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The Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago has developed the first blood test to diagnose major depression in teens, giving researchers hope for improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of the potentially devastating mental illness. According to a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and lead investigator of the [...]
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 →Main Category: Aid / DisastersAlso Included In: Mental Health; Anxiety / Stress; Women’s Health / GynecologyArticle Date: 27 Jan 2012 – 1:00 PST email to a friend printer friendly opinions Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm, according to a new study of low-income mothers in [...]
Continue Reading →ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2011) Over a 10-year period, spending for Medicaid-enrolled patients with depression increased substantially but only minimal improvements in quality of care were observed, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. “During the 1980s and 1990s, the number of adults diagnosed [...]
Continue Reading →ScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2011) New research provides the first evidence that depression can be treated by only targeting an individual’s style of thinking through repeated mental exercises in an approach called cognitive bias modification. The study suggests an innovative psychological treatment called ‘concreteness training’ can reduce depression in just two months and could work [...]
Continue Reading →Research announced November 8, 2011 supports previous studies that autism may be caused by something that occurs in the womb rather than triggered when a child is a toddler. The new study finds children with autism have many more brain cells than children with typical development. Autism is a range of disorders from mild social [...]
Continue Reading →ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2011) Scientists at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute and Yale University have identified a new target area in the human genome that appears to harbor genes with a major role in the onset of depression. Using the power of Texas Biomed’s AT&T Genomics Computing Center (GCC), the researchers found the region [...]
Continue Reading →Main Category: Mental HealthAlso Included In: Genetics; Seniors / AgingArticle Date: 26 Oct 2011 – 0:00 PDT email to a friend printer friendly opinions A tiny difference in the coding pattern of a single gene significantly affects the rate at which men’s intellectual function drops with advancing age, investigators at the Stanford University [...]
Continue Reading →It’s surprising in a culture of teens that value say-anything reality shows that nearly half of all teenagers identify themselves as shy. In a new study published in the journal “Pediatrics,” 10,000 American teens and 6,000 parents were surveyed about a variety of mental health issues. About 47% of teens identified themselves as shy and [...]
Continue Reading →ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2011) A new University of British Columbia study finds that Black Canadians with darker skin are more likely to report poorer health than Black Canadians with lighter skin. The study also suggests that a mismatched racial identity can negatively affect health. The study, published online in the current issue of Social [...]
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