McGill University - A psychopharmacology study has found that a new class of antidepressant drugs known as serotonin4 (5-HT4) receptor agonists may take effect four to seven times faster than traditional selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The study, led by former McGill post-doctoral fellow in psychiatry Guillaume Lucas with his supervisor, the late Dr. Guy […]

University of Washington - Using new software developed to investigate how the brains of dyslexic children are organized, researchers have found that key areas for language and working memory involved in reading are connected differently in dyslexics than in children who are good readers and spellers.
However, once the children with dyslexia received a three-week instructional […]

Patients with depression appear to have an impaired ability to recover their heart rate variability following acute coronary syndromes such as heart attack, a factor that could increase their risk of coronary death, according to a report in the September 2007 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, patients who […]

Brown University - A groundbreaking public health study has found a connection between damp, moldy homes and depression. The study, led by Brown University epidemiologist Edmond Shenassa, is the largest investigation of an association between mold and mood and is the first such investigation conducted outside the United Kingdom.
Shenassa said the findings about the mold-depression […]

Institute of Physics - Until recently physicians have had to rely on time-consuming and uncertain behavioral examinations to diagnose the onset of brain diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia. Now the new, non-invasive brain scan MEG may change all that.
Research published next week in the Institute of Physics’ Journal of Neural Engineering suggests […]

American Academy of Neurology - Women who have dementia start losing weight at least 10 years before the dementia is diagnosed, according to a study published in the August 21, 2007 issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
The researchers examined the records of 481 people with dementia and compared them […]