Recent efforts to integrate psychometric and neurobiological data about personality have
stimulated diverse interdisciplinary applications. The dissociation of major brain systems …

How does the brain cause positive affective reactions to sensory pleasure? An answer to
pleasure causation requires knowing not only which brain systems are activated by pleasant …

Method We searchedthe medical literature to find reports on the mortality ofmental disorders.
Englishlanguage reports were locatedon MEDLINE (1966— 993) withthe searchterms' …

Chronic pain can lead to anxiety and anxiety can enhance the sensation of pain.
Unfortunately, little is known about the synaptic mechanisms that mediate these re-enforcing …

In this report, which is an update of a guideline published in 2002 (Bandelow et al. 2002,
World J Biol Psychiatry 3: 171), recommendations for the pharmacological treatment of …

Anxiety is a mental state that is elicited in anticipation of threat or potential threat. Sensations
of anxiety are a normal part of human experience, but excessive or inappropriate anxiety …

Would you like to include more high interest cases in your Abnormal Psychology course?
Most textbooks on abnormal psychology include short descriptions of actual clinical cases …

The risk of death by suicide in individuals with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is
largely unknown. Previous studies have been small and methodologically flawed. We …

Psychiatric neurosurgery, specifically stereotactic ablation, has continued since the 1940s,
mainly at a few centers in Europe and the US. Since the late 1990s, the resurgence of …

Difficulty inhibiting irrelevant information may play a central role in the aetiology of obsessive–
compulsive disorder (OCD). The aim of the present study was to determine whether OCD …