July 2010 - Mental Health Update - The Network of Care

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

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

Child abuse and suicide

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide but what causes it is still not well understood. Mental-health problems are an important risk factor but most people with a mental-health problem do not think about killing themselves. There is strong...

Published Mon, Jul 05 2010 2:18 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Abuse, Suicide

Sweet enough already?

Having a sugary drink could actually make people sweeter tempered. A team of Australian researchers gave half of a group of volunteers some lemonade sweetened with sugar and half lemonade sweetened with a sweetener. The participants were asked to carry...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2010 2:17 AM by Mental Health Update

Video games and attention problems

Playing too many video games could lead to children developing attention problems. Researchers at Iowa State University studied 1,323 children in Years 3,4 and 5. The parents and children were asked how much time they spent playing video games and watching...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2010 2:32 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: ADHD, Video Game Addiction

Study backs use of methadone

Methadone is often used as a substitute for heroin in drug-treatment programmes, the idea being that it stops users from stealing to pay for their drug habit and stops them from overdosing, using contamintated heroin and storing dirty needles. Defenders...

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 3:19 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Substance Abuse, Heroin, Methadone

Vitamin E and Alzheimer's disease

There has been a lot of interest in the links between Alzheimer's disease and diet over the last few years and now a new study from Sweden suggests that vitamin E could have a protective effect against the condition. A team of researchers from the...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 3:35 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease, Vitamin E

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

Comorbidity and OCD: Inseparable entities - guest post by Alexis Bonari

As documented in the American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers have found that all four recognized dimensions of obsessive-compulsive symptoms are associated with other anxiety and mood disorders. Comorbidity implies the incidence of two or more disorders...

Published Tue, Jul 13 2010 2:23 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

CBT for depressed ill people

Depression occurs in 6-14% of people in hospital and is even more prevalent in people with diabetes and cancer. Whatever people's physical health problems depression always dramatically reduces quality of life and is associated with longer hospital...

Published Mon, Jul 05 2010 2:08 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Service Users' Health, Depression, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Daughters of alcoholic mums most at risk

Scientists know that the children of alcoholics are at a greater risk of developing mental-health problems but the effects of gender on this process are not really known. Researchers from Yale University used information from the National Epidemiological...

Published Thu, Jul 22 2010 2:44 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Development, Alcohol Problems

Education and Alzheimer's disease

Having a longer education might not stop people's brains decaying physically but it can help them to stave off symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. A team of researchers from England and Finland studied the donated brains of 872 people taking part...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 2:40 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease

Insulin and Alzheimer's

People with Alzheimer's disease could be helped by squirting insulin up their nose. Insulin is important for communication between brain cells and is needed for brain function but several studies have shown that people with Alzheimer's have reduced...

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 2:26 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease, Insulin

Eating disorders and perfectionism

Having perfectionist tendencies is a potential risk factor for developing an eating disorder yet only a few studies have been carried out into this. A team of Portuguese researchers investigated this issue further in a study of 997 middle and high-school...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 1:55 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Eating Disorders

Malnutrition, mothers and depression

Malnutrition early in life has been linked to the later development of psychological problems in childhood and adolescence such as decreased attention, bad behaviour and a lower IQ. Researchers from Harvard Medical School studied 171 children aged between...

Published Thu, Jul 01 2010 2:19 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Psychology, Depression - in adolescence

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