Mental Health Update

Child abuse and drug addiction

Child abuse is known to be a risk factor for a number of different mental-health problems and antisocial behaviour. Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York studied 143 people in an attempt to find out more about this. 48 of...

Published Thu, Nov 25 2010 3:47 AM by Mental Health Update

Motivation, depression and psychotherapy

Over the last 20 years researchers have begun to recognise that other factors - apart from the kind of treatment used and the nature of people's mental-health problems - affect whether psychotherapy gets people better or not. Two of the most important...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2010 3:28 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Psychotherapy

Internet use and depression

Teenagers who are obsessed with the internet could be more likely to suffer from depression. Researchers from the University of Notre Dame in Australia and Sun-Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China looked at the mental health and internet use of 1,041...

Published Tue, Oct 05 2010 7:00 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression - causes, Depression - in adolescence

U.K. Government clamps down on chemical cosh for dementia

Over the years the Mental Health Update blog has featured a number of posts about the damaging effects of antipsychotic drugs prescribed as a 'chemical cosh' for people with dementia and now the U.K. Government (probably not, to be honest, influenced...

Published Tue, Sep 28 2010 3:23 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease, Antipsychotics - side effects

Keep smiling - you might live longer

Being unhappy could be worse for your health than being obese. Professor Ed Diener from the University of Illinois reviewed 160 studies into the connection between a positive state of mind and overall health and longevity. The overwhelming majority of...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2011 2:11 AM by Mental Health Update

Understanding the causes of prenatal depression

Many women suffer from postnatal depression but they can also suffer from prenatal depression as well. Anxiety and depression during pregnancy can result in premature birth or low birthweight and can affect children's health even into their early...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2011 4:16 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression - in pregnancy

New gene linked to depression

Everyone experiences some stress in their day-to-day lives but some people calm down after it more quickly than others. A chemical in the brain called neuropeptide Y (NPY) is thought to play a role in this and some variations in people's genes can...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 2:08 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression - genetics

Iraq - the long-term toll of PTSD

Nearly 2 million U.S. troops have served in Iraq since 2001. Researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School studied 953 National Guard soldiers who answered questions in Iraq a month before returning home and then again a year later. In the...

Published Wed, Jan 05 2011 2:38 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: PTSD

Flower arranging and schizophrenia

Schizophrenia can affect people as much from the losses - of memory and cognition - it causes as from the delusions and hallucinations it inflicts upon them. The severity of these losses predicts quality of life, social functioning and how independent...

Published Wed, Aug 04 2010 6:20 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Schizophrenia

Loathsome oaths leave nurses feeling blue

Despite the fact that psychiatric nurses are often exposed to swearing there has been little research into its effect on them. A team of researchers from the University of Newcastle in New South Wales surveyed 107 nurses working in three different environments...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 1:49 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Swearing

Troubled children stay troubled, poorer at greater risk

Behavioural problems in late childhood and early adolescence carry on into later adolescence and young adulthood and children from disadvantaged backgrounds are more at risk. Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle studied 800 children...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2010 4:14 AM by Mental Health Update

How genes affect Alzheimer's symptoms

Variations in a gene called APOE are known to affect people's chances of developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School studied 91 people...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 3:54 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease

Telephones, hugs and stressed little girls

Psychologists often do strange things in the name of research and researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been making little girls stressed to see what happens when their mothers comfort them. Nobody was hurt but 61 girls aged between...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 2:34 AM by Mental Health Update

Why a walk, a park and a pond could be the perfect recipe for good mental health

Green exercise is defined as physical activity in the presence of nature and can include walking in the countryside, exercising in a park, gardening or doing conservation work. There is lots of scientific evidence to show that green exercise is beneficial...

Published Tue, May 04 2010 4:48 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Exercise and Mental Health

Dementia spouses have increased risk

People married to someone with dementia are six times more likely than other people to develop the condition themselves. Researchers from Utah State University studied elderly couples where one of the partners had dementia. They took into account environmental...

Published Wed, May 05 2010 2:26 AM by Mental Health Update

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

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