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Large rise in suicide among male patients in mental health care

There has been a 29% rise in suicide since 2006 among men under the care of mental health services in the UK, a report by The University of Manchester’s National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide…

Social climbing makes the English happier than Americans

People who grew up in a working class family are more satisfied in later life than those from a higher class background according to new research. The study also found that English people who climb the social ladder are more content and happy when they…

Musical tastes offer a window into how you think

Do you like your jazz to be Norah Jones or Ornette Coleman, your classical music to be Bach or Stravinsky, or your rock to be Coldplay or Slayer?

PTSD affecting ‘a quarter-million’ Vietnam war veterans

Four decades on from the end of the Vietnam war and some US ex-servicemen still experience mental health problems, including post-traumatic stress and major depression.

Source of debilitating memory loss in people with psychosis discovered

As disabling as its delusions and hallucinations, psychosis’ devastating toll on memory arises from dysfunction of frontal and temporal lobe regions in the brain that rob sufferers of the ability to make associative connections, a study has found, pinp…

Transgender children do not have hormone imbalance, study finds

Researchers conducting a prospective study of transgender youth have discovered that transgender youth have hormone levels consistent with their birth-assigned genders.

Manipulating molecule in the brain improves stress response, new target for depression treatment

Increasing the levels of a signaling molecule found in the brain can positively alter response to stress, revealing a potential new therapeutic target for treatment of depression, UT Southwestern…

In pursuit of precision medicine for PTSD

Brain scans may eventually help tailor therapyDr. K. Luan Phan prepares a research participant for an EEG study.

Acupuncture has ‘similar mode of action to psychiatric drugs’

A controlled study in rats finds acupuncture to be effective against chronic stress and reveals clues about how this form of traditional Chinese medicine might work.

New treatment for severe depression with far fewer side effects

Electroconvulsive therapy remains one of the most effective treatments for severe depression, but new UNSW research shows ultra-brief pulse stimulation is almost as effective as standard ECT, with…