Archive: 27/04/2017
National mental-health survey finds widespread ignorance, stigma
Less than half of Americans can recognize anxiety. Most people don't know what to do about depression even when they spot it. And nearly 8 in 10 don't recognize prescription drug abuse as a treatable problem.
Apr 27, 2017
How shifts in excitation-inhibition balance may lead to psychiatric disorders
In a special issue of Biological Psychiatry titled "Cortical Excitation-Inhibition Balance and Dysfunction in Psychiatric Disorders", guest editors Dr. Alan Anticevic and Dr. John Murray, both of Yale University, bring together ...
Apr 27, 2017
Landmark clinical trial to help Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis sufferers
A clinical trial funded by Arthritis Research UK and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) led by professors from the Universities of Liverpool and Bristol has discovered a drug combination that could help thousands ...
Apr 27, 2017
Findings suggest underdiagnosis of AMD not uncommon in primary eye care
Approximately 25 percent of eyes deemed to be normal based on dilated eye examination by a primary eye care ophthalmologist or optometrist had macular characteristics that indicated age-related macular degeneration (AMD), ...
Apr 27, 2017