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The ECNP consensus statement on bipolar depression
European College of Neuropsychopharmacology - August 31, 2008 - Bipolar disorder is one of the most important psychiatric diseases, often associated with considerable treatment needs and tremendous social and occupational burden for both the individual and family (Pini et al., 2005).
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Neurogenesis in the adult brain: The association with stress and depression
European College of Neuropsychopharmacology - August 31, 2008 - The brain is the key organ in the response to stress. It reacts in a complex, orchestrated manner that is related to the activation and inhibition of neural structures involved in sensory, motor, autonomic, cognitive and emotional processes.
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A touch of madness may be the key to greatness
The National, Abu Dhabi - August 30, 2008 - A severe mental illness can be just as debilitating as a crippling physical condition, leaving the sufferer unable to hold down a job, a relationship or have any semblance of a normal life.
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New Video Features Techniques for Coaching Patients
CA HealthCare Foundation - Health care providers have realized that simply telling patients what to do doesn’t help them change their behavior. Instead, helping them develop their own action plan to manage chronic disease has proven to be effective, as evidence continues to grow that the vast majority of the care needed comes directly from the patient. Healthy behavior change requires that caregivers and patients develop and agree on an action plan.
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The dark side of a midnight feast
UK Telegraph- August 30, 2008 - Nocturnal eaters who wake up to devour calories are suffering from a recognised illness, says Tamsin Kelly
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Binge eaters ‘not getting help’
BBC News- August 29, 2008 - Fenella Lemonsky is a compulsive overeater. The 40-year-old from London said she has had issues with food from childhood.
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Report: DOD mulls holistic treatments
Stars and Stripes- August 28, 2008 - The U.S. military is spending $4 million to figure out whether New Age practices and holistic therapies can mend the wounded psyches of its troops, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant reported Wednesday.
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Skills-based therapy may curb eating disorders
Reuters - August 28, 2008 - Women who suffer from bulimia or binge-eating disorder and who have borderline personality may be helped with “dialectical behavior therapy,” results of a pilot study suggest.
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Pioneer Local, Illinois - August 28, 2008 - When Dr. Allan Botkin talks about treating post traumatic stress disorder he tells Sam’s story. Sam was an American soldier fighting in Vietnam who befriended an orphaned, 10-year-old Vietnamese girl named Lee. But the Army discouraged closeness with war orphans and arranged to ship Lee off to an orphanage.
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Al Dia - August 28, 2008 - Latinas are suffering with higher rates of postpartum depression than non-Hispanic white mothers according to the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in April 2008.
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Trauma, PTSD Followed By Reduction In Region Of The Brain Involved With Memory
ScienceDaily- August 27, 2008 - While debate continues over the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder, a new study indicates traumatic events and PTSD symptoms may be followed in some cases by a size reduction in a part of the brain called the hippocampus.
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Newsweek - August 26, 2008 - Let’s not mince words: college can be tough. According to a 2007 study by the American College Health Association, 43 percent of students reported having felt “so depressed it was difficult to function” at least once in the prior year.
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Wall Street Journal - August 26, 2008 - People concerned about the toll that mental health disorders are taking on their families and communities will have a unique opportunity to hear from world-class experts on what is known to-date about the causes, symptoms and progression of such illnesses as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia and autism, and learn about current and potential treatments.
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Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder, Deliberate Self-Harm, and Suicide
NeuroscienceCME- August 26, 2008 - Among the myriad of adolescent psychiatric issues, major depressive disorder (MDD) and suicide have captured the headlines. In the United States approximately 14% of 15- to 18-year-olds have at least one MDD episode, and depression is the “cardinal risk factor” for suicide in children and adolescents.
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U.S. Looks At New Age, Holistic Therapies For Veterans
Hartford Courant - August 25, 2008 - The U.S. military is spending $4 million to figure out whether New Age practices and holistic therapies can mend the wounded psyches of its troops.
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Guerilla Mothering: Mama’s baby drama doesn’t have to cause trauma
New Albany News-Tribune - August 24, 2008 - The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in new mothers. Evidently, traumatic hospital births with a lot of medical interventions are leaving moms severely emotionally scarred.
