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Kids May Benefit from Less Support |
| Thursday, October 18, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
When children become frustrated or angry, it's only natural that their parents will want to comfort them, but research indicates that parents who provide too much support for their children ma... more
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Family Support Necessary Part of Addressing Adolescent Obesity |
| Thursday, October 18, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
University of Minnesota professor Dianne Neumark-Sztainer recently lead a team of researchers in a comprehensive longitudinal study of 2,500 adolescents. The group's work, which will appear in the upc... more
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Maternal Depression Has Dramatic Consequences for Kids |
| Thursday, October 18, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
The effects of postpartum depression on the emotional development of infants have been thoroughly explored in recent years. More severe conditions have received far less attention from the resea... more
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Remote Psychiatric Evaluations Just As Accurate |
| Wednesday, October 17, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
We have covered so many studies proving the effectiveness of telepsychiatry that even the most technology-averse critic may have a hard time doubting the potential of this expanding field. Time and ag... more
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Bullies and Victims Face Other Forms of Victimization |
| Wednesday, October 17, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Bullying/Victimization
Whether it takes the form of name-calling, teasing, or fighting, bullying has become one if the biggest concerns for our schools, and research continues to illustrate how bullying affects bullies as w... more
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Bullies and Victims Face Other Forms of Victimization |
| Wednesday, October 17, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Whether it takes the form of name-calling, teasing, or fighting, bullying has become one if the biggest concerns for our schools, and research continues to illustrate how bullying affects bullies as w... more
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Researchers Move Closer to Schizophrenia Origins |
| Wednesday, October 17, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
A defect in a the creation of a chemical messenger responsible for moderating anxiety and regulating the growth of the brain's prefrontal cortex may facilitate the development of schizophrenia, ac... more
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Blood Test Could Allow Earlier Detection of Alzheimer's |
| Tuesday, October 16, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
A test that can reliably detect Alzheimer's before its clinical symptoms become apparent may be one of the best things we can do to help those who suffer from the disease, and yet this goal has been e... more
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Depression Rates Found to Vary by Occupation |
| Tuesday, October 16, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Americans working low-pay, low-skill, low-benefit jobs with significant rates of turnover also report the highest rates of clinical depression, according to a new release from the Substance Abuse and ... more
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Website Features Videos of Autistic Behavior |
| Monday, October 15, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Though most people can name some of the classic signs of autism (repetitive movements, impaired non-verbal communication, and delayed or impaired verbal communication), many may not know wha... more
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Mental Health Courts Lower Recidivism Rates |
| Monday, October 15, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
The United States' prison population has nearly quadrupled in the last 25 years alone. America incarcerates more of its citizens, by both number and percentage, than any other industrialized c... more
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AADT's Session Wrap-Up |
| Monday, October 15, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
Last week we celebrated Mental Illness Awareness Week with several stories that examined the impact of schools and peers in relationship to drug use, performance, and behavioral health interventions. ... more
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Public/Private School Choice Makes Little Difference for Low-Income Students |
| Friday, October 12, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
A new, somewhat contradictory report released by the non-partisan Center on Education Policy appears to relegate the public vs. private school debate to the second tier of educational issues. Its f... more
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Public/Private Schools Make Little Difference for Low-Income Students |
| Friday, October 12, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Parenting
A new, somewhat contradictory report released by the non-partisan Center on Education Policy appears to relegate the public vs. private school debate to the second tier of educational issues. It... more
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Migraine Medication May Provide Relief from Alcoholism |
| Thursday, October 11, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Some alcoholics beat their addiction with the help of counseling and support groups, but for others, recovery from alcoholism is a constant struggle. Some relapse, and others never successfully ... more
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Peer-Led Prevention Efforts Prove More Effective for Teens |
| Thursday, October 11, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Recent research on teen drug use education and prevention reveals the pervasive nature (both good and bad) of peer influence. In surveys conducted one year after the study began, high schoolers who'd ... more
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Mental Illness Awareness Week |
| Thursday, October 11, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Stories
In 1989, Congress declared that the first full week of October would be Mental Illness Awareness Week. It has been almost two decades, and though awareness has certainly increased, there remains a... more
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Mental Illness a Significant Source of Role Disability |
| Wednesday, October 10, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
While we all know that doctor's bills do not comprise the total cost of physical and mental illness, we may easily overlook the indirect costs of illness. Role disability, the inability to work ... more
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Early School Performance Predicts Substance Abuse Rates |
| Wednesday, October 10, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
A cumulative analysis of academic and behavioral trends among Americans aged 14 to 22 seems to confirm an inverse relationship between middle-school grade point averages and the likelihood o... more
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Anorexics May Have Altered Sense of Taste |
| Tuesday, October 09, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Anorexia studies often focus on the powerful social pressure exerted by unrealistic images and critical peers, but recently there have been a few noteworthy searches for a pysiological component to th... more
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Hurricane Katrina's Destructive Influence Continues Unabated |
| Tuesday, October 09, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
More than two years after the winds and floods of two huge storms effectively disabled the famed city of New Orleans and the immediate surrounding area, promised relief has largely failed to appear,... more
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Communicate to Decide When Therapy Should End |
| Tuesday, October 09, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
In an article this morning, Los Angeles Times writer Janet Cromley examined the important and often little talked about topic of ending therapy. When an individual seeks out a therapist, it is with a ... more
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Senator Reveals Struggle with Dementia |
| Monday, October 08, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) has served tirelessly in the Senate for over 30 years, but he announced last week that he will not seek another term. He revealed that he has been conflicted about what ... more
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Increased Funding a Step Forward for National Children's Study |
| Monday, October 08, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Researchers have always questioned the role played by environmental and genetic factors in mental and physical health. With last week's announcement of increased government funding for the momentous... more
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Computer-Based Therapy Options Expanding |
| Monday, October 08, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
Anonymity and efficiency have driven thousands of Britons to their keyboards for electronic therapy to treat their potentially crippling phobias and other mental illnesses. As in the United Stat... more
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