Mental Health Update

Child sexual abuse and pregnancy

Women who were sexually abused during their childhood may be more at risk of mental and physical health problems during their pregnancy. Researchers from the University of Haifa and Soroka Hospital in Israel studied 1,830 pregnant women comparing those...

Published Tue, Apr 06 2010 6:39 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression, Child Abuse, PTSD

Oxytocin, autism and emotions

Oxytocin is a hormone which plays an important part in labour, delivery and breastfeeding and it also plays a role in promoting trust, love and social recognition. Recently psychologists have become interested in using oxtyocin to treat autism. Dr Adam...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 5:53 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Autism, Oxytocin

Down the slippery slope of Alzheimer's

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a stage which can sometimes - although not always - lead on to Alzheimer's disease. A study of 1,158 people by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has found that people with MCI often go downhill...

Published Tue, Mar 23 2010 7:23 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease

Mixed reviews on UK's drug strategy

In the U.K. the National Audit Office has produced a report into the Government's £1.2 bn anti-drug strategy . It conludes that every £1 spent has brought £2.50 worth of benefit. Between 2004-5 and 2008-9 the number of adults in effective treatment...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 4:56 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Substance Abuse, Tackling Drugs Misuse, National Audit Office

School playgrounds - red in tooth and claw

School playgrounds can often make the court of the Borgias seem like a vicarage tea party and clinical psychologist Rhiarne Pronk from Griffith University has been carrying out an 'in-depth' study of 'relational aggression' in a sample...

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 3:00 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Bullying, Child Psychology

Drivers deluding themselves

Most drivers think that they are better than average despite the fact that this is statistically impossible. Researchers from Ottawa University polled nearly 400 drivers who were asked to rate how they would cope with different driving conditions such...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 7:42 AM by Mental Health Update

Obesity and cognitive function

A forty-year study of Swedish twins between 1963 and 2002 has found that those who had a higher body-mass-index when they were middle-aged had 'significantly lower general cognitive ability' and 'significantly steeper decline' than their...

Published Wed, Feb 24 2010 4:41 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Obesity

CBT and learning disabilities

People with learning disabilities suffer from mental-health problems as much as, if not more than, other people. Cognitive behaviour therapy has been found to be effective for a number of different mental-health problems but it is unclear whether people...

Published Tue, Feb 23 2010 6:34 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Learning Disabilities

Wasting away with Alzheimer's

Researchers from the University of Kansas School of Medicine have been looking into the relationship between body composition (how much of our body is fat and how much is muscle, bones and organs) and Alzheimer's disease. Weight loss often happens...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 3:24 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease

Sleep disorders take greater toll in non-White groups

Sleep disorders could take a greater toll on people's quality of life and health among Black and Hispanic people than in White people. Researchers from Arizona State University used data from the Sleep Heart Health Study covering a total of 5,237...

Published Wed, Apr 21 2010 8:17 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Sleep Disorders

Research shows true cost of caring

Researchers from Pennsylvania State University and the Benjamin Rose Institute in Cleveland, Ohio have been looking into the toll taken on people looking after someone with dementia, and their findings do not make cheerful reading. The study of 67 caregivers...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2010 4:31 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease, Service Users' Families

Youth clubs - the positive way to help kids?

It sometimes seems as though legal restrictions and medication are society's preferred way of keeping children out of trouble. However, a new study by researchers at Ohio State University points to a more positive solution - youth clubs. The study...

Published Thu, Jun 17 2010 2:35 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Development, Child Psychology, Youth Clubs

Bipolar and high blood pressure

There is already an established link between bipolar disorder and heart disease and diabetes and now there is evidence that the condition could also be linked to high blood pressure. Researchers from Michigan State University studied 99 people who had...

Published Fri, Jun 11 2010 3:44 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Service Users' Health, Bipolar Disorder

Early to bed, early to rise ...

Children who have enough sleep and go to bed at regular times do better at school. Researchers from SRI International, an independent American research institute studied 8,000 four-year-old children. They asked their parents about their children's...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 3:44 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Development, Sleep Disorders

Social support and senior centres

Despite the negative aspects of old age - declining health and loss of loved ones - research has shown that forming and maintaining a good network of friends can have a positive effect on people's physical and emotional health. S.A. Fulbright from...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 2:12 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression, Social Support, Older People

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