Mon.Jan 27, 2025

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Limerence vs. Love in Long-Distance Relationships

Love & Life Toolbox

Most people have felt that rush of intense emotion when first attracted to someone: the butterflies, the obsessive thoughts, the constant yearning. Long-distance relationships can be a breeding ground for intense emotions, and the distinction between limerence and love is important to have awareness of with the intensified aspect of longing. Is this whirlwind of feelings truly love, or is it something else entirely?

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What drives mood swings in bipolar disorder? Study points to a second brain clock

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

A brain rhythm working in tandem with the body's natural sleep-wake cycle may explain why bipolar patients alternate between mania and depression, according to new research. A new study marks a breakthrough in understanding what drives shifts between the two states.

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Board Approves Guidelines for APA Public Statements

Psychiatry Online

PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.

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Patients with anorexia have elevated opioid neurotransmitter activity in the brain

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

A study showed that changes in the functioning of opioid neurotransmitters in the brain may underlie anorexia.

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