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.

About Generalized Anxiety Disorder
The one-year prevalence of GAD in the general population is about 1 per cent to 3 per cent, and the lifetime prevalence is about 6 per cent.   While anxiety is a symptom of many mental health disorders, including depression, GAD is more than simple anxiety. The essential feature of the disorder is excessive anxiety and worry about a number of events and activities (such as work or school performance), occurring for a majority of days for at least six months. 

About Duloxetine
Cymbalta (duloxteine HCl) is a potent and balanced serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), which targets two chemical messengers in the brain believed to play a role in mood and sensitivity to pain – serotonin and norepinephrine. While the mechanism of action of duloxetine in humans is not fully known, scientists believe its effect on pain perception and mood is due to increasing the activity of serotonin and norepinephrine in the central nervous system.

Via http://www.medadnews.com/News/index.cfm?articleid=613269

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.

In summary, we suggest that MDMA is an emotional enhancer that helps the patient feel safer and in control, better able to connect with memories, and more capable of the emotional processing that is needed for improvement.”

Teri Krebs’ and Pål-Ørjan Johansen’s explanatory model is being published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

*Mithoefer, M, Mithoefer, A, Wagner, M (2008) Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder: A Phase II clinical trial completed 19 September, 2008. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, Chicago.

Via ScienceDaily

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.

Erection begins with sexual arousal, which the brain then transmits to the body, increasing blood flow to the penis, allowing it to become erect. Anything wrong at any stage triggers ED.

Via TimesofIndia.com

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.

Via Sun-Sentinel 

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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.”

“It didn’t matter what they added, just that they added something different like a banana to their cereal to make that meal more complete with vitamins and minerals,” said lead researcher Therese O’Sullivan, from the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth.

“From what we found, that makes a huge difference.”

The research will be presented at the national dieticians conference on the Gold Coast this week.

Syndy Morning Herald

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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.

Via Reuters