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The latest psychiatry news from News Medical |
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 | | |  What is Health Anxiety Disorder? Individuals with health anxiety disorder have an obsessional concern that they are currently (or will be in the future) experiencing a serious physical illness. | |
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| | |  A national research trial initiated by UT Southwestern in 2012 is generating the first set of results this year that provides an early glimpse into how such high-tech strategies may change the field of mental health. | | | | |  Workplaces that reduce job strain could prevent up to 14 percent of new cases of common mental illness from occurring, according to new research led by the Black Dog Institute. | | | | |  There is a strong link between depression and anxiety disorders and autoimmune thyroiditis, a chronic thyroid condition affecting approximately 10 percent of the population. Scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg have now proven that special treatment could help many sufferers, especially women. | | | | |  Psychotic disorders often are severe and involve extreme symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations in which people lose their sense of reality. | | | | |  Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy that has been shown to be useful in the alleviation of anxiety, particularly in adolescents. | |
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