Health News and Information - News Medical - Psychiatry - Feb 8, 2018 Edition

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February 8, 2018     Psychiatry     The latest psychiatry news from News Medical

BetterYou supports Mantality initiative to improve men’s mental health and wellbeing   Natural health company BetterYou gave its support to the first ever Mantality retreat in Leeds last month – an initiative which encourages men to speak up about mental health issues and live more complete lives.

Food preservative improves symptoms in antipsychotic-resistant schizophrenia patients   The common food preservative sodium benzoate improves symptoms in clozapine-resistant schizophrenia patients, according to a new study published in Biological Psychiatry.         Community health centers caught in ‘Washington’s political dysfunction’   As lawmakers face another deadline this week for passing legislation to keep the federal government open, one of the outstanding issues is long-term funding for a key health care safety-net program.

When one partner diets, the other is likely to lose weight too, finds study   A recent study has shown that when one partner loses weight and adopts a healthier lifestyle, the other partner is likely to lose weight too.       Somatization Symptoms   Somatization refers to the expression of psychological or emotional problems as physical (somatic) symptoms. A common example is a headache being brought on by stress.       Neuroscientists identify 'anxiety cells' in the brain's hippocampus   Do your palms sweat when you walk down a poorly lit street at night? That feeling may be traced to the firing of newly identified "anxiety" cells deep inside your brain, according to new research from neuroscientists at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.       Novel grape-derived compounds could be developed as therapeutic agents for treatment of depression   In a study to be published online February 2 in Nature Communications, scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai describe an extensive analysis of novel grape-derived compounds, dihydrocaffeic acid (DHCA) and malvidin-3'-O-glucoside (Mal-gluc),which might be developed as therapeutic agents for the treatment of depression.       Patients with acne have increased risk of developing major depression   In an analysis of one of the largest electronic medical records databases in the world, researchers found that patients with acne had a significantly increased risk of developing major depression, but only in the first 5 years after being diagnosed with acne.       Excitatory magnetic brain stimulation reduces emotional arousal to fearful faces, study shows   A new study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging reports that processing of negative emotion can be strengthened or weakened by tuning the excitability of the right frontal part of the brain.       Review: Mindfulness strategies may help prevent or interrupt cravings for food, drugs   Mindfulness strategies may help prevent or interrupt cravings for food and drugs, such as cigarettes and alcohol, by occupying short-term memory, according to a new review from City, University of London.       Concordia study focuses on effects of bilingualism for patients with Alzheimer's disease   After more than a decade of research, this much we know: it's good for your brain to know another language.

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