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Trimming to Fit: When her fantasies of an idyllic dorm life started disappearing, so did she
Washington Post - August 24, 2008 - My first job after college was an unlikely one, given my medical history: I landed at a major fashion magazine. I grew to love my work, but I often felt as if I were keeping a vicious secret. I told no one that I had once been hospitalized for anorexia.
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Under new Medicare law mental health co-pays drop
Rutland Herald - August 23, 2008 - Buried deep in the pages of the new federal Medicare law passed by the U.S. Congress last month contains a piece of good news for senior citizens seeking mental health or substance abuse treatment.
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‘If this is a disorder, and not me, who am I?’
Toronto Globe and Mail - August 22, 2008 - “My ability to engage in passive conversation has left me. I can’t trust my mind right now, it has become poison.” - blog entry, Dec 12, 2007. He blogs because he does not want most people to know about his illness, and yet he needs to talk about it.
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A stroke – and suddenly he was one of ‘them’
Toronto Globe and Mail- August 22, 2008 - The world changed for Troy Bainbridge at 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 10, 2005. Until that moment, the 61-year-old gas technician would have said life was good: Happily married, his children grown, he was approaching retirement, when the afternoons would be free for fishing.
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Bill would aid young violent-crime witnesses
San Francisco Chronicle - August 22, 2008 - California children who witness violent crime - the killing of a neighbor or assault of a friend - would be eligible for up to $5,000 in mental health services under a bill awaiting the governor’s signature.
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Older women battle eating disorders
The Charlotte Observer - August 21, 2008 - Kelly had an epiphany in her car two years ago on a lunch break. She thought about the lifestyles of other people in their early 30s, her age. They went out. They had kids. They led full lives. When she thought about her own life, she burst into tears. Her life revolved around her binging schedule.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education - August 21, 2008 - In many ways, Asian students at Cornell University seem like a successful group. At the competitive Ivy League school, they make up about 17 percent of the student body — by far the school’s largest minority.
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Persistent brain changes seen in former anorexics
Medicexchange- August 21, 2008 -Young women with a history of adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa exhibit persistent structural brain changes and cognitive deficits, according to Canadian investigators writing in the August electronic issue of Pediatrics.
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Anorexia: A Media-Borne Illness
Business Week - August 21, 2008 - TV, magazines, and the Internet are to blame for today’s artificial standard of beauty and the resulting low self-esteem and eating disorders among girls and women. Pro or con?
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Grading the States; Mental Health Services Survey
Wall Street Journal - August 20, 2008 - The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is preparing to grade each of the 50 states on mental health services and invites the public to help by taking an online survey — and forwarding it to others.
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TrevorSpace creates a network for the LGBTQ youth community
PR Week- August 20, 2008 - The Trevor Project, which runs a nationwide, 24-hour, crisis and suicide prevention helpline for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, is launching a social networking site called TrevorSpace.org. The campaign will focus on online outreach to reach LGBTQ youth, ages 13 to 24.
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Suicide prevention webinar planned for LGBTQ youth
Windy City Times- August 20, 2008 - The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Greater Chicago/Illinois Chapter will present an interactive, live, Web-based seminar about suicide risk and prevention among LGBTQ youth.
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Is a Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder The New Mania? - opinion
News-Blaze- August 20, 2008 - Has the pharmaceutical industry become the Pied Piper of Hamelin–ridding us of lethal diseases only to turn around and “take” our children?
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Public Health Institute - August 18, 2008 - For people with grave psychiatric conditions, consumer-managed residential programs may be the way to go, a new study suggests.
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Statistics show many mental health patients die prematurely
KSL - August 18th, 2008 - People undergoing treatment for mental illness are dying prematurely in epidemic proportions. The stats are so alarming, Utah is adopting new monitoring guidelines to redefine the definition of wellness and recovery.
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Anorexia’s destructive behavior
St Louis Post-Dispatch- August 18, 2008 - Twenty years ago, when Cheryl Bergin was a teenager and in the throes of anorexia nervosa, she weighed a mere 54 pounds.
