Category Archives: Research

PTSD May Complicate Treatment for Sleep Apnea | Psych Central …

A new military study finds that patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) experience reduced quality of life, more sleepiness and do not respond as well to positive airway pressure …

Holocaust Survivors May Have Faced Greater Risk for Schizophrenia

People who survived the Holocaust faced a significantly greater risk for developing schizophrenia compared to those who were indirectly affected, according to a.

Zika virus raises issues of both abortion rights and disability rights

Chloe Angyal writes in the Huffington Post about how the Zika virus may put abortion rights and disability rights on a collision course, although the causal connection between Zika and birth defects has not been established.

Study Explores Gene Linked to Schizophrenia – GoodTherapy.org

Two scientists do research in a lab A variant in a gene that escalates synaptic pruning—a process that removes neurons from the brain that are no longer useful—could be linked to schizophrenia, according to a large study …

CBT May Ease Social Anxiety by Remodeling, Reducing Brain …

A new Swedish study finds that after just nine weeks of Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy, the brains of patients suffering from social anxiety disorder change in volume and activity — and anxiety is reduced.