By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) — The symptoms aren’t often alarming: headache, stomachache, fatigue. But they tend to come on weekdays, specifically when your child should be heading off to school.
Psychologists call it school avoidance, and it can take different forms in many age groups.
THURSDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) –
Smoking marijuana increases the risk of depression in youngsters who are genetically susceptible to the mental health disorder, according to a new study.
About two-thirds of the population have the variant of the serotonin gene (5-HTT) that increases vulnerability to depression, said the researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
THURSDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) — Human children are more likely than chimpanzees to collaborate when solving a problem, a new study finds.
Researchers compared the responses of 3-year-old children in Germany with semi-free-ranging chimpanzees in a Democratic Republic of Congo sanctuary.
THURSDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) — Americans with frequent bouts of mental distress are more likely to lack health insurance than those with frequent physical distress, a new study says.
Researchers examined national data collected from 1993 through 2009 and found that 22.6 percent of people with frequent mental distress (indicative of mental illness) were uninsured, compared with 17.7 percent of those with frequent physical distress (indicative of chronic disease). About 16.6 percent of people with neither mental or physical distress were uninsured.
THURSDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) — New research suggests certain long-term psychotherapies may do a better job than an antidepressant in preventing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following a traumatic event.
The Israeli research team also found that delaying treatment for PTSD didn’t seem to boost a person’s risk of chronic symptoms. “A delayed intervention is an acceptable option when early clinical interventions cannot be provided,” as might be the case during wars or disasters, the study authors wrote.
TUESDAY, October 4, 2011 (Health.com) — Depressed people are often withdrawn and antisocial. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they don’t like other people, but it could mean that their brains don’t process feelings of hate in a normal way, a new study suggests.
Scientists in China and the UK scanned the brains of people with and without depression, and they found a surprising pattern in nearly all of the depressed people: Their brain activity was out of sync in three regions collectively known as the “hate circuit”—so called because in previous experiments they have been shown to light up when people look at photographs of someone they can’t stand. Read More
By Maureen Salamon
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) — As scientists continue to tease out the impact of nature versus nurture, it appears that kids unlucky enough to get a “downer” personality gene can end up with sunnier outlooks when they’re parented in a warm, positive manner.
A new study on nearly 1,900 children aged 9 through 15 with a gene variation predisposing them to lower serotonin levels in the brain — which can lead to a gloomier disposition — suggests the youths were more likely to maintain happier emotions when exposed to positive parenting. So-called “genetically susceptible” children who experienced unsupportive parenting showed fewer positive emotions in the three independent experiments comprising the study.
MONDAY, Oct. 3 (HealthDay News) — Even mild strokes can result in serious but unrecognized disabilities, such as depression, vision problems and difficulty thinking, according to a new study.
The findings, released Monday at the Canadian Stroke Congress in Ottawa, suggest new guidelines are needed on the treatment and management of mild strokes, the researchers said.
FRIDAY, Sept. 30 (HealthDay News) — Unspoken clues — like behavior and appearance — influence the doctor-patient relationship, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Michigan found subtle, nonverbal signs not only have an impact on how patients view their relationship with their doctor, they also affect doctors’ medical decisions.
The findings could help doctors better understand how they make decisions and what underlying messages their behavior might send to their patients, the researchers said.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) — The drinking habits of the friends of a teenager’s boyfriend or girlfriend may have more influence on the youngster’s drinking than the habits of the teen’s own friends or romantic partner.
That’s the finding of U.S. researchers who analyzed national data collected from 449 heterosexual couples who were in grades 7 to 12 in the mid-1990s.
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