Since your skin is the largest organ on your body it is able to be stimulated by its sensory receptors. The hormone oxytocin is the one that makes you feel good and it is released when touched. While the stress…
35-year study challenges belief that marijuana is good for sleep... (Third column, 7th story, link) Millions of people use cannabis as a sleep aid. But new research suggests it may not actually improve sleep quality. In fact, in some cases, using…
ISLAMABAD – More than 32 million people in Pakistan are suffering from mental health disorders, while the country has only 1,050 registered psychiatrists to cater to their treatment needs, the figures presented by the Ministry of Health in the National Assembly unveiled. Data…
No two depression diagnoses are the same, so each case requires an individual treatment approach. When standard treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy and oral antidepressants fail, people with depression should know they’re not out of options — they have others…
A cross-sectional study of 221 Australian adults found that self-reported sensitivity to external sensory information was positively associated with several eating disorder symptom dimensions, most strongly with avoidant and restrictive eating symptoms. News Source: Glenn Wilkins. (October 30, 2026). Sensory sensitivity linked to…
October 30, 2026 — 3:00pm Gender difference is intimately stitched into the fabric of humanity, and at every stage in its long history, medicine has absorbed and enforced socially constructed divisions and assumptions. These divisions have traditionally ascribed power and dominance to men. As…
Methodologically, the team applied Mokken analysis to evaluate construct validity. The analysis flagged items 1, 4, 8, and 10 as showing inadequate construct validity. Removing the weak items produced an eight-item version, the SIS-8, which the study found to have optimal scalability. The practical…
By Jeffery L. Degner There’s the girl who explains every difficulty with a battery of diagnoses ranging from social anxiety to obsessive-compulsive disorder, the young woman who desperately wants an ADHD diagnosis to explain her underperformance at work, and the quiet,…
Beyond the symptom scores, the study collected qualitative responses at twelve months from 25 participants. Most of these respondents reported that they continued using the CBT skills they had learned. The researchers cautioned, however, that these responses reflect only participants who…
Adding automated prompts to transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) reports and electronic medical records (EMRs) in patients with moderate to severe aortic stenosis (AS) does not dramatically improve referral for specialized assessment or valve intervention, a Canadian study suggests. Only about 60% of…
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