Behavioral Health Care

  Mental Health Services in Battle Creek |   Behavioral Health Care, P.C. Astronauts who spend prolonged time alone in space face mental health stressors like loneliness, isolation and more. A psychologist developed the Mental Health Checklist, a self-reporting instrument for detecting mental health changes in isolated, confined, extreme environments. She’s reporting results that show significant declines in positive emotions. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

Psychiatrist in Battle Creek |  Dr. Saifollahi Is it the difficulty of a task that determines whether or not students are stressed when working on it? Biologists working in biology didactics set out to find out the answers; to this end, the team used questionnaires and measured the heart rate in 209 test participants. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

  Psychiatrist in Battle Creek, MI |  Behavioral Health Care, P.C. Researchers show that increased sensitivity in a specific region of the brain contributes to the development of anxiety and  depression  in response to real-life stress. Their study establishes an objective neurobiological measure for stress resilience in humans. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

  A new study linking spanking and child brain development shows spanking could alter a child’s neural responses to their environment, in similar ways to a child experiencing more severe violence. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

  A unique residential study has concluded that, contrary to perceived wisdom, people with eating disorders do not lose self-control – leading to binge-eating – in response to stress. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

A new probe into the lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed correlations to six unhealthy eating behaviors, according to a new study. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

Children experiencing cognitive problems such as low attention, poor memory or lack of inhibition may later suffer mental health issues as teenagers and young adults, a new study reveals. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

  Loss of the ability to experience pleasure – or anhedonia – has been revealed as a key feature in frontotemporal dementia, in contrast to Alzheimer’s disease. The findings from brain scans, believed to be a first, show grey matter deterioration in the so-called pleasure system of the brain – these regions were distinct from those implicated in depression or apathy, suggesting a possible treatment target for the early-onset dementia that affects people from 40-65 years. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

  Mental Health Services in Battle Creek   |  Dr. Saifollahi Worldwide, 1 in 4 people will suffer from a depressive episode in their lifetime. While current diagnosis and treatment approaches are largely trial and error, a breakthrough study sheds new light on the biological basis of mood disorders, and offers a promising blood test aimed at a precision medicine approach to treatment. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

  Neurologist in Battle Creek   MI, USA |  Dr. Saifollahi Cells from individuals with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) were found to have higher than expected rates of methylation at specific sites on their DNA, when compared to cells from healthy individuals without MDD, according to a new study. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

  Psychiatrist in Battle Creek MI, USA |     Dr. Saifollahi Cells from individuals with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) were found to have higher than expected rates of methylation at specific sites on their DNA, when compared to cells from healthy individuals without MDD, according to a new study. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

   Psychiatrist in Battle Creek MI, USA   |  Dr. Saifollahi Increased consumption of flavanols – a group of molecules occurring naturally in fruit and vegetables – could protect people from  mental stress -induced cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart disease and thrombosis, according to new research. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

  Psychiatrist in Battle Creek   |  Dr. Saifollahi Researchers have identified and characterized a novel neural circuit that mediates the reciprocal control of obesity and depression in mouse models, and a potential therapy. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

  Psychiatrist in Battle Creek   |  Behavioral Health Care, P.C. Information processing by the brain is altered in  depressed  individuals. A study conducted at the University of Helsinki found that in depressed patients, the processing of visual perceptions is also different. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

Behavioral Health Care in Battle Creek MI,  USA |   Dr. Saifollahi Bullying at boarding schools has a negative impact on students’ emotional health, but for male students, having a school staff member to rely on for support may mute the harmful effects of bullying, according to a new study. Support networks did not have the same effect for female students, the researchers say. To know more visit: www.mimood.com

  Neurologist in Battle Creek MI   |  Dr. Saifollahi A new study reveals that an evidence-based treatment may ‘fix’ a human short circuit that leads to anxiety and, with the help of brain imaging, might predict treatment outcomes for adolescents with anxiety disorders. Researchers say this could determine medication effectiveness more quickly to help patients. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com

  Psychiatric Disorders |  Behavioral Health Care, P.C. Psychiatric researchers have identified interactions between genes and sex that might partly explain how major psychiatric disorders affect males and females differently. To know more visit:  www.mimood.com