Copyright 2009 Medical News Today Latest Anxiety / Stress News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/anxiety/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin) editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors) en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156396.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156396.php As childhood obesity rates continue to increase, experts agree that more information is needed about the implications of being overweight as a step toward reversing current trends. Now, a new University of Missouri study has found that overweight children, especially girls, show signs of the negative consequences of being overweight as early as kindergarten. Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156433.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156433.php Psychotherapy consists of a series of techniques for treating mental health, emotional and some psychiatric disorders. Psychotherapy helps the patient understand what helps them feel positive or anxious, as well as accepting their strong and weak points. If people can identify their feelings and ways of thinking they become better at coping with difficult situations. According to Medilexicon's Psychology / Psychiatry Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156283.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156283.php Mental stress causes carotid artery dilation and increases brain blood flow. A series of ultrasound experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cardiovascular Ultrasound, also found that this dilatory reflex was absent in people with high blood pressure. Cardiovascular / Cardiology Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156285.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156285.php PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) is triggered by a traumatic event - it is a kind of anxiety. The sufferer of PTSD may have experienced or seen an event that caused extreme fear, shock and/or a feeling of helplessness. Most of us experience a brief period of difficulty adjusting and coping with traumatic events. However, we gradually get better with time and healthy coping methods. Psychology / Psychiatry Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156182.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156182.php A scary unknown for many children, the prospect of surgery can cause intense preoperative anxiety. While some amount of stress is normal, what many parents do not know is that extreme anxiety before surgery can contribute to the occurrence of emergence delirium, a distressing incidence of acute behavioral changes experienced when "waking up" from anesthesia. Pediatrics / Children's Health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156041.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156041.php It is well documented that police officers have a higher risk of developing heart disease: The question is why. In the most recent results coming out of one of the few long-term studies being conducted within this tightly knit society, University at Buffalo researchers have determined that underlying the higher incidence of subclinical atherosclerosis -- arterial thickening that precedes a heart attack or stroke -- may be the stress of police work. Heart Disease Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155950.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155950.php Caring for an elderly family member can be stressful and can pose health threats to caregivers. Steven Zarit, professor and head, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State, received a $3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to study the effects of caregiving on familial caregivers. He will look at people who care for family members with dementia and how adult day care impacts the stress levels of all individuals involved. Caregivers / Homecare Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155879.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155879.php Visitors can see how their stress levels could affect the heart rate of their unborn baby and find out why pregnant women should reduce their anxiety, at a new exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, which opens today (30 June 2009). The researchers behind the exhibit, from Imperial College London, hope that it will raise families' awareness of the importance of reducing levels of stress and anxiety in expectant mothers. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155824.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155824.php Findings from Université de Montréal's Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital-Fernand-Seguin Research Centre and McGill University Health Centre Less than two percent of the community were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress, and seven percent report post-traumatic stress symptoms, as a result of the shooting at Dawson College on September 13, 2006. Psychology / Psychiatry Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155221.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155221.php The effect of anxiety on academic performance is not always obvious but new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council suggests that there may be hidden costs. The research found that anxious individuals find it harder to avoid distractions and take more time to turn their attention from one task to the next than their less anxious peers. Anxiety / Stress Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155212.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155212.php Research presented by Bernard Casey of the University of Warwick's Institute for Employment Research shows that work-related stress today damages national output even more than the loss to national output due to strikes at the peak of industrial unrest in the 1970s. At a presentation forming part of the University of Warwick's Social Science Festival Bernard Casey pointed out that at the peak of industrial unrest in the 1970s the UK lost around 12.9 million person days of output. Anxiety / Stress Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155058.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155058.php Children who live in Afghanistan are particularly affected every day by a multitude of war time stressors which increase the likelihood of developing PTSD: trauma, child labor, and family and military violence. On a daily basis they are first-hand witnesses to the bombings, abuse, and the general upheaval of their home life and society as a result of war, including the effects of long-term poverty and familial turmoil. Anxiety / Stress Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155066.