Human Behavioral Genetics’ “Unfulfilled Promise”
A review of the literature on behavioral genetics, published online today byĀ Developmental Psychobiology, finds "powerful new methods have failed to reveal even one bona...
Children Raised in Institutions: Increased ADHD, Anxiety, etc.
Data drawn from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project show that children raised in institutions in Romania exhibit elevated symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, depression, and...
“Psychiatric Power: A Personal View” by Pat Bracken
Psychiatrist Pat Bracken, "a friend of Mad Pride Ireland," writes about the current state of psychiatry in the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. As...
Stress Response in Individuals and Families Predicts Psychosis
Researchers from King's College, London, reviewed all studies examining psychological and biological markers of the stress response in both individuals at high risk of...
Meditation Helps with Emotionality and Relationships
A meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin of 595 studies on the psychological effects of meditation found that in the 163 studies deemed to have "sufficient...
Telephone Therapy is Effective for Depression
A study of 325 Chicago-area patients with major depression, published today in the Journal of American Medical Association, finds that cognitive behavioral therapy administered...
Exercise as an Adjunct to Medication Does Not Help Depression
A study of 361 adults with depression published online in the British Medical Journal today finds no evidence that facilitated physical activity improved depression...
Similarity of Dissociation and Voice-Hearing in DID and Schizophrenia
A study of 40 patients with schizophrenia diagnoses and 40 patients with dissociative identity disorder (DID) found that "neither phenomenological definitions of dissociation nor...
Yoga Improves Cognition in Schizophrenia
Researchers from India and the Universities of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania found, in the first study of its kind, significantly greater improvement in cognitive function...
More Support Sought When Others Attribute Depression to Biology
In a study of 86 individuals experiencing at least mild depressive symptoms, a person's willingness to seek support from a friend was not related...
Locus of Control Less Associated with Anxiety in Collective Societies
Locus of Control (LOC), a measure of the degree to which one perceives control of one's life to be internally- vs. externally-determined, was reviewed...
PLoS Medicine Series: Global Studies of “Practice-Based Evidence”
The Public Library of Science calls for "case studies that can help broaden our understanding of global mental health in 'real-life' contexts." The series...
The History and Effectiveness of Peer Support from 18th-Century France to Today
Yale's Program for Recovery and Community Health will publish in World Psychiatry's June issue a review the history of peer support, from its roots...
Stress Sensitivity and Tolerance Associated With Psychosis
Researchers from Columbia and NYU found that stress sensitivity and impaired stress tolerance was greater in a cohort of 65 individuals deemed at high...
Microfinance Loans for People With Mental Health Diagnoses
The Toronto Globe & Mail reports on a project to provide "microfinance" loans of $3,000 up to $25,000 to people diagnosed with mental illness...
Bipolar Disorder and Goal-Setting
Researchers at the UCs Berkley and San Francisco, and the University of Miami, suggest in a paper in Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy that bipolar...
Do I Have Too Many Questions This Morning?
What if it were the sun that could cure you; would you have the courage to go and find it? Would you wear sunscreen?
If...
Discrimination Impacts Mental Health: Especially Among the Educated
A cross-sectional study of 1,994 individuals in a deprived area of Japan found that perceived discrimination was significantly associated with depressive symptoms and a...
Anxiety and the Severity of Mania
Researchers from Spain, noting that "anxiety has scarcely been studied in acute mania," analyzed data from 242 patients admitted for a diagnosis of acute...
Emotional Numbing Links Trauma and Callousness
A sample of 276 youth recruited from 2 juvenile detention centers found that the association between trauma exposure and callous-unemotional traits was mediated by...
Flat Affect Fluctuates, but Predicts Poor Outcomes
Researchers in Norway and Denmark found that in a sample of 186 first-episode psychosis patients followed for 10 years, flat affect was more "fluctuant"...
Family-Level Intervention for Schizophrenia
Scores of daily function, employment, living situation, marital status and Global Assessment Scale in 979 persons diagnosed with schizophrenia and 1,509 of their relatives...
Negative Symptoms Predict Quality of Life
Researchers assessed 55 first-episode drug-naive people with schizophrenia diagnoses in New Delhi, India for the predictive value of symptoms on quality of life (QOL)....
Review of Dietary Supplements for Depression
A review of dietary drug supplements for depression in the May issue of the Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services finds that...
Scientific American Reviews the DSM
In a continuing series, Scientific American analyzes the "Trouble at the Heart of Psychiatry's Revised Rule Book."
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