Mental Health Update

What makes a happy teacher?

Researchers at the University of Kent have been looking into what makes a happy teacher. They surveyed 197 of them twice over a three-month period and found that those with career aspirations and a goal to learn were happier than those facing unrealistic...

Published Fri, Sep 03 2010 2:37 AM by Mental Health Update

How many sessions does it take to get better?

Many governments, and private-sector medical companies, limit the number of sessions of psychotherapy that people are entitled to. This is done on financial grounds but there is a lack of research into how many sessions people actually need to get better...

Published Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:34 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Psychotherapy

Alcoholics, memories and self-delusion

Being an alcoholic is known to have a number of harmful effects on people's cognition and new research suggests that it damages people's memory without them being aware of it. Anne-Pascale Le Berre from the Universite de Caen/Basse-Normandie in...

Published Fri, Aug 27 2010 6:29 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Memory Problems, Alcohol Problems

Gateway to drug problems could be legal pills

Gateway drugs are the less damaging substances people start taking before they move on to more damaging drugs like heroin and cocaine. Traditionally alcohol, cannabis and tobacco have been seen as gateway drugs but new research from the University at...

Published Tue, Aug 31 2010 2:04 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Substance Abuse

Are nasty people more at risk from stroke and heart attack?

People who are antagonistic, competitive and aggressive may be at greater risk of having a heart attack or stroke. Researchers from the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore studied 5,614 Italians from Sardinia who ranged in age from 14 to 94. The...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2010 4:52 AM by Mental Health Update

Americans turn to pills not counselling

More Americans are being treated with drugs for their mental-health problems and less with psychotherapy. Researchers from Columbia University in New York compared data from two government surveys carried out in 1998 and 2007. In both years 3% of the...

Published Fri, Aug 20 2010 2:26 AM by Mental Health Update

Mediterranean drinking causes fewer problems

One of the things which often strikes visitors from the U.K. about Spain and Italy is the lack of young people staggering around being drunken idiots and throwing up in the gutter. This has often been put down to the fact that young people in Mediterranean...

Published Fri, Aug 20 2010 1:33 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alcohol Problems

Memory, child abuse and depression

Autobiographical memory is our memory of events and experiences from our own past rather than of skills like how to make a cup of tea, or facts like what the capital of Sweden is. Psychologists divide autobiographical memories into a number of different...

Published Fri, Aug 27 2010 2:08 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression, Child Abuse

Sleep problems and hyperactivity

Researchers from the Universite de Montreal have been looking into the links between lack of sleep and hyperactivity in small children. 2,057 mothers answered yearly questionnaires about how well their children slept and their hyperactivity. The study...

Published Wed, Dec 09 2009 3:50 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: ADHD, Sleep Disorders

Mental-health problems and heart disease

Researchers from the VA Ann Arbor Health System in Michigan have been looking into the links between mental-health problems and heart disease. They studied 150,000 veterans who completed a survey in 1999 and were followed for eight years. By the end of...

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 3:19 AM by Mental Health Update

Review of the evidence backs psychodynamic psychotherapy

Psychodynamic psychotherapy (PP) has lost out to cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and medication over the last few years but a review of the research by Jonathan Shedler of the University of Colorado suggests that it may be just as effective and have...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 4:48 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy

Blueberry juice is latest memory booster

Last year researchers from the University of Cincinnati found that purple grace juice could help with memory loss and now they have found evidence that blueberry juice could do the same. The researchers studied a small group of people who were in their...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2010 7:03 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease, Memory Problems

Burnout in the Finnish family

Burnout is a condition in which people lose confidence in their abilities, become cynical about their work and see customers or patients as objects to be dealt with as quickly as possible. Some researchers think children can suffer from school burnout...

Published Wed, Jan 20 2010 4:42 AM by Mental Health Update

Occupational therapy student helps bridge 'digital divide'

Occupational therapy student Jade Nixon from the University of Derby has been looking into the ways people with mental-health problems can overcome the 'digital divide' that separates those people with access to, and mastery of, new technology...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 5:16 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Occupational Therapy

Get Googling to boost your brain power

A study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles suggests that using Google could boost older people's brain power. The researchers scanned the brains of 24 neurologically-normal people between the ages of 55 and 78. Half of them...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 3:59 AM by Mental Health Update

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