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

Therapist competence and patient improvement

Many studies have shown that cognitive therapy is an effective treatment for depression but it can be hard to tell how much of this is down to the effectiveness of the therapy per se and how much of it is down to the competence of the individual therapist...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 2:36 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Want to make teenagers happy? Let them have a lie-in

Giving teenagers a bit more of a lie-in on a school morning could have significant benefits for their mood and health. Researchers from the Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence studied 201 children in Years 9 to 12 who all went to a private high...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 2:10 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Development, Sleep Disorders

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

Getting to the bottom of bullying

Bullying is a big problem in schools but what makes children become either a bully or a victim? Researchers from Louisiana State University and the University of California at Riverside reviewed 153 studies into this issue carried out over the last 30...

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 2:19 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Bullying

Brief intervention reduces college drinking

College drinking is a big problem in the U.S. It is estimated that 1,800 college students die each year in car accidents and more than 750,000 are involved in alcohol-related physical and sexual assaults. One of the ways people use to tackle this problem...

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 1:55 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alcohol Problems

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

Dog bites and post-traumatic stress

Post-traumatic stress disorder is usually associated with military action or car crashes but a new study from China suggests that, for children at least, it could also be triggered off by dog bites. Researchers from the Peking Union Medical College Hospital...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 2:09 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Psychology, PTSD

By their blogs shall ye know them

Despite stories of seedy middle-aged men pretending to be teenaged girls and frumpy couples passing themselves off as Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes in Second Life it turns out you can tell a lot about people's personalities from their blogs. Tal Yarkoni...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 3:37 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Psychology, Blogging

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

Review flags up drug-driving problems

A review of Britain's drink and drug driving laws has concluded that the official figures hugely underestimate the scale of the problem. The official figures recorded 56 fatal accidents and 207 serious injuries due to 'drug-driving' but a...

Published Thu, Jul 15 2010 5:24 AM by Mental Health Update

Chronic fatigue syndrome and global functioning

Over the last 20 years research has found that people with chronic fatigue syndrome often have cognitive problems as well. However, different studies have found different cognitive problems and the studies themselves have often had very different methodologies...

Published Thu, Jul 15 2010 6:57 AM by Mental Health Update

Review of studies backs meditation - up to a point

Mindfulness meditation is a type of meditation in which people pay total attention to the present moment with a non-judgmental awareness of their experiences and is characterized by an open and receptive attitude. It has received growing attention in...

Published Thu, Jul 15 2010 6:39 AM by Mental Health Update

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

Surviving stress in Sri Lanka

Children in Sri Lanka have been exposed to a lot of stress over the last few years with the tsunami of 2004 being followed by a civil war between the Buddhist Sinhalese in the south and the Muslim Tamils in the North. Two recent studies have looked into...

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 2:05 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: PTSD

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