Alcohol Cravings In Response To Negative Emotions Felt More Acutely By Men

Women and men tend to have different types of stress-related psychological disorders. Women have greater rates of depression and some types of anxiety disorders than men, while men have greater rates of alcohol-use disorders than women. A new study of emotional and alcohol-craving responses to stress has found that when men become upset, they are more likely than women to want alcohol.

Improving Anxiety Treatment Through The Help Of Brain Imaging: A Potential Future Treatment Strategy

Wouldn't it be nice if our doctors could predict accurately whether we would respond to a particular medication? This question is important because research studies provide information about how groups of patients tend to respond to treatments, but inevitably, differences among groups of patients with the same diagnosis mean that findings about groups of patients may not apply to individuals from those groups.

Next Pharmaceuticals Announces A New Clinical Study Demonstrating Relora R Significantly Relieves Short-Term Anxiety In Healthy Women

Next Pharmaceuticals announced the results of a six-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study on Relora conducted on healthy women between the ages of 20 and 50. Relora significantly reduced short-term anxiety compared to the placebo group. The study conducted by Miami Research Associates, a clinical research organization in Miami, Florida, was published in Nutrition Journal, an open access peer-reviewed, online journal.

Exposure Therapy Effective To Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

The progression from acute stress disorder to post-traumatic stressdisorder may be prevented by exposure-based therapy, in which traumasurvivors are guided to relive a troubling event. These reults werepublished in an article released on June 2, 2008 in the Archivesof General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.Acute stress disorder, sometimes called shock, involves the developmentof a strong stress response after a traumatic event.

Relationship Between Personality Constructs And Different Anxiety Types Among Chinese And Caucasian College Students

This study investigates the relationship between personality constructs and different anxiety types among Chinese and Caucasian college students, and found that socially-prescribed perfectionism appeared to be a more accurate predictor of anxiety for the Chinese group as compared to their Caucasian counterparts. For the individualistic Caucasian culture - which prescribes high expectations to personal achievement, perfectionism has more impact on trait anxiety.

New Study Suggests It's Okay To Keep Those Feelings Inside

Contrary to popular notions about what is normal or healthy, new research has found that it is okay not to express one's thoughts and feelings after experiencing a collective trauma, such as a school shooting or terrorist attack.In fact, people who choose not to express their feelings after such an event may be better off than those who do talk about their feelings, according to University at Buffalo psychologist Mark Seery, Ph.D.

21,000 Victorians Suffer From Work-Related Depression

Almost one in six cases of depression among working Victorians are caused by job stress. This means more than 21, 000 cases of preventable depression are caused by job stress each year, a new University of Melbourne study shows.Stressful working conditions in this study were defined as a combination of high job demands and low control over how the job gets done (or 'job strain').

Multicellular Response Is 'All For One'

Real or perceived threats can trigger the well-known "fight or flight response" in humans and other animals. Adrenaline flows, and the stressed individual's heart pumps faster, the muscles work harder, the brain sharpens and non-essential systems shut down. The whole organism responds in concert in order to survive.

Stress At Work Increases The Progression Of Arteriosclerosis

Work stress, resulting from great pressure at the work place, may increase the progression of atherosclerosis by 46% in people who have highly reactive personalities to stress. This is demonstrated by a study which will be discussed at the XVI World Congress of Cardiology to be held from May 18th - May 22nd in Buenos Aires and will be attended by 15, 000 professionals from more than 100 countries. The study, performed by researchers at the School of Public Health in Berkeley, U.

Mother's Prenatal Stress Predisposes Their Babies To Asthma And Allergy

Women who are stressed during pregnancy may pass some of that frazzlement to their fetuses in the form of increased sensitivity to allergen exposure and possibly future asthma risk, according to researchers from Harvard Medical School who presented their findings at the American Thoracic Society's 2008 International Conference in Toronto on Sunday, May 18."While predisposition to asthma may be, in part, set at birth, the factors that may determine this are not strictly genetic.