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New Zealand Herald - August 18, 2008 - Who doesn’t know someone who’s on a diet? Whether it’s rigorously adhering to the guidelines of the latest fad diet, eating only healthy food and “being good” before falling wholly off the wagon, or just restricting your calorie intake, obsessing about food has become the ultimate modern anxiety
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PTSD treatment successful for retired soldier
Ledger-Enquirer - August 18, 2008 - Brian Davis hasn’t been able to sleep in the same bed with his wife in a decade for fear of hurting her in their sleep. Davis has post-traumatic stress disorder, and he has it bad.
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Pathologic Gambling: When does Gambling Become Gambling Addiction?
Officer.com - August 17, 2008 - For most people, gambling is a social activity done with family or friends for recreation, and lasts for a limited time. An acceptable amount of money that can be lost is predetermined and that amount is adhered to.
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Suicidal thoughts among college students more common than expected
American Psychological Assn - August 17, 2008 - More than half of 26,000 students across 70 colleges and universities who completed a survey on suicidal experiences reported having at least one episode of suicidal thinking at some point in their lives. Furthermore, 15 percent of students surveyed reported having seriously considered attempting suicide and more than 5 percent reported making a suicide attempt at least once in their lifetime.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/apa-sta080808.php
Biracial Asian Americans and mental health
UC Davis - August 17, 2008 - A new study of Chinese-Caucasian, Filipino-Caucasian, Japanese-Caucasian and Vietnamese-Caucasian individuals concludes that biracial Asian Americans are twice as likely as monoracial Asian Americans to be diagnosed with a psychological disorder.
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Gene Hunt Hints at Cause of Bipolar Disorder
New York Times - August 18, 2008 - A gene hunt among more than 4,000 British, Irish and American patients suffering from bipolar disorder has turned up two genes that put new emphasis on a possible cause of the disease.
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Canadian Medical Association/Not in My Backyard: Mental Illness Stigma Widespread Among Canadians
Wall Street Journal - August 18, 2008 - The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) today released its eighth annual National Report Card on Health Care in Canada, focusing on both access to health care services and mental health care in Canada.
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The Times of India - August 17, 2008 - Wellness is a state of feeling good about oneself and encompasses the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual spheres.
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APA denials of abortion mental health risk contradicted by other studies
Catholic New Agency - August 17, 2008 - A recent American Psychological Association (APA) study which claimed that abortion causes no mental health problems for women has been challenged because of its inconsistency with other studies and the apparent refusal of the study’s lead researcher to release supporting data.
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Brain Serotonin System Controls Maternal Behavior
Newswise- August 17, 2008 - New research from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine demonstrates the importance of brain serotonin for offspring survival.
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Dangerous Disorders: Montville native fights to overcome anorexia
Norwich Bulletin - August 17, 2008 - When her one-hour workout crept into a daily four-hour obsession, Nicole Roberge, helpless to fight her quest to be thin, remembers crying throughout the routine and the walk to and from the gym.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/x282408587/Dangerous-Disorders-Montville-native-fights-to-overcome-anorexia
Chapel Hill News - August 17, 2008 - The treatment is called Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT. Through group and individual therapy, patients learn to direct their attention away from their destructive thoughts and to focus on aspects of their lives that they can control.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/16241.html
To learn more about DBT and efficacy studies, see SAMSHA’s National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices: http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/programfulldetails.asp?PROGRAM_ID=72
The Times, UK - August 16, 2008 - I watch my eldest daughter, Amelia, and delight in how comfortable she is in her 14-year-old skin. I applaud her appetite. “God, I’ve put on sooo much weight,” she exclaims in mock horror, then, laughing, fixes herself a peanut butter and jam sandwich of doorstep proportions. “Too bad I like my food so much.”
Read the rest of the article: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4539082.ece
Workplace depression: Back from the brink
Star-Tribune - August 16, 2008 - Mark Meier, a onetime manager for a Minneapolis medical clinic, has the tickets to talk to business people about depression.
