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More Suicide Prevention Needed For Seniors |
| Wednesday, September 19, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Getting older often means retiring, following special diets, taking increasing numbers of pills, losing loved ones, and maybe moving to a retirement facility or nursing home. All of these life c... more
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Mental Health Parity Bill Finally Passes Senate |
| Wednesday, September 19, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane-crash in 2002, but his legacy survived and won a long-awaited victory for mental health advocates yesterday. The Senate unanimously passed the Mental Health ... more
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Adult ADHD Cannot Be Ignored |
| Tuesday, September 18, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The concept of attention-deficit disorders as far more than the short-term symptoms of a caffeinated childhood is surprisingly new, but increasingly detailed surveys reveal the breadth of its in... more
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FDA Issues Warning on High Doses of Schizophrenia Drug |
| Tuesday, September 18, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Medication Info
Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration released information regarding warnings to be added to the label of the drug haloperidol, marketed by Johnson & Johnson as Haldol. The drug, which was origi... more
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Hire-Ability Connects Mentally Ill With Jobs |
| Monday, September 17, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
For the mentally ill, receiving a good education and holding down a job can be more difficult than for most. Fortunately, there are programs like Hire-Ability, a branch of Richmond Area Multi-Serv... more
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Pro-Anorexia Websites Wage PR War with Dangerous Support and Advice |
| Monday, September 17, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
At Treatment Online we spend a lot of time trying to dispel the stigma surrounding mental disorders. We feel strongly that misperceptions about the mentally ill being dangerous, disgusting, or unr... more
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AADT's Session Wrap-Up |
| Monday, September 17, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
Last week we found out that several things are not always what they seem. Smoking during pregnancy actually has a lot to do with depression. A common supplement may prove to be an effective treatment ... more
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Do Opiates Permanently Alter the Brain? |
| Friday, September 14, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
One of the best possible dissuasions against drug use is that it causes irreparable brain damage. But determining whether a specific drug actually does make permanent changes is very difficult. A r... more
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Teen Binge Drinking Predicts Later Behavioral Problems |
| Friday, September 14, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Underage drinking obviously offers only negative returns on all fronts, but recent studies imply that teens who binge, or consume more than four drinks in succession, face an even greater risk of ... more
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Motivational Interviewing May Benefit Recent Vets |
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
A new study being conducted at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) will focus on helping veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) seek early treatment ... more
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Cancer Drug Tamoxifen Points to Possible Bipolar Disorder Treatment |
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Bipolar Disorder
With their curiosity piqued by evidence that inhibition of protein kinase C (PKC) could potentially have anti-manic effects, a group of researchers from the NIMH, NIH, and HHS set up a small experimen... more
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Commonly Used Diet Supplement Reduces Gambling Urges |
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
As the die roll across the table, tantalizing spectators with brief visions of fortune or bankruptcy, excitement fills the air. For some, this excitement is a pleasant diversion but so... more
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New School Year Means More Campus Drinking, Calls Home |
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: College Life
This month, more than 15 million students from almost as many disparate backgrounds begin the fall semester at one of America's 2,500 four-year colleges and countless related post-secondary school... more
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Survey Points to Solutions for Prison Mental Health Woes |
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
That mental health concerns remain a major problem for prisons goes without saying, and while some areas and individuals are taking steps to improve conditions, there largely continue to be more quest... more
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Schizophrenia Treatment Starting With Earliest Signs |
| Tuesday, September 11, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Schizophrenia
When strange voices echo through your head and strange visions dance before your eyes, you are too late to stave off a psychotic episode. The psychotic break that usually first strikes schizophrenic... more
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NCLB Faces New Challenges, Neglects High Performers |
| Tuesday, September 11, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Assessment & Evaluation
The enormous spectre of No Child Left Behind persists in spite of its increasingly shaky foundations, and new congressional debate centers not on its virtues but on naming its many shortcoming... more
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Depression Treatment to Help Pregnant Smokers |
| Tuesday, September 11, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
It may come as a shock to some, but even with all the information surrounding the horrible outcomes, more than 10% of pregnant women continue to smoke. In fact, research from earlier this year found t... more
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School, Cell Phones Cause Tired Teens |
| Tuesday, September 11, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Parenting
As kids return to school this month, we are reminded of just how important, and evasive, a good night’s sleep really is, especially for youth. Most teens do not get the 8-9 hours per night which is re... more
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School, Cell Phones Cause Tired Teens |
| Monday, September 10, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
As kids return to school this month, we are reminded of just how important, and evasive, a good night’s sleep really is, especially for youth. Most teens do not get the 8-9 hours per night which is re... more
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Pregnancy a Possible Trigger for Binge Eating |
| Monday, September 10, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Pregnant women traditionally get a free pass to consume as much food as they want, after all, they are "eating for two." This free pass went unexamined for so long because pregnancy comes with many na... more
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Advanced Directives Grant Patients Greater Control of Their Care |
| Monday, September 10, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
Psychiatric advanced directives, a form of medical document very similar to a living will that is usually applied only in end-of-life circumstances, have become legal in much of the United States over... more
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AADT's Session Wrap-Up |
| Monday, September 10, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
September rolled in with a number of exciting stories about antidepressants and depression treatment. Antidepressant warnings caused some harm, the placebo effect became a culprit, and new research po... more
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Risk for Workers at Ground Zero Varies by Training and Task |
| Friday, September 07, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Those who bravely help with rescue and recovery after a disaster should be honored not only for putting themselves in the line of physical danger but for putting themselves at high risk for post-tra... more
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Strong Evidence Against SSRI Warnings Continues to Roll In |
| Friday, September 07, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Depression
Here at AADT, we've been speaking out against the FDA's SSRI blackbox warnings for quite a while, so one might think that we feel pretty good about all the new evidence coming to light that shows ju... more
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Worldwide Depression Is Physically Destructive and Undertreated |
| Friday, September 07, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
In a development that will hopefully silence those who repudiate the classification of depression as a disease, concurrent studies from the World Health Organisation and the National... more
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