Mental Health Update

New research points to the importance of oxytocin

Oxytocin is a hormone secreted by the pituitary gland. It plays an important part in labour and breastfeeding and is also associated with social recognition, pair bonding, dampening negative emotional responses, trust and love. Researchers at Oregon State...

Published Tue, Nov 17 2009 2:29 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Autism, Oxytocin

Depression and Relationships – A Two-Way Street? - Guest post by Teresa Jackson

Mental illness is not easy to understand, especially if it’s in the form of depression. Most people do not realize that depression is a mental ailment that is just like schizophrenia or mania in that those who are affected by it cannot control it. We...

Published Wed, Apr 07 2010 1:29 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression

Depression, diabetes and dementia - the unholy trinity of ageing

A study led by Dr Wayne Katon from the University of Washington has been looking into the unholy trinity of diabetes, depression and dementia. Diabetes and major depression have both been found to be risk factors for dementia. Diabetes increases the risk...

Published Thu, Mar 11 2010 6:47 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease, Depression, Diabetes

Omega-3s and psychosis

Early intervention has been found to lead to much better results for people with schizophrenia and psychosis. This often takes the form of antipsychotic drugs but they have serious side effects and their use is controversial in people who have yet to...

Published Tue, Feb 23 2010 8:14 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Psychosis, Omega-3

Exercise, illness and anxiety

Having a chronic illness can sometimes lead to the development of anxiety - something that can lower people's quality of life and make them less likely to follow their treatment plans. Researchers from the University of Georgia have been looking into...

Published Wed, Feb 24 2010 7:49 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Service Users' Health, Exercise and Mental Health, Anxiety

COPP helps people cope with eating disorders

About 30% of patients do not respond to treatment for an eating disorder and between 30-42% of patients who do manage to put on weight have relapses later. After talking to people with long-term eating disorders clinicians in Canada developed the Community...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 8:11 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Eating Disorders

Parenting programmes - are they a long-term solution?

Parenting programmes like The Incredible Years have been proven to have good short-term effects but little research has been done into their long-term effectiveness or into what makes them effective, or not, in children diagnosed with 'conduct disorder'...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 4:10 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Development, Parenting, Incredible Years

Smoking cessation and schizophrenia

Death rates for people with schizophrenia are three times those of the rest of the population. The increased risk is largely due to the fact that people with schizophrenia are two to three times more likely to smoke. However, there has not been that much...

Published Mon, May 24 2010 4:08 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Schizophrenia, Smoking Cessation

Young adults' attitudes to mental illness

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the U.S. has been surveying people's attitude to mental illness as part of Mental Health Awareness Month. Overall the survey found that less than half (40%) of Americans believe someone...

Published Wed, May 26 2010 2:31 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Stigma

CBT - how well does it work in the real world?

Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has been shown to be effective in treating depression in clinical trials but there is less evidence about its effectiveness in the 'real world.' Researchers from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz studied...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 2:40 AM by Mental Health Update

Adolescence and attachment in Asia Minor

In recent years attachment theory has become one of the main ways in which psychologists think about people and their development through childhood and adolescence into adulthood, their problems and their relationships with other people. Attachment theory...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 2:58 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Development, Attachment

Survey shows true toll of Iraq

Not surprisingly soldiers who have fought in Afghanistan and Iraq often come back with mental health problems. But the true extent of the problem is difficult to measure and there has been little research into what other problems soldiers might have....

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 3:31 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: PTSD

Mental Health Social - new networking site

The mental health social site is a social-networking site for people who have a mental illness, people who work in mental health and all those who are concerned about, or interested in it. You can chat or make comments and follow the debate in the forums...

Published Thu, May 20 2010 6:14 AM by Mental Health Update

Psychosis - hearing the service users' stories

There has been lots of research into psychosis but relatively little of it has looked at the thoughts, feelings and life histories of the people who suffer from the condition. John Rhodes from the Willesden Mental Health Resources Centre in London and...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 3:54 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Psychosis

Magnets make a difference for depression

Magnets could be used to help people suffering from depression. Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina studied the technique of transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy which applies magnets to people's heads to stimulate certain...

Published Tue, May 04 2010 6:14 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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