Mental Health ranks in the top 5 most costly healthcare conditions in the United States. Other making this "most expensive list" included heart disease, trauma-related disorders, cancer, and asthma. Metal health costs rose from $35.2 billion in 1996 to 57.5 billion in 2006, and of these five conditions, out-of-pocket payments were highest for the treatment of mental disorders in both 1996 and 2006. Moreover ...

In a new contribution to the field of psychoneuroimmunology, researchers at Ohio State University report that stress and anxiety worsen allergy attacks, even to routine allergens. Anxiety impacts not only the severity of the response, but also causes a "carry over" effect whereby allergies linger into a second day. The researchers also explore the connections between allergies and asthma. ...

The 8-24-09 edition highlights new research with an upcoming study on music's influence on children with Autism, caffeine and poor sleep in teens, an interesting link between Alzheimer's and PTSD, several new brain-related studies, an anti-depressant medication that may stimulant the brain's growth factors, aroma therapies that can reduce stress, the link between stress, depression and pediatric asthma, and ...

Check out today's Research News Update for the latest on the role of positive emotions and resilience, several new studies on Autism, including differences in how these persons learn new behaviors and the role of parental stress in their child's behaviors, brainmaps that can detect early mental illness, such as schizophrenia, psychological interventions may not prevent PTSD, the role of the immune system in ...

Another round of interesting research news updates from Science Daily. Today's report provides links to research that details, for example, how children may raise their parents, the psychological impact of child abuse, money and fame may lead to unhappiness, many more reasons not smoke (seems like I have this headline in almost every update - when will people stop smoking?), substance abuse rather than schi ...

The latest research developments posted to Science Daily include asthma, autism, sleep, alcoholism, nutrition and exercise, learning disabilities, Tourette Syndrome, and much more. ...

Today's Science Daily Research News Update includes the latest developments in asthma medication, sleep-as-spring-cleaning, laughter-as-medicine, music-as-medicine, exercise programs for persons with migraine headache, methamphetamines' effect on prenatal babies, yet another reason to stop smoking, and much more. ...

The British Medical Association recently (2009) released a comprehensive, evidenced-based guide to infant and childhood health and nutrition, called "Early Life Nutrition and Lifelong Health." This is a timely e-book in light of the epidemic of life style diseases that now afflict our youngest citizens. These concerns and trends have been detailed in the previous post, Obesity - #1 Childhood Health Concern ...