2010

December

• A Third of LGBT Youth Suffer Mental Disorders -

November

• Neurological protein may hold the key to new treatments for depression -

• Diagnosis uncertainty increases anxiety in patients -

• Gene links to anorexia found by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers -

• Substance abuse centers help quit smoking -

• Hormone therapy use may increase or decrease dementia risk depending upon timing -

• Light at Night Causes Changes in Brain Linked to Depression -

• Doubled risk of anxiety for 18 month-old children with congenital heart defects -

• 29,000 Ontario students report problem gambling—drug use and suicide a concern -

• Portrait of gambling behavior in Quebec -

• New compounds may treat both alcohol and cigarette addictions -

• Yale study tracks factors leading to physical decline in older adults -

• Approximately 60.9 million American adults have a mood or anxiety disorder -

• Drug experts say alcohol worse than crack or heroin -

October

• Screening test validated for depression in adolescents -

• ‘Evening types’ more likely to smoke: study -

• Can psychedelic drugs treat depression? -

• Year-long opiate substitution for drug misusers has 85 percent chance of cutting deaths -

• Heavy smoking doubles Alzheimer’s disease, dementia risk -

• Study points to possible gene therapy for depression -

• Project Prevention Announces Payment For Birth Control To The 3,000th Addicted Woman -

• Why are men more susceptible to alcoholism? -

• Focus on dementia -

• New research helps clinicians predict treatment outcomes for children with OCD -

• 4 kinds of compulsive gamblers identified -

• Brain Imaging Identifies Differences in Childhood Bipolar Disorder, ADHD -

• Neuroticism expensive for society: study -

• Early ADHD diagnosis a risk factor for depression -

• Children with ADHD at increased risk for depression and suicidal thoughts as adolescents -

• Can Internet use trigger depression? -

• Depression and distress not detected in majority of patients seen by nurses—new study -

• New depression guidelines favor tailored treatment -

• New depression guidelines favor tailored treatment -

• Twin study may quiet doubts over PTSD-trauma link -

• Most suicidal adolescents receive follow-up care after ER visits -

September

• Certain psychiatric disorders linked with risky sexual behavior in teens -

• The price of popularity: Drug and alcohol consumption -

• Can Mental Activity Protect Against Memory Problems in MS? -

• National study: Abortion does not cause depression or low self-esteem in adolescents -

• Cyber-bullying causes more depression, study finds -

• No link seen between moderate drinking, dementia -

• Use of Marijuana, Ecstasy, Methamphetamine on Rise in U.S. -

• Mood symptoms seen even with shorter IVF tactic -

• Link to autism in boys found in missing DNA -

• Intensive care diaries protect patients from PTSD -

• New moms, dads show increased depression risk -

• Team Uncovers Possible Risk Gene for Schizophrenia -

• Mass Psychogenic Illness -

• Somatoform Disorder Not Otherwise Specified -

• Somatic Therapies - Conversion Disorder and Somatoform Disorder Not Otherwise Specified -

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