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People provided with a real-time readout of their brain activity can learn to control that activity and decrease their anxiety, according to a new study. For the study, researchers at Yale University used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to display the activity of the orbitofrontal cortex, a brain region just above the eyes, to people while they lay in a brain scanner. Through a process of trial and error, these people were able to learn to control their brain activity, ...
Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders (DSM V), the federal government’s most prominent psychiatric expert has said the book suffers from a scientific “lack of validity.” The expert, Dr. Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said in an interview Monday that his goal was to reshape the direction of psychiatric research to focus on biology, genetics and neuroscience so that ...
Research has found that OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder - affects a staggering 11 per cent of new mothers. The figures mean that as many moms are affected by OCD as by postnatal depression. The findings, published in the March/April issue of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, show that new moms are far more likely than others to report mild-to-moderate symptoms of OCD after childbirth. The lead researcher of the study, Dr Dana Gossett, said her team were surprised by ...
