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I was dxed with Asperger's in May last year .

Have not been on here much since my diagnosis was changed from schizoaffective to personality disorder, and the forum for PDs was discontinued.
I virtually stopped posting around 2009 after being...

Some articles that might be of interest.

http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=27&editionID=305

With each new version of BT activity and posts have dropped. Under different names I used to post mainly in the bipolar forum ,as I had a similar dx of schizoaffective but then my dx changed and the...

Sleep deprivation in the first few hours after exposure to a significantly stressful threat actually reduces the risk of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), according to a study by researchers...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry have discovered that TDP-43, a protein strongly linked to ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and other neurodegenerative...

GUT and chest infections in early childhood appear to raise the risk of developing schizophrenia later in life even if they do not spread to the brain, Australian scientists have discovered in a...

http://iacapap.org/iacapap-textbook-of-child-and-adolescent-mental-health

An anti-psychotic drug used to treat schizophrenia appears to get rid of cancer stem cells by helping them differentiate into less threatening cell types. The discovery reported in the Cell Press...

New research presented Wednesday highlights drugs to make cancer therapy easier but also underscores the difficulties that patients may encounter after treatment.

A commonly used schizophrenia...

http://www.clinicalpsychiatrynews.com/news/more-top-news/single-view/schizophrenia-with-panic-disorder-may-be-a-distinct-subtype/43394f214b3b2a1209c92784e15f4c75.html

Antidepressive drugs reduce the mortality rate of schizophrenic patients, while treatment with bensodiazepines greatly increases it, especially as regards suicide. Giving several antipsychotics...

More than 50 years of data show that people with schizophrenia who take antipsychotic drugs lower their risk of relapse, a new study suggests.

Relapse rates were 64% in people not taking...

Babies born to women with sensitivity to gluten appear to be at increased risk for certain psychiatric disorders later in life, according to research by scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden...

Babies born to women with sensitivity to gluten appear to be at increased risk for certain psychiatric disorders later in life, according to research by scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden...

Bipolar disorder usually strikes between the ages of 15 and 25, and is extremely rare in preteens, according to a major study: Age at onset versus family history and clinical outcomes in 1,665...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/neurophilosophy/2012/apr/12/1

If you've ever been given a local anaesthetic, you'll know about the effects – and the side effects – of these drugs. For example, dentists usually inject lidocaine into the gum before filling a...

A urine soaked scream room. A child stuffed in a duffel bag. Vinegar soaked cotton balls put in a child's mouth. Slapped on the head with plastic bottles. Child dragged through a playground across...

There are many different causes of dementia and, although its progression can be fast or slow, it is always degenerative. Symptoms of dementia include confusion, loss of memory, and problems with...

Taking slightly too much paracetamol day after day can be fatal, experts have warned.

A dangerous dose might just be a few pills too many taken regularly over days, weeks or months, they said.
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http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2011/11/male-to-female-transsexuals-have-male.html

An experimental drug called Ocrelizumab has shown promise in a Phase 2 clinical trial involving 220 people with multiple sclerosis (MS), an often debilitating, chronic autoimmune disease that affects...

http://www.thevisualmd.com/health_centers/neurological_health/what_is_alzheimer_s/what_is_alzheimer_s_video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/sep/30/kim-noble-woman-with-100-personalities

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Humour therapy is as effective as widely used antipsychotic drugs in managing agitation in patients with dementia - and avoids serious drug side effects, a new study to be presented this week at the...

http://vimeo.com/7654323

People with schizophrenia are six times more likely to develop epilepsy, says a study which finds a strong relationship between the two diseases.

Writing in Epilepsia, researchers in Taiwan say...

People with schizophrenia are six times more likely to develop epilepsy, says a study which finds a strong relationship between the two diseases.

Writing in Epilepsia, researchers in Taiwan say...

Know next to nothing about American football but hope the 49ers do well in the NFL as i used to live in SF as a child during the mid to late 60s.
Someone said they were one of the weaker teams due...

Phytoestrogens are plant compounds which, in the human body, can attach to the receptors for the female sexual hormone estrogen and which are taken in with our daily diet. A number of findings have...

Old but interesting video.



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There should be an exemption from having to use such bulbs for people who have medical proof that they are epileptic.The only problem i can see is a possible increase in the price of non energy...

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Lots of spells of feeling drained and washed out the last couple of days. Keep on heading back to bed.Am ok one minute and then the feeling suddenly washes over me.

For me social interaction difficulties exacerbate my social anxiety which in turn exacerbates my social interaction difficulties.

http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/pdf/1009/1009CP_Williams_Cov.pdf

Over the past 50 years, anecdotal reports linking
cannabis sativa (marijuana) and psychosis
have been steadily accumulating, giving rise
to the notion of “cannabis psychosis.” Despite this...

When posting from URL - need to untick the 'Retrieve remote file and reference locally' box ?

This is what i had to do on another forum using this version of VB.

How do i edit title? I can only edit content of post.

I am using Windows Vista. From time to time my access goes from local and internet to local only and i can't access the internet.
I never experienced this with XP and was wondering whether there...

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How long should i hold onto the possibility that it is due to him having problems of his own? I could cling onto that and then just find i was right after all.
I find the uncertainty hard to cope...

I went on injections because i had a poor track record of remembering to take daily oral meds.

I am on the books of a local mh charity but they have recently changed their focus/way of doing things which has thrown me and a lot of their other clients.
I have someone who was coming in to see...

I have been seeing a pdoc since i was nearly 17 and am now 54.
I was previously dxed with schizoaffective disorder mixed type and indeed still take medication ie depot injection aimed at people with...

I think because i had bad experiences with two trained therapists and an untrained person who was assigned to me via my local mh resource centre.
The two trained therapists i didn't get on with...

I do not have a therapist as i am deemed unsuitable for therapy and although i am on medication(depot injection) it doesn't help my anxiety(and social anxiety) and may even exacerbate it.
So far...

This,to me,is a glaring oversight. Not all of us can make, a post just as we would like it to be first time round. Sometimes we need to alter the wording or realise we need to add/delete a bit. As...

Regular feeling that i am going to do something stupid or inadvertently wrong and be punished. Often feel guilty as though i must have done something wrong but i don't know what my actual crime is.

It is hard to be rational when my mind is like this.

I wish i could live in the 'here and now' instead of thinking catastrophic thoughts about the future.
The anticipation of what might be in the future scares me . I find it hard not to obsess about...

Is it possible to be in a regular, but not continuous, state of minor to moderate depression with occasional short periods, more days than weeks,when the depression goes deeper than that?

I feel...

I know the PD forum wasn't very active but i seem to recall there were quite a high number of views of posts,indicating people were interested in reading stuff that was posted even if they didn't...

Just tried posting re study on antipsychotics and mania on bipolar forum and got message saying my post had to be approved before it got posted,What's going on?

The manic episodes experienced by those with bipolar disorder are better controlled by antipsychotic drugs than mood stabilizers, a new, large study suggests.

Researchers from Italy and the United...

I have a personality disorder and used to post from time to time in that forum but now that forum has gone i do not have what i would call a 'home' forum.
I think therefore this leaves me no choice...

Hippocrates thought melancholia was caused by too much black bile. Now some scientists describe the Black Dog as an inflammatory illness. Heart disease, oxidative stress and omega 3 are all part of...

Why was personality disorder forum axed? Also shouldn't eating disorders be listed under psychiatric disorders?