Mental Health Update

Are teenagers' real communities online ones?

Peer groups are important for the development of teenagers' identities and values. More and more teenagers are finding a peer group online via social-networking communities and new research suggests that they may feel as much, if not more, loyalty...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 1:52 AM by Mental Health Update

Depression and Alzheimer's

People with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) which usually precedes it often have depression as well and some studies suggest that having a history of major depression can double the risk of developing dementia. But it is unclear...

Published Thu, Aug 05 2010 6:20 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease, Depression

Good fathers and happy sons

Most psychological research into parenting concentrates on the role of mothers but having a good relationship with one's father can also help people to cope better in later life. Researchers from California State University, Fullerton studied 912...

Published Fri, Aug 13 2010 1:55 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Parenting

Brain training might stave off dementia but it won't stop it

Playing 'brain-training' games, doing crossword puzzles or learning a language might cover up the brain degeneration caused by dementia but can't stop it when it gets past a certain stage. Researchers from Rush University Medical Center in...

Published Fri, Sep 03 2010 1:39 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease

Why your liver could affect your Alzheimer's risk

Low levels of a substance called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in people's brains have been associated with Alzheimer's disease but new research from the University of California Irvine suggests that the problem might lie in people's livers not...

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 6:54 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease, Diet and Mental Health

Type 2 diabetes hits teenagers' brainpower as well as their health

Type-2 diabetes - caused by being too fat and not taking enough exercise - usually occurs in middle age but more and more teenagers are also being diagnosed with the condition. Researchers from the New York University Langone Medical Center studied 36...

Published Tue, Aug 03 2010 5:57 AM by Mental Health Update

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

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

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

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

PTSD and cardiovascular disease

Researchers from the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Administration Center have been strengthening the research linking post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to heart disease. The researchers looked at the medical records of 286,194 veterans, 637 of whom...

Published Fri, Nov 19 2010 2:38 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Service Users' Health, PTSD

Albumin and cognitive decline

Having a protein called albumin in one's urine can be a symptom of disease and new research suggests that it could also be linked to cognitive decline. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston studied 1,200 women over 70 who were...

Published Mon, Nov 22 2010 3:27 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease, Albumin

Getting to the bottom of why people worry

Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), or chronic worrying, is the most common anxiety disorder and, in any one year, is thought to affect around 2.7% of the population. Two thought processes that are believed to underly GAD are intolerance of uncertainty...

Published Mon, Nov 08 2010 2:13 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Anxiety Disorders, Anxiety

The best way of learning something? Sleep on it.

Getting information into one's long-term memory has been compared to pouring water into a bottle with a narrow neck; it holds a lot but it is difficult to get it in in the first place. A new study by researchers at York University and Harvard Medical...

Published Wed, Nov 03 2010 3:20 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Sleep Disorders

Mental-health courts prove useful in U.S.

Mental-health courts aim to move people with a serious mental illness out of the criminal-justice system and into community treatment. The courts were first set up in the U.S. in 1997 and now there are around 250 of them. Treatment is usually a condition...

Published Tue, Oct 05 2010 6:30 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Forensic Psychology

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