Should loneliness become a diagnosis? Researchers have somewhat different views on what might solve the problem of loneliness.
Quiet people suffer without being seen A surprisingly large portion of the population may suffer from a personality disorder that very few have heard of.
This is how they treat obsessive-compulsive disorder — in 4 days Gerd Kvale and Bjarne Hansen have had great success with their four-day treatment programme for obsessive-compulsive disorder. They think the general trend towards shorter treatment programmes is long overdue.
Most Nordic survivors of the 2004 tsunami are doing well “Humans can withstand great strain. This important finding in the trauma research can provide hope and faith", says researcher who has followed individuals affected by the tsunami for years.
First image of an irritable bowel Just a few years ago many in the medical profession thought that the common intestinal malady irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) was psychological – with its origins in the head, not the gut. But Norwegian medical researchers have shown that the intestines of IBS patients do react to food in a special way.