Mental Health Update

Want to find out about children's drug use? Look in the cleaning cupboard

When parents worry about their children's drug use they often think about cocaine, cannabis or ecstasy. However, new figures from the U.S. Government suggest that they should be looking closer to home. The Department of Health and Human Services found...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 6:30 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Substance Abuse

Royal College calls for ban on self-harm websites

In the U.K. the Royal College of Psychiatrists has called for a ban on web sites which promote self-harm in teenagers. The latest figures show that 2,727 people under 25 were admitted to hospital after deliberately harming themselves with a sharp object...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 5:54 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Self-Harm

50 best family health blogs

Online FNP is a web site aimed at people wanting to do an online course to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. They run a blog themselves and have compiled a list of the top 50 family health blogs which you can find at http://onlinefnp.com/2010/top-50...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 1:27 AM by Mental Health Update

IQ and suicide risk

Having a low IQ in early adulthood is linked to a higher risk of suicide - at least in men. Researchers from the Wellcome Trust studied 1.1 million men in Sweden who all took IQ tests when they did their national service. Over the next 24 years at least...

Published Fri, Jun 04 2010 5:44 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Suicide, IQ

Moving kids and mental troubles

Having a nomadic childhood can have negative long-term consequences for people's health and happiness. Researchers from the University of Virginia studied 7,108 American adults who were followed for ten years. The participants, who were between the...

Published Fri, Jun 04 2010 6:27 AM by Mental Health Update

More evidence for antipsychotic risk in older people

Despite growing evidence of side effects antipsychotic drugs (originally developed to deal with the symptoms of schizophrenia, psychois and bipolar disorder) are still prescribed to older people without these conditions. The American company Prescription...

Published Mon, May 17 2010 7:26 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Antipsychotics - side effects, Older People

Weekend course tackles fear of blushing

One of the symptoms of social anxiety can be a fear of blushing. A fear of blushing develops when people feel self-conscious, this makes them blush and feel even more self-conscious leading to a vicious circle developing. Researchers from Dresden Technical...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 3:05 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Social Anxiety

People suffering from depression may have far more side effects than psychiatrists think they do. Mark Zimmerman from Rhode Island Hospital asked 300 people being treated for depression to fill out the Toronto Side Effects Scale. The patients rated the...

Published Tue, Apr 20 2010 6:23 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Antidepressants, Depression - medication

Why bottling up anger could be the way to an early grave

People with heart disease who bottle up their anger are at nearly three times the risk of having a heart attack or dying over the next 5-10 years. Researchers from Tilburg University in the Netherlands looked into the influence of type D personality in...

Published Thu, Apr 22 2010 3:56 AM by Mental Health Update

Drunken mums and screwed-up kids

Psychologists sometimes use the maximum number of drinks people can remember having in one evening as a 'proxy' measure of alcohol problems. Not surprisingly women who can remember downing eighteen rum and cokes in an evening don't always...

Published Tue, Sep 07 2010 3:49 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Development, Child Psychology, Alcohol Problems

Binge drinking and pregnancy - the older the mother the worse the problems

It's never a great idea to binge drink while you're pregnant but new research from the University of New Mexico suggests that the risks for unborn children are greater for older women. The researchers studied 462 children whose mothers were asked...

Published Thu, Jul 22 2010 2:29 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Development, Alcohol Problems

Teenage dieting and eating disorders

Dieting is widely recognised as a risk factor for eating disorders in adolescence. However, not all dieters develop an eating disorder so why do some teenagers trying to lose weight develop problems while others don't? A team of Finnish researchers...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 1:34 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Eating Disorders

Sleep, brainpower and health

A lack of sleep can seriously affect people's performance but just one good night's sleep can more or less restore you to normal. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania studied 159 healthy adults who had an average age of 30. The participants...

Published Mon, Aug 02 2010 6:34 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Sleep Disorders

Trust, accents and truthfulness

People with stronger foreign accents could be seen as less trustworthy than people with native ones. Researchers from the University of Chicago asked participants to judge the truthfulness of statements by native and non-native speakers. To try and get...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 3:26 AM by Mental Health Update

Only children just as popular

Some people think that only children lack social skills because they grow up without practice at getting on with their siblings. Researchers from Ohio State University have been looking into this theory in a study of 13,000 11-18 year-olds and have found...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 3:56 AM by Mental Health Update

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