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Archived News from prior to September of 2003
Shopaholics Need Therapy
Evening Standard
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...those who take it too far and become real shopaholics have a serious psychiatric disorder
Adolescent Depression Leads to Adult Problems
Dr. Koop
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Young adults who experienced an episode of major depression in adolescence may be more vulnerable to a relapse in adulthood that could significantly affect their quality of life.
New principle guides Memory Dynamics
Eureka alert
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Is it possible to intentionally forget specific memories, without affecting other memories?
When Depression Hurts the Body as Well as the Mind
Psychology Today
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...major depressive disorder has physical as well as emotional symptoms.
Updated August 1, 2003
University psychology research tackles problem of 'false memories'
Tufts University - As an eyewitness sits on the stand in a courtroom recalling details of an incident, how much of what he or she remembers actually happened?
Blues Busters: What Causes Depression?
Psychology Today - The misconception many people have, though, is that you have a neurochemical anomaly and then depression results.
In fact, it is a two-way street: Your experience influences your neurochemistry at least as much as your neurochemistry affects your experience.
U.S. Report Calls for Coherent Mental Health System
Medscape - The United States needs to transform its current piecemeal approach to mental health into a coherent system that helps patients recover without stigma
Music instruction aids verbal memory :
Eureka Alerts - Those
dreaded piano lessons pay off in unexpected ways: According to a new study,
children with music training had significantly better verbal memory than their
counterparts without such training.
Updated July 15, 2003
Study: Fish Could Stop Post-Partum Depression
WFIE TV - A new study shows eating fish may ward off post-partum depression because it's rich in omega three fatty acids, something the body can't produce on its own
UCLA-led Study Challenges Bipolar Depression Treatment Guideline
Science Daily - study led by a UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute researcher challenges standard treatment guidelines for bipolar depression that recommend discontinuing antidepressants...
Whole genome scan finds depression hotspots
New Scientist - A whole genome analysis has identified 19 specific regions very likely to contain genetic variations that raise the risk of a severe form of depression...
Updated July 9, 2003
Medication and psychotherapy treat depression
Eureka Alert - Medications and psychotherapy were both significantly more effective in decreasing depressive symptoms than ...
Nodding or Shaking Your Head May Even Influence Your Own Thoughts, Study Finds
Ascribe - When you nod your head to signal approval or shake your head to show disapproval, it's not just sending a message to others - you may also be influencing yourself...
Kids of divorce best off if parents near
UPI - ...an Arizona State University study clearly demonstrates children of divorced parents are best served when both parents live nearby. Week of July 1, 2003
Knowing risk factors can help identify elderly alcoholics for treatment
Eureka Alert - Less than half of alcoholics over 65 are diagnosed, a Penn State study has shown, because often the telltale signs of alcohol dependence are masked by patient denial and seeming good health...
Mental Stimulation Can Help Fight Dementia
VOA - The research adds to a growing body of evidence that exercising the mind reduces the chances of Alzheimer's...
Counseling Cheers Depressed Heart Attack Patients
Journal Constitution - ...significant improvement in depression after six months of counseling...
Born shy, always shy? Temperamental differences may last throughout life, brain study suggests
Eureka Alert - Whether a person avoids novelty or embraces it may depend in part on brain differences that have existed from infancy, new findings suggest
... Week of June 16, 2003
Depression Touches 30 Million Americans
Discovery Health - More than 13 million Americans will grapple with the mood-altering condition during any given year — more than 30 million Americans over their lifetimes...
Gene for manic depression found
BBC - Scientists have identified a gene mutation that causes manic depression in as many as one in 10 patients...
Emotional Part of Brain Can Make Bad Money Choices
Reuters Health - Using results from brain scans, researchers have found that people will act against their own financial self-interest if the emotional part of the brain overcomes the rational part...
Week of June 9, 2003
When Dads Clean House, It Pays Off Big Time
Eureka Alert - ...found that school-aged children who do housework with their fathers are more likely to get along with their peers and have more friends.
Why marriage is good for you
Chicago Sun-Times - Laws should be changed to add counseling before marriage...
