Mental Health Weekly Digest
Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . February 13th, 2006
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Addiction Medicine - Genetics play role in relapse of drug-seeking behavior
Breast Cancer - Unsatisfactory coping and defending mechanisms linked to risk of breast cancer
Depression - Distress, fear during acute coronary syndromes may trigger depression, poorer outcome
Mental Health - Orbitofrontal cortex volume linked to behavioral and neuropsychological dysfunction
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - SSRIs are most effective first-line treatment for PTSD
Addiction Medicine - Cash for sterilization program for drug and alcohol addicts increases paid incentives to $300
Addiction Medicine - Marijuana use associated with mental health risks in adolescents
Addiction Medicine - Most patients with cocaine use-associated enterocolitis recover, some develop peritonitis
Addiction Medicine - Parental alcoholism linked to substance abuse in young adults
Addiction Medicine - Review examines future advances in addiction treatment
Alcohol Abuse - Study suggests serotonin role in discriminative stimulus effects of ethanol
Alzheimer Disease - Alzheimer disease requires culturally attuned recruitment, retention, and adherence practices
Anesthesia - Cognitive tests can be performed during assured hemianesthesia of the affected hemisphere
Antioxidants - Novel brain-targeted antioxidant attenuates haloperidol-induced abnormal movement in rats
Anxiety - Deramciclane is safe and effective for adult generalized anxiety disorder
Asthma - Citalopram reduces asthma and depression symptoms
Autism - Major funding commitment announced for unprecedented U.S. national autism database
Behavioral Medicine - Increasing behaviors that compete with eating did not change individuals' weight
Behavioral Science - University study of owls finds link in brain between sight and sound
Breast Cancer - Dependable social relationships predicted survival in breast carcinoma patients
Breast Cancer - Study examines participation in online support groups for breast cancer patients
Cancer Risk Factors - Inconclusive BRCA1/2 testing results create anxiety in women about cancer risk
Cancer Survivors - Psychosocial problems faced by adult cancer survivors analyzed
Clinical Trials - Cocaine vaccine prevents cocaine from getting out of the blood stream
Cognitive Science - 5-HT6 receptors offer a novel target for cognitive enhancement
Collaborations - Drugmaker's partnership with Orit Laboratories to focus on anxiety drug
Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Fish-oil supplements may reduce anger in substance abusers
Dementia - Dementia patients less likely to take medication that impairs cognition
Depression - Program offers year-long wellness program for depression sufferers in Australia
Depression Therapy - Serotonergic and noradrenergic may be effective in reducing aggression
Drug Development - U.S. FDA clarifies status of Yaz PMDD application for premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Eating Disorders - Emotional eating haunts millions of Americans, according to eating disorders facility
Eating Disorders - Narrative therapy can enhance treatment of anorexia
Electroconvulsive Therapy - Electroconvulsive seizures prompt angiogenic growth in the rat hippocampus
Finance - Drugmaker reports Q3 diluted earnings per share of $0.57, down 19%
Fitness & Wellness - Family environment affects children's television viewing time and physical activity levels
Fitness & Wellness - Short-term exercise accelerates wound healing among healthy older adults
HIV/AIDS Behavioral Medicine - African American homeless men with mental illness have high lifetime occurrence of IDU use
HIV/AIDS Behavioral Medicine - Unstable housing environments associated with increased risk of HIV infection
HIV/AIDS Neurocognition - HIV/AIDS related to deficient encoding and retrieval control in verbal episodic memory
HIV/AIDS Prison Health - HIV/AIDS knowledge lacking among prison and offender populations
Hepatitis C Virus - Adiponectin role in chronic hepatitis C virus infection may be linked to gender
Legal Issues - Companies settle pending litigation concerning mixed amphetamine salts compound for ADHD
Leukemia - Coping linked to survival in leukemia patients with bone marrow transplants
Liver Fibrosis - Hepatic stellate cells, with the adipogenic phenotype, have plasticity
Marketing - First European launch of treatment for schizophrenia occurs in Estonia
Mental Health - Can mental health treatment diversion reduce crime among youth?
Mental Health - Pay cuts lead to insomnia in nurses
Mental Health - Researchers provide details of new studies and findings in the area of mental health
Mental Health - Slower reaction times linked to higher death risk, even in young adults
Myocardial Infarction - Effect of anxiety on the course of cardiac events after heart attack studied
Obesity Behavioral Medicine - A behavioral weight loss program with a stepped-care approach may improve patient outcome
Obesity Epidemiology - Parents' dietary and physical activity behaviors may impact child's long-term obesity risk
Obesity Pathogenesis - A lack of CCK-1 receptors leads to increased weight gain as early as 2-4 postnatal days
Obesity Therapy - Daily self-weighing is valuable to subjects trying to lose weight or prevent weight gain
Obesity Therapy - Obese patients with realistic expectations are more likely to sustain weight loss programs
Obstetrics - Anxious fathers make cesarean delivery procedure more painful for mothers
Personnel - Joseph DeVeaugh-Geiss named interim chief medical officer of biopharmaceutical company
Pharmacogenetics - Pivotal phase III trial begins for novel antidepressant
Suicide - Study finds multiple clinical factors distinguish suicide attempters from non-attempters
Type 1 Diabetes - Pharma company signs 3-year alliance agreement for diabetes research with Merck KGaA
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