For veterans battling post-traumatic stress disorder, feeling better is more than just scoring better in clinical measurements. A new study shows that these two metrics often align.
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When we listen to a moving piece of music or feel the gentle pulse of a haptic vibration, our bodies react before we consciously register the feeling. The heart may quicken and palms may sweat, resulting in subtle electrical ...
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A decade after the largest methane leak in U.S. history, a new study by UCLA and NYU researchers sheds light on the mental health impacts of the 2015–2016 Aliso Canyon natural gas disaster on residents of Porter Ranch and ...
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A generic blood pressure drug called prazosin, made by Teva Pharmaceuticals, is being recalled by the Food and Drug Administration because it contains elevated levels of cancer-causing chemicals called nitrosamines.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says drug makers have recalled more than a half-million bottles of the blood pressure medication prazosin hydrochloride over concerns it may include a cancer-causing chemical.
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Newly decoded brain circuits make memories more stable as part of learning, according to a study led by NYU Langone Health researchers.
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Young sexual minority men face higher rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use compared with their heterosexual peers, according to Rutgers Health researchers.
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Mental health challenges can affect anyone, regardless of background or circumstance, and they are becoming more common across the United States.
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In haunted houses across the country this month, threatening figures will jump out of the shadows, prompting visitors—wide-eyed and heart racing—to instinctively freeze and flee.
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Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new insights into the synaptic connections of subgroups of interneurons, findings that may improve the understanding of fear responses and could inform new targeted therapies ...
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological trauma. This event may involve the threat of death to oneself or to someone else, or to one's own or someone else's physical, sexual, or psychological integrity, overwhelming the individual's ability to cope. As an effect of psychological trauma, PTSD is less frequent and more enduring than the more commonly seen acute stress response. Diagnostic symptoms for PTSD include re-experiencing the original trauma(s) through flashbacks or nightmares, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and increased arousal—such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger, and hypervigilance. Formal diagnostic criteria (both DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10) require that the symptoms last more than one month and cause significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
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