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Web Films Fight Schizophrenia Bias |
| Tuesday, August 18, 2009 By editor |
Category: Schizophrenia
A British mental health advocacy group called Time to Change followed recent trends in viral film marketing to create a series of shorts designed to counter a societal bias against the mentall... more
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Smoking Does Not Relieve Stress |
| Sunday, August 16, 2009 By editor |
Category: Stress
A new report gives lie to a classic pro-smoking argument: cigarettes help an anxious smoker relax. 47% of those polled in a recent British survey claimed not to enjoy the physical act but named its ... more
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Multiple Disorders Raise Suicide Risk |
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 By editor |
Category: Depression
Depression has long been the prime suspect in cases of suicidal behavior, but a new study implies that many mental illnesses contribute to the risk of suicide and self-harm and that impulsive beh... more
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Combination Therapy Better for Psychosis |
| Sunday, August 09, 2009 By editor |
Category: Medication Info
Treatment for severe recurring disorders like psychotic depression often proves ineffective and facilitates side effects bad enough to nearly match those of the disorder itself, with extreme weight ga... more
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Can Depression Affect Preschoolers? |
| Thursday, August 06, 2009 By editor |
Category: Depression
Treatment rates for depression have doubled in this country over the past ten years, and with millions on antidepressants a disturbing question was bound to come up at some point: can the disorder a... more
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Study Considers Stimulant Meds and Sudden Death |
| Tuesday, July 21, 2009 By editor |
Category: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
New research sponsored by the FDA and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) reinforces the severe side effects that may affect children medicated for ADHD. In some rare cases, the most popu... more
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Creativity, Schizophrenia Linked by a Gene |
| Tuesday, July 21, 2009 By editor |
Category: Schizophrenia
The "terminally tortured artist" cliche, long a staple of stage and screen, may have some basis in scientific reality.
A Hungarian research team examined a specific and surprisingly comm... more
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Family History Predicts Depression Levels |
| Sunday, July 12, 2009 By editor |
Category: Depression
A new report provides a more detailed picture of depression’s genetic influence.
Observers long ago noted that individuals whose immediate family had an abnormally high instance of mental il... more
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Stress Inoculation Hypothesis Finds Support |
| Wednesday, July 08, 2009 By editor |
Category: Stress
It may seem counterintuitive, but the stress inoculation hypothesis proposes that moderate stress can sometimes protect against extreme stress. Previous work with primates found that brief intermitten... more
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Nitrates in Food Linked to Alzheimer's & Diabetes |
| Wednesday, July 08, 2009 By editor |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
An elite team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health has released a report on degenerative diseases and the American diet that leaves no doubt about the importance of the things we... more
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FDA Suicide Warnings For Anti-Smoking Drug |
| Sunday, July 05, 2009 By editor |
Category:
In an unfortunate development for the anti-smoking pharmaceutical market, the FDA will now require manufacturers to add severe side-effect warnings to the packaging of two of the industry's most pop... more
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Obesity Linked to Nervous System Gene |
| Wednesday, July 01, 2009 By editor |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Quite a few variables can lead to obesity: overeating, lack of exercise, blood sugar and metabolic problems caused by poor diet, etc. But genetics has long been seen to play a central role. A recent s... more
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CBT Less Effective for Schizophrenia |
| Sunday, June 28, 2009 By editor |
Category: Schizophrenia
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a finite treatment model that’s grown extremely popular due to its recognized success in treating various behavioral disorders. It’s been touted as a ... more
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Depression May Speed Alzheimer's Onset |
| Thursday, June 25, 2009 By editor |
Category: Depression
In a report strengthening the connection between mood disorders, dementia and Alzheimer's disease, researchers found that depressed individuals who'd begun to experience cognitive decline progressed i... more
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Parkinson’s Treated Over Internet |
| Wednesday, June 24, 2009 By editor |
Category: Our Psychology
At the Presbyterian Home nursing home in upstate New York, the many elderly patients with Parkinson’s Disease had to travel 10 times a year to see movement disorder specialists. Tony Joseph, the... more
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"Depression Gene" Less Influential Than Thought |
| Friday, June 19, 2009 By editor |
Category: Depression
Genetics may play a smaller role in the depression equation than we've been led to believe. The influence of one particular gene that was long believed to be the most powerful inherited ment... more
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More Mental Illness in China Uncovered |
| Wednesday, June 17, 2009 By editor |
Category: Our Stories
Many researchers within the World Health Organization suspect that estimates of mental disorders in middle-income countries are too low. A new WHO study of China supports this by finding that 17.5% of... more
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Online Depression Treatments Test Well |
| Tuesday, June 16, 2009 By editor |
Category: Depression
Evidence continues to build in support of the online mental health treatment model. In the wake of a recent small-scale study noting the success of web-based CBT treatments for insomnia comes an even ... more
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Antidepressants May Relieve Diabetic Symptoms |
| Thursday, June 11, 2009 By editor |
Category: Depression
Depression and diabetes are two common conditions that do not resemble each other but appear to be inextricably linked. Type II diabetes, the variation largely blamed on poor lifestyle and dietary pra... more
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Online CBT Treatment Plans Show Promise |
| Friday, June 05, 2009 By editor |
Category: Our Psychology
Clinical support for online treatment models takes a step forward with a new and encouraging study on the effectiveness of online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) treatments for chronic in... more
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Popular Autism Drug Is Ineffective |
| Tuesday, June 02, 2009 By editor |
Category: Medication Info
Clinical trials have proven popular SSRI antidepressant Celexa (Citalopram) ineffective for the treatment of autistic spectrum disorders. In keeping with the frustrations that continue to plague the s... more
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College Depression Headlines Misleading |
| Monday, June 01, 2009 By editor |
Category: Depression
Most American health news outlets have recently run stories revolving around a survey in which 85% of college students reported high stress in their daily lives and a near majority supposedl... more
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Bullying Correlated With Higher Risk of Psychosis |
| Wednesday, May 27, 2009 By editor |
Category: Parenting
School can be a dangerous place when bullies stalk the playground. The damage bullies inflict may go far beyond scrapes and soon-dried tears, according to a study by Dr. Andrea Schreier published this... more
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Study Claims That Some Autistic Kids Can "Recover" |
| Monday, May 25, 2009 By editor |
Category: Parenting
Is it true that some kids can “recover from autism?” The study behind that provocative headline will certainly draw attention from concerned quarters. It will probably not change the publi... more
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Delayed Retirement May Postpone Dementia |
| Tuesday, May 19, 2009 By editor |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Clinical evidence continues to support the theory that elderly, dementia-prone individuals can delay the condition’s worst symptoms by maintaining active lifestyles.
A small British study in... more
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