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·November 4, 2022·5 min read

Trauma During Childhood Triples the Risk of Suffering a Serious Mental Disorder in Adulthood

Childhood trauma significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a mental health disorder later in life. For children who experienced emotional abuse, the most prevalent disorder reported was anxiety. Trauma also increased the risks for psychosis, OCD, and bipolar disorder. Significantly, those who experience trauma during childhood were 15 times more likely to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder later in life.

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·April 25, 2016·3 min read

Link Between ADHD and Video Game Addiction

A new study reports on a link between ADHD and video game addiction in young, single men.

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·October 28, 2021·5 min read

Brain Monitoring Suggests Common Link Between Electrical Tremors and Mental Health Disorders

Theta activity in the brain is different following mistakes or challenging tasks in those with common mental health disorders including anxiety, ADHD, and OCD compared to those with no history of the disorders.

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·May 15, 2017·6 min read

Psychedelics in The Lab and Clinic – Making Up For Lost Time

Used in a controlled psychotherapy setting, psychedelics have the potential to treat psychiatric treatments that do not respond to conventional medications, researchers argue.

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·September 18, 2017·3 min read

Debunking the Myth That OCD is Associated With Superior Intelligence

A new study disputes a myth popularized by Freud. Reporting in Neuropsychological Review, researchers say they have found no association between obsessive compulsive disorder and higher IQ.

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·August 9, 2012·2 min read

Brain Hubs Boil when Hoarders Face Pitching Their Own Stuff

In patients with hoarding disorder, parts of a decision-making brain circuit under-activated when dealing with others’ possessions, but over-activated when deciding whether to keep or discard their own things.

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·August 25, 2016·5 min read

Mapping the Brain’s Action Center

Researchers have developed a new technique to map the connectivity of neurons in the striatum.

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·August 19, 2015·6 min read

Creatures of Habit: How Neurons Weigh Behavioral Cost and Reward

According to a new study, habit formation is driven by neurons in the striatum which represent both the cost and reward of the behavior.

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·February 4, 2016·5 min read

Mathematically Modelling How The Brain Makes Complex Decisions

A new study reports researchers have successfully created a biologically realistic math model which captures how the brain learns and makes complex decisions.

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·June 20, 2017·4 min read

People Who Go To Bed Late Have Less Control Over OCD Symptoms

According to researchers, going to be late can result in lower perceived control of obsessive thoughts for those with OCD.

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·June 13, 2017·2 min read

Visual Retraining Program to Help People With Body Dysmorphic Disorder

A new study is aiming to help those with body dysmorphia disorder with the help of a unique visual retraining program.

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·March 27, 2021·7 min read

Gene Changes Linked to Severe Repetitive Behaviors

Study identifies genes that become activated in the brain prior to the initiation of severe repetitive behaviors associated with addiction, ASD, and schizophrenia.

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