A PhD thesis defended at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has investigated the relationship between adolescents’ perception of their physical qualities and their psychological well-being and unwellness. Self-concept may be defined as the totality of perceptions that each person has of themselves, and this self identity plays an important role [...] Read more »

The September 11 terrorist attacks had a profound impact on this country’s psyche. Eight years after the attacks, we are still learning how those terrible events affected us. A number of studies have shown that people who lived closest to the sites of the terrorist attacks experienced heightened levels of stress and anxiety in the [...] Read more »

When a child experiences a traumatic event, such as sexual abuse, it may not be until well into adulthood that they remember the incident. It is not known how adults are able to retrieve long-forgotten memories of abuse and there has been some controversy as to the authenticity of these reports. Read The Full Article…Childhood [...] Read more »

Take a guess — how long are the dashed lines that are painted down the middle of a road? If you’re like most people, you answered, “Two feet.” The real answer is 10 feet. That’s the federal guideline for every street, highway, and rural road in the United States, [...] Read more »

Autism Sunday, the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome falls on Sunday 8th February 2009. Cathedrals, churches and religious organisations around the world are to mark the international day and pray for over 60 million people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome across many nations. Autism Sunday was founded [...] Read more »

Bipolar disorder appears to increase the risk of early death from medical illnesses, according to a literature review study published as the lead article this week in the journal Psychiatric Services. The researchers comprehensively reviewed 17 studies involving more than 331,000 patients. Read The Full Article…Link Between Bipolar Disorder And Risk Of Early [...] Read more »

People with mental illness alone are no more likely than anyone else to commit acts of violence, a new study by UNC researchers concludes. But mental illness combined with substance abuse or dependence elevates the risk for future violence. “Our study shows that a link between mental illness and violence does exist, [...] Read more »

Violence appears to be more common among those with mental illness only when they also report substance abuse or dependence, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Researchers have been studying the connection between mental illness and violent behavior [...] Read more »

A new study has found that the more a teenager is exposed to television and other electronic media the higher are his/her chances of developing depression symptoms in young adulthood – this is especially the case for young men, says a study published in Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA/Archives journal. The authors [...] Read more »

The September 11 terrorist attacks had a profound impact on this country’s psyche. Eight years after the attacks, we are still learning how those terrible events affected us. A number of studies have shown that people who lived closest to the sites of the terrorist attacks experienced heightened levels of stress and anxiety in the [...] Read more »