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Interview: Psychiatrist and Author Richard Berlin |
| Wednesday, June 04, 2008 By editor |
Category: Our Psychology
The myth of the tortured artist who draws inspiration from the act of suffering persists despite the near-total lack of evidence in its favor. We’ve been taught to admire the supposed depressive... more
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New Electroconvulsive Method, Milder Side-Effects |
| Tuesday, June 03, 2008 By editor |
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has a negative image, partly because of a history of abusive use on uncooperative patients and partly because of disturbing portrayals in film. Modern ECT is given volu... more
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Bipolar Teens At Risk for Smoking, Substance Use |
| Tuesday, June 03, 2008 By editor |
Category: Bipolar Disorder
The severe shifts in mood and energy that define bipolar disorder can impact an affected individual’s behavior in significant ways, and researchers have long noted that individuals with this deb... more
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Work-Related Suicides Double in Japan |
| Monday, June 02, 2008 By editor |
Category: Stress
The Japanese Health Ministry released some troubling statistics about work-related mental illness in 2007. One of the most dramatic revelations was that the number of suicides attributed to overwork, ... more
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Yale Researchers Make Alzheimer's Discovery |
| Monday, June 02, 2008 By editor |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
In setting out to explore the link between an immune system molecule and the amyloid plaques that characterize Alzheimer's Disease, a group of Yale researchers expected to find an inverse correlation ... more
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Study: Men Can Also Be Victims of Domestic Abuse |
| Friday, May 30, 2008 By editor |
Category: Our Psychology
Domestic violence is most often associated with women, but new research appearing in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventative Medicine shows that men are also common victims. Their exper... more
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Autism May be Detected Early With Gaze Tracking |
| Friday, May 30, 2008 By editor |
Category: Parenting
Many parents worry about whether their babies are developing normally. Sometimes concerns about autism are unfounded, and sometimes they prove prescient, but either way parents have had to wait years ... more
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Green Tea May Aid Cognitive Effects of Sleep Apnea |
| Thursday, May 29, 2008 By editor |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
The most commonly discussed symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may seem more frustrating than detrimental— snoring and fatigue— but this sleep disorder, in which an individual stops... more
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Leaked Email Highlights Shortchanging of Veterans |
| Thursday, May 29, 2008 By editor |
Category: Stress
As troops return from their second or even third tour of duty in Iraq with nightmares, flashbacks, and unrelenting anxiety. These are all symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but the num... more
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Schizophrenia Symptoms Linked to Enzyme |
| Friday, May 23, 2008 By editor |
Category: Schizophrenia
In past work, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have demonstrated a link between Alzheimer’s disease and the BACE1 enzyme, and they had theorized that blocking this en... more
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TOL Interview: Writer/Director Larkin McPhee |
| Thursday, May 22, 2008 By editor |
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On Wednesday May 21st, PBS aired a new documentary titled Depression: Out of the Shadows. This new film tells the story of a dozen diverse people who have struggled with depression a... more
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Study: MH Creates Significant Economic Issues |
| Thursday, May 22, 2008 By editor |
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The cost of treating mental illness and its many comorbidities weighs on our health care system, and the price of its negative influence on productivity rates has been well-documented. Experts have ... more
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Mental Health Professionals Team Up With Police |
| Thursday, May 15, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
Police officers are thoroughly trained to detain thieves and murderers, but they are often unprepared to deal with disturbances involving the mentally ill. This point was driven home in 1987, when pol... more
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Mother's Mental Health Has Large Impact on Child's Health and Development |
| Thursday, May 15, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
For new parents, the changes brought on by a baby’s birth can bring as much stress and anxiety as joy. Many struggle with depression and other forms of mental illness, and the state of their mental he... more
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New Science Gets to the Root of Opiate Addiction |
| Thursday, May 15, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Research involving genetically modified lab mice has pinpointed a specific protein receptor central to the chemical reality of opiate addiction. The latest related study demonstrated that adenosine ... more
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Cigarette Regulation Moves Forward With Troubling Compromise |
| Wednesday, May 14, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
After receiving the recommendation of the House Energy and Commerce committee, a bill that would grant the FDA regulatory authority over tobacco is coalescing with the general approval of the full bod... more
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Expert: For Obesity Solution, Look to Cigarettes |
| Wednesday, May 14, 2008 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
"The brakes on the obesity epidemic need to be policy-led and governments need to take centre stage," Swinburn, a researcher at Deakin University in Australia, told Reuters at the 2008 European Congre... more
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Alarming Number of American Teens are Depressed |
| Wednesday, May 14, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
An exhuastive survey of young America has uncovered a depression epidemic that affects teens across age, race and economic boundaries and hits adolescent girls the hardest. Based on surveys of ... more
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Past Assault Heightens Soldiers' PTSD Risk |
| Wednesday, May 14, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
The pressing mental health needs of soldiers and veterans have become all too clear since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, with the most recent reports estimating that 300,000 current military ... more
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Obesity Epidemic Not Slowing Down |
| Tuesday, May 13, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
The Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) interviewed nearly 7,000 American adults aged 45-84 from every major ethnic group who had not been diagnosed with any clinical cardiovascular disease w... more
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Reconciling Disparate Studies of Alzheimer's and Anti-Inflammatory Pills |
| Tuesday, May 13, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Medication Info
Millions of Americans take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), either for specific maladies or for daily preventative care. This latter reason is often encouraged by doctors, but it has ... more
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Higher Alcohol Sales May Mean a Greater Risk of Assault |
| Tuesday, May 13, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Alcohol has long been associated with the commission of violent acts, and research has shown that the victims of abuse are also likely to have been drinking. A new study from... more
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Binge Drinkers Less Aware of Driving Impairment |
| Monday, May 12, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Drunk driving ends thousands of lives every year. Impassioned groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving have been able to raise awareness of this avoidable tragedy, but despite their best efforts many... more
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Mechanisms of Post-Traumatic Emotional Stress Iden |
| Monday, May 12, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Severe emotional traumas fortunately do not fit within the fairly comfortable framework of our everyday lives, and that jarring irregularity is one of the reasons they often prove so hard to shake. ... more
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Variations in Brain Receptors May Indicate Severity of Depression |
| Monday, May 12, 2008 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Depression can affect individuals in different ways, and new research from the University of Michigan indicates that the biological changes associated with depression may also vary from person to pers... more
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