Mental Health Weekly Digest
Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . March 7th, 2005
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At-Risk Populations - Sensation seeking and alcohol studied as factors in sexual risk behaviors
Behavior - Researchers track program's success in curbing aggressive behavior
Drug Abuse - Dialogue, personal example work best for parents in drug talks with teens
Schizophrenia - Impulsivity in men with schizophrenia linked to inferior frontal white matter
Stress - Rat brain's executive hub quells alarm center if stress is controllable
Alzheimer Disease - Phenserine fails to achieve significant efficacy in phase III trial
At-Risk Populations - Marital strain increases women's risk of death, heart disease
At-Risk Populations - Unemployed women at higher risk for cardiovascular disease
Bacteriology - Expression of plasminogen activator achieved by inducing stress responses
Behavior - Internet dating much more successful than thought
Behavioral Medicine - Cigna HealthCare to expand disease management offerings
Blood Donation - Rights of blood recipients should supersede any asserted rights of blood donors
Business Update - Company receives U.S. FDA real-time review approval for VNS Therapy Version 7.0
Business Update - Model for Bio-Healthcare Park unveiled at ceremony for Pharmaplaz in Ireland
Cardiac Devices - Telephone intervention by expert nurses effective for ICD patients
Childhood Obesity - Body mass reduction program improves body composition in pubertal obese children
Childhood Obesity - Psychosocial features of obese children aid choice of therapy
Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Psychoactive effects of guarana and ginseng evaluated
Depression - Study finds depressed women more anxious, self-conscious
Diet and Nutrition - Stress affects nutritional state in children
Disease Associations - Alpha-synuclein studied, influence of C-terminal domain on aggregation revealed
Disease Associations - Huntingtin interacting protein-1 related gene variants link to bipolar disorder
Eating Disorders - Effects on newborns of maternal eating disorders during pregnancy studied
Eating Disorders - Seeing realistic female images helps protect women against eating disorders
Gender and Disease - Husbands' household authority in rural Guatemala analyzed
HIV/AIDS Prevention - School-based intervention for HIV/AIDS prevention has positive impact
Memory - Water maze learning in hyperglycemic-hyperinsulinemic rats studied
Mental Health - Book outlines way to halt the progression of mental illness
Mental Health - Broward hospital disciplined for treatment of Baker Act patients
Mental Health - Critics decry Iowa plan to gather mental health data
Mental Health - Detailed measurements clarify the genomic etiology of bipolar disorder
Mental Health - Hyperactive cannabinoid systems may be involved in schizophrenia etiology
Mental Health - New regulatory mechanism discovered that inhibits HDAC activities in disease
Mental Health - Stress-induced expression of MC4R gene in the amygdala and hypothalamus
Mental Health - Test created to measure efficiency of attention networks
Mental Health - Work on North Carolina psychiatric hospital plan running behind
Neuroscience - Brain synapse formation linked to proteins
Neuroscience - Eating afterbirth relieves postpartum pain, promotes mammals' maternal behavior
Neuroscience - Oxidative stress level is linked to neurodegenerative diseases
Neuroscience - Vasopressin and dopamine production modulate male social behavior
Obstetrics - Maternal drinking of alcohol during pregnancy poses health risks to fetus
Obstetrics - Teratology in cultural documents and today reviewed
Personnel - Alzheimer-focused pharmaceutical company announces key executive promotions
Personnel - Mental health chief switches jobs amid effort to close hospital
Philanthropy - Grant awarded to help women's center expand mental health services
Product Licensing - Fujisawa obtains the worldwide rights to antipsychotic agent
Psychology - "Decision" to fall in love takes 3 minutes or less
Psychology - Guilt- and shame-proneness to grief studied after perinatal bereavement
Psychopharmacology - Ketoconazole synergizes with allopregnanolone treatments in rat study
Research Methodology - Concept of vulnerability in disaster reexamined
Schizophrenia - Neural circuitry abnormalities linked to schizophrenia
Stress - High trait anxiety may be associated with inadequate hormone release
Stroke - Beneficial effect of moderate alcohol use may be extended to mental disorders
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