Psychotic Symptoms/Childhood Trauma Common in Primary as Well as Psychiatric Care
Researchers in Finland reviewed questionnaires filled out by 911 primary and psychiatric care patients over 16 years of age. They found that more than...
Mania is Not Strongly Associated With Violence
A review of New South Wales court documents from 1992 to 2008 found that only 12 of 272 people found not guilty by reason...
Overlap Between Borderline and Bipolar
Researchers in Australia investigate the growing evidence that childhood trauma predisposes individuals to both bipolar and borderline syndromes, with the intention of examining areas...
Recovery: Personal, Achievable, and Multidimensional
Interviews with 30 individuals three to five years after initial treatment for a first-episode psychosis found that a majority considered themselves to be recovered,...
Training the Brain for Well-Being
Experience shapes the brain, for better or worse. Richard Davidson & Bruce McEwen review the ways that adverse early experience create measurable changes in...
The Mouse That Roared: CIAD & Friends vs. the State of New York
If you log onto the website of the New York State Office of Mental Health at www.omh.ny.gov, you’ll find out that less than three...
Symptoms do not Correlate with Quality of Life in Schizophrenia
Researchers in France found that among 306 outpatients followed for a year, quality of life remained stable relative to subjects' expectations and perceptions about...
Fostering Secure Attachment Prevents Depression and Anxiety
Researchers from China and the Harvard Medical School studied the effects of anxious and avoidant attachment on the development of depression and anxiety in...
PTSD Mediates the Relationship Between Trauma and Mental Health
In a sample of 175 persons with severe mental illness, researchers at the University of Hawaii found that rates of trauma exposure and PTSD...
Social Environment Moderates the Link Between Family and Psychosis
A study of 4,011 people randomly selected from the population of Izmir, Turkey found that the association between familial liability for severe mental illness and the...
Childhood Trauma and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
Researchers in the Netherlands compared childhood trauma and auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) in 127 non-psychotic individuals with frequent AVH, healthy controls, and 100 psychotic...
How entrepreneurial thinking can improve mental health advocacy
I've been working on starting a business that can use market forces to create benefit for our communities. This is called social entrepreneurship. Different models...
Inquiry into the ‘Schizophrenia’ Label
An inquiry into the 'Schizophrenia' label has been launched by a group of organizations and individuals concerned about the meaning and usefulness of 'schizophrenia'...
An Opportunity to Walk the Talk — Occupy the American Psychiatric Association May 5th...
On May 5, 2012, MindFreedom International is holding its Occupy the American Psychiatric Association protest at the APA's annual convention in Philadelphia. Momentum is building for the...
Madness Radio: Toby Watson on Ethical Psychotherapy
It was a long haul from being a psychiatric patient in 1992 to graduating with a masters in counseling in 2011. I flunked out...
The Large, Statistically Significant Effect of Walking on Depression
Researchers in the U.K. searched eleven databases for randomized, controlled trials of walking as a treatment intervention for depression. 14,672 retrieved articles yielded eight...
How the “Brain Defect” Theory of Depression Stigmatizes Depression Sufferers
Viewing depression as a “brain defect” rather than a “character defect” is supposed to reduce the stigma of depression, according to the American Psychiatric...
Specific Early-Life Adversities Lead to Specific Symptoms of Psychosis
Researchers in the U.K. (lead by Richard Bentall) found that specific childhood adversities were significantly associated with specific forms of psychosis in adulthood in...
Childhood Adversity Promotes Neuroimmune Inflammation and Depression
Researchers in Canada and the U.S. found that in a group of 147 female adolescents at risk for depression, actual transition to depression was...
Cognitive and Perceptual Origins of Social Isolation and Psychosis in Schizophrenia
The American Journal of Psychiatry reviews recent research by three leading research groups that "provide intriguing evidence of the cognitive and perceptual impairments that...
Minimal Empirical Support for Antidepressant Treatment in Young People
Researchers from Australia reviewed the existing literature for good-quality evidence of effective prevention and treatment of depression in young people. Prevention research was dominated...
New Study on a Non-Toxic Intervention for Those at High Risk of Psychosis
A new multi-centered study was released about using cognitive therapy for young people who were seen as being at high risk of psychosis.
The article reporting the study is on the British Medical Journal website, available in full – http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e2233. It’s curious to see how it is being reported in the press.
No Publication Bias in Meta-Analyses of Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia
A review by German researchers of all meta-analyses (with sufficient data) of psychotherapeutic interventions for schizophrenia up to September, 2010 found evidence that psychosocial...
Labels Initiates Core Social Support, Lose Peripheral Ties
Article Abstract:
Although research supports the stigma and labeling perspective, empirical evidence also indicates that a social safety net remains intact for those with mental...
Personal Narrative Mediates the Impact of Social Deficits in Schizophrenia
"Although negative symptoms are a barrier to recovery," says a study in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, "little is understood about the...