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Casual Cathlamet clinic helps mental health patients re-enter society
Longview Daily News - August 15, 2008 - If it weren’t for the Johnson Clubhouse, Cathy Stuart said she likely would sleep all day every day. Instead, she regularly meets her friends at the clubhouse to socialize, do crafts and work on re-entering the work force.
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Marines, Navy aim to remove stigma of mental health issues
San Diego Union-Tribune - August 15, 2008 - The Navy and Marine Corps will roll out a program next month that’s designed to take the stigma out of mental health ailments by describing them as largely brief challenges instead of lifelong disorders.
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Health professionals have the highest suicide and mortality rates in the UK new research reveals
Black Mental Health UK - August 15, 2008 - A new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry shows that of all professional doctors and nurses have the highest suicides mortality rates in the UK.
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Mental health risks grow with time in combat, studies find
Detroit Free Press - August 14, 2008 - Multiple combat deployments to Iraq are increasing serious mental health problems among soldiers, triggering drug and alcohol abuse and contributing to record suicide levels, suggest reports out today.
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Miller-McCune - August 14, 2008 - Oregon researchers develop counseling approaches that reduce anorexia, bulimia and obesity among young women — apparently for years.
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No link between abortion and mental health
United Press International - August 14, 2008 - The American Psychological Association said it has found no evidence that abortion causes mental health problems for women.
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Fighting Back: Winning the Struggle Against Eating Disorders
University of Buffalo - August 14, 2008 - In eating disorders, the “battleground is the body,” says University at Buffalo researcher Catherine P. Cook-Cottone, who is examining ways to win those battles using conventional as well as less-common solutions.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9572
A conversation with Judy Collins
Penninsula Daily News - August 14, 2008 - She’s in a cab in New York City on her way to yet another appointment in her busy schedule, but she’s gracious enough to chat with a woman on the other side of the country about her upcoming concert.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20080815/NEWS/808150302
Mental Health Intervention at School Reduces PTSD Among Indonesian Children Affected By Violence
JAMA - August 13, 2008 - A school-based intervention for children in communities affected by political violence in Indonesia reduced post-traumatic stress symptoms and helped maintain hope, but did not reduce traumatic stress-related symptoms, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms or functional impairment, according to a study in the August 13 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights.
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Culturally Competent Care - Are Health Care Providers Doing Enough?
BrainBlogger - August 13, 2008 - America is arguably one of the most diverse nations in the world. While such diversity can provide opportunities for unique social and cultural interactions, it can also present opportunities for poor medical care. Many studies show that ethnic and cultural minorities do not receive the same level of care as patients in majority groups.
Read the rest of the article: http://brainblogger.com/2008/08/13/culturally-competent-care-are-health-care-providers-doing-enough/
Report Finds Patient Involvement Critical to Overall Care
August 13, 2008 - The person who has the most at stake when it comes to healthcare decisions—the patient—should be involved in research, advocacy and all segments of the health care system, according to a key finding of a report released today by The National Working Group on Evidence-Based Health Care.
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Drinking Problems Greater Among Returning Combat Veterans
US News and World Report - August 13, 2008 - A host of new studies confirm that the effects of war linger long after the conflict ends.
Read the rest of the article: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2008/08/12/drinking-problems-greater-among-returning-combat.html
Ruby: Laughter is best medicine
Hull Daily Mail, UK - August 13, 2008 - Ruby Wax has revealed that her first career choice was psychology, not comedy. The 55-year-old had planned to become a psychologist as a student, but instead turned to performing and acting.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/showbiz/Ruby-Laughter-best-medicine/article-263563-detail/article.html
Mental Health Intervention at School Reduces PTSD Among Indonesian Children Affected By Violence
JAMA Study - August 13, 2008 - A school-based intervention for children in communities affected by political violence in Indonesia reduced post-traumatic stress symptoms and helped maintain hope, but did not reduce traumatic stress-related symptoms, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms or functional impairment, according to a study in the August 13 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/543321/
Mental Health: Exercise Is Found Not to Affect Depression
New York Times - August 11, 2008 - Many people are sure that exercise improves their mood, and studies have suggested that exercise is almost as effective as antidepressants in relieving symptoms of depression. But a new study has found that even though people who exercise are less likely to be depressed or anxious, it is probably not because they exercise.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/science/12ment.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
Mental health act doomed by initiative origin
Sacramento Bee - August 11, 2008 - Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act passed by voters in 2004, may make its mark not as a turning point in California mental health but as a classic illustration of the pitfalls of “ballot box budgeting.”
