2014

March

• Drinking buddies deny copying alcoholic drink orders -
  
  
  

• Alzheimer’s in a dish -
  
  
  

• Suicidal ideation among US soldiers begins before enlistment -
  
  
  

February

• New autism definition may decrease diagnosis by one-third, Columbia University finds -
  
  
  

• Psychological side-effects of anti-depressants worse than thought -
  
  
  

• Study Shows Mentally Ill More Likely To Be Victims, Not Perpetrators, Of Violence -
  
  
  

• Age-21 drinking laws save lives, study confirms -
  
  
  

• New study settles how social understanding is performed by the brain -
  
  
  

• Schizophrenics are at greater risk of getting diseases -
  
  
  

• If You Think You Have Alzheimer’s, You Might be Right, Study Suggests -
  
  
  

• Gathering the clues to rare gene variants contributing to schizophrenia -
  
  
  

• Active thyroid may raise risk of depression in older individuals -
  
  
  

• First biological marker for major depression could enable better diagnosis and treatment -
  
  
  

• New depression treatments reported -
  
  
  

• Depressed girls suffer the most -
  
  
  

• Two parents with Alzheimer’s disease? Disease may show up decades early on brain scans -
  
  
  

• Cognitive development ‘growth charts’ may help diagnose and treat psychosis-risk kids -
  
  
  

• Study links steroid-dependent asthma to depression -
  
  
  

• Experimental care program keeps people with dementia at home longer, study shows -
  
  
  

• Study finds 3-fold increase in pregnancy among young girls with mental illness -
  
  
  

• Invisible risk group among adolescents at risk of mental ill-health -
  
  
  

• IUPUI Study First to Find Earlier Depression Treatment Prevents Heart Attacks and Strokes -
  
  
  

• Study shows independent association between diabetes and depression and impulse control disorders -
  
  
  

• Childhood Depression May Lead to Heart Disease by Teen Years -
  
  
  

• Studies find new links between sleep duration and depression -
  
  
  

January

• Losing a family member in childhood associated with psychotic illness -
  
  
  

• Access to guns increases risk of suicide, homicide -
  
  
  

• Schizophrenia in the limelight: Film-industry technology provides insights -
  
  
  

• Mount Sinai researchers find promising new drug targets for cocaine addiction -
  
  
  

• 1 question may gauge the severity of unhealthy drug and alcohol use -
  
  
  

• School drug tests don’t work, but ‘positive climate’ might -
  
  
  

• Brief mental training sessions have long-lasting benefits for seniors’ cognition and everyday function -
  
  
  

• Complementary medicine in wide use to treat children with autism, developmental delay -
  
  
  

• Primary care practitioners hesitate to prescribe antidepressants for depressed teens -
  
  
  

• A simple 10 step approach to reducing the harms of alcohol -
  
  
  

• Severe mental illness tied to higher rates of substance use -
  
  
  

• Fear of childbirth predicts postpartum depression -
  
  
  

2013

December

• Dementia Has a Link to Concussions -
  
  
  

• Antidepressants for bipolar disorder -
  
  
  

• Multi-component therapy shown beneficial in treating PTSD in adolescent girls -
  
  
  

• Hospital-diagnosed maternal infections linked to increased autism risk -
  
  
  

• Ohio State study shows 2 drugs help adolescents with ADHD, aggression -
  
  
  

• People with intellectual disabilities often die earlier -
  
  
  

• U.S. teens smoke more marijuana, but back off other drugs: survey -
  
  
  

• Brain area attacked by Alzheimer’s links learning and rewards -
  
  
  

• Discovery of ‘teen gene’ could hold promise for combating severe mental illnesses -
  
  
  

• Feinstein Institute researchers show a genetic overlap in schizophrenia and cognitive ability -
  
  
  

• Five Factors ID Risk of Opioid AE -
  
  
  

• Heavy marijuana users have abnormal brain structure and poor memory -
  
  
  

• Wake Forest Baptist researchers study alcohol addiction using optogenetics -
  
  
  

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