Sibille E, Wang Y, Joeyen-Waldorf J, Gaiteri C, Surget A, Oh S,Belzung C, Tseng GC, Lewis DA.Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.Am J Psychiatry. 2009 Sep;166(9):1011-24. Major depressive disorder is a heterogeneous illness with a mostly uncharacterized pathology. Recent gene array attempts to identify the molecular underpinnings of the illness in human […]
Harmer CJ, O’Sullivan U, Favaron E, Massey-Chase R, Ayres R, ReineckeA, Goodwin GM, Cowen PJ. University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK. Am J Psychiatry.2009 Oct;166(10):1178-84. Acute administration of an antidepressant increases positive affective processing in healthy volunteers, an effect that may be relevant to the therapeutic actions of these medications. The authors investigated […]
Dwork AJ, Romme Christensen J, Bonde Larsen K, Scalia J, Underwood MD, Arango V, Pakkenberg B, Lisanby SH.Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA.Neuroscience. 2009 Sep 24. Anatomical evidence of brain damage from electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is lacking, but there are no modern stereological studies in primates documenting its safety. Magnetic seizure therapy […]
David N, Aumann C, Bewernick BH, Santos NS, Lehnhardt FG, Vogeley K. University of Cologne, Koeln, Germany.J Autism Dev Disord. 2009 Sep 10. Mentalizing refers to making inferences about other people’s mental states, whereas visuospatial perspective taking refers to inferring other people’s viewpoints. Both abilities seem vital for social functioning; yet, their exact relationship is […]
Pirkis J, Neal L, Dare A, Blood RW, Studdert D.Center for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2009 Apr;39(2):190-3. There are worldwide concerns that pro-suicide web sites may trigger suicidal behaviors among vulnerable individuals. In 2006, Australia became the first country to criminalize […]
Chan VK.School of Business, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Rua de Luis Gonzaga Gomes, Macao, People’s Republic of China. J Gambl Stud. 2009 Jul 11. This article describes the use of neural networks (a type of artificial intelligence) and an empirical data sample of, inter alia, the amounts of bets laid and the winnings/losses made in successive […]
Suurvali H, Cordingley J, Hodgins DC, Cunningham J.Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.J Gambl Stud. 2009 Jun 24. This literature review summarizes recent empirical research on obstacles preventing problem gamblers from seeking treatment for their gambling problems. Relevant databases and bibliographies were searched for English-language papers and reports published since 1998. The […]
Acupuncture has been used for the treatment of alcohol and drug use disorders for many years. Recently, scientists from the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Hospital of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, reviewed studies of the use of acupuncture for the treatment of alcohol dependence.
Researchers have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called “Lujo” virus infected five people in Zambia and South Africa last fall. Four of them died, but a fifth survived. It’s not clear how the first person became infected, but the bug comes from a family […]
Lawrence AJ, Luty J, Bogdan NA, Sahakian BJ, Clark L.Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Addiction. 2009 Jun. Problem gambling has been proposed to represent a ‘behavioural addiction’ that may provide key insights into vulnerability mechanisms underlying addiction in brains that are not affected by the damaging effects of drugs. Our […]
