Good news for patient in Canada. Announced on 19-Mar, a new medicine  called Cymbalta® (duloxetine HCl)  has been approved is for the symptomatic relief of anxiety causing clinically significant distress in patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

The approval is based on the studies of 2,700 non-depressed adults. The pool data shows improved core anxiety symptoms by 45% and significantly less replased of 13.7% in a 26 week study. Cool results as compared to those who took placebo.

What are the common side effects for these subjects? Nausea, dizziness, dry mouth, fatigue, constipation, somnolence, and increased sweating.

This medicine is produced by Eli Lilly Canada Inc. and Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd.

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This is interesting news. Ecstasy drugs can contribute to lasting improvement for psychotherapy, according to Norwegian researchers. This is done using pharmacological versions of ecstasy, MDMA (3,4 methylenedioxy-N-methyl-amphetamine) where MDMA helps to increase level of oxytocin in the brain which stimulates emotions such as connection, proximity and trust. In a therapeutic context, it means that the patient may be better able to open up and have confidence in the therapist.

From a case study of 21 people from chronic, Michael Mithoefer took 21 people with chronic PTSD, all of whom had been subjected to documented abuse. All had also been through six months of treatment with traditional therapy, in addition to a three-month treatment with drugs. None, however, had shown any improvement from the treatment.

Two months after the treatment, 92 percent of MDMA patients had clinically significant improvement in their conditions: They were more open to therapy and were able to process the trauma. They managed to escape from their shells and shame, and to see lifelong patterns of behaviour. They were less dispirited, evasive and afraid. In contrast, only 25 percent of the patients in the placebo group showed progress. Everyone in this group was subsequently offered treatment with MDMA, and the results have been good, with no serious or lasting side effects.

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We know what negative emotions triggers items such as anxiety disorders, headache, fatigue, stress etc. Well, this shouldnt come as a surprise to us. According to a recent study, emotional as well as psychological problems resulting in effect a man’s potential to have lasting erections and triggers erectile dysfunction (ED, which is defined as inability to have lasting erections).

ED are bound to occur even if the causes are medical but influences man emotionally and psychologically, leading to more severe erectile problems.

And avoiding having sex won’t help and may worsen by reinforcing anxiety or depression, overshadowing actual underlying causes, said online reports quoting the Glickman Urological Institute.

The body just doesn’t respond and makes the penis puffy with fluid in the tissues, the report says.

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Florida Atlantic University is conducting a study to gauge the effectiveness of a medication to treat generalized anxiety disorder.

The study is being done through the Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical Science’s Clinical Research Group and will be led by Dr. Peter Holland. The study will last up to 12 weeks and involve a series of medical and psychiatric evaluations.

The group is seeking volunteers ages 18 to 65 to take part in the study, and participants must meet diagnosis criteria for generalized anxiety disorder.

There are no fees associated with the study, and participants will be reimbursed $45 per visit for transportation expenses. For more information, e-mail tracey.thomas@fau.edu or call Tracey Thomas at 561-297-0164.

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Perhaps this is an easy way to protect teen from depression, anxiety and disobedience - by simply making a complex breakfast as suggested by Australian research. This study is on 800 students of 14 years old over a 3-day food intake, irrespective of family income, the student’s weight or exercise routine. Students who ate from more food groups for their morning meal scored higher on a child behaviour checklist, with an improvement in mood seen for every extra food type added.

Among the important breakfast, cereal and milk in particular supply calcium, iron and B vitamins that assist neurotransmitters, chemicals needed to transfer information in the nervous systems that are directly responsible for behaviour and mood.

Breakfast has long been thought vital but research has proven it is most important pre-adulthood as young people are not able to store nutrients as effectively.

“The liver stores nutrients, but kids have a much smaller liver, so until they become fully grown they can’t store nutrients as effectively,” the dietician said.

“For that reason breakfast is the most important way for them to get vitamins and minerals for brain function needed after the overnight fast.”

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Eating disorder and childhood anxiety may have a link for Anorexic women as suggested by a study on 637 women with anorexia where 39 percent reported symptoms of childhood overanxious disorder.
By far now, its knows that  anxiety disorders, like social phobia and obsessive compulsive disorder, are far more common among people with anorexia than in the general population. Often, these anxiety disorders appear before the eating disorder does.
Well, according International Journal of Eating Disorders, researchers looked at whether a history of childhood “overanxious disorder” was related to the severity of women’s anorexia.
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In general, the researchers found, women with a history of childhood anxiety exhibited “more extreme personality traits” and attitudes — like perfectionism and obsessive tendencies related to food — than women without a history of early anxiety disorders.

According to Cynthia M. Bulik’s team, childhood anxiety disorders “may represent one entree” into anorexia which means early treatment is important.

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