Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Brain Imaging Predicts Treatment Success in Depressed Patients
Medscape News - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Apr 12 - Functional MRI can be used to predict which patients with unipolar depression will respond to cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), according to a report in the April issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. "By

Brain Imaging Indicates Which Depressed Patients Will Recover With
Medical News Today - Reactions of two brain regions to reading negative words indicate which depressed patients will be helped by cognitive behavior therapy. This finding appears in an article in the April 2006 issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) , the

STUDY SHOWS ANTIBIOTIC BOOSTS BENEFITS OF THERAPY FOR SOCIAL ANXIETY
Boston University - (Boston) Researchers from the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University have found that adding D-cycloserine (DCS) a drug used to treat tuberculosis but that has also been shown to stimulate learning to therapy programs

Brain's 'Oops' Center Gives Clues to OCD
HealthCentral.com - Taylor believes the finding has implications for OCD treatment. "This is more information that a part of the brain is doing a particular thing in a psychiatric disorder," he said. To that end, he said, "we are doing a treatment study in which we are

New Test May Predict Whether Treatment For Depression Will Work
KFMB - Researchers said they may have a test to predict whether treatment for depression will work. In a small study, a brain imaging technique called Functional MRI helped single out unipolar depression patients likely to respond to cognitive behavior

The PC Guy: Read old floppies
Bergen Record - Edward T. says his old PC, which uses virtually obsolete 5 -inch diskettes, no longer works, and he wants to know if he can salvage data from his old diskettes. Happily, there are services that tackle the problem Edward T. has. One such outfit is