Week of June 2, 2003
The more things change, the more marriages stay the same
Eureka Alert - Despite major economic and social changes, the overall quality of marriage in the United States has not changed in the last 20 years, according to Penn State...
Remembering Just the Good Times
PsychologyToday - Knowing that older individuals tend to regulate their emotions more effectively than do their younger counterparts...
Food as Coping Mechanism
ABC News - ...many people use food as a tool to cope with the problems of their days...
Jealousy in men, women not so different
ABC net - Evolutionary psychologists have long argued that men tend to care more about sexual infidelity compared to women...
Week of May 26, 2003
Husbands, wives don’t agree on their financial status, study finds
OSU Research - One reason married couples argue about money may be because they don’t even agree on how much of it they have...
Ways to help your child cope with obesity
Dayton News - ...has come up with
these 10 ways to help your overweight child
Marriage Counseling Before the Big Day
KCBD -
Harris also
says that the study gives couples a chance to talk about issues they may not
have addressed before...
Week of May 15, 2003
Eating fish could fend off depression for pregnant women
Miami Herald -
Pregnant women might be able to lower their
risk of becoming depressed before or after giving birth by eating fish...
Concussions may be linked to Depression
CNN - ...scientists are beginning intensive
imaging studies to pin down just what happens inside the brain when someone
suffers a concussion
Pastors sign pledge for premarital counseling
Tuscaloosa News - ...About
40 pastors signed a marriage covenant that committed them to require couples to
seek premarital counseling
Week of April 21, 2003
How to save your relationship
Psychology Today - ...Recent research ...
confirms that it's often emotional distance--not conflict--that determines
whether a relationship will flourish or begin to disintegrate...
Stereotypes of aging
start early
EurekAlert - Children as
young as five years old have negative stereotypes of older people, according to
new research....
Workers struggle
with kids' depression
WSJ - Teens are reporting more
serious and complex mental illnesses than ever....
Avoiding a descent
into crisis
HeraldTribune - Reform of Baker
Act can help families and law enforcement....
Week of April
14,
2003
Group
Psychoeducation useful in Bipolar Disorder
MedScape - Group
psychoeducation is effective in preventing recurrence in patients with bipolar I
or II disorder receiving standard medical therapy....
New Study dispels
popular myth about bullies.
EurekAlert - Contrary to
popular belief the study reveals that verbal-victimization has a particular
impact on the victim's feeling of self-worth, and that name-calling can
significantly reduce self-esteem.
Big Boys Do Cry
Forbes -
NIMH estimates that about 6 million men in the United
States have serious depression...
Odors Summon Emotion
and Influence Behavior
Science Daily - ...a
growing body of research that indicates emotions can become conditioned to odors
and subsequently influence behavior...
Week of April
7, 2003
What to tell
children about war
Harvard University - Although the
age at which children become fearful or anxious about war varies, Kagan cites
four sure signs of the phenomenon...
Surviving
Depression: Erasing the social stigma
Durango Herald - ...people
sometimes fear asking for help. That’s because of the stigma – an ignorance of
the illness that leads to the mistaken belief that depression is something best
kept behind locked doors.
Is it depression, or
is it grief?
MSNBC - ...The
line between depression and grief is often blurry....
Mike Wallace speaks
about his experience with depression
Times Argus - ...Wallace descended
into what was later diagnosed as clinical depression.
Week
of April 1, 2003
Depression untreated
in elderly
Indy Star - Older men are less likely than
older women to seek treatment for depression, and older blacks and Latinos seek
help less often than their white counterparts, new research says.
Mental Health:
Pay Now -- or Later
Business Week -
Massachusetts,
West Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Florida, Mississippi, Iowa, and New Jersey are
among the other states that in the past six months have cut or eliminated
benefits for mental-health patients and are...
Sociologist says
stress, danger, and ridicule on the job could mean bruises for partners at home
EurekAlert - Men who work in
female-dominated professions, such as clerks and classroom aides, are 47 percent
more likely to lash out in violence...
NSAIDS May Offer
Protection Against Alzheimer's Disease
Science Daily - Researchers
have found evidence that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
including ibuprofen, aspirin, and naproxen, may exert a protective effect
against the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
NIMH launches first
public health education campaign toward men with depression
NIMH - The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), one
of the National Institutes of Health, today announced the launch of the first
national campaign to raise awareness that depression is a major public health
problem affecting an estimated 6 million men annually..
