Mental Health
103 Articles & Excerpts
Daily Passion Improves Male Fertility
by eNotAlone.com
According to a new evidence, couples who are trying to conceive a child, should make love at least once a day on a regular basis. Researchers from Australia say that daily sex improves men's sperm quality by reducing the amount of DNA damage.
Recession Forces Women To Spend More Money
by eNotAlone.com
Women during financial crisis are inclined to do more shopping and spend more money in order to rid themselves of depression associated with recession, suggest the findings of a new survey by British psychologists.
People With Down Syndrome Less Likely To Have Cancer
by eNotAlone.com
Individuals with Down syndrome seem to have a lower risk of developing many types of cancer and the reason is that they have extra copies of chromosome that helps to keep tumors from feeding themselves and growing, according to U.S. researchers
Fathers' Mental Disorders Pass On To Their Children
by eNotAlone.com
Fathers who have psychiatric or behavioral disorders are more likely to pass them on to their kids, and, in particular, to their sons, says Dr. Paul Ramchandani of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Naltrexone: New Drug - New Hope For Kleptomaniacs
by eNotAlone.com
It turns out that a drug that is commonly used to treat alcoholics and drug addicts, can have the same benefits when treating kleptomaniacs from their urge to steal, reports a new study by the University of Minnesota.
Work Promotion Is Actually Bad For Health
by eNotAlone.com
Promotion at work can be good for the pocket, but can be very risky for a person's mental health, according to British economics and psychology researchers from the University of Warwick in Coventry.
Economic Crisis Affects Our Health
by eNotAlone.com
There is nothing else but economy that preoccupies the minds of Americans at present times of economic stress and recession. The negative statistics on unemployment, tanking investments, housing costs and consumer confidence keep coming and coming
Being Mentally Ill Doesn't Mean Being Violent
by eNotAlone.com
According to American researchers mental illness alone does not predict future violent behavior, but mental illness in combination with substance abuse or dependence does increase the risk of violence.
Anger And Irritation Management
by eNotAlone.com
Today psychologists do not see anger and irritation as signs of someone's abnormal behavior. It is considered as a normal process that has allowed humans to evolve and adapt. It is not a bad thing in itself, but problems arise if it is not being handled
Latest Study On Antidepressant Use
by eNotAlone.com
The Women's Health Australia study has revealed that one in five young Aussie women have been diagnosed with depression. Almost 18 per cent of the young women have reported higher rates of depression compared to 13 per cent in the age of 53 to 58
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 Madness and Civilization; A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault has achieved something truly creative in this book on the history of madness during the so-called classical age: the end of the sixteenth and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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 The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
by Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D.
What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it? Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer
American Woman's Home
by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is such an intimate connection between the body and mind that the health of one can not be preserved without a proper care of the other. And it is from a neglect of this principle, that some of the most exemplary and conscientious persons
The Story of the Mind
by James Mark Baldwin
In the foregoing pages we have had intimations of some of the important questions which arise about the connection of mind with body. The avenues of the senses are the normal approaches to the mind through the body; and, taking advantage of this
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
by George M. Gould, M.D., Walter L. Pyle, M.D.
Epilepsy has been professionally recognized as a distinct type of disease since the time of Hippocrates, but in earlier times, and popularly throughout later times, it was illy defined. The knowledge of the clinical symptoms has become definite
Maintaining Health
by R. L. Alsaker
On mental questions there is a wide divergence of opinion. At one extreme some say that all is mind, at the other, that life is entirely physical, that the mind is but a refined part of the body. Most of us recognize both body and mind, and realize
Understanding Fragile X Syndrome
by National Institute of Health
Fragile X syndrome (also called Fragile X) is the most common inherited form of mental retardation. It results from a change, or mutation, in a single gene, which can be passed from one generation to the next.
Down Syndrome Facts: Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment
by National Institute of Health
Named after John Langdon Down, the first physician to identify the syndrome, Down syndrome is the most frequent genetic cause of mild to moderate mental retardation and associated medical problems and occurs in one out of 800 live births
Understanding Mental Retardation
by CDC
Mental retardation is characterized both by a significantly below-average score on a test of mental ability or intelligence and by limitations in the ability to function in areas of daily life, such as communication, self-care
Mental Health - Mental Illness
by Health Canada
Most Canadians are affected by mental illness, either directly or indirectly, through family, friends or colleagues. Yet there is still a stigma attached to this range of diseases that is a barrier to correct diagnosis and treatment
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