The Best Medicine for Anxiety and Panic Attacks
What Is the Best Medicine for Anxiety and Panic Attacks? (Source: eMedicineHealth.com)
Source: eMedicineHealth.com - July 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Coronavirus: 'When lockdown eased, my panic attacks returned'
When lockdown began Seaneen Molloy's panic attacks stopped, but as restrictions are eased, her anxiety is returning. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - June 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Coronavirus: 'I felt least afraid when the pandemic started'
When lockdown began Seaneen Molloy's panic attacks stopped, but as restrictions are eased, her anxiety is returning. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - June 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

NBA star and alumnus Kevin Love to fund chair in psychology
The Cleveland Cavaliers ’ Kevin Love, a former Bruin basketball player who has publicly shared his struggles with panic attacks, anxiety and depression, has committed $500,000 through his foundation — matched by a $500,000 UCLA Centennial Term Chair Match — to establish the Kevin Love Fund Centennial Chair in UCLA’ s psychology department.The $1 million investment will support the teaching and research activity of UCLA ’s faculty working to diagnose, prevent, treat and destigmatize anxiety and depression at one of the top-ranked psychology departments in the United States.“Kevin Love has shown not only tremend...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - June 22, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Nobilis Therapeutics Announces IND Filing for a Phase 2b Clinical...
Nobilis Therapeutics moves to strengthen its breadth of labeled uses, files an IND to initiate a phase 2b panic disorder trial.(PRWeb June 22, 2020)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/nobilis_therapeutics_announces_ind_filing_for_a_phase_2b_clinical_trial_of_nbtx_001_drug_device_combination_for_treatment_of_panic_disorder/prweb17207407.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - June 22, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Anxious? Meditation Can Help You 'Relax Into The Uncertainty' Of The Pandemic
ABC news correspondent Dan Harris was broadcasting live in 2004 when he experienced a panic attack. He credits meditation with helping him work through his anxiety — both then and now.(Image credit: Planet Flem/Getty Images) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - May 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Terry Gross Source Type: news

Yoga May Ease Symptoms Of Depression, Study Says
(CNN) — Weekly sessions of yoga may ease depressive symptoms in people with other mental health issues, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of existing research. “This is a great result to now encourage people who might be thinking about trying yoga that there’s some scientific evidence that it can be effective for helping reduce depressive symptoms,” said exercise physiologist and study author Jacinta Brinsley, a doctoral candidate at the University of South Australia. Depression is often associated with other mental health conditions. For example, 20 to 40% of people diagnosed with ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - May 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News Syndicated CBSN Boston CNN Yoga Source Type: news

10 Novel Steps You Can Take Right Now to Reduce Anxiety and Panic Attacks in the Age of the Coronavirus
Recently, anxiety overtook depression, ADHD, and all other conditions to be the Number One mental health challenge.  We’re currently under siege by an invisible enemy, and most of our anxiety levels are higher than before. For some time, however, anxiety has been on the rise as we face all the everyday choices we have to make, both small and potentially life changing. We live in a highly complex world that complicates our existence and creates newer tensions.  The Process of Anxiety Most people think of anxiety as an emotional state, and it is. But anxiety is also a process that starts with several uncomfortable emotio...
Source: Psych Central - May 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jeffrey Chernin, Ph.D., MFT Tags: Anxiety Coronavirus COVID-19 Source Type: news

Panic Mechanic app could help Americans with panic attacks
Nearly 36 million Americans encounter panic attacks. For many, the coronavirus pandemic is a major trigger. A new app created by professors at the University of Vermont could help manage symptoms. Developers Ellen and Ryan McGinnis join CBSN to explain how it works. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - April 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Emergency department visits for panic attacks and ambient temperature: a time-stratified case-crossover analysis - Oh S, HaHa TH, Kim H, Lee H, Myung W.
BACKGROUND: Panic disorder is a common anxiety disorder affecting up to 5% of the population. Although its pathogenesis is unclear, evidence about its association with ambient temperature is limited. We aimed to investigate the association between short-te... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Helping the homeless of Rome combat COVID-19
Credit: Martina Martelloni / INTERSOSBy Elena L. PasquiniROME, Apr 9 2020 (IPS-Partners) Behind the Tiburtina Station, in the East of Rome, with just a small covered area protecting from the inclemency of the weather, sleeping close to each other is the only way to stay warm. A boy of Ivorian origin is alone, far from everyone, in the centre of the sidewalk, exposed to a freezing wind. ‘He told me he preferred to die of cold than to get infected, because he was very scared and he knew that it was not safe for him to be close to the others’, Dr. Antonella Torchiaro told Degrees of Latitude. She is a physician of the NG...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Elena Pasquini Tags: Aid Health Humanitarian Emergencies Source Type: news

‘The Strength of Ordinary People.’ The Creative Ways Italians Are Supporting Each Other During Their Coronavirus Lockdown
For weeks, Roberta Brivio’s phone has been ringing several times an hour. “I can’t even find the time to eat,” she says from her office in Melegnano, south of Milan. A 74-year-old psychologist living in Lombardy, Brivio is the president of the local branch of the Italian Society for Emergency Psychology. Italy has the world’s highest death toll from COVID-19, with more than 16,000 coronavirus-related deaths so far; more than half of those deaths have been in the northern region of Lombardy. In early March, after Italy’s COVID-19 outbreak flared up near her home, Brivio and four colleague...
Source: TIME: Health - April 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alessio Perrone / Milan Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Londontime Source Type: news

New app could help panic attack sufferers manage anxiety during coronavirus pandemic
(University of Vermont) A new cell phone app developed by faculty at the University of Vermont can help panic attack sufferers, whose condition may be worsened by the coronavirus pandemic, manage their anxiety. The concept is grounded in decades of research showing that enabling panic sufferers to observe their body's reaction to stress reduces panic. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - April 2, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Pessimistically biased perception in panic disorder during risk learning - Kim M, Kim S, Lee KU, Jeong B.
BACKGROUND: Despite the well-known association between anxiety and risk-avoidant decision making, it is unclear how pathological anxiety biases risk learning. We propose a Bayesian inference model with bias parameters of prior, learning, and perception dur... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news