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Problem Children Often Develop Personality Disorders |
| Monday, July 24, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category:
A recent article in Psychiatric Times reports, unsurprisingly, that decades of study on childhood behavioral disorders have reached a near-unanimous conclusion: adolescent psychiatric patients... more
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Suicidal Behavior Needs Long Term Solutions |
| Monday, July 24, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Depression
Crisis intervention response to suicide attempts, the standard practice in most areas, may address the short term problem, but often fails to meet the long term needs of those in danger. Speaking in ... more
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Sleeping Together Hurting Men's Brain Power |
| Friday, July 21, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Stress
It may be a sad sitcom plot retread, but the old trope of men complaining about having to snuggle may actually hold some water. According to researchers in Austria, whose findings were published in t... more
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Prescription Errors Cause for Concern |
| Thursday, July 20, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Medication Info
Tagging along with our post from earlier today, there comes more news on prescription medications to stir concern, this time from the Washington Post. The WaPo story comes from a new Institute of Med... more
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FDA Issues Two Warnings for Antidepressants |
| Thursday, July 20, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Medication Info
Today, the Food and Drug Administration has issued two new warnings regarding the use of the antidepressants, SSRIs, for depression treatment. Both of the new warnings will only pertain to a small... more
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Soldiers Turning to Yoga to Battle Stress |
| Wednesday, July 19, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Stress
CNN ran interesting report from the AP yesterday on how many soldiers, in a variety of service branches, have been taking up yoga to help build flexibility and manage stress. The story sprung out of ... more
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Doctors Fail When They Shrink from Obesity Discussion |
| Wednesday, July 19, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Eating Healthy/ Eating Disorders
In her article "Who Are You Calling Fat?" from today's Washington Post, writer Sandra Boodman looks at a troubling issue in the fight against obesity: often, doctors are afraid to use the word fat. A... more
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"Face Blindness" More Common Than Previously Thought |
| Wednesday, July 19, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
The average person sees thousands of faces over a lifetime. Which ones do we remember, and how do we do it? Why do some faces stand out, and how do these issues of perception differ from person to... more
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Depression Research at the Heart of Journal Questions |
| Wednesday, July 19, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Depression
Two controversial depression studies, one published in Neuropsychopharmacology, the other in the Journal of the American Medical Association, are at the center of a Wall Street Journal article today e... more
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Doctors Fail When They Shrink from Obesity Discussion |
| Tuesday, July 18, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
In her article "Who Are You Calling Fat?" from today's Washington Post, writer Sandra Boodman looks at a troubling issue in the fight against obesity: often, doctors are afraid to use the word fat. A... more
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More Summer Campers Juggle Pharmaceuticals |
| Monday, July 17, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Summer camp directors and pediatric experts note that the number of pre-adolescent children on prescription drugs is at an all-time high, and that managing these chemical fixatives can be tri... more
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New Report: Private School Students Do Not Outperform Public Schoolers |
| Monday, July 17, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Assessment & Evaluation
Many of its most vocal proponents would have you believe that a private school education is superior to a public school education in every way. A recent Education Department report, howe... more
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More Summer Campers Juggle Pharmaceuticals |
| Monday, July 17, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Special Needs
Summer camp directors and pediatric experts note that the number of pre-adolescent children on prescription drugs is at an all-time high, and that managing these chemical fixatives can be tr... more
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Alzheimer's, Diabetes Link Strengthened |
| Monday, July 17, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
At the opening day of this year's International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, a team from Stockholm's Karolinska Institute presented the results of a longitudinal study that... more
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Many Middle and High Schoolers Not Reading at Acceptable Levels |
| Friday, July 14, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Special Needs
Problems with literacy are hardly a new phenomenon in American schools. A new Washington Post article and several recent nationwide surveys suggest that focus on literary aptitude should not b... more
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Defense Task Force on Mental Health to Convene |
| Friday, July 14, 2006 By Blog Master |
Category: Mood Changes (anxiety, depression, etc.)
For the first time since its creation by Congress last year, the Defense Task Force on Mental Health is set to meet, the Hartford Courant reports. Sen. Barbara Boxer, who sponsored the bill that brou... more
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Horrible Crime Sparks Renewed Concern Over Enlistment Screening |
| Friday, July 14, 2006 By Blog Master |
Category: Mood Changes (anxiety, depression, etc.)
Evidence continues to come to light about the brutal rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman and the murder of her family. At CBS's website you can watch Armen Keteyian's most recent report, which det... more
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Defense Task Force on Mental Health to Convene |
| Friday, July 14, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
For the first time since its creation by Congress last year, the Defense Task Force on Mental Health is set to meet, the Hartford Courant reports. Sen. Barbara Boxer, who sponsored the bill that brou... more
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Transition to College Life Provides New Stresses For Parents and Children |
| Friday, July 14, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: College Life
Barring childbirth, the day that a teenager first leaves home for school may be the most important point in the parent/child relationship. Caught in an uncertain period of transition, young pe... more
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Study: Mild Sadness Can Trigger Depression Relapse |
| Thursday, July 13, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Depression
A new report in the Archives of General Psychiatry helps to shed light on how different depression treatments and sad mood stimuli can combine to exacerbate depression relapses. Researchers working a... more
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Though We Might Not Recognize Them, Office Menaces Still Create Undue Stress and Anxiety |
| Thursday, July 13, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Stress
The Wall Street Journal's Cubicle Culture column looks at office life and politics. In this past Tuesday's piece, writer Jared Sandberg looks at how shifts in policy have changed what is acceptable i... more
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Horrible Crime Sparks Renewed Concern Over Enlistment Screening |
| Wednesday, July 12, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Stress
Evidence continues to come to light about the brutal rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman and the murder of her family. At CBS's website you can watch Armen Keteyian's most recent report, which det... more
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ADHD Research Shifts to Long-Neglected Girls |
| Wednesday, July 12, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
As many asseven million American children and adolescents suffer from varyingdegrees of attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder. Beyond theobvious behavioral problems and trademark annoyances caused... more
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ADHD Research Shifts to Long-Neglected Girls |
| Wednesday, July 12, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
As many as seven million American children and adolescents suffer from varying degrees of attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder. Beyond the obvious behavioral problems and trademark ... more
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Have the shamen and the Merry Pranksters returned? |
| Wednesday, July 12, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
Researchers from Johns Hopkins have released a study that is generating a lot of headlines across the United States. For our part, let's look at the Forbes write up, which runs under the headline: "'... more
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