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Discontinuing Antidepressants Can Have Unintended Side Effects |
| Monday, May 22, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRI's, are the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressants, and following their widespread use, psychiatrists note the pr... more
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Mixed Messages on Children and Media |
| Friday, May 19, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Do hours in front of a television or computer screen deaden a child's mental faculties, or does this constant influx of multi-media material better prepare them to process and analyze informatio... more
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Kyle Ambrogi's Story |
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Way back in October we posted on the story of University of Pennsylvania football player Kyle Ambrogi. A favorite son of the city of Philadelphia, Ambrogi committed suicide October 10th, shooting him... more
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A Disturbing Report on Intimate Partner Violence |
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Yesterday, Reuters reported on a study recently performed in the Seattle area that focused on the incidence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in enrollees of a health care program. Funded by the Age... more
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Partnership Survey Confirms Teen Prescription, OTC Drug Abuse |
| Wednesday, May 17, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
The most recent evidence of the growing teen prescription and over-the-counter drug epidemic comes from the Partnership for a Drug Free America. Released this week, the non-profit coalition's indepen... more
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Financial Burden of Health Care Becoming Clear |
| Tuesday, May 16, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released their report of health care projections. This year health care spending should exceed $2 trillion. That sounds bad, but not when compared to t... more
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The Question of Homophobia |
| Tuesday, May 16, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
It wasn't until December 15th, 1973, that the American Psychiatric Association unanimously voted to remove homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders, as catalogued in what was then the seco... more
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New Research Leads to Growing Awareness of Autism |
| Monday, May 15, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Autism, Asperger's, PDD
A new Time Magazine cover story sheds light on an unusual and thoroughly misunderstood condition: autism. Though much of the public draws their information on the disorder from pop culture references ... more
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Insufficient Sleep Tied to Obesity in Children |
| Monday, May 15, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Researchers have long understood that sleep loss can lead to mood changes, energy depletion, and increased risk of injury, but it also contributes to obesity. A newly published study by the Univ... more
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Insufficient Sleep Tied to Obesity in Children |
| Monday, May 15, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Eating Healthy/ Eating Disorders
Researchers have long understood that sleep loss can lead to mood changes, energy depletion, and increased risk of injury, but it also contributes to obesity. A newly published study by the Univ... more
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Hartford Courant Story Raises Questions, Only Research Data Will Provide Answers |
| Monday, May 15, 2006 By Blog Master |
Category: Trauma/PTSD
Yesterday, the Hartford Courant published a lengthy, extensively reported story entitled "Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight." The piece has stirred some media attention, due mainly to its no-holds-ba... more
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Hartford Courant Story Raises Questions, Only Research Data Will Provide Answers |
| Monday, May 15, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Yesterday, the Hartford Courant published a lengthy, extensively reported story entitled "Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight." The piece has stirred some media attention, due mainly to its no-holds-ba... more
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Debate Continues Over Traditional, Progressive Teaching Methods |
| Friday, May 12, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Classroom Issues
A recent Washington Post article highlights the latest stages in a century-long educational conflict: the philosophies of teaching in a traditional style which focuses heavily on "content" versus a mo... more
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Dissecting a Dream, Reality Catches up with Science Fiction |
| Friday, May 12, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
Dreamscapes have been represented in many shapes and forms over the years, but there has long been very little in the way of hard evidence on the processes behind dreaming. But MRI and PET scanning h... more
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Schools Help Parents Deal with a Child's Mental Illness |
| Friday, May 12, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Parenting
Today there is an interesting article from the Baltimore Sun that details how some schools in the Baltimore area are helping parents deal with their children's mental health disorder diagnoses. The p... more
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University Applicants Scoring Lower on New SATs |
| Friday, May 12, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Assessment & Evaluation
New statistics reveal that students applying for fall admission to some of this country's top universities scored lower on the SAT than in previous years, and many academic counselors attribute the de... more
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Schools Help Parents Deal with a Child's Mental Illness |
| Friday, May 12, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Today there is an interesting article from the Baltimore Sun that details how some schools in the Baltimore area are helping parents deal with their children's mental health disorder diagnoses. The p... more
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Pfizer's Smoking Cessation Drug Gets FDA Approval |
| Thursday, May 11, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
For the first time in nearly a decade, there will be a new drug to help those who are hopelessly addicted to cigarettes. The addiction to cigarettes can be one of the strongest known addictions, ... more
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GAO: PTSD Going Untreated |
| Thursday, May 11, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Today's entry for outraging failure to protect our servicemen comes from the newly released Government Accountability Office (GAO) study into the screening for post traumatic stress disorder of soldie... more
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Prescriptions, Over the Counter Drugs Sending High Numbers to the ER |
| Wednesday, May 10, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Today the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) released the findings of a study that looked at emergency room visits for all of 2004. According to the results, there has been an ... more
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Making "The Rounds" |
| Tuesday, May 09, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
The latest edition of Grand Rounds is up at Aetiology. The blog's owner, Tara, has some great links. She is a researcher whose work currently centers on investigation of hypervariable proteins in th... more
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Cell Phones in Schools Allow for Distraction and Violent Pranks? |
| Monday, May 08, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Bullying/Victimization
Several European high schools moved to ban student cell phones in response to reported growth of the phenomenon called "happy slapping," a practice in which teenagers use their cell ... more
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Manditory Swim Tests Are Not Outdated at Some Colleges |
| Monday, May 08, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: College Life
Despite the seeming irrelevance of the requirement, some colleges still insist that students pass a swimming test before successfully completing their education. University of North Carolina is th... more
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Placebo Effect Not Always Understood in Depression Treatments and Study |
| Monday, May 08, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
In a talk that she gave at this year's meeting of the Society for Neuroscience Dr. Helen Mayberg discussed the often misunderstood role of the placebo in depression treatments. Clinical Psychiatry Ne... more
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Senator Looks to Help Others by Sharing His Experience with Suicide |
| Monday, May 08, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Three years after his son’s suicide at 21, Senator Gordon H. Smith (R-Oregon) has published a book and co-sponsored Congressional legislation with the ultimate goal of helping to prevent suc... more
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