2015

April

• France bans super-skinny models in anorexia clampdown -
  
  
  

• Alcohol study yields surprising results -
  
  
  

• Depression and insomnia are strongest risk factors for frequent nightmares -
  
  
  

• Suicide not associated with deployment among US military personnel -
  
  
  

• How physical exercise protects the brain from stress-induced depression -
  
  
  

March

• World first study reveals antibodies that may trigger psychosis in children -
  
  
  

• Testosterone needs estrogen’s help to inhibit depression -
  
  
  

• Study adds evidence on link between PTSD, heart disease -
  
  
  

• Roseroot herb shows promise as potential depression treatment option, Penn team finds -
  
  
  

• Researchers find link between genetic variation and alcohol dependence -
  
  
  

• Using tablets to screen new, expecting moms for perinatal depression -
  
  
  

• Police officers among ‘most at risk’ for workplace suicide -
  
  
  

• Brain networks differ among those with severe schizophrenia, CAMH study shows -
  
  
  

• Mental health misdiagnosis twice more likely for socially disadvantaged groups -
  
  
  

• Study of veterans finds family support during deployment reduces suicidal thoughts -
  
  
  

• Promising Alzheimer’s treatment moves toward clinical trials -
  
  
  

• Link between autism genes and higher intelligence, study suggests -
  
  
  

• Antibodies to brain proteins may trigger psychosis -
  
  
  

• No link between psychedelics and mental health problems -
  
  
  

• Men tend to be more narcissistic than women -
  
  
  

• Family based interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed preadolescents -
  
  
  

• Early life stress may cause excess serotonin release resulting in a serotonin deficit -
  
  
  

• ADHD plus childhood trauma heightens risk for self-harm, suicide -
  
  
  

February

• Teen girls from rural areas more likely to have undiagnosed asthma, be depressed -
  
  
  

• Help is just a call away for mothers with postnatal depression -
  
  
  

• Differing GP approach to sick notes between mental and physical illness -
  
  
  

• Schizophrenia: Impaired activity of the selective dopamine neurons -
  
  
  

• Eating disorders linked with financial difficulties in female students -
  
  
  

• Middle-aged men at highest risk of suicide after breathing poor air -
  
  
  

• Parents experience post-traumatic stress disorder after child’s stroke -
  
  
  

• What autism can teach us about brain cancer -
  
  
  

• Inducing or augmenting labor not associated with increase in autism -
  
  
  

• Study details how cocaine works in the brain, offers possibility of drug to treat addiction -
  
  
  

• Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia reduces suicidal thoughts in veterans -
  
  
  

January

• Common pesticide may increase risk of ADHD -
  
  
  

• Majority of homeless adults with mental illness have high rates of cognitive deficits -
  
  
  

• Autistic brains go their own way -
  
  
  

• Toward a cocaine vaccine to help addicts kick the habit -
  
  
  

• Adolescents who sleep poorly and insufficiently may develop alcohol and drug problems -
  
  
  

• Researchers discover ‘idiosyncratic’ brain patterns in autism -
  
  
  

• New genetic clues found in fragile X syndrome -
  
  
  

• UCLA study IDs two genes that boost risk for post-traumatic stress disorder -
  
  
  

2014

December

• Parental history of suicide attempt associated with increased risk in kids -
  
  
  

• Children with autism who live with pets are more assertive -
  
  
  

• Fine particulate air pollution linked with increased autism risk -
  
  
  

• Medications for patients with first episode psychosis may not meet guidelines -
  
  
  

November

• Fragile X study offers hope of new autism treatment -
  
  
  

• Why do people with autism see faces differently? -
  
  
  

• Homeless, mentally ill women face vicious cycle in India -
  
  
  

• Schizophrenia may be triggered by excess protein during brain development -
  
  
  

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