community, according to new research sponsored by the ESRC.   view more (2005-01-11)

One in five women sexually assaulted in North Carolina
Almost one in five women in the US state of North Carolina has been sexually assaulted, shows research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. There was a high rate of risk factors for serious ill health among the assaulted women, the findings show. Over 2000 women in North Carolina... view more (2002-03-11)

Elevated rates of mental health problems among survivors of tsunami
Adult and children in the tsunami-affected areas in Thailand have elevated rates of mental health problems such as symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression up to 9 months after the disaster   view more (2006-08-02)

Mental disorders and Genetics: the ethical context
PRESS RELEASE   view more (1998-09-22)

PRENATAL AND POSTNATAL EXPOSURE TO POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS LINKED TO POOR INFANT COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT (pp 1568, 1602)
A study in this week's issue of THE LANCET suggests that both prenatal and postnatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls-from maternal blood and breastmilk, respectively-can hinder early childhood cognitive development. The study also concludes that a stimulating home environment can counteract... view more (2001-11-07)

Common gene version optimizes thinking — but with a possible downside
Most people inherit a version of a gene that optimizes their brain's thinking circuitry, yet also appears to increase risk for schizophrenia, a severe mental illness marked by impaired thinking, scientists at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have... view more (2007-02-09)

Moderate stress during pregnancy does not harm child development
Many cultures hold that stress during pregnancy affects a woman's unborn child. However, there has been surprisingly little research on the topic.   view more (2006-05-17)

Back to the Future: Psychologists examine children's mental time traveling abilities
Planning and anticipating occur so frequently in our everyday lives that it is hard to imagine a time when we didn't have this capability. But just as many other capacities develop, so does this mental time traveling ability. Researchers have recently explored how children comprehend the future and... view more (2008-08-06)

Researchers uncover mechanisms of common inherited mental retardation
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center are uncovering how brain cells are affected in Fragile X syndrome, the most common cause of inherited mental retardation and the most common genetic cause of autism.   view more (2008-01-09)

Cleanliness is next to godliness
THE notion that a strict, possibly even God-fearing, upbringing may contribute to obsessive-compulsive disorder has been boosted by a survey which discovered that devout Catholics were more likely to show symptoms than less religious people.          Patients... view more (2002-05-29)

CBT self-help packages lead the way in treatment for depression
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) should be one of the preferred routes for treatment of individuals experiencing mild to moderate depression, according to a new report published by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).   view more (2004-12-15)

Some heart patients vulnerable to mental stress
The fear of public speaking might cause some people to do more than just break out in a cold sweat and battle stomach-churning butterflies-it could prove to have consequences for their heart health.   view more (2006-03-07)

Poor educational outcomes are linked to youth offending
Youngsters who commit crime are more likely to have problems at school and to have missed weeks of teaching because they were excluded.   view more (2005-03-18)
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