An article by Thomas J. Spencer, M.D, on a new study in the March 2006 issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP), the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), shows how brain imaging is used to identify a form of methylphenidate, a stimulant drug used to treat patients with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder [...]
Today the American Psychiatric Association (APA) welcomed a first-of-its-kind study of returning soldiers’ mental health. The U.S. Army-funded study, “Mental Health Problems, Use of Mental Health Services, and Attrition from Military Service after Returning from Deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan,” was published in the March 1 edition of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) [...]
Out of every three US soldiers who returns from active duty in Iraq, one needs mental health treatment, this is according to a report published in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). The number of cases of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among soldiers returning from Iraq is much higher than those who came [...]
Determining how the brain develops and functions is one of the greatest questions facing scientists today. A researcher in the newly formed section of ophthalmology and neuroscience has been awarded a four year Wellcome Trust career development fellowship worth over half a million pounds to study a congenital brain disease and shed light on one [...]
Repeating mantrams can help control the symptoms post-traumatic stress disorder, have a calming effect in traffic and even ease the boredom of exercise, according to a study in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing. 83 per cent of veterans and hospital staff surveyed after a five-week mantram course told researchers from the US Department of [...]
An article in the March 10, 2006 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons shows that since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the alarming increase in reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders (NDs) in children not only stopped, but actually dropped sharply – by as much as 35%. Using the [...]
New guidance will help re-integration and provide a safe environment for rehabilitation A new drive to help people with mental health problems get back on their feet and back into work was launched today by Health Minister Rosie Winterton. She published four sets of new guidance for commissioners of services designed to better re-integrate people [...]
No matter their socioeconomic status, people are more likely to obtain treatment for addiction if they perceive major consequences from their illness, according to a study involving UAB researchers and published in the March 2006 issue of Medical Care. Over a two-year period they studied 274 housed and homeless poor in the Boston area addicted [...]
Despite the formula being recommended in public health guidelines set out by the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, the new study, published online in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, found there was no benefit in using hypoallergenic (partially hydrolysed whey) formula to prevent allergies in high-risk infants up to seven years [...]
In a surprising finding, patients with coronary artery disease who take commonly used antidepressant drugs may be at significantly higher risk of death, Duke University Medical Center researchers have found. Even after controlling for such factors as age, degree of heart disease and severity of depression, the researchers found that heart patients taking antidepressant medications [...]