July 2010 - Mental Health Update - The Network of Care

Bipolar disorder - more episodes = more unhappiness

For people suffering from bipolar disorder episodes of mania and depression can come and go throughout their lives. Researchers from the University of Granada in Spain looked at the psychiatric histories of 108 people diagnosed with bipolar disorder and...

Published Fri, Jul 30 2010 4:03 AM by Mental Health Update

Diet and ADHD - is junk food a risk factor?

Researchers from the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth, Australia, have been looking into the links between diet and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and have found that children who eat a healthier diet are less likely...

Published Fri, Jul 30 2010 3:47 AM by Mental Health Update

Crystal meth and pregnancy - not a happy combination

Taking crystal meth is never the greatest of ideas and a new study by researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles shows how harmful it can be for women to take it while they are pregnant. The researchers compared 276 women who were taking...

Published Fri, Jul 30 2010 3:31 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Methamphetamine

Nitric Oxide - the prime suspect for brain-cell death

Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease are all characterized by the early death of brain cells but what makes brain cells give up the ghost? Researchers from the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in the...

Published Fri, Jul 30 2010 3:14 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease, Nitric Oxide

Background music at work? Turn that racket down for better performance

Background music at work is either an aid to concentration, a pleasant distraction or a pain in the neck according to who you ask but does it actually help people to concentrate? Nick Perham from the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff studied people...

Published Thu, Jul 29 2010 3:35 AM by Mental Health Update

Could new tests help suicide prediction?

Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among adults under 65 in the U.S. so predicting who might kill themselves could save a considerable number of lives. At the moment most attempts at prediction are based on people's answers to a series of...

Published Thu, Jul 29 2010 2:43 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Suicide

CBT shows long-term gains for childhood phobias and anxiety

Phobias and anxiety disorders in childhood do not always go away over time and can increase the risk of worsening mental-health problems, teenage pregnancy, dropping out of high school and not going on to college and university. There is now quite a lot...

Published Thu, Jul 29 2010 2:06 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Psychology, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Anxiety, Phobias

Young, free, worried and gloomy

Some research has suggested an increase in depression and anxiety among children and adolescents over the last few decades. But are children really getting gloomier and more anxious or is the increase down to improved awareness and better diagnosis? A...

Published Thu, Jul 29 2010 1:43 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Psychology, Depression - in adolescence, Anxiety

Intensive intervention cuts child abuse

Intensive interventions can dramatically reduce levels of child abuse in at-risk families. Researchers from Southern Methodist University in Dallas studied 35 families on the at-risk register. Half of them received intensive support in which they were...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 3:53 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Abuse, Parenting

Smoking, ADHD and high-school dropouts

Teenagers who smoke or have been diagnosed with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are more likely to drop out of school. Researchers from the University of California, Davis studied 29,662 people asking them about their mental health as...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 3:38 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Psychology, ADHD, Smoking

Bleak outlook for older alcoholics' partners

There has been quite a lot of research into the problems experienced by the spouses of people with drug problems among younger and middle-aged groups but much less on how a partner's drink problem affects older people. A team of researchers from Stanford...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 2:47 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alcohol Problems, Service Users' Families

Drug use and suicide

In the U.S. suicide is the fourth leading cause of death in adults between 18 and 65. There is a link between drug problems and an increased risk of suicide but the specific risk factors among drug users are poorly understood. A team of researchers from...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 2:22 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Substance Abuse, Suicide

Schizophrenics at greater risk in hospital

People with schizophrenia are already known to suffer from worse health than the rest of the population and now a new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that they may also be more at risk when they go into hospital...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 3:48 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Schizophrenia

Affectionate mothers and resilient children

Babies shown lots of affection by their mothers tend to cope better with stresses and strains as adults. Researchers from Duke University in North Carolina studied 482 people. When they were babies the researchers watched how their mothers treated them...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 2:30 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Development, Parenting

Shame, trauma and depression

Shame is a powerful emotion rooted in how we think other people perceive us and how we perceive ourselves. It can guide our behaviour, influence our feelings about ourselves and shape a sense of our self-identity and our feelings of social acceptability...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 2:12 AM by Mental Health Update

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