PTSD is not a battlefield cliché or a character flaw, but a survivable injury of the nervous system that demands early recognition, competent treatment, and a culture willing to stop letting warriors ...

Human epidemiological studies and animal investigations provide compelling evidence that prenatal and early postnatal environmental factors influence the adult risk of developing various chronic ...

HbA1c tests are widely used to assess long-term blood sugar control and play a major role in diagnosing and monitoring diabetes. However, misconceptions about what can affect HbA1c readings continue ...

Michael MacIntyre, MD, is a board-certified general and forensic psychiatrist. Flat affect is when someone can't show their emotions properly due to various conditions. Flat affect is a symptom, not a ...

In that context, the pathophysiology of PMS and PMDD and potential therapeutic approaches were analyzed at length byAnne-Laure Sutter‑Dallay, MD, PhD, perinatal psychiatrist at Charles Perrens ...

The five-session pilot, conducted in Tel Aviv and published in the journal Brain Stimulation, used individualized transcranial magnetic stimulation targeted to hippocampal networks. Researchers at Tel ...

Brittle diabetes is a type of type 1 diabetes that is hard to control and needs careful management. Stress and other health conditions can cause or worsen brittle diabetes. Brittle diabetes symptoms ...

The BD EBP detects a broad spectrum of enteric bacteria. Credit: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com. Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) has secured 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration ...

Have you ever felt that in moments of stress, your head feels lighter, or your vision gets a bit blurry, your heart beats faster, or you feel a headache coming? Most people would assume that these are ...

Your blood pressure regularly rises and falls, but if it changes too much within minutes, this may be one of the signs of labile hypertension. Although there’s no exact definition, this is a condition ...

Radiation therapy improves survival in head and neck cancer, but also carries long-term cardiovascular risks—most notably, carotid artery stenosis and afferent baroreflex failure. Up to one in five ...

Credit: Getty Images Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is caused by pharmacological inhibition of dopamine activity in the CNS. Serotonin syndrome is a pharmacologically induced condition driven by ...