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Anti-Smoking Legislation Passing Across the United States |
| Monday, January 22, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
The North American anti-smoking movement reached a milestone in the final weeks of 2006 when the state of Nevada, a notorious bastion of unhealthy habits, outlawed smoking in public spaces (excepti... more
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Natural Fat Substitute Has Potential |
| Friday, January 19, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
In an effort to reduce the amount of harmful saturated and trans fats in their cafeteria selections, school officials in a suburban Pittsburgh district recently revised their menus to include foods ... more
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Natural Fat Substitute Has Potential in School Cafeterias |
| Friday, January 19, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Eating Healthy/ Eating Disorders
In an effort to reduce the amount of harmful saturated and trans fats in their cafeteria selections, school officials in a suburban Pittsburgh district recently revised their menus to include foods ... more
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Treatment and the Bereavement Event |
| Friday, January 19, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
Yesterday, we brought you the first part of our interview with Anita Sacks, LCSW, in which she described the anatomy of the bereavement event. Today, we're happy to present the second half of that int... more
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Research Continues to Highlight Internet Dependence |
| Friday, January 19, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Though many in the mental health field decry common use of the word "addiction," prefering the more clinical terms "dependence" or "pathological use/abuse," most Americans understand the concept... more
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We're a Winner in the Medical Blog Awards |
| Friday, January 19, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
Medgadget has announced the results of the 2006 Medical Blog Awards, and Anxiety, Addiction and Depression Treatments is the winner in the category of Best Clinical Sciences Weblog! By way of indulgen... more
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Examining the Bereavement Event |
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
A little while back, we brought you the story of Alex, a tango dancer who struggled with feelings of sadness and depression after the loss of his wife and partner. This week we had the opportunity to ... more
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Experts Say Colleges Not Adequately Preparing Students For New Century's Challenges |
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Assessment & Evaluation
According to an extensive report from the American Association of Colleges and Universities and a recent book by former Harvard president Derek Bok, American colleges are now stuck in an antiquated ... more
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Childhood Abuse Predicates Health Problems |
| Wednesday, January 17, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Mood Issues (Depression, Anxiety, etc.)
Child abuse is an epidemic - it affects more boys and girls than any disease, and yet we've not allocated the corresponding research and funding. Some might argue that this is because the problem is... more
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Childhood Abuse Predicates Health Problems |
| Wednesday, January 17, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Child abuse is an epidemic - it affects more boys and girls than any disease, and yet we've not allocated the corresponding research and funding. Some might argue that this is because the problem ... more
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Mental Illness Often Translates into Drastically Shorter Life Expectancy |
| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Schizophrenia
In an editorial from the January issue of Current Psychiatry, the magazine's editor-in-chief, Henry A. Nasrallah, MD, trumpets an issue that too often gets overlooked and underplayed: the early deaths... more
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Is the Autism Epidemic Overstated? |
| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Autism, Asperger's, PDD
No one doubts that the incidence of autism diagnoses has grown exponentially in recent years, but experts debate whether the condition is actually more common or if it's simply reported and diagnos... more
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Is the Autism Epidemic Overstated? |
| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
No one doubts that the incidence of autism diagnoses has grown exponentially in recent years, but experts debate whether the condition is actually more common or if it's simply reported and diag... more
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Florida Makes Changes to Mentally Ill Prisoner Treatment |
| Monday, January 15, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
Updating a story we covered back in November, the Florida legislature has acted, in an emergency session, to create 373 new beds for mentally ill men and women who have been kept in jail by the state ... more
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Brazil Confronts a Growing Eating Disorder Epidemic |
| Monday, January 15, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
For evidence of the ever-expanding influence of eating disorders around the globe (a topic covered frequently by AADT), look no further than Brazil, whose longtime female beauty standards have... more
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Researchers Uncover Genetic Alzheimer's Link |
| Monday, January 15, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
In what could be a groundbreaking development in the continued treatment of one of the world's most common mental health disorders, scientists appear to have isolated a possible genetic source for A... more
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Chronic Headache Coincides with Depression Risk |
| Friday, January 12, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Beyond the occasional pains wrought by physical stress, lack of sleepor genetics, millions currently suffer from chronic headaches, andthose who do are considerably more likely to report psychosomatic... more
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The Science of Procrastination |
| Friday, January 12, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Homework Habits
Nearly every student has, at at least one point in his or her school career,responded to a perceived challenge or obligation by practicingprocrastination. The strategy is hardly limited to "layabouts"... more
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The Science of Procrastination |
| Friday, January 12, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Nearly everyone has, at at least one point in his or her life, responded to a perceived challenge or obligation by practicing procrastination. The strategy is hardly limited to "layabouts" or thos... more
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College President Positions Getting Riskier |
| Thursday, January 11, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: College Life
The position of university president in the US, once seen as a safe bastion of authority and esteem, has emerged from several recent shake-ups across the country as less of a sure thing. Whil... more
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Binge Drinking Common Among High Schoolers |
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
Researchers working with the CDC and SAMHSA have released their analysis of data that has been culled from the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The group was looking into rates of binge drinking, defi... more
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New Breed of Economists Highlight Importance of Behavioral Health |
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
Happiness is all the rage these days. Some in academia call it "positive psychology," and articles have cropped up across a number of publications including recent ones in the New York Times and New Y... more
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China Following the U.S. into Obesity Epidemic |
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Eating Healthy/ Eating Disorders
Only 45 years after the deaths of 30 million citizens in a large-scale famine, Chinese children, particularly those living in more prosperous areas of the country, are growing larger at an astoundin... more
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China Following the U.S. into Obesity Epidemic |
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Only 45 years after the deaths of 30 million citizens in a large-scale famine, Chinese children, particularly those living in more prosperous areas of the country, are growing larger at an astou... more
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Study: PTSD Effects Sensitivity to Pain |
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 By Blog Master |
Category: Trauma/PTSD
In a report that appears in the January edition of the Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers have shown that war veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder have an altered response to ... more
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