Mental Health Update

Depression and kidney disease

Depression is already linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and a new study by researchers from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands suggests that it could be linked to an increased risk of kidney disease too. The researchers studied...

Published Fri, Mar 11 2011 2:15 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression, Kidney Disease

Stress could be big killer in over 65s

People aged 65 and over are five times more likely to die if they are suffering from high levels of stress. Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Medical Centre in Amsterdam studied 861 people aged 65 and over over a six-year period. They measured the...

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 6:33 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Service Users' Health, Stress

Poor drug taking sends people into crisis

In the U.K. people who might previously have been admitted to a psychiatric hospital are now often referred to Crisis Resolution Home Treatment (CRHT) services who decide whether to treat people themselves or send them on to hospital. CRHTs are an expensive...

Published Mon, Oct 18 2010 1:39 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Substance Abuse, Compliance

Bipolar disorder and recovery from depression

Some researchers think that people with depression who also show some of the symptoms of bipolar disorder are less likely to respond well to treatment. A team of researchers led by Roy H. Perlis from Harvard Medical School looked into this issue in a...

Published Wed, Dec 08 2010 2:34 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression, Bipolar Disorder

Vitamin D and schizophrenia

Levels of vitamin D in newborn children's blood could be linked to their risk of developing schizophrenia in later life. A team of researchers, led by John J. McGrath of the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, studied blood samples taken...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 2:14 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Schizophrenia, Vitamin D

Energy drinks make virtually no difference

Drinking so-called energy drinks alongside alcohol has no effect on people's driving ability or alertness. Researchers from Boston University School of Public Health and Brown University in Rhode Island studied 129 people, aged between 21 and 30....

Published Fri, Jan 14 2011 3:38 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alcohol Problems, Caffeine

Brain structures and video-game performance

Researchers from the University of Illinois have been looking into the links between brain structures and learning. They studied 34 people looking at brain activity in structures called the caudate nucleus, the putamen and the nucleus accumbens. The caudate...

Published Mon, Jan 17 2011 1:39 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Neuroscience

Counting the psychological cost of Deepwater Horizon

In April 2010 there was an explosion and fire on a BP-licensed oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico resulting in millions of gallons of oil spilling out into the Gulf. Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of...

Published Mon, Feb 21 2011 6:27 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression, PTSD, Anxiety

New blood test for Alzheimer's could be new breakthrough

Researchers from the Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute have developed a new blood test for Alzheimer's disease which could detect the condition much earlier than current methods. The test is based on the body's immune system which...

Published Fri, Jan 07 2011 2:22 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Alzheimer's Disease

The pushchair pill poppers

Toddlers in the U.S. are being prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs and the number has doubled over the past decade. Mark Olfson from Columbia University in New York studied the records of children with private medical insurance between 2000 and 2007...

Published Fri, Jan 15 2010 7:20 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Psychology, Antipsychotics

Drug company pays out in diabetes cases

Anglo-Swedish drug company AstraZeneca is to pay out £125m to people who developed diabetes after taking its schizophrenia and bipolar drug Seroquel. Seroquel had worldwide sales of $4.9bn last year, representing 15% of AstraZeneca's total revenue...

Published Tue, Aug 10 2010 3:23 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Schizophrenia, Diabetes, Bipolar Disorder

Fear and psychopathy

Children with psychopathic traits feel emotions less strongly and have less empathy for other people and recent research suggests that they may feel fear less than other people. A team of researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health in the...

Published Wed, Dec 15 2010 1:56 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Psychopathy

Bullying over time

Girls who are bullied between the ages of six and nine are much more likely to be still being bullied in Year 6. Researchers from Warwick University studied 432 children from 17 primary schools in Hertfordshire and North London. Researchers asked the...

Published Thu, Oct 22 2009 4:07 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Bullying, Child Psychology

Homeless youngsters' drug problems

Compared to other young people homeless youngsters are more likely to start taking drugs at a younger age and to take them more often. However, little research has been done into the specific factors that lead homeless youngsters into drug taking. A team...

Published Tue, Nov 16 2010 3:05 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Substance Abuse, Homeless People

Could new tests help suicide prediction?

Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among adults under 65 in the U.S. so predicting who might kill themselves could save a considerable number of lives. At the moment most attempts at prediction are based on people's answers to a series of...

Published Thu, Jul 29 2010 2:43 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Suicide

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