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Parental Behaviors May Affect Eating Disorder Risk |
| Friday, November 30, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Early life experiences, especially with in terms of parents' actions toward their children, can affect the development of eating disorders, according to an Australian study published in the Internat... more
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Autism Research Expands, Parents Seek Education Alternatives |
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Autism, Asperger's, PDD
Despite the groundbreaking research emerging nearly every week from autism studies performed around the world, the disorder remains one of the most frustrating and controversial mental illnesses, an... more
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Restaurant of the Future May Unravel Reasons Behind Overeating |
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Newspapers across the country are filled with stories about the apparent leveling off of obesity rates in America, but the problem is still large. While many citizens are finally aware of the chemical... more
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Study Links Abnormal Brain Development with Pedophilia |
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
Research has already shown that abnormal brain development may contribute to the development of pedophilia, and a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Toronto's Center for Addicti... more
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Autism Research Expands, Parents Seek Education Alternatives |
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Despite the groundbreaking research emerging nearly every week from autism studies performed around the world, the condition remains one of the most frustrating and controversial mental illnes... more
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Cyber-Bullies in the Spotlight |
| Wednesday, November 28, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Bullying/Victimization
Oh, the many promises and horrors offered by the World Wide Web. Easy access free forums allow for far greater degrees of cultural discourse than ever before. Citizens of disparate backgrounds, l... more
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Report Connects Lack of Health Insurance with Depression, Suicide |
| Wednesday, November 28, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
When left untreated, mental illness can have a devastating effect on a person's ability to function and in some cases can even lead to suicide. According to the advocacy group Mental H... more
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Cyber-Bullies in the Spotlight |
| Wednesday, November 28, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Oh, the many promises and horrors offered by the World Wide Web. Easy access free forums allow for far greater degrees of cultural discourse than ever before. Citizens of disparate backgrounds... more
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More Research Links Flu to Schizophrenia |
| Tuesday, November 27, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
The fever of influenza and the psychotic hallucinations of schizophrenia might seem to have no connection, but some doctors have long suspected that a correlation exists. Much of their initial suspici... more
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Self-Harm Predicts Suicide Risk |
| Tuesday, November 27, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Thousands of young people choose to injure themselves every day - their behavior often borders on the pathological and may stem from any number of cumulative stressors: difficult relationships, ne... more
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Hot lines Provide Much-Needed Mental Health Care in Rural Areas |
| Tuesday, November 27, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
Farmers lives can be lonely and stressful, yet, as we've discussed in the past, few mental health care services are available in rural areas. Often, farmers must travel long distan... more
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Non-Addictive Painkillers |
| Monday, November 26, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
The development of powerful pharmaceutical painkillers has been both a blessing and a curse. Synthetic opioids can very effectively relieve unbearable pain but carry the considerable risk of creatin... more
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Infants Recognize Good and Bad Intentions |
| Monday, November 26, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Parenting
The ability to distinguish Good Samaritans from individuals who mean us harm or inconvenience has proven so crucial to our collective well-being that it appears, unlearned, in our response mechanism... more
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Study: Minority Boys at Risk for Eating Disorders |
| Monday, November 26, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
If asked to picture someone with an eating disorder, in your mind's eye you will probably see a young, white, girl. White girls are the most at risk for eating disorders, but a recent study has provid... more
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Infants Recognize Good and Bad Intentions |
| Monday, November 26, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
The ability to distinguish Good Samaritans from individuals who mean us harm or inconvenience has proven so crucial to our collective well-being that it appears, unlearned, in our response mec... more
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AADT's Session Wrap-Up |
| Monday, November 26, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
We hope that everyone had a healthy and safe Thanksgiving! The long holiday weekend is over, and not only is it time to get back to work, but it's also time to start burning off those extra calories w... more
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Life Events Trigger Psychiatric Disorders |
| Saturday, November 24, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
It is commonly assumed that traumatic life events precipitate psychiatric problems, but this perception has been based on anecdotal observations rather than systematic study. A sufficiently rigorous... more
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Trauma May Have Long-term Effects on Stress Response |
| Saturday, November 24, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Experiencing a traumatic event or extreme stress often leads to mental illness, usually post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression. A new study, however, illustrates that stress and... more
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Turkey Engenders Trust |
| Wednesday, November 21, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Stories
Imagine you sit at the Thanksgiving dinner table, and your aunt has just asked you to pass the turkey. Your eyes move to the tempting chocolate cake in front of her. You have two options, cooperate an... more
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SAD Comparable to Major Depressive Disorder |
| Wednesday, November 21, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
It’s common to feel depressed when the weather turns cold and dark, but seasonal affective disorders (SAD), which affects an estimated 5% of the population, causes serious emotional and ... more
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Young Americans Reading Less, Testing Lower |
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Perhaps the most discouraging news to hit the American education world in some time comes not from an assessment of failing schools, unqualified teachers or parents demanding a greater degree of ... more
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Smoking Ban Proposed for all State Mental Hospitals |
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Three-fourths of patients in mental hospitals are addicted to cigarettes, a fact that has traditionally been accepted by hospital administrators as either inevitable or relatively harmless. In the l... more
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Stress Response Differs with Gender |
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
We all behave differently during times of stress, and researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have found further evidence that gender affects the ways in which we cope with stress. With a mor... more
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Declining Reading Rates Equal Lower Test Scores |
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Homework Habits
Perhaps the most discouraging news to hit the American education world in some time comes not from an assessment of failing schools, unqualified teachers or parents demanding a greater d... more
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Cognitive Benefit of Antipsychotics May be Due to Practice Effect |
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia can bring terrible hallucinations as well as impair a variety of cognitive functions. A large number of antipsychotic medications purport to combat both psychotic symptoms and cognitive ... more
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