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Teen Depression Can Lead to Risky Sexual Behavior |
| Wednesday, July 12, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Mood Issues (Depression, Anxiety, etc.)
Researchers from University of California, San Francisco, have linked depression in teens to increased levels of sexual risk taking, which puts this group at greatly increased risk of sexually transmi... more
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Parents Fail at Trust, Turn to Technology |
| Tuesday, July 11, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Parenting
The San Francisco Chronicle looked yesterday at the new trend of parents using high-tech spy technology to monitor their children. The writer, Janine Defao, offers many explanations for why parents m... more
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Meth Contributes to Crime Growth, Just Not as Expected |
| Tuesday, July 11, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
A while back we linked to an AP story that focused on the link between methamphetamine abuse and identity theft. Today, the New York Times takes another look at this growing trend.The states with the... more
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Grand Rounds 2:42 at DonorCycle |
| Tuesday, July 11, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
The latest edition of Grand Rounds went up this morning over at DonorCycle, a wonderful medical blog by a transplant coordinator. There are many great medical posts that are worth a read. One intere... more
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Parents Fail at Building Trust, Turn to Technology |
| Monday, July 10, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Parenting
The San Francisco Chronicle looked yesterday at the new trend of parents using high-tech spy technology to monitor their children. The writer, Janine Defao, offers many explanations for why parents m... more
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Teen Depression Can Lead to Risky Sexual Behavior |
| Monday, July 10, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Depression
Researchers from University of California, San Francisco, have linked depression in teens to increased levels of sexual risk taking, which puts this group at greatly increased risk of sexually transmi... more
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Elderly Americans More Susceptible to Depression, Suicide |
| Friday, July 07, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
With a deep-seated bias explored in this week's Washington Post commentary,many in our society dimiss the elderly as harmless, powerless andinconvenient. Perhaps this is one of the many reasons that... more
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UK Study Finds Suprising Levels of Paranoia |
| Friday, July 07, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Stress
The BBC reported this week on a study performed by the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, which found that "levels of paranoia were much higher than previously suspected - and almost as... more
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Students Involved in Bullying Have More Behavioral Problems |
| Friday, July 07, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Bullying/Victimization
The ageless phenomenon of bullying, or threatening and teasing a peerwith verbal and physical provocations, is an elemental aspect of theschool experience for millions of American students. Repeated s... more
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Staying Fit a Challenge, Even for Former Sports Stars |
| Friday, July 07, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
In high school Johnny Football Hero or Lacrosse Star Jane might have looked like they were destined for life long beauty and svelte figures, but as the New York Times reported yesterday, more often th... more
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Could Stress Be Killing You? |
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Stress
To the surprise of many, the recently convicted former Enron founder Kenneth Lay died this week, the victim of an apparent heart attack. Many have reported that according to his family, he was in ter... more
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Ashley Judd Most Recent Star to Reveal Struggle with Depression |
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Depression
Like Eminem and Katherine McPhee, who in recent weeks revealed battling mental health disorders, veteran actress Ashley Judd told Glamour magazine that she struggled with depression for some time. Th... more
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Mental Health Repercussions, Dangers of MySpace Continue to Amaze Mainstream Media |
| Wednesday, July 05, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
Another day, another story in a large market newspaper alerting the world to the potential dangers of MySpace. If these stories were all one had to go on, one might think that most newspaper writers ... more
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Teenage Drinking Greatly Impairs Neurological Development |
| Wednesday, July 05, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Physicians and researchers have long believed that frequent bouts of alcohol consumption among minors slow brain functions and disrupt the development of essential faculties such as memory and risk ... more
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Fixing America's Loneliness Problem |
| Monday, July 03, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Depression
Anyone who follows mental health news on the web has probably seen this story bubbling up over the past two weeks. In a joint report put together by researchers at Duke and The University of Arizona ... more
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More Parents Investing in Athletic Training for Their Children |
| Friday, June 30, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Parenting
Richard Williams, father of tennis champions Serena and Venus, decided long before they did that his daughters would be sports stars. Serena won her first tournament at age four and went p... more
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Study Finds Inexpensive Depression Treatment May Help |
| Friday, June 30, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Depression
An article published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology has found that something as simple as a targeted mailing may in fact be effective in treating mild de... more
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More Bars Make For Dangerous Neighborhoods |
| Wednesday, June 28, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
A current and thoroughly unsurprising Reuters report references a six year study of hospital admissions across several California neighborhoods. The study in question concluded that increases in the n... more
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Tribune Paints Unnecessarily Bleak Picture of Anorexia Fight |
| Wednesday, June 28, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
In a Chicago Tribune article yesterday, writer Judith Graham painted a pretty bleak picture of treatment options and outcomes for anorexia. One of the main jumping off points for her report was a stu... more
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Surgeon General Drops the Hammer on Second Hand Smoke |
| Wednesday, June 28, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
In what amounts to the most stern condemnation of secondhand smoke to date, the Surgeon General released a new report this week, updating the Surgeon General's stance on the subject for the first time... more
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More on College and Mental Health Woes |
| Tuesday, June 27, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Depression
Yesterday, the Kansas City Star took a look at the issue of depression and other mental health disorders as they effect colleges and universities. The headline, "Mental health woes rise" implies that... more
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Gubernatorial Hopeful Bows Out to Focus on Depression |
| Tuesday, June 27, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Depression
In something of an opinion piece from Sunday's Washington Post Johns Hopkin's professor of Psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison praises former Maryland gubernatorial canidate Doug Duncan for his... more
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Overview of Addiction Research in NYT Magazine |
| Monday, June 26, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
A lengthy story in this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine asked: "An Anti-Addiction Pill??" The story winds its way through many different approaches to addiction and in so doing examines the ran... more
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Study Inconclusively Links Pollution and Autism |
| Monday, June 26, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Autism, Asperger's, PDD
Autism is a serious and potentially handicapping condition which effects as many as 300,000 Americans. Previous posts at The Psychology of Education discussed the growing public ... more
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Clean Up Your Life and Beat That Infonoia |
| Monday, June 26, 2006 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
The June 26th issue of Newsweek has a short essay in their "My Turn" section that discusses infonoia: that feeling of dread that leads you to save every receipt and shred every credit card statement. ... more
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