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 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170033.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170033.php The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is supporting National Stress Awareness Day as statistics reveal more than 11 million working days were lost to work related stress last year. This startling figure translates as a £4 billion cost to society and HSE wants companies to be made aware of the real cost, not only to people but also to business. Anxiety / Stress Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170036.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170036.php UNISON, the UK's largest public sector union, has accused employers of "burying their heads in the sand," instead of tackling stress, anxiety and depression in the workplace. The latest statistics from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence show that 13.7 million working days are lost each year as a result of work-related illness, costing employers a massive £28.3bn a year. Anxiety / Stress Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169871.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169871.php Use of cannabinoids (marijuana) could assist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder patients. This is exposed in a recent study carried out at the Learning and Memory Lab in the University of Haifa's Department of Psychology. The study, carried out by research student Eti Ganon-Elazar under the supervision of Dr. Irit Akirav, was published in the prestigious Journal of Neuroscience. Anxiety / Stress Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169719.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169719.php Individuals who experience both childhood adversity and traumatic events in adulthood appear more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder than those exposed to only one of these types of incidents, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In addition, the risk was further increased in individuals with a certain genetic mutation. Anxiety / Stress Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169515.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169515.php A study of an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme has found it had significant clinical results for depression and anxiety sufferers. The results are published today, 2nd November 2009, in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology. Psychology / Psychiatry Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169436.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169436.php Stress-evoked changes in circuits that regulate serotonin in certain parts of the brain can precipitate a low mood and a relapse in cocaine-seeking, based on mouse studies published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "The impetus for this research was our interest in how stress alters the brain's cell receptors and protein signals in ways that lead to mood changes, depression, anxiety, and drug seeking," said Dr. Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169350.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169350.php No pain, no gain applies to happiness, too, according to new research published online this week in the Journal of Happiness Studies. People who work hard at improving a skill or ability, such as mastering a math problem or learning to drive, may experience stress in the moment, but experience greater happiness on a daily basis and longer term, the study suggests. Psychology / Psychiatry Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169360.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169360.php They found that the prevalence of all common mental disorders was 27.2%, and PTSD symptoms, 4.8%. There were no substantial differences in the prevalence of PTSD symptoms between US and UK troops deployed to Iraq, which had been previously found. In UK troops, the most common diagnoses were alcohol abuse (18.0%) and depression/anxiety (13.5%). Mental Health Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169354.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169354.php Biofield therapies, which claim to use subtle energy to stimulate the body's healing process, are promising complementary interventions for reducing the intensity of pain in a number of conditions, reducing anxiety for hospitalized patients and reducing agitated behaviors in dementia, over and above what standard treatments can achieve. However, longer-term effects are less clear. Dr. Shamini Jain, from the UCLA Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, and Dr. Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169045.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169045.php The USF Health Rothman Center for Neuropsychiatry in St. Petersburg, FL, is conducting a two-year federal trial testing the effectiveness of behavioral psychotherapy in treating anxiety among young adolescents with autism. The University of South Florida is one three sites for the $1-million study, sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Autism Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169013.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169013.php A new study published in the journal Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology reveals that anxiety in pregnant women impacts their babies' size and gestational age. Specifically, women with more severe and chronic anxiety during pregnancy are more likely to have affected babies. Shahla M. Hosseini, Minhnoi W. Biglan, Cynthia Larkby, Maria M. Brooks, Michael B. Gorin, and Nancy L. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168747.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168747.php In two new studies, presented at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 74th Annual Scientific meeting in San Diego, researchers explored the connection between high stress, high exposure occupations and long-term gastrointestinal disorders. GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168657.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168657.php More than half the people who take antidepressants for depression never get relief. Why? Because the cause of depression has been oversimplified and drugs designed to treat it aim at the wrong target, according to new research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The medications are like arrows shot at the outer rings of a bull's eye instead of the center. Depression Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168522.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168522.php There are increasingly precise molecular insights into ways that stress exposure leads to fear and through which fear extinction resolves these fear states. Extinction is generally regarded as new inhibitory learning, but where the inhibition originates from remains to be determined. Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the primary inhibitory chemical messenger in the brain, seems to be very important to these processes. Anxiety / Stress Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168435.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168435.php After exposure to extreme life stresses, what distinguishes the individuals who do and do not develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? A new study, published in the October 1st issue of Biological Psychiatry, suggests that it has something to do with the way that we control the activity of the prefrontal cortex, a brain region thought to orchestrate our thoughts and actions. Anxiety / Stress Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168420.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168420.php AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced positive results from a Phase 2 clinical trial of ARX-03, a proprietary sublingual dosage form combining an opioid, sufentanil, with a benzodiazepine, triazolam. ARX-03 is designed to address the current unmet need for a non-invasive product to provide mild sedation, anxiolysis and analgesia with rapid onset of action for the increasing number of painful and anxiety-producing office-based procedures. Pain / Anesthetics Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168332.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168332.php Researchers have discovered that a primitive region of the brain responsible for sensorimotor control also has an important role in regulating emotional responses to threatening situations. This region appears to work in concert with another structure called the amygdala to regulate social and emotional behavior. Psychology / Psychiatry Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168267.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168267.php UK experts who conducted a review of research on work-related stress found that while fewer older workers report high stress levels compared to their younger counterparts, this could be because they are the healthy "survivors" of the workplace. They suggest that protecting tomorrow's older workers from stress is a good investment, especially as more of us will be working longer and older workers will form a larger part of the workforce. Anxiety / Stress Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168206.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168206.php Experts at The University of Nottingham say our stress levels at work peak when we reach about 50 to 55 years of age and decrease as we head towards retirement. In the first comprehensive report into age related stress and health at work to be carried out in Britain researchers from the Institute of Work, Health and Organisations also found that the effects of stress in our working lives can stay with us well into retirement. Seniors / Aging Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167869.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167869.php Many junior doctors meet criteria for burnout and fear that their workload could compromise patient safety, according to the results of two surveys published in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA). Dr Alex Markwell and Dr Zoe Wainer, of the AMA Council of Doctors in Training, report in the MJA on a confidential survey of 914 junior doctors in Australia and New Zealand. Anxiety / Stress Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167534.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167534.php People living close to green space have lower rates of anxiety/depression and poor physical health than those living in concrete jungles, finds research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The researchers base their findings on the health records of people registered with 195 family doctors in 95 practices across the Netherlands. Between them, the practices serve a population of almost 350,000. Anxiety / Stress Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167261.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167261.php Women with breast cancer reduced stress and improved their mental health and emotional well being through the Transcendental Meditation technique, according to a new study published in the of the peer-reviewed Integrative Cancer Therapies (Vol. 8, No. 3: September 2009). Breast Cancer Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166603.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166603.php A new research center exploring the science underlying a potential new treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder has been established at the University of Rochester Medical Center, thanks to a $10.5 million award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Rochester will serve as the hub of a five-year collaborative effort that includes six institutions around the nation and in Puerto Rico. The prestigious Silvio O. Psychology / Psychiatry Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166406.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166406.php A recent study from the latest issue of Personal Relationships shows that individuals who have experienced violence at an early age may have trouble adjusting to healthy, adult romantic relationships and are at a higher risk to experience marital difficulties. The research reveals that early exposure to a violent environment is likely to lead to domestic violence situations later in life. Psychology / Psychiatry Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166452.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166452.php New research published on bmj.com today reports that people with ordinary mental disorders such as depression and anxiety are at increased risk of becoming obese. The authors say their findings also indicate that individuals with chronic or repeat episodes of common mental disorders are particularly at risk. Earlier studies report conflicting results. Depression