Study pinpoints schizophrenia brain glitch
...xchange information about the environment and form mental impressions. "The schizophrenics did not show this... Robert W. McCarley, MD, deputy chief of staff for mental health services at the VA Boston Healthcare System and chair of the Harvard psychiatry department. ...The Gerontological Society of America confers 2004 M. Powell Lawton Award to Penn State's Zarit
...istrative, and research professionals. Focusing on mental health issues of older adults, Dr. Zarit's pioneering work in caregiving has revolutionized the field of dementia care. His research and writings are often credited with drawing national attention to the difficulties faced by families providing care ...Maryland's Pearlin to receive GSA's 2004 Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award
...cial research into stress and health, particularly mental health. His contributions in the field of social s...on social and social psychological determinants of mental health set the stage for a series of now classic articles that defined the stress process paradigm. ...Mentally ill offender treatment and crime reduction act becomes law
...ct (S. 1194) of 2004, which will improve access to mental health services for adult and juvenile non-violent...tion among the criminal justice, juvenile justice, mental health and substance abuse treatment systems. It will ensure that both adult and juvenile non-violen...Electroconvulsive therapy improves mood, quality of life
...urnal of Psychiatry. ECT is a treatment for severe mental illness, especially major depression, in which a brief application of electric stimulus a shock is used to produce a generalized seizure. "ECT produces a net improvement in health for most patients, and should help fill the knowledge gap that rec...Job-stressed women more vulnerable than men to 9/11 trauma
... in their jobs were more likely than men to suffer mental health consequences after Sept. 11. "The term I us... to evaluate specific impacts from September 11 on mental health," Richman said. Richman used three measures of workplace stress: lack of decision-making auth...Psychotherapy, meds best for youth with obsessive compulsive disorder
...ll contribute to the appreciation by non-physician mental health clinicians of the strengths and limitations of pharmacological treatments and to the appreciation by physicians of the evidence-based psychosocial treatments," states the article. "It is imperative that the focus of research turn to identifyin...Study finds potential new cause of mental decline in old age
...s have found important new evidence to explain why mental function becomes less efficient with ageing. In t...am at the University of Edinburgh found that worse mental function is linked with abnormally enlarged channels around blood vessels in the brain. The report, ...Research on nerve cell circuitry reveals clue about schizophrenia
...nia-like symptoms. Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness that affects about 2 million Americans in a year. Worldwide, 1 percent of the population suffers from schizophrenia. The most common symptoms of schizophrenia are delusions and hallucinations. People suffering from schizophrenia lose the abil...Development of working memory, allowing voluntary control of behavior, defined
... humans would not have been able to develop higher mental abilities. In a group of 20 healthy 8- to 30-year-olds, Dr. Luna and her colleagues used a test called an oculomotor delayed response task to track memory-guided saccades (eye movements) while imaging their brains using functional magnetic resonan...Promise for helping adults with dyslexia
...e researchers could "subtract" any activity due to mental processing in general. The researchers then gave half the dyslexic group intensive training in "phonological" tasks of recognizing and processing word sounds, while the other half received no such training. When Eden and her colleagues retested both ...Exercise for special populations, sensory research, factors impacting rehabilitation top issues
... Exercise promotes physical & mental well-being for nursing home residents, pg 659 This...-month exercise program on functional performance, mental health, and depression in seniors who live in a nursing home. After the 6-month program, seniors who...Combination therapy, not medication alone, most effective for treating children with OCD
...ng, hoarding, checking something over and over) or mental acts (such as counting, repeating words silently). John S. March, M.D., M.P.H., of the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., and members of the Pediatric OCD Treatment Study (POTS) team, evaluated the efficacy of CBT alone, medication man...Therapy, medication combination superior for children with obsessive-compulsive disorder
...icult and distressing disorder. We must train more mental health professionals in becoming proficient in delivering CBT for pediatric OCD." Currently, there are few providers who are well-trained in providing CBT, said Foa. The researchers believe insurance companies play a role in the problem by continu...Elderly experience long-term cognitive decline after surgery
...tients' abilities in four domains: psychomotor and mental speed, verbal learning, cognitive filtering and attention/concentration. After determining the rates of cognitive decline, Monk then compared the outcomes of the 59 percent of patients who exhibited cognitive impairments at discharge with those who w...Growing epidemic of wet AMD ushers in new era in treatment of the disease
... Americans fear vision loss second only to loss of mental capacity." Living with vision loss does not have to be such a lonely and isolating experience. Today, vision rehabilitation services are available to maximize independence and preserve quality of life for the hundreds of thousa...Gender and sex hormones affect the brain's pain response and more, according to new studies
...der differences in cognition and susceptibility to mental diseases. At the University of Michigan , Jon-Kar Zubieta, MD, PhD, and his colleagues have been studying the effect of sex hormones on pain and stress-response systems in the brain. They have found that differences between men and women in the perc......sh produce, being physically active, and fostering mental and emotional health. According to the researc...easing energy and strength, improving physical and mental wellbeing, promoting weight management and preventing sickness. At the same time, many of the...Long-term study demonstrated ADDERALL XR is an effective option to treat adolescents with ADHA
...ories include "avoids tasks that require sustained mental effort" and "talks excessively." The initial 4-week study was divided into primary and secondary cohorts. The primary cohort was comprised of adolescents weighing over or equal to 165 lb who met DSM-IV- TRTM ADHD criteria for ADHD. Subjects...Physically fit children appear to do better in classroom, researchers say
...on older individuals' abilities to process complex mental tasks. Together, with assistance from graduate student Sarah Buck, Castelli and Hillman conducted a series of studies with school-aged children and control groups of adults. Data were gathered on subjects' physical attributes (height, weight, body ma...