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Face-Haters Have Abnormal Visual Processing
Explain that brain scans of patients with body dysmorphic disorder show hypoactivity in visual processing regions and hyperactivity in frontostriatal systems when patients with the disease look at an image of their own face.Patients with body dysmorphic...
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Diagnosis and treatment of GAD
dDepression Supplement: Rory Hafford puts generalised anxiety disorder under the microscope and discovers a wolf in sheeps clothing Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is a lot more common than one might think.At any one time, at least 5 per cent of the...
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Barriers to insulin initiation: The Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) Insulin Starts Project
Karter AJ et al.Subjects failing to initiate prescribed insulin commonly reported misconceptions regarding insulin risk (35% believed that insulin causes blindness, renal failure, amputations, heart attacks, strokes or early death); plans to instead work...
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25% of sick claims cite mental health
ALMOST A quarter of the 77,665 people in receipt of illness benefit last year cited mental health issues as the reason they were unfit for work, new figures show.Minister for Social and Family Affairs Mary Hanafin has said she will develop policy to...
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What Is Social Anxiety Disorder? What Causes Social Anxiety Disorder?
Social anxiety disorder or social anxiety is an excessive emotional discomfort, anxiety, fear or worry about social situations.The individual is exceptionally worried about social situations, being evaluated or scrutinized by other...
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Phobias come in all shapes and sizes
The fourth edition of Webster's New World College Dictionary defines "phobia" as an "irrational, excessive and persistent fear of some particular thing or situation." The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association takes that...
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety and Depression
CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY Dr Wagner is the Marie B.Gale Centennial Professor and vice chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical Branch at...
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