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...alth Program Directors. Dr. Speier is a practicing psychologist in Louisiana and holds a clinical appointment at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Speier has authored a number of publications and training manuals for the Center for Mental Health Services. Robe...Cartoons help measure hostile assumptions, risk of aggression in urban girls
...d study leader Stephen S. Leff, Ph.D., a pediatric psychologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "In addition, we found that these cartoon versions were as valid as the conventional written versions in measuring how these 3rd and 4th grade African A...New hope for an 'untreatable' mental illness
...ted to deeper personality change. New York-based psychologist Jeffrey Young, Ph.D. (on the faculty in the Dept. of Psychiatry at Columbia University) began to develop Schema Focused Therapy in the mid-1980s. Encouraged by its success, he established the first Schema Therapy Institute in the mid-1990s in Manha...Study by Children's Hospital and Carnegie Mellon explains crucial deficit in children with autism
...dren and adults with autism," said Carnegie Mellon psychologist David Rakison, who co-authored the paper with Cynthia Johnson, director of the Autism Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and assistant professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "This study opens...Psychologist to study how we put stress into words
...vided by the sounds in the word? New research by psychologist Dr Padraic Monaghan, of the University of York, will try to answer the question. He is leading a new project to study the mechanism of language processing that governs how stress is assigned in words. The research findings may help in the treatment...RAND study shows solitary drug, alcohol and cigarette use puts adolescents at higher risk
...sers is especially high," said Joan Tucker, a RAND psychologist and lead author of the study. "Solitary use is a warning sign that youth will be less productive and have more problems as young adults -- more problems, even, than others who also used substances during childhood. The challenge is to identify thes...Psychological treatments improve outcomes for back pain sufferers
...o date that these interventions are helpful," said psychologist and review lead author Robert Kerns, Ph.D., of the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. The review, part of a new article series, appears in the January issue of the journal Health Psychology. Each evidence-based review centers on a specific psycholog...Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years
...k, Ph.D., whose research team at Baycrest included psychologist Dr. Fergus Craik, a world authority on age-related changes in memory processes, and neurologist Dr. Morris Freedman, an eminent authority on understanding the mechanisms underlying cognitive impairment due to diseases such as Alzheimer's. "Our stud...Feb. 16 event explores pills, politics and the public trust
... The event will be introduced and moderated by U-M psychologist Henry Greenspan, Ph.D. A question-and-answer session will be moderated by Duane Kirking, Pharm.D., Ph.D., professor in the U-M College of Pharmacy and Director of the U-M Center for Medication Use, Policy & Economics....Depression increases health risks in heart failure patients
...thal, Ph.D., co-author of the study and a clinical psychologist at Duke. The researchers reported the results Monday in the Monday, Feb. 26, 2007 edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health. For their study, the researchers enrolled 204 stable heart ...Low education predicts lower quality of life for prostate cancer patients
...cer, says lead author Sara J. Knight, PhD, a staff psychologist at SFVAMC. Whats surprising is that after treatment, they have clinically significant problems across the board mental and emotional as well as physical in managing their lives. The authors acknowledge that low educational level is often associat...Tennessee researcher earns Komen grant to study depression and breast cancer
...nd helps reduce depression symptoms, said Hopko. A psychologist also will work with patients to understand what was rewarding in the past, and help plan ways to re-engage in those activities. Hopko likens the BATD approach to the way a train builds momentum as it begins moving. "When a train is at a stop, i...Chronic family turmoil and other problems cause physical changes
... The study, led by environmental and developmental psychologist Gary Evans, is published in the March issue of Developmental Psychology. It is the first study to look at how maternal responsiveness may protect against cumulative risk as well as the first, according to the researchers, to look at cardiovascular re...Breastfeeding and good fats help new moms fight depression
...was authored by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, a health psychologist and researcher at UNH's Crimes against Children Research Center. Kendall-Tackett presents her findings in the article "A New Paradigm for Depression in New Mothers: The Central Role of Inflammation and How Breastfeeding and Anti-Inflammatory Treatmen...Counseling, coping skills could reduce arthritis disability
... ask their health care provider to refer them to a psychologist who specializes in pain coping skills and cognitive behavior interventions." Over 43 million adults in the United States have an arthritis diagnosis and another 23 million adults report symptoms of arthritis, making the disease the leading cause of...Weill Cornell researchers use 'Virtual Iraq' simulation to study post-traumatic stress disorder
...ncipal investigator, Dr. Loretta Malta, a clinical psychologist at Weill Cornell Medical College, states: "It isn't possible after a traumatic event to study, in a controlled way, conditions that lead to the development of specific types of PTSD symptoms. Usually this is studied by comparing people who develop PT...Alzheimer's weight gain initiative also improved patients' intellectual abilities
...group attended a one-week training course run by a psychologist and professor of nursing science. It comprised 20 hours of lectures and 18 hours of group discussion covering three key themes: delivering care in a way that promotes the patient's integrity, how to communicate more effectively with patients with dem...Harboring hostility may be linked to unhealthy lungs
...ity and pulmonary function, states lead author and psychologist Benita Jackson PhD MPH, Smith College. Its remarkable to see reductions in lung function during a time of life we think of as healthy for most people. Right now, we cant say if having a hostile personality causes lung function decline, though we now...Paying taxes, according to the brain, can bring satisfaction
...n hunger pangs. A three-member team a cognitive psychologist and two economists published its results in the June 15 issue of the journal Science. The scientists gave 19 women participants $100 and then scanned their brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as they watched their money go to th......d decided to explore the idea in the lab. Led by psychologist Laurent Mottron of the University of Montreal, the team gave both autistic kids and normal kids two of the most popular IQ tests used in schools. The two tests are both highly regarded, but they are very different. The so-called WISC relies heavily o...