Disorder

Hollywood star Kate Winslet shared that she secretly battled an eating disorder earlier in her career but she "never told anyone about it." "I never told anyone about it. Because guess what — people in the world around you go, ‘Hey, you look great! You lost weight!’ So even the compliment about looking good is connected to weight.” "And that is one thing I will not let people talk about (now). If they do, I pull them up straight away," she told The New York Times magazine, reports…

Put the word 'evolution' into Google images and the results are largely variations on one theme: Ralph Zallinger's illustration, March of Progress. Running left to right, we see a chimp-like knuckle walker gradually becoming taller and standing erect.Implicit in such images – and the title of the picture – are biases in common views of evolution: that we are some sort of peak, the perfected product of the process. We imagine we are indeed the fittest survivors, the very best we can be.But seen that way, there's a…

The brain of 34-year-old Amber Pearson contains a one-of-a-kind implant. The Oregon resident is the first person to have a deep brain stimulation device that manages both her epileptic seizures and her obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms. Her subsequent improvement has inspired scientists to conduct larger studies of the technology.Alex Winter on Innovative Horror Movies Pearson’s story was first detailed in a case report published last October in the journal Neuron, along with an accompanying article from Oregon…

People with bipolar disorder are four to six times more likely to die prematurely than those without the condition, according to a study that compared data on thousands of people with and without the disorder.What really puts the results in perspective is that bipolar disorder increased a person's risk of death far greater than a history of smoking, or even, to some extent, age.The research team analyzed data from a large, long-term study, called the Prechter Longitudinal Study of Bipolar Disorder, as well as data from…

Teens and their consumption trends on social media has always been controversial. In effect, they have been able to access almost any content that there is, even those ones that are clearly inappropriate for their age and experience. While big platforms such as Meta do not share the actual data on how the different kinds of content affect the teen mind, governments across the world are concerned about how youngsters perceive the same. Therefore, to take a step forward to solve this problem, Meta Platforms has announced…

A recent study revealed that metformin helps prevent weight gain in youth treated for bipolar disorder with SGAs. Involving 1,565 patients, the study showed metformin’s effectiveness in weight management, despite its limited impact on metabolic syndrome.Researchers from the University of Cincinnati and Northwell Health discovered that metformin effectively prevents weight gain in young patients treated for bipolar disorder with SGAs, based on a large-scale study involving over 1,500 participants.A new large-scale study…

It’s not uncommon for Veronica Smith to be looking at her partner’s face when suddenly she sees his features changing—his eyes moving closer together and then farther apart, his jawline getting wider and narrower, and his skin moving and shimmering. Smith, age 32, has experienced this phenomenon when looking at faces since she was four or five years old, and while it’s intermittent when she’s viewing another person’s face, it’s more constant when she views her own.“I almost always experience it when I look at my own face…

There's a problem for the roughly 1 in 10 people who regularly work night shifts, according to a new study: more than half of them have likely developed some kind of sleep disorder, such as insomnia.A team of researchers from the Netherlands and Belgium collected work and sleep data from 37,662 individuals, splitting them into groups based on their day or night work schedule.Six common sleep disorder categories were screened for in the surveys: insomnia, hypersomnia (excessive daytime sleepiness), parasomnia (abnormal…

Interviewed for this documentary about veterans living with post-traumatic stress disorder, war photographer Lalage Snow talks about her series of triptych portraits of soldiers: three photos, taken before, during and after deployment in Afghanistan. You find yourself searching for the psychological scars written in their tired, thinner faces. In some of the “after” shots, it’s as if war has completely rewired them. Their features look subtly but noticeably different, muscles in their faces clenched, hardening their…

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have discovered a common brain network in substance use disorders by analyzing data from over 144 studies. This breakthrough, pointing to a unified target for neurostimulation therapies, marks a significant advancement in addiction treatment research.Researchers at Brigham examined data from 144 studies encompassing various brain imaging techniques and substances, uncovering a common brain network associated with addiction.Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, part of the…