Recently added articles from Mental Health Weekly Digest:
Data from University of Barcelona provide new insights into anxiety disorders.
Dec 21, 2009 ... According to recent research from Barcelona, Spain, "This article explores the efficacy of virtual environments representing situations that are emotionally significant to patients with eating disorders (ED) to modify depression and anxiety levels both in these patients and in controls ....
Data from Temple University advance knowledge in anxiety disorders.(Clinical report)
Dec 21, 2009 ... "Social anxiety disorder is a prevalent and impairing disorder for which viable cognitive-behavioral therapies exist. However, these treatments have not been easily packaged for dissemination and may be underutilized as a result," scientists writing in the journal Behavior Therapy report ...
Investigators at Chapman University have published new data on anxiety disorders.
Dec 21, 2009 ... "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an innovative acceptance-based behavior therapy that has been applied broadly and successfully to treat a variety of clinical problems, including the anxiety disorders. Throughout treatment ACT balances acceptance and mindfulness processes with ...
Brain scans show distinctive patterns in people with generalized anxiety disorder in Stanford study.
Dec 21, 2009 ... Scrambled connections between the part of the brain that processes fear and emotion and other brain regions could be the hallmark of a common anxiety disorder, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The findings could help researchers identify biological ...
NYU researchers develop noninvasive technique to rewrite fear memories.
Dec 21, 2009 ... Researchers at New York University have developed a non-invasive technique to block the return of fear memories in humans. The technique, reported in the latest issue of the journal Nature, may change how we view the storage processes of memory and could lead to new ways to treat anxiety ...