Psychology News and Research Briefs Category Archive:
Alcoholism
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Study Shows Troops Turn to Alcohol After Returning from Combat A new investigation on alcohol misuse by military personnel before and after deployment shows young soldiers and reservists are particularly vulnerable to developing problems with alcohol after returning home from combat. Continue reading Study Shows Troops Turn to Alcohol After Returning from Combat
Virtual Reality Helps Addicts Prepare for Cravings Can resisting temptation in the virtual world help addicts say no in reality? University of Houston Associate Professor of Social Work Patrick Bordnick is has alcohol-dependent individuals donning virtual reality helmets to answer this question. Continue reading Virtual Reality Helps Addicts Prepare for Cravings
PsychBriefs: March 16-22, 2008 Attractive women want it all While the qualities men look for in potential mates vary little with their own attractiveness, women calibrate their wants based on their own desirability. Continue reading PsychBriefs: March 16-22, 2008
9/11 Continues to Impact America's Mental Health Fear of terrorism following the September 11th attacks continues to impact the mental health of American citizens on a micro-level, shows a new study focusing not on New Yorkers, but rather, Midwesterners. Continue reading 9/11 Continues to Impact America's Mental Health
PsychBriefs: December 30, 2007-January 5, 2008 Our weekly wrap-up of news, interesting research, and noteworthy happenings in the worlds of psychiatry, psychology, and social work. Continue reading PsychBriefs: December 30, 2007-January 5, 2008
Researching a New Avenue in Treatment of Alcoholism The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has granted $1.9 million in funding to Gerard J. Connors, Ph.D., professor of Psychology at the University of Buffalo, as well as director of the University's Research Institute on Addictions... Continue reading Researching a New Avenue in Treatment of Alcoholism
PsychBriefs: October 6-12, 2007 Medication May Treat Alcoholism Topiramate, an anticonvulsant used to control seizures, has been shown to perform better than a placebo in treating alcoholism. Researchers tested 371 alcohol-dependent men and women in a randomized 14-week trial and found th... Continue reading PsychBriefs: October 6-12, 2007
Can Alcohol Inhibit Aggression? The belligerence associated with barrooms and their brawls is just one possible effect of alcohol consumption, shows a new study by University of Kentucky psychologists. Hypothesizing an "attention-allocation model" that proposes drinking affects the areas... Continue reading Can Alcohol Inhibit Aggression?
One Third Of Child Drinkers Get Booze From Parents Seventeen percent of children have tried alcohol before they finished grade school, shows a study published in this month's Preventative Medicine. By the end of junior high, that number jumps to 41 percent, the longitudinal survey of 3,709 racially diverse ... Continue reading One Third Of Child Drinkers Get Booze From Parents
PsychBriefs: April 28-May 4, 2007 Our weekly wrap-up of news, interesting research, and noteworthy happenings in the worlds of psychiatry, psychology, and social work. This week: April 28-May 4, 2007. Mentally Ill Die 25 Years Earlier People treated for serious mental illness in public sys... Continue reading PsychBriefs: April 28-May 4, 2007
Alcohol Can Shrink Your Brain Heavy alcohol use over a lifetime leads to decreases in brain volume, shows research to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 59th Annual Meeting. Comparing MRIs from 1,839 people age 34 to 88, researchers discovered that people who had, on av... Continue reading Alcohol Can Shrink Your Brain
Antidepressants May Help Men Drink Less The Canadian Institutes of Health Research have published research showing that antidepressants may help men consume less alcohol. Surveying 14,063 male and female Canadians on their use of alcohol and antidepressants, they found that whether male or female... Continue reading Antidepressants May Help Men Drink Less
The Demographics of Binge-Drinking Education and gender affects how likely a person is to binge drink at various times throughout their life, a study of 11,500 Brits born in the same week of 1958 reveals. For males, less education was tied to a tendency to binge-drink in their twenties, wit... Continue reading The Demographics of Binge-Drinking
Drug Blocks Alcohol Cravings Researchers at a leading brain research center in Australia have discovered a drug blocking the chemical in the brain linked to alcohol cravings. In studies involving rats, scientists found they could block receptors of Orexin, the hormone associated with ... Continue reading Drug Blocks Alcohol Cravings
26 Genes Linked to Alcoholism, Other Addictions A genome analysis funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has identified 188 genetic variants, most of which occur within 26 genes, as being associated with alcoholism. Of those thought to p... Continue reading 26 Genes Linked to Alcoholism, Other Addictions
Early Alcohol Abuse Leads to More Severe Dependency A study funded by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism published in Pediatrics shows that individuals who become alcohol-dependent at younger ages experience stronger symptoms of dependency. Researchers interviewed more than 4500 people who h... Continue reading Early Alcohol Abuse Leads to More Severe Dependency
Despite Therapists' Misgivings, AA and Other Mutual-Help Groups Are Shown Effective Among mental health professionals, there is some skepticism about the value of AA and other groups to many types of patients. Therapists express concern that atheist or highly religious people may have difficulty with the religious aspects of AA and other ... Continue reading Despite Therapists' Misgivings, AA and Other Mutual-Help Groups Are Shown Effective |
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