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News: May 28, 2012
Surviving Holiday Parties When You Have Social Anxiety
SUNDAY, Nov. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Socializing is a major part of the holiday season, but many people find it difficult. If you suffer anxiety or feel tongue-tied at festive gatherings, here are some helpful tips from Martin Antony, a psychology ...
Social Phobia in Teens Goes Beyond Shyness
MONDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Social phobia is not simply shyness that has been exaggerated by psychiatrists and drug makers, according to a new study that compared rates of shyness and social phobia among American teens. Social phobia, also...
Why Johnny Won't Go to School
THURSDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- The symptoms aren't often alarming: headache, stomachache, fatigue. But they tend to come on weekdays, specifically when your child should be heading off to school. Psychologists call it school avoidance, and ...
Mexican Immigrants to U.S. Prone to Depression, Anxiety Disorders
WEDNESDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- Young adult Mexican migrants in the United States are much more likely to suffer depression and anxiety disorders than family members of migrants who remain in Mexico, a new study finds. Researchers compared ...
'Talk Therapy' Can Alter Brain Activity, Research Shows
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Psychotherapy triggers changes in the brains of people with social anxiety disorder, finds a new study. Medication and psychotherapy are used to treat people with social anxiety, a common disorder in which pe...
New College Students Urged to Confront Their Social Anxiety
SATURDAY, Aug. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Anxiety can be a problem for some college and university freshmen, but there are a number of ways they can cope with new experiences and challenges, an expert suggests. The first step is to get to know your an...
Major Depression Often Follows Brain Injury
TUESDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- People who are hospitalized for a traumatic brain injury face an almost eight-fold higher risk of also suffering major depression. That's the finding of a team led by Charles H. Bombardier, professor of rehabili...
Teens With ADHD, Depression Risk Internet Addiction
TUESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Teenagers with psychosocial disorders such as ADHD, depression and social phobia are more likely to be addicted to the Internet than other teens, new research suggests. Because computer use is a way of life in t...
Serotonin Transporter Gene Tied to Social Anxiety
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A mutation in a gene that transports the brain chemical serotonin may shape social behavior in humans, according to a new study on rhesus macaque monkeys. Humans tend to have either two long (L/L) or two shor...
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