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BYU study examines child abuse/stress disorder link
Deseret News - August 11, 2008 - Post-traumatic stress disorder, in the news lately because of the growing number of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans exhibiting its symptoms, may have a link to brain-matter loss sustained in childhood injury or abuse and may linger into adulthood.
Read the rest of the article: http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700249864,00.html
MarketWatch - August 11, 2008 - Decision Resources, one of the world’s leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that an astonishing 52.3 percent of newly diagnosed bipolar disorder patients are prescribed antidepressant drugs first line.
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Mental Health Emergency Room Extension creates model
Daily Advertiser - August 10, 2008 - Diane Farley lowers her voice and keeps it level as she eases a blood pressure cuff around a patient returned to her unit.
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Chicago Tribune - August 10, 2008 - Jason Brown’s return home from a yearlong tour of duty in Iraq should have been happier. But there were nightmares, tension, the constant feeling of being on edge.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0810-health-ptsdaug10,0,1972069.story
Creating a richer life through mental health art therapy
Sun Journal - August 10, 2008 - Rob R.’s unframed paintings hang side by side. On one canvas, a solitary boat sails past a mountainous landscape. The other shows lush green grass, trees, a mountain, blue sky and bright sun.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.sunjournal.com/story/277895-3/bsection/Creating_a_richer_life_through_mental_health_art_therapy/
State pays millions for contract psychologists to keep up with Jessica’s Law
Los Angeles Times - August 10, 2008 - A 2006 law intended to crack down on sex offenders has proved a bonanza for a small group of private psychologists and psychiatrists, 14 of whom billed California taxpayers last year for a half a million dollars or more each, a Times investigation found.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jessica10-2008aug10,0,969181.story
‘Economic Turmoil’ Takes Mental Health Toll on CEOs
San Diego Business Journal- August 11, 2008 - Between the e-mail boxes stuffed with messages, the stacks of unread papers and the phone calls to be made lies a lesser-known item on the executive to-do list: improve mental health.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.sdbj.com/industry_article.asp?aID=45620387.7501444.1665924.6332759.8290353.143&aID2=128139
BYU study finds brain shrinkage after traumatic events
KSL- August 8, 2008 - The BYU study shows even though this part of the brain called the hippocampus remains intact after a traumatic event occurs in a child - shrinkage becomes evident when they reach adulthood.
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Likely Cause Of Postpartum Blues And Depression Identified
Science Daily - August 7, 2008 - Unique biochemical crosstalk that enables a fetus to get nutrition and oxygen from its mother’s blood just may cause common postpartum blues, researchers say.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080807112609.htm
Suicide Prevention: Take action and save a life
Capital Flyer - August 2008 - Each year hundreds of thousands of Airmen worldwide and over three thousand active duty members and civilians here at Andrews AFB are trained in suicide prevention. Why make such an effort? Suicide is the second leading cause of death for Active Duty and consistently ranks as one of the most likely ways someone will die in the United States, out ranking homicide.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.capflyer.com/stories/080708/andrews_20080807006.shtml
Talking about postpartum depression often helps
Dallas News - August 5, 2008 - Sandra Poulin couldn’t have been more thrilled when she found out she was expecting. Then, when Rachel was born in 1996, the Dallas mom, who had always thought of herself as a happy person, couldn’t sleep and began crying for no reason.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/healthyliving/health/stories/DN-nh_coping_0807liv.ART.State.Edition1.1ebe4cc.html
Building Resilience in a Turbulent World
Vision - Summer 2008 - “I know that I need to deal with it to heal,” says a woman we’ll call Ramona. “But sometimes I just have to take a step away from it too. I have experienced very painful flashbacks. The memories get so vivid; I literally, physically feel the pain again.”
