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New Possibilities in the Treatment of Auditory Hallucinations |
| Monday, October 29, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
Auditory hallucinations are one of the most frightening symptoms experienced by the mentally ill. The perception of sounds or voices not caused by an external stimulus, these hallucina... more
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Staph "Superbug" Panics Parents |
| Monday, October 29, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Parenting
A hyper-resistant strain of the ever-present staph aureus virus has left at least two children dead and a nation of parents in a state of paranoia, fearful that the virulent bacteria may be hi... more
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AADT's Session Wrap-Up |
| Monday, October 29, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
Last week, we pursued insight into Asberger's by interviewing a thoughtful author who received the diagnosis late in life. We covered two smoking stories that, when put together, magnify the dis... more
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Measuring Stress More Precisely May Lead to Insight |
| Friday, October 26, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Moderate stress can keep you prudently alert when facing crucial challenges, but excessive stress that carries into non-emergency hours can exact a terrible toll on mental and physical health. Elevate... more
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Region of Brain Linked to Addiction in Rats |
| Friday, October 26, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Last year when scientists observed stroke patients who were able to stop smoking without any difficulties, they began to study the area of the brain where these patients had sustai... more
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Companies Get Preventative on Smoking to Cut Health Costs |
| Friday, October 26, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
If there's one place that looming healthcare costs are taken seriously above all others, it is in the world of business. To well-run corporations and companies, healthcare isn't some abstract threat o... more
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Hallucinatory Messages Tell of Schizophrenia to Come |
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
In the 1980s, Christian groups worked themselves into a frenzy finding hidden messages in rock albums. Styx was accused of putting the backward message "Satan move through our voices", and paranoid li... more
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Further Evidence of the Benefits of Exercise |
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Over the years, research has shown that when it comes to losing weight, exercise is one of the most important things we can do. Exercise burns calories, and it also reduces appetite, fights stress, an... more
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Interview: John Elder Robison Talks About His Life With Asperger's |
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
In his memoir, Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison provides an insightful glimpse into how Asperger's, a form of high functioning autism, has influenced his life. Robison was not diagnosed with A... more
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Tobacco Industry Alters Unflattering Secondhand Smoke Research |
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Anyone inclined to grant the benefit of the doubt to smoking research funded by the tobacco industry may need to reconsider: despite overwhelming evidence linking secondhand smoke to cardiov... more
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Greater Birth-Weight, Greater Emotional Protection |
| Wednesday, October 24, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
It has long been accepted that the roots of depression and anxiety can begin in early childhood, but only recently has there been evidence that these roots can reach even into the womb. Dr. Ian Co... more
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Cancer Patients Need Mental Health Screenings |
| Wednesday, October 24, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
A cancer diagnosis and its subsequent treatment may understandably compromise a patient's emotional stability; at least half of those with advanced cases suffer from some form of mental illness, but... more
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Primary-Care Providers Both Succeeding and Failing to Address Depression Treatment |
| Wednesday, October 24, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Primary Care Physicians
Data from the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R) indicates that only about 40% of those with a diagnosable DSM-IV condition will receive treatment in a given year. Of those who do receive... more
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Sleep Bolsters Emotional Control |
| Tuesday, October 23, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
Today's Science Times in the New York Times focuses on sleep. The centerpiece article "An Active, Purposeful Machine That Comes Out at Night to Play?," while interesting, focuses entirely on learning ... more
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Marriage Contributes to Weight Gain in Teens and Young Adults |
| Tuesday, October 23, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
We tend to gain weight during our teen and early adult years (an average of 15-30 pounds), but new research has shown that those who marry young are more likely than their single peers to gain... more
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Sexual Misconduct by Teachers is Disturbingly Common |
| Tuesday, October 23, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Bullying/Victimization
Reports of educators taking sexual liberties with their students rightly raise the ire of the public, but most consider the problem to be limited to a few exceptional cases perpetrated by ... more
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More Schools Focus on Students' Health |
| Tuesday, October 23, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Eating Healthy/ Eating Disorders
The most recent results of the School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS), a government study conducted every six years, brings good news for anyone who worries about the health of students. Co... more
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Should Alzheimer's Be Renamed Type III Diabetes? |
| Monday, October 22, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
There has been no solid consensus on the biological cause of neural degeneration in Alzheimer's patients. The majority of researchers point to the suspicious plaques that amyloid-beta forms in the bra... more
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More Schools Focus on Students' Health |
| Monday, October 22, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
The most recent results of the School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS), a government study conducted every six years, brings good news for anyone who worries about the health of students. Co... more
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Extended Military Deployments Exacerbate Mental Health Problems |
| Monday, October 22, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
The American media's decision to highlight the mental health issues confronting our soldiers requires a robust response, and the military has convened multiple task forces to address the growing probl... more
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AADT's Session Wrap-Up |
| Monday, October 22, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
New research and information advanced several ongoing stories last week. PTSD treatment, opium in Afghanistan, and bullying and victimization each grabbed headlines. With all the excitement some other... more
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Understanding of Mind-Body Connection Helpful for Depression Treatment |
| Friday, October 19, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Physical and emotional pain share biological pathways and neurotransmitters in the central nervous system, so it is not surprising that depression causes physical and well as mental symptoms. Whil... more
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Majority of PTSD Treatments Prove Ineffective |
| Friday, October 19, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
The United States military faces increasing public pressure to improve the scope and quality of treatments available to thousands of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan under the disrupti... more
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Heroin Staying in Afghanistan |
| Thursday, October 18, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
The skin of the poppy plant must be scored by a blade and left to bleed sap before opium can be harvested from the wound. The people of Afghanistan, which produces more than 90% of the world’s opium, ... more
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Maternal Depression Has Dramatic Consequences for Kids |
| Thursday, October 18, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Parenting
The effects of postpartum depression on the emotional developmentof infants have been thoroughly explored in recent years. More severeconditions have received far less attention from the research comm... more
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