Stony Brook University School of Medicine discovered that Americans are less willing to pay to avoid mental illness versus paying to prevent medical conditions that don’t have a mental component. The study, which tracked a national sample of 710 adults in the US, found that even though participants recognized mental illness as being more of [...]
Continue Reading →Groundbreaking new research is among the first to link obesity to autism. The study printed Monday April 9, 2012 in the journal, Pediatrics, announces that obesity during pregnancy may increase chances for a child having autism. This does not prove that obesity causes autism but rather raises obesity as one of many contributing factors that [...]
Continue Reading →“Rita Mueller, MA, LLP, at Birmingham Maple Clinic, is in the process of receiving certification as a sleep disorder specialist.”
Continue Reading →“Now that insomnia has been recognized as a major risk factor for a number of health problems, there has been an appropriate shift away from band aiding it with a pill and toward serious investigation” (Cartwright, 2010). Research has uncovered that poor sleep quality has a strong correlation with several medical and mental health problems [...]
Continue Reading →Insomnia goes by the person’s own report and is about how people function during the day and how people perceive their sleep. When we wake up feeling physically refreshed and in a reasonably good mood we have accomplished enough sleep. Most of us need between 7 and 9 hours of sleep, an average amount of [...]
Continue Reading →Thursday April 5, 2012 is National Alcohol Screening Day. National Alcohol Screening Day is an outreach, education and screening program that raises awareness about alcohol misuse and refers individuals with alcohol problems for further evaluation. It’s held every year on the Thursday of the first full week of April. Alcohol abuse is known to increase [...]
Continue Reading →Previous studies have documented connection between sleep apnea and depression. New research also links symptoms of snorting and stopping breathing to depressed mood. Researchers, lead by Anne G. Wheaton, a C.D.C. epidemiologist, studied almost 10,000 men and women participating in a health survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Observers used interviews about [...]
Continue Reading →The latest in a growing string of mental breakdowns on airplanes by air line staff – this time with a pilot on a JetBlue flight who had to be subdued by passengers after becoming visibly agitated and angry on a flight – has started to become a concern with those who worry that the FAA [...]
Continue Reading →Birmingham Maple Clinic therapist, Dan O’Neil, MA, LLP, presented to clinic staff on the topic of Motivational Interviewing. MI is a collaborative, client-centered counseling style used to help clients change problematic behavior by resolving ambivalence and strengthening motivation for change. Dan introduced therapists to the theoretical foundation of the MI model as well as techniques [...]
Continue Reading →Psych Central, reporting on a study from Purdue University on teenage girls and weight loss, noted surprising findings – among both Caucasian and African American teenage girls who had recently lost a significant portion of their body mass, many still continued to see themselves as being overweight. As reported by the site, the study, which [...]
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