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Select a Story below- 19 January 2012 Is it still the ‘Age of Anxiety.’?
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19 January 2012
Is it still the ‘Age of Anxiety.’?
Ours is an age in which a growing number of people suffer from anxiety. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, anxiety disorders now affect 18 percent of the adult population of the United States, or about 40 million people. By comparison, mood disorders — depression and bipolar illness, primarily — affect 9.5 percent. That makes anxiety the most common psychiatric complaint by a wide margin.
- 14 January 2012 New treatment making life easier for OCD patients
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14 January 2012
New treatment making life easier for OCD patients
Taking a pill to help get rid of fear? For many people with OCD and other anxiety disorders it sounds too good to be true. Now an antibiotic once used to treat tuberculosis, could change the way doctors treat fear disorders.
- 03 January 2012 The Politics, Stigma and Experience of Brain Disorders: A Blog Series
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03 January 2012
The Politics, Stigma and Experience of Brain Disorders: A Blog Series
The holiday season is a good time to talk about brain disorders. The kind blogger S. Z. Berg talks about are more commonly referred to as mental illness, but that term detracts from the fact that depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia and other such conditions arise in the brain. Does it allow us to consider them less important than “real” brain disorders, such as tumors and strokes?
