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Paranoia is a mental disorder in which a person has an extreme fear and distrust of others. A paranoid person may have delusions that people are trying to harm him or her.

Church of Scientology members campaign for drug-free world

18. November 2009 06:03
Members of the Church of Scientology of Sydney, Australia, who belong to the Drug-Free Ambassadors were out in force Sunday, November 15, distributing thousands of fliers at the 26th annual Glebe Street Fair. Their purpose: to inform kids of the truth about drugs so they make informed decisions to stay drug-free. [More]

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Grant awarded for research into a new treatment for methamphetamine addiction

6. November 2009 03:12
Dr. Keith Flower - a research physician at the Addiction Pharmacology & Research Laboratory in San Francisco, CA - has been awarded a grant to investigate a new medication treatment for methamphetamine addiction. This grant has been awarded to California Pacific Medical Center's Research Institute through President Obama's AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009. [More]

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CHANTIX/CHAMPIX raises hope for quitting smoking

5. November 2009 01:50
New study results showed that 42.3 percent of smokers with mild-to-moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who took CHANTIX/CHAMPIX® (varenicline) were able to quit smoking and remain abstinent during the last four weeks of treatment (weeks 9-12) compared with 8.8 percent of those given placebo (p<0.0001). These findings were presented by investigators at CHEST 2009, the 75th annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). [More]

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Aethlon Medical begins collaborative biomarker program to study neurodegenerative disease

3. November 2009 23:35
Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AEMD) announced today that it has initiated a collaborative biomarker discovery program with the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine and the Sports Legacy Institute (SLI). [More]

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Helix Hearing Care Centre and RA Centre host Healthy Aging Day

28. October 2009 05:12
Helix Hearing Care Centre, The Senior Citizens Council of Ottawa, and the RA Centre hosted a Healthy Aging Day on Monday, where a capacity crowd of golden agers gathered to find out more about healthy hearing. [More]

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Negative symptoms represent an attractive target for drug development

15. October 2009 05:58
A half-day workshop on issues in the design of clinical trials to evaluate treatments for negative symptoms of schizophrenia, chaired by Stephen Marder, MD, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and David Daniel, M.D., United BioSource Corporation was held 5 October 2009, as part of the International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology (ISCTM) Autumn Conference in San Diego, CA. [More]

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Phase III STARTMRK clinical study on ISENTRESS in comparison to efavirenz

14. September 2009 06:26
ISENTRESS , an integrase inhibitor from Merck & Co., Inc., was studied in comparison to efavirenz in maintaining viral load suppression to undetectable levels (less than 50 copies/mL) and at improving CD4 cell counts in previously untreated (treatment-naïve) HIV-1-infected patients through 96 weeks in a Phase III study called STARTMRK. [More]

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Alterations in brain's white matter key to schizophrenia

23. June 2009 06:34
Schizophrenia, a chronic and debilitating disorder marked in part by auditory hallucinations and paranoia, can strike in late adolescence or early adulthood at a time when people are ready to stand on their own two feet as fully independent adults. [More]

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Researchers discover gene variation linked to cocaine addiction and cocaine-induced paranoia

2. March 2009 22:41
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Yale University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, have discovered that variants in the á-endomannosidase (MANEA) gene are associated with cocaine addiction and cocaine-induced paranoia in European American and African American populations. [More]

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New findings on schizophrenia

21. January 2009 22:23
Schizophrenia may blur the boundary between internal and external realities by overactivating a brain system that is involved in self-reflection, and thus causing an exaggerated focus on self, a new MIT and Harvard brain imaging study has found. [More]

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Altered brain activity in schizophrenia may direct focus on self

19. January 2009 20:30
Schizophrenia may blur the boundary between internal and external realities by overactivating a brain system that is involved in self-reflection, and thus causing an exaggerated focus on self, a new MIT and Harvard brain imaging study has found. [More]

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Cholinesterase inhibitors safe and effective therapy for behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia

10. December 2008 10:16
Cholinesterase inhibitors, used to treat cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, are also a safe and effective alternative therapy for the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, according to a study that appears in the December 2008 edition of Clinical Interventions in Aging. [More]

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Boston Globe examines imprisonment of two HIV/AIDS physicians, brothers In Iran

10. September 2008 05:49
State Department officials and former students at Harvard University's School of Public Health believe Iranian physicians -- brothers Kamiar and Arash Alaei -- have been arrested and accused of using their work on HIV/AIDS worldwide to destabilize Iran's government, the Boston Globe reports. [More]

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Genetic change in dopamine transporter supports a role for dopamine signaling in ADHD

9. July 2008 06:34
A genetic change in the dopamine transporter - one of the brain's dopamine-handling proteins - makes it behave as if amphetamine is present and "run backward," Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators report this week in The Journal of Neuroscience. [More]

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Intracellular antibody mops up mutant protein in Huntington's disease model

26. May 2008 05:17
Scientists have created a tool for mopping up the clumps of mutant protein that drive neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease. Emory University researchers engineered a virus to make an intracellular antibody or "intrabody" against huntingtin, the protein whose mutant forms poison the brain cells of people with Huntington's. [More]

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