2013

May

• Task Force Recommends Screening All Adults for Alcohol Misuse -

• Study finds circadian clock rhythms altered in depression -
  
  
  

• Study supports alternative model for personality disorders in upcoming DSM-5 -
  
  
  

• Exercise and Major Depression -
  
  
  

• Cocaine vaccine passes key testing hurdle -
  
  
  

• The brain-gut connection: A link between depression and common hospital-acquired infection -

• Nearly 20 percent of suicidal youths have guns in their home -

• 90 percent of pediatric specialists not following clinical guidelines when treating preschoolers with ADHD -

• Suicide rates increase dramatically among middle-aged Americans -

• Brain Scans Can Predict Which Alcoholics Are Most Likely to Relapse -

• Unethical advertising at launch of antidepressants -

• ‘Dark genome’ is involved in Rett Syndrome -

• Exercise proves to be ineffective against care home depression -

• Early Intervention Found Cost Effective Through School Years -

• The biology behind binge eating -

• Integrating mental health care: New series -

April

• A Rising Tide of Substance Abuse -

• Sniffing Out Schizophrenia -

• Study shows early dialogue between parents, children stems teen smoking -

• Animal study finds deep brain stimulation reduces binge eating behavior -

• Psychopaths are not neurally equipped to have concern for others -

• New hope for Autistic children who never learn to speak -

• Autism risk spotted at birth in abnormal placentas -

• Could screening prevent suicides? Not enough evidence, says panel -

• Early cognitive behavioural therapy reduces risk of psychosis -

• Negative fathering plus barroom drinking are a dangerous mix, lead to aggression -

• First medical marijuana school in Nevada opens -

• Older People May Be at Greater Risk for Alcohol Impairment than Teens, According to Baylor Study -

• Most Effective PTSD Therapies Are Not Being Widely Used, Researchers Find -

• Brain Imaging Studies Reveal Neurobiology of Eating Disorders -

• Many Genes Add to Schizophrenia Risk -

• Google searches about mental illness follow seasonal patterns -

• First magic mushroom depression trial hits stumbling block -

• Mental changes after bypass usually temporary: study -

• What treatment’s best for hyperactive preschoolers? -

• Drinking, drugs more common for kids of deployed -

• Multiple factors predict repeat suicide-related behavior in youth: Study -

• Laser light zaps away cocaine addiction -

• LSUHSC research identifies co-factors critical to PTSD development -

• CAMH study shows mental illness associated with heavy cannabis use -

• College athletes twice as likely to have depression than retired collegiate athletes -

• Few effective, evidence-based interventions to prevent posttraumatic stress disorder -

• Is ADHD over-diagnosed in the US? -

• Sorting out the structure of a Parkinson’s protein -

March

• Common gene variants explain 42 percent of antidepressant response -

• Children of deployed military parents more at risk for alcohol, drug use -

• The risk of autism is not increased by ‘too many vaccines too soon’ -

• Missed opportunities to help smokers with mental illness -

• Forced methadone withdrawal in jails creates barrier to treatment in community -

• Alterations in brain activity in children at risk of schizophrenia predate onset of symptoms -

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