Study finds combination therapy successful for treating depression
...epression remission is not uncommon. However, most mental health and drug treatment programs do not provide integrated treatment for their dually diagnosed patients. Developing and improving programs for patients with co-occurring depression and substance abuse disorders who do not seek drug treatment may b...Health care providers should be prepared for high prevalence of co-occurring disorders
People who have major mental illnesses often have co-occurring substance abuse ...he substance abuse problems of patients with major mental illnesses less severe than those of patients in substance abuse treatment? Are the psychiatric disor...For foster children, unstable placements have higher healthcare costs
...ultiple placements are more likely to incur higher mental health costs than children in more stable placemen... with medical problems, developmental problems, or mental health problems is more likely to drift from placement to placement and spend considerable time in t...Enhanced counseling eases depression among people caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease
...e with the devastating brain disease, and that the mental health benefits apparently are long lasting. The ...or devoted to testing interventions to improve the mental health and well being of Alzheimer's caregivers, providing a model of support for families as they s...OHSU study: Rate of brain volume loss predicts dementia
.... Nutritional interventions, physical exercise and mental exercise are also rational and may be studied in the future." Dementia afflicts 10 percent to 16 percent of people older than 75 and half of the 85-and-older population. Early diagnosis is important so doctors can identify treatable causes of dementi...Anthrax survivors continued to have health problems one year after exposure
...rorism has led to significant chronic physical and mental health problems. Standard assessment of terrorism survivors should include medically unexplained health complaints and psychiatric comorbidity, such as symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety disorders. Psychiatric and medi......believe that epilepsy is a psychiatric disorder or mental retardation. An editorial in the British Medical Journal recently put it well: "The history of epilepsy is 3000 years of ignorance, stigma, and discrimination and 100 years of knowledge, stigma, and discrimination." The most destructive misperception...Epilepsy guidelines will improve treatment and access
...ght it was contagious, 50 percent thought it was a mental illness and two thirds stated they would not date a person with epilepsy." Defining the efficacy of treatment in people with epilepsy can be tricky, Mr. Hargis noted. Treatment decisions have often been based on seizure control alone and not on the p...The NYU Child Study Center presents the inaugural State of the Science lecture
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...ed on a constellation of psychiatric symptoms. The mental illness also has been associated with both structural and functional abnormalities in neocortical networks including frontal, parietal, and temporal regions of the brain, but there has been no diagnostic test for the disorder. Abnormalities in a...New word for on-the-job health problem: 'presenteeism'
...s that headaches, allergies, arthritis, asthma and mental health-related problems such as depression incur t...ployers emerged as hypertension, heart disease and mental health problems. The IHPS study found that hypertension costs employers $392 per employee annually, ......roblems in the workplace, changes in life? Stress, mental disorder, love, memory, aging These and many more of the conditions that define us as individuals are addressed from a variety of perspectives, from neurobiology and psychophysiology to social and organizational science. It all adds up to fascinatin...Hormonal response to stress alters immune system function and alters mental and physical disease
...fluences susceptibility, onset and exacerbation of mental and physical diseases, including atherosclerotic h...rtant. And finally, acute psychological triggers mental stress and anger, for example can promote myocardial ischemia and plaque rupture. Thus, he says, "t...Mental health symptoms common at Pentagon after 9/11
...bout 40 percent of Pentagon personnel screened for mental health disorders in the four months after the Sept...t of the participants found to be at high risk for mental problems reported symptoms consistent with generalized anxiety, panic attacks or depression. About 8...Storage limits on our visual hard drive
...e that reveals the brain regions active in a given mental task by registering changes in blood flow and oxygenation in these regions, to identify where the capacity limit of visual short-term memory occurs. The brains of research participants were scanned with fMRI while they were shown scenes containing o...Are toddlers who can't sleep at higher risk of becoming teens who smoke, drink or do drugs?
...nd standardized research questionnaires to look at mental and physical health issues in families over the long term. The study was recently extended for another 10 years, with further funding from the National Institutes of Health in the form of a MERIT Award. "What's so interesting about this finding is ...'Use it or lose it' warning rings true when it comes to exercise
...after this period lost their gains in nearly every mental and physical characteristic that the researchers h...Emery noted that there were no subsequent gains in mental or physical function in this group after the first 10 weeks. "It's possible that these exerciser...Reading test may validly estimate pre-dementia functioning
... PAUL, Minn. Determining what a person's level of mental functioning was prior to the onset of dementia, an... get more of these correct tend to have had higher mental functioning. Importantly, this sort of ability does not decline much with age and is thought to hold...Risk of death among homeless women
... programs to address addictions, HIV infection and mental health issues can potentially save lives. In a related commentary, O'Connell contends that homelessness magnifies poor health and complicates the management of chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and asthma. He notes that standard treatment p...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2004 (second issue)
...nd cerebrovascular disease, presence of an altered mental state, and anemia were significant and independent predictors of mortality in the subsequent 2 to 3 years after hospital discharge for pneumonia. In their research, the investigators were able to ascertain the survival status of 97 percent of the pa...