Have you recently experienced someone acting completely out of line or losing control over themselves? In Psychiatry, patterns of repetitive behavior during childhood and adolescence where the social norms or boundaries of others are violated are called ‘conduct disorder‘. I am not a particular fan of this term as it reminds me a bit of […]
Almost everyone has seen it or even have personal experiences with what is commonly called ‘addictive relationships’. These are the forms of relationships where everyone around a particular couple might raise their hands in disbelief over why both partners are still together. There might be a strong and obvious imbalance between both of them, sometimes […]
That psychotropic drugs and other psychoactive drugs often have negative effects on behavior, is well-known to most. That their use can cause aggression, is known with antidepressants such as Prozac and Ritalin. However, there haven’t been any systematic examinations of these drugs and drug groups for their impact on violent behavior. Now, U.S. scientists from […]
When blood pressure rises, neck veins swell – and the rational mind is suspended. Aggression ‘beams’ us back to an early stage of our development … but once the adrenaline rush is gone, we often feel repentance over the damage we’ve done in our rush of emotions (be verbally or physically). There are basically two […]
When they hear the word ‘depression’, many people think of sad or hopeless individuals who can’t cope with a life event, who are living withdrawn and are often crying their existence. But in fact this is only rarely the case. In a U.S. study published in 1996, for example, only a third of the patients […]
Bipolar Disorder: Caught between depression and excitement John always felt that his wife was ‘changeful’ – but it took both of them years to find out that she was in fact suffering from so-called ‘bipolar disorder’. People with what was formerly called ‘manic depressive disorder’ cycle between unusually intense emotional states that occur in distinct […]
Eine sehr interessante Auflistung von Studien findet sich in einem Artikel [1] in Telepolis: in diesen wurde nachgewiesen, daß bestimmte psychologische Tendenzen oder persönliche Neigungen sich offenbar in den sozialen Netzen, in denen sie auftreten, im Laufe der Zeit verbreiten. Was in bestimmten Fällen (Rauchentwöhnung, Spaß an bestimmten Tätigkeiten, Lebenszufriedenheit und Glück) ein Segen sein […]
Trotz des großen Spektrums antisozialen Verhaltens wollen nun britische Wissenschaftler der University of Cambridge herausgefunden haben, was in männlichen Jugendlichen für antisoziales Verhalten mitverantwortlich sein soll. So sollen die Körper von Jugendlichen, die “schwerwiegendes antisoziales Verhalten” gezeigt haben, unter Stress weniger Kortisol ausschütten als Jugendliche, die nicht wegen antisozialen Verhaltens aufgefallen sind. Die Kortisolwerte steigen […]