Mind: Brought on by Darkness, Disorder Needs Light
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More than winter blahs, seasonal depression is recognized and treatable.
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For decades, Michigan has suffered attention deficit disorder on the issue of mental health. It&#39;s now getting overdue focus in Lansing.
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Psychologists and neuroscientists have spent several decades producing theoretical models of the mental processes and neural networks that might  be involved in the kaleidoscopic state of psychosis. Largely concerned with simulating the nuts-and-bolts of the mind and brain, these  computer models generate results that tend only to be of interest to researchers and their scientific colleagues. More recently, scientists have decided to harness the power of virtual reality, in an attempt to move beyond the confines of theory, to simulate the experience of psychosis itself.
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TORONTO  -- As winter gets closer, the days get shorter -- and along with a shortage of light, many North Americans may also find themselves short of vitamin D, a potential cancer fighter.
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While Parkinson&#39;s disease typically brings to mind symptoms such as tremors and slow movement, researchers have found that nearly half of all Parkinson&#39;s patients also suffer from depression.
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NEW YORK  - Cold weather enthusiasts may  eagerly await the snowy days of winter, but for those with  seasonal affective disorder, the change from sunny to gloomy  days often brings on a similar change in mood.
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While attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is widely perceived as a children&#39;s disorder, many adults struggle with it, too.
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The darkest day is the birthday of hope: For many thousands of years, that is what the winter solstice has meant to people all over the world.  It is the shortest day of the year, when night has its greatest dominion. But it also is the day that light begins to grow.
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Licensed counselor Joyce Gatson calls clinical depression &quot;the common cold of mental illness,&quot; and it&#39;s an apt analogy in more ways than one.
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Charles Bonnet syndrome causes people with vision problems to hallucinate.
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Our position is: State must find a way to provide better support for families of the mentally ill. Pamela Wohlhieter says being the mother of a son with paranoid schizophrenia often feels like crawling out of a &quot;bottomless pit.
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The humble LED goes from strength to strength
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Scientists link stress in pregnancy to a raised risk of schizophrenia in children.
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New research shows mental illness is neglected in the developing world and up to 800,000 commit suicide each year.
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Mice engineered to lack a stress-related brain protein appear to become depressed in stressful situations, providing insight into a possible source of human depression.
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It might not be visible, but chronic emotional burdens can make your cells age prematurely
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NEW YORK  - People who suffer from what was once called "hysteria" show altered patterns of brain activity connected to their symptoms, researchers reported Monday.