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Abstract: Trends in prescribing and self-poisoning in relation to UK regulatory authority warnings against use of SSRI antidepressants in under-18-year-olds

Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2009 Oct;68(4):618-29. Trends in prescribing and self-poisoning in relation to UK regulatory authority warnings against use of SSRI antidepressants in under-18-year-olds. Bergen H, Hawton K, Murphy E, Cooper J, Kapur N, Stalker C...

Published Tue, Nov 10 2009 11:32 PM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: suicidality

Lacking science: The sorry state of psychotherapy

Kevin Lyn Sisson - APS The prevalence of mental health disorders in this country has nearly doubled in the past 20 years. Who is treating all of these patients? Clinical psychologists and therapists are charged with the task, but many are falling short...

Published Fri, Oct 09 2009 12:22 AM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: cognitive behavior therapy, psychotherapy

Birds in captivity lose hippocampal mass

PhysOrg.com — Being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new Cornell study. Caged birds may still sing, but being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume...

Published Tue, Oct 13 2009 12:41 AM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: psychological stress, hippocampus

Surgery for mental ills offers both hope and risk

By BENEDICT CAREY One was a middle-aged man who refused to get into the shower. The other was a teenager who was afraid to get out. ...But leave they eventually did, traveling in desperation to a hospital in Rhode Island for an experimental brain operation...

Published Sun, Nov 29 2009 11:20 PM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: deep brain stimulation

Mindfulness found to improve mental health

Luis Carlos Delgado Pastor Research for a doctoral thesis conducted at the University of Granada, Spain has shown that a mental training based on mindfulness -an emotional self-regulating tool that consists in focusing on what we are doing, thinking about...

Published Thu, Dec 03 2009 9:16 PM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: mindfulness meditation

Abstract: Empirically supported psychological treatments for adult acute stress disorder and PTSD

Depress Anxiety. 2009 Dec 2;26(12):1086-1109 Empirically supported psychological treatments for adult acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder: a review Ponniah K, Hollon SD. New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York; Department...

Published Wed, Dec 02 2009 11:44 PM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: psychotherapy

Depression should not impede women loosing weight

Joan DeClaire Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies Women with major depression were no less likely than were women without it to have successful results with a weight loss program, according to an article in the Winter 2009 Behavioral Medicine...

Published Tue, Dec 01 2009 10:45 PM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: clinical depression, obesity

Antidepressants may raise women's stroke risk

(HealthDay News) By Ed Edelson HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) — Older women who take antidepressants may have a small but statistically significant increased risk of stroke and death compared to women not on the medications,...

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 11:01 PM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: antidepressants, stroke

Climate change to have significant mental health impact

Melanie Haberstroh - King's College London Leading mental health researchers are warning that some of the most important health consequences of climate change will be on mental health, yet this issue is unlikely to be given much attention at the UN...

Published Thu, Dec 03 2009 9:20 PM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: mental health, natural disasters

Scrambled brain connections linked to generalized anxiety disorder

By Stephanie Pappas Stanford University School of Medicine Scrambled connections between the part of the brain that processes fear and emotion and other brain regions could be the hallmark of a common anxiety disorder, according to a new study from the...

Published Tue, Dec 08 2009 12:10 AM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: amygdala, generalized anxiety disorder

Women more likely to develop depression after stroke

Katherine Kahn Contributing Writer, HBNS Depression occurs in as many as one-third of patients after a stroke, and women are at somewhat higher risk, according to a large new review of studies. Post-stroke depression is associated with greater disability...

Published Tue, Dec 08 2009 11:15 PM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: clinical depression, stroke

Acute stress leaves its mark on hippocampal DNA

Brett Norman - Rockefeller University In trying to explain psychiatric disorders, genes simply cannot tell the whole story. The real answers are in the interaction of genes and the environment. Post-traumatic stress disorder requires some trauma, for...

Published Mon, Nov 23 2009 11:25 PM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: psychological stress, hippocampus, epigenetics

Smokers Can't Blow Off Stress

Ask cigarette smokers why they light up and one answer you're likely to hear is that it relieves stress.1 But if that's the goal, it's not at all clear that cigarettes deliver the goods. Hat tip to https://www.treatmentonline.com Read More...

Published Sun, Aug 16 2009 5:02 PM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: smoking

Synthetic cannabinoids may help PTSD patients

Rachel Feldman - University of Haifa Use of cannabinoids, the active chemicals in cannabis (marijuana), could assist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder patients according to a recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience . In...

Published Wed, Nov 04 2009 10:58 PM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: post traumatic stress disorder, cannabis

Depression often goes untreated in working moms

Health insurance, employee assistance could help mothers get treatment, researchers say TUESDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) — More than 65 percent of U.S. mothers with depression don't receive adequate treatment, a new study has found. More......

Published Tue, Oct 27 2009 11:38 PM by Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info

Filed under: clinical depression

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