Study:
Premarital Counseling Keeps couples together
The Salt Lake Tribune -
A new study
shows couples who participate in premarital programs have stronger marriages and
more skills that may help them avoid divorce.
Week of March 24, 2003
Psychotherapist
wants students tested, not testy
The Express-Times -
Glasser's choice theory maintains that every action a human being takes is
chosen. Students who do poorly or act up in school decide to do so because they
are bored and unmotivated...
Cognitive therapy
for chronic depression
Clinnix Pro -
Structured
psychological therapies such as cognitive therapy, interpersonal therapy and
similar approaches appear to have a major role to play in the treatment of
residual depression.
Experts:
Anxiety, depression on the rise among vets
Florida Today -
John Pickens, a spokesman for the North Florida and South Georgia Veterans
Health System, said their center in Jacksonville has had an increase in requests
for mental health counselors.
Age-related changes
in the brain's white matter affect cognitive function in old age
EurekAlert - ...Age-related changes in the
brain -- the appearance, starting around age 60, of "white-matter lesions" among
the brain's message-carrying axons -- significantly affect cognitive function in
old age.
Women work to
prevent deaths due to postpartum depression
Kansas City Star - ...Postpartum
depression, some experts say, is the most common yet most frequently undiagnosed
complication of pregnancy.
Understanding
postnatal depression
Massey News - ...the Postpartum Depression
Scale (PDSS) was developed by colleague Professor Cheryl Beck, at the University
of Connecticut, so that health workers can quickly and easily identify mothers
suffering depression.
Week of March 15, 2003
Psychology disarms
the dynamics of children's fears
The Oregonian - ...one explanation for
children's seemingly quirky fears, most of which are connected to the different
stages of development or to troubling experiences...
Depression and the
Birth and Death of Brain Cells
American Scientist -
Only a decade ago,
most neuroscientists thought that neurogenesis (the production of new nerve
cells) in human beings ended with adulthood...
Hormone levels can
affect marital bliss
Howard Scripps News Service -
...Cohan and two colleagues
studied the interactions and hormone levels of 92 couples who had been married
an average of 11 months and found that positive or negative communications
depended ...
Tallying blessings
found to improve life
Dallas News -
...New
research shows that people who consciously remind themselves every day of the
things they are grateful for show marked improvements in mental health ...
Mommy "Fog" just a
myth
Health Canada -
The ''mommy
fog,'' the idea that pregnant women lose their power of concentration and
memory, is a myth, according to...
Pro Bono Publico
The Economist -
Humans,
unlike most other animals, often co-operate with individuals to whom they are
unrelated.
Week of March 5, 2003
Mom's Depression Ups
Child's Depression Chances
Yahoo News -
Having
a mother who has experienced depression can double a child's chances of becoming
depressed, a new study shows.
When is grumpy a
sign of depression?
Newsday -
...mental
health experts say that depression among the elderly needn't be so common
because it is not a normal - or inevitable - part of aging. For most seniors, it
can be successfully treated using a wide range of therapies...
Boys and Girls
affected by TV Violence
HealthScout -
When it
comes to the link between watching violent television in childhood and
aggressive behavior in adulthood, girls, it seems, will be boys..
Identifying depression in preschoolers
EurekaAlert - A
good way to learn whether children under 6 years old are depressed is to watch
how they play...
Ritalin use speeds up
Daily Press - The
number of American children and adolescents on Ritalin and similar drugs is
continuing to grow...
Psychotherapy effective for depressed pregnant women
Heath-News -
Interpersonal
psychotherapy is an effective form of antidepressant treatment during
pregnancy...
Food a killer for eating disorder victims
Ka-Leo -
The 16th Annual
Eating Disorders Awareness Week of the National Eating Disorders Association ...
March 2, 2003
Uncle Sam to Needy: Why not try marriage?
Philadelphia Inquirer - ... The
money - targeted at welfare recipients hard-pressed to pay for premarital
education - would go toward counseling sessions and workshops that develop
skills important to healthy marriages...
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