Personality disorders, while less known about than some other psychiatric conditions, nonetheless pose serious mental health problems. Researchers are gaining new insights into the brain-circuitry malfunctions that are...
Discoveries
H. Blair Simpson, M.D., Ph.D.
February 01, 2011
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the most severe of the anxiety disorders, is typified by intrusive, distressing thoughts that lead to compulsive, repetitive behaviors that can greatly diminish quality of life and...
Joan Kaufman, Ph.D.
February 01, 2011
A key environmental factor contributing to and highly predictive of psychiatric illness is stress. Children with a history of trauma or maltreatment are at enormous lifetime risk for anxiety, depression, PTSD, suicide,...
Xiangzhong Zheng, PhD
February 01, 2011
The work of a NARSAD Young Investigator could help cast a new light on how a timing system in our body responsive to the day/night cycle generated by the rotation of the Earth is implicated in seasonal depression. Part of...
TAGS: Basic Research, Discoveries, Depression
Dr. Jonathan Javitch
February 01, 2011
Expressed widely throughout the brain, dopamine is a message-carrying molecule called a neurotransmitter, which is involved in a number of regulatory processes related to movement and aspects of cognition such as...
TAGS: Basic Research, Discoveries, Schizophrenia
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