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155066.php A good partner relationship can act as a buffer for those exposed to work-related stress. - The relationship reduces the negative effects of this kind of stress on our health. But poor relationships will amplify the negative effects", say Ann-Christine Andersson Arntén in a new doctoral dissertation from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Anxiety / Stress Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155060.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155060.php Greater influence over everyday life, emotional support, and cultural and recreational activities help to enable teenage girls to withstand stress. Those were the results of a dissertation from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Stress and worry amongst teenagers have increased markedly in recent years, especially amongst girls. According to recent statistics from the WHO, as many as seven out of ten teenage girls suffer from stress. Anxiety / Stress Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154849.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154849.php One in five people fall below the official poverty line following the death of their partner. Public Health Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154507.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154507.php Our ability to withstand stress-related, inflammatory diseases may be associated, not just with our race and sex, but with our personality as well, according to a study published in the July issue of the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity. Especially in aging women, low levels of the personality trait extraversion may signal that blood levels of a key inflammatory molecule have crossed over a threshold linked to a doubling of risk of death within five years. Anxiety / Stress Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154332.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154332.php Contrary to a previous report, an analysis of 14 previous studies does not find an association between a serotonin transporter gene variation, stressful life events, and an increased risk of major depression, according to an article in the June 17 issue of JAMA. The authors did find that the number of stressful life events is associated with depression. Genetics Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154132.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154132.php Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: RNN), announced the results of a wide-ranging animal study offering more evidence that Serdaxin™ may be an effective therapeutic for the treatment of anxiety disorders in humans. Serdaxin is Rexahn's leading anxiety and depression drug candidate, and is currently in Phase II clinical trials. Anxiety / Stress Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154116.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154116.php University of California, Berkeley, researchers have found what they think is a critical and, until now, missing piece of the puzzle about how stress causes sexual dysfunction and infertility. Scientists know that stress boosts levels of stress hormones - glucocorticoids such as cortisol - that inhibit the body's main sex hormone, gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH), and subsequently suppresses sperm count, ovulation and sexual activity. Fertility Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154017.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154017.php Geisinger Health System senior investigator and U.S. Army veteran Joseph Boscarino, Ph.D., is proud of his military service, yet he doesn't like to talk much about his combat experiences. Before becoming a renowned researcher of psychological trauma, Dr. Boscarino served a tour of duty with an artillery unit in Vietnam from 1965-66, during which he witnessed heavy combat and its aftermath. To this day, he tries hard not to reflect on those battlefield memories. Psychology / Psychiatry Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153973.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153973.php 92.8% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) suffer anxiety and depression which significantly affects both their physical and emotional quality of life (QoL), according to the results of a new study presented today at EULAR 2009, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism in Copenhagen, Denmark. Logistic regression analysis revealed that depression was the most significant factor shown to affect QoL (p=0.015; OR=0.18; CI 95%:0.045-0.72). Lupus Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153983.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153983.php Members of The AMT (Association for Meridian & Energy Therapies) in the UK have noticed a dramatic increase in the number of clients attending therapy sessions because of anxiety, stress and in more severe cases, Panic Attacks. This has been directly related to the Credit Crunch and personal money worries. Anxiety / Stress Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153645.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153645.php Undertaking a supervised exercise programme can have beneficial effects on functional status and physical function, reduce the need for daily corticosteroid and anti-inflammatory intake and improve levels of depression and anxiety in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a new study presented at EULAR 2009, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism in Copenhagen, Denmark. Arthritis / Rheumatology Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153401.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153401.php Hormonal changes early in pregnancy cause maternal postpartum anxiety and behavior changes that can lead to a delayed onset of puberty in both birth and adoptive daughters, according to a new study conducted in mice. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153364.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153364.php The genetic factors that cause increased sleep problems during times of stress seem to be the same as those that make people with intrusive and ruminative thoughts have a higher prevalence of insomnia, according to a research abstract presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia