Mental health News
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Electroconvulsive shock treatment, once a fairly common treatment for mental illness, is regaining popularity and could be set to make a comeback to the psychiatric mainstream.
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The Obama Administration is looking to lower the prison population through innovative data management. The Data-Driven Justice Initiative (DDJ) was announced on June 30, and will work to divert low level prisoners out of the prison system.
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Infection with a common yeast can lead to mental health problems in some cases, according to new research. This is shown from analysis of patterns relating to psychiatric patients.
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U.S. authorities have issued a warning over an antipsychotic drug. The drug, it seems, triggers a series of cravings: for food, gambling, shopping, and for increasing the user’s sex drive.
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One in 68 children in the U.S. is affected by autism, with boys receiving four times as many diagnoses as girls. Is there a medical difference or are girls being missed out in terms of diagnosis?
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Clean living really does lead to better health according to multiple studies on the effects of tidiness on both physical and mental well-being.
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A new technique, where the Vagus nerve is stimulated, has been found to be effective for treating certain types of depression. This follows trials involving adult patients.
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Is it possible to diagnose depression before it takes a grip? Two research groups think so and they have devised a new brain imaging system, aimed at children.
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A new study demonstrates how antidepressants administered to people suffering with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder led to continuing depression and mood cycling.
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Rome -
The Kim Davis fiasco has brought the anti-gay marriage camp back into the spotlight recently, even to the point of dragging two GOP candidates into the fracas. But what does this homophobic attitude tell us about these people?
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A new review of drugs policy has found that people with learning difficulties have been over-prescribed medications. This includes psychiatric drugs without any recorded diagnosis.
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London -
Tobacco smoking may play a direct role in triggering the symptoms of schizophrenia, a new medical research paper suggests.
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Seville -
Scientists in Europe have presented a study linking together depression and the likelihood that an individual will suffer heart failure.
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Coventry -
Bullying of school children by other children carries long-term effects and, in many cases, it can lead to mental health problems. These health effects can remain with the children into adulthood. This is according to a new U.S. / U.K. study.
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Toronto -
The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) has had its mandate renewed by the Federal Government. The organization has outlined its plans for the future.
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Baltimore -
Despite the fact that psychedelic substances are classified as illegal in many countries, a large new study has found that lifetime use of them is associated with lower levels of psychological distress and suicidal tendencies.
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Edinburgh -
What is normal? I’m not sure but if there is such a thing then I have to imagine that anyone who doesn’t fall into that category is unique and that is much better than being normal.
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Toronto -
This week delegates from across Canada gathered in Mississauga, Ontario to share perspectives, learn from best practices and develop strategies to improve psychological health and safety in police organizations.
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As the stigma of mental health is being lifted, books like 'The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times' by Barbara Taylor are important to understand how the fairly recent past treatment of the mentally ill has shaped our thinking.
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Columbia -
In the first national study of its kind, researchers have found that the heavy burden of student loans is causing serious mental health issues in America's young adult population.
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Toronto -
“When I add up the balance sheet of my life,” says Juliana (Tamsin Kelsey), a seemingly confident neurologist, in “The Other Place”, “the numbers say I'm happy.” But things are never as they look in this fresh depiction of mental illness.
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A Reason is an independent film written and directed by Dominique Schilling and produced by Caroline Risberg (Risberg Schilling Productions).
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Psychologists and web designers have got together to produce an online tool that allows people to evaluate their own mental health. The new concept is called Lantern.
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Toronto -
The first and largest mental health film festival in the world, Rendezvous with Madness (RWM), returns to the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto from November 10th to 15th, 2014 for its 22nd edition.
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Only 1.4 percent of the UK's public health budgets are spent on mental health, according to a recent report by mental health charity Mind.
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Researchers have shown how a muscle gene associated with the metabolite kynurenine, which can cross the blood-brain barrier, relieves symptoms of depression in exercising mice.
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Three independent genetic studies suggests that schizophrenia is a group of heritable disorders associated with distinct clinical syndromes.
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If you had an incurable neurological disorder, would you want to know? This global study found that three out of four respondents said “yes”, even if there was no cure.
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In celebration of this year’s International Youth Day observed on Tuesday, August 12, mental health was rightfully placed at the forefront of discussions.
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The number of known genetic variants linked with schizophrenia has more than tripled, following a massive genome-wide association study.
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Cloth embroidered by a schizophrenia sufferer cometstarmoon
Not Myself Today-wall of moods at Toronto's Dundas Square Shane Mullins/Newz4u.net
Not Myself Today-wall of moods at Toronto's Dundas Square
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Not Myself Today-wall of moods at Toronto's Dundas Square Shane Mullins/Newz4u.net
Cover of book, "Henry's Demons"
Walk of Hope 2010 Toronto - Schizophrenia Society of Ontario Fundraiser
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People with mental and psychosocial disabilities are among the most marginalized groups in developing countries. Even though development actors have pledged to focus their work on the most vulnerable in a community, many programmes continue to ignore and exclude this vulnerable group. WHO
Jeff Moat, President of Partners for Mental Health Shane Mullins/Newz4u.net
Not Myself Today-wall of moods at Toronto's Dundas Square Shane Mullins/Newz4u.net
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A walk on a path by the lagoon can soothe the mind and relieve stress.
Not Myself Today-wall of moods at Toronto's Dundas Square Shane Mullins/Newz4u.net
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