Read the rest of the article: http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5816
Birth Trauma: Stress Disorder Afflicts Moms
Wall Stree Journal- August 5, 2008 - Amid the debate over how to effectively manage maternal mental-health disorders, a new type of postpartum illness is gaining attention: post-traumatic-stress disorder due to childbirth.
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Tough times call for access to mental health care
Atlanta Journal-Constitution- August 5, 2008 - On July 22, in Taunton, Mass., Carlene Balderrama, a wife and mother despondent over her family’s financial woes, including the imminent foreclosure of the family home, shot herself to death.
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Toolbox: Integrating Body and Mind
PezCycling News - August 5, 2008 - Western cultures have traditionally maintained a significant separation between mind and body. As a result, many athletes train their bodies and then attend to mental fitness, if at all, as a separate activity. When you improve the connection between body and mind, you can more effectively develop your mental skills – skills that can give you an edge.
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Saving rambling old US mental asylums for their architecture
International Herald Tribune - August 4, 2008 - Equal parts graceful and eerie, massive brick and stone asylums once loomed over towns from Maine to California as the 19th century’s ideal for the humane treatment of America’s mentally ill.
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Stress can be painful … or an opportunity
Press of Atlantic City - August 4, 2008 - After Silvia Clarke lost a sales executive job she had held for 18 years, the Miami Shores, Fla., wife and mother of two worried about how she would support her family of four as the household’s primary wage earner.
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AstraZeneca defends drug’s soaring sales: Lawsuits claim Seroquel marketed to doctors illegally
Delaware Online - August 3, 2008 - When AstraZeneca’s schizophrenia drug Seroquel was introduced in 1997, it faced an uphill climb. Three other so-called atypical antipsychotics had launched ahead of Seroquel, and the market for antipsychotic drugs was thought to have limited prospects. The most optimistic analysts thought sales of Seroquel would top out at about $800 million a year.
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Drug Has Potential To Prevent Alcoholics From Relapsing
ScienceDaily - August 2, 2008 - An experimental drug that blocks the euphoric feelings associated with drinking may prevent alcoholics from relapsing. The finding, the result of a mouse study at Oregon Health & Science University, could lead to human clinical trials within the next year.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080730175518.htm
Coming Tuesday: Live chat on sleep issues and PTSD
Los Angeles Times - August 2, 2008 - America has been hit with chemical weapons. My fiancee and I try to outrun the gases billowing toward us. We climb into protective suits and strap gas masks over our faces. We take over an abandoned house and I work desperately to seal it up. The world is coming apart.
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Depression Patients’ Brain Circuitry Makes Them Vulnerable to Relapse
National Institue of Mental Health- August 1, 2008 - Using brain imaging, NIMH researchers have produced direct evidence that people prone to depression — even when they’re feeling well — have abnormal mood-regulating brain circuitry. This makes them vulnerable to relapse when levels of certain key brain chemical messengers plummet.
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How to help an addict who refuses treatment
NY Daily News - August 1, 2008 - Bill: Dave, remember I once wrote in this column about going through a bout of anorexia myself? Maybe that’s why “Tina” wrote me personally with her problem. She says her boyfriend is 6′1″, 133 lbs, “and so addicted to vomiting that he suffers from potential heart failure and has lost quite a few of his teeth. I’ve begged ‘Farley’ to get help, but he’d rather give me up than attend even one 12 Step meeting.”
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From Prevention to Preemption: A Paradigm Shift in Psychiatry
Psychiatric Times - August 1, 2008 - Universal prevention has been a focus of psychiatric research for the past 4 decades. Using a public health approach, research has shown that mitigating major risk factors, such as poverty and early life stress, and promoting protective factors can improve behavioral outcomes.
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Suicide’s genetic key discovered
Toronto Globe and Mail - July 31, 2008 - Canadian researchers may have discovered the underlying cause that leads some people to commit suicide or suffer major depression, a finding that could revolutionize how mental disorders are treated.
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Mental and physical exercise keep brain in shape
Schenectady Daily Gazette - July 31, 2008 - When most people think about fitness, they think about the neck down. Gretchen Moore Simmons, professional development specialist for the Alzheimer’s Association of Northeast New York, wants to change that.
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