A recent study, partially supported by a pharmaceutical company, found that topiramate (marketed as Topomax in the U.S.) may be effective in the treatment of alcohol dependence. Researchers ... Read More

A recent study suggests that social workers may be at higher risk for alcohol and drug abuse than the rest of the population. Read more in this summary of ... Read More

Neurolgists at the University of Virginia reported that the removal of a frontal lobe tumor ended a male patient's sexual behavior toward children. The patient had begun to have ... Read More

A new study has found that a "positive emotional style" may protect us from the symptoms of the common cold. Positive people don't get fewer colds, but they seem ... Read More

A bankruptcy judge approved a financing deal this past week that will allow Magellan Behavioral Health, the largest managed behavioral health corporation in the U.S., to emerge from bankruptcy later ... Read More

A study of Internet chat rooms explores the attitudes of married people who go there to meet someone of the opposite sex for cybersex or flirting. The study author contends ... Read More

Several recent studies have added to a body of evidence suggesting that the substance SAMe (S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine) is an effective antidepressant. In the U.S. SAMe is available over-the-counter and in ... Read More

A recent study adds to our knowledge of the effects of stress. Clerical workers in a British study showed more signs of biological stress during the work day than ... Read More

President Bush's 'New Freedom Commission on Mental Health' has released the full version of their final report - complete with typos. The official version was subtitled 'Achieving the Promise: ... Read More

Researchers at Saint Louis University report that elderly patients with delirium do better if they are placed together and cared for in the Delirium Room, essentially a four-bed intensive care ... Read More

Some sufferers of binge-eating disorder engage in chaotic or unusual eating behaviors such as gorging on food straight out of cans or taken from the trash, according to a new ... Read More

Patients with advanced AIDS who suffer from problems like memory loss or failing coordination are significantly more likely to wish for an early death than patients without these problems, according ... Read More

Researchers have discovered a biological marker which may be able to detect autism before a child has any symptoms. A study published in the July 16 issue of the Journal of ... Read More

Relationships are about much more than power, but we will have better relationships if we understand the basic principle that whoever wants less of a relationship has more power. ... Read More

Energy Psychology is a relatively new set of techniques that combine Eastern approaches to the mind and body with Western psychology and psychotherapy ideas. Practitioners of several forms of ... Read More

A new study from Norway suggests that some people with depression might have problems metabolizing the B vitamin folate. Some have interpreted this finding as evidence that folic acid ... Read More

Landon May is on death row in Pennsylvania for the torture killings of a school principal and her husband. He and his attorneys are arguing that bad genes ... Read More

The "thinking" parts of the brain are referred to as 'grey matter.' We still don't understand grey matter very well, but we understand even less about the 'white matter' ... Read More

President Bush has proposed a system of vouchers to pay for substance abuse treatment. The House of Reprentatives agreed to spend $100 million dollars for the program, but the ... Read More

A one year study of the incidence of depression following heart attack and stroke found similar numbers. Some had expected that stroke would result in higher rates of depression ... Read More

New research suggests that head size and formal education may protect against dementia. A group of Catholic sisters 'who completed 16 or more years of formal education or whose ... Read More

A new set of basic psychology studies suggest that when we nod our heads up and down we gain confidence in what we are thinking; but when we shake our ... Read More

The 'double standard' in sexual behavior may be a myth. A new study has found that women who believe that they are hooked-up to a lie detector report having ... Read More

CNN reported today that some Japanese are using the web to form suicide pacts. According to CNN, they trade tips on "which rooftops are the best to jump from" and ... Read More

The U.S. Government has once again produced a report on mental health in the U.S. So far a summary has been released, and it appears less ambitious than the ... Read More

A large study (76,000 students across the United States) found no difference in drug use rates between students of schools that have drug testing programs and those that do not. ... Read More

Children of divorced parents who are separated from one parent due to either parent moving beyond an hour’s drive from the other parent may have problems later in life. ... Read More

The current debate over the safety of using a cell phone while driving focuses on the issue of whether hands-free cell phone use is safer. Britain recently banned ... Read More

Researchers working with data from the recently published human genome project have announced that they have discovered 19 different genetic regions that appear to be involved in depression. Some ... Read More

Both psychotherapy and antidepressant medications appeared to help relieve depression in a recent study that consisted primarily of minority women. Most of the subjects were low-income African-American and Latino ... Read More

A recently-published study suggests that creative and fantasy-prone people remember more dreams. This makes some logical sense, but the study author draws conclusions that seem to go beyond the ... Read More