By DR. JOSE S. PUJALTE JR. When sex occupies your mind to an extent that work, relationships, and health suffer, something may be wrong. Hypersexuality or compulsive sexual behavior (also nymphomania, erotomania) interferes with everyday living much like addiction to drugs, alcohol, or gambling.
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May 30, 2009
Psychiatry trying to get its disorders in order (Chicago Tribune)
Guide's scope will decide how -- or even what -- to treat SAN FRANCISCO -- Is the compulsion to hoard things a mental disorder? How about the practice of eating excessively at night?
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Long-Distance Brain Waves Focus Attention
Just as our world buzzes with distractions - from phone calls to e-mails to tweets - the neurons in our brain are bombarded with messages. Research has shown that when we pay attention, some of these neurons begin firing in unison, like a chorus rising above the noise. Now, a study in the May 29 issue of Science reveals the likely brain center that serves as the conductor of this neural chorus.
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Individuals Genetically At Risk Of Developing Psychological Disorders Also Benefit The Most From Positive Environments
Certain individuals have long been regarded as particularly susceptible to developing behavioural and emotional problems when they experience negative environmental conditions, due to the fact that they carry so-called 'vulnerability genes'.
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Psychology Textbook: Translating Science-Based Treatments Into Clinical Settings
Academic Press, a division of Elsevier, would like to announce the publication of a new title in psychology; Evidence-Based Addiction Treatment by Peter Miller, PhD. The growing emphasis on accountability and cost effectiveness in the field of addictions treatment is leading to major changes in standards of care. Inconsistent practices based solely on clinical intuition rather than hard scient
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Psychologist accused of fraud (Centre Daily Times)
A State College psychologist who is being sued by a patient alleging improper treatment is now also
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Staying Together ‘For The Sake Of The Kids’ Doesn’t Necessarily Help Them, Says Study
The research is clear: Adolescents tend to fare better -- academically and behaviorally -- when they live with both biological parents. But when their parents frequently argue, young adults are significantly more likely to binge drink than other teenagers. They also tend to smoke, and their poor school grades are similar to those of their peers who don't have both biological parents at home.
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2009-05-29 Spike activity
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:HBO launches the awesome Alzheimer's Project online. Video, documentary, facts, stories. Very nicely put together.Teen mental health and mindfulness are the focus of a recent ABC Radio National Health Report.The LA Times has more on the ongoing revision of the psychiatrists diagnostic manual, the DSM.God bless 'em. The British Journal of Psych
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The demon drink
Oh dear. It looks like psychologist Glenn Wilson has fallen off the wagon again. From the man who brought you the 'email hurts IQ more than cannabis' PR stunt before repenting, comes the 'the way you hold your drink reveals personality' PR stunt.This time it's to promote a British pub chain and God bless those drink sodden journos who have gone and given it pride of place in the science section o
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Mad honey
I've just discovered there's a form of neurotoxic honey, genuinely known as "mad honey", created by bees taking nectar from the beautiful rhododendron ponticum flower, pictured on the right.The nectar from these plants, prevalent around the Black Sea region of Turkey, occasionally contains grayanotoxins, a class of neurotoxin that interferes with the action potential (electrical signalling) of ne
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