In the United States, at least 9% of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and are taking pharmaceutical medications. In France, the percentage of kids diagnosed and medicated for ADHD is less than .5%.

A new study provides neurobiological evidence for dysfunction in the neural circuitry underlying emotion regulation in people with insomnia, which may have implications for the risk relationship between insomnia and depression.

“This is a disorder that affects millions of people, and I am one of them,” she told People magazine. 

Patients whose severe depression goes into remission for six months following electroconvulsive therapy report a quality of life similar to that of healthy individuals, researchers say.

Hospitals are playing “Russian roulette” with the lives of patients who have dementia, say campaigners.

The devastating effects of the mental illness, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)  are widely misunderstood.

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can block signs of accelerated ageing that may be linked to Alzheimer’s disease, a study has found. Read more about this study from Stanford University in California, US.

Researchers have found evidence in support of hypercortisol-induced glial dysfunction affecting periventricular white matter integrity in patients with bipolar disorder. Read about it in news.medical.net

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