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ADAA
 ADAA is delighted announce a new exciting partnership with Anxiety UK.
Anxiety UK is a national registered charity formed in 1970 by someone living with agoraphobia for those affected by anxiety disorders. They are a user lead organization run by people with the experience of living with anxiety or anxiety-based depression, supported by a high-profile medical advisory panel.
Anxiety UK works to relieve and support those living with anxiety and anxiety-based depression by providing information, support and understanding via an extensive range of services, including 1:1 therapy. Anxiety UK works regularly with external agencies and healthcare professionals to improve services for those living with anxiety and anxiety-based depression and also campaign to raise awareness of the conditions. Anxiety UK also offers information and services to professional health care workers (GPs, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers etc.) working, or interested in the area of anxiety disorders.
ADAA believes that by working together, both Anxiety UK and ADAA have the potential to achieve far more than we could alone as partnership enhances the common mission of both organizations to help individuals and their families who are affected by anxiety and depression, as well as support the professionals who provide direct services. Through this association both organizations will benefit from an open channel of communication, sharing experiences and knowledge of best practice, while opening new avenues of mutual possibility.
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ADAA
 ADAA recently launched a free, anonymous online peer-to-peer support group individuals who struggle with anxiety and depressive disorders. We now have more than 1,000 subscribers. We invite you to share the link to the support group with your colleagues and clients to help us spread the word.
ADAA
 Depression and Anxiety, the official journal of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, is available online. ADAA members can subscribe at no charge. The journal welcomes original research and synthetic review articles covering neurobiology (genetics and neuroimaging), epidemiology, experimental psychopathology, and treatment (psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic) aspects of mood and anxiety disorders, and related phenomena in humans.
An examination of the etiologic overlap between the genetic and environmental influences on insomnia and common psychopathology
Mackenzie J. Lind, Sage E. Hawn, Christina M. Sheerin, Steven H. Aggen, Robert M. Kirkpatrick,
Kenneth S. Kendler and Ananda B. Amstadter
Version of Record online: 16 JAN 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22587
Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and cognitive function in a large cohort of middle-aged women
Jennifer A. Sumner, Kaitlin Hagan, Fran Grodstein, Andrea L. Roberts, Brian Harel and Karestan C. Koenen
Version of Record online: 10 JAN 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22600
ADAA
 Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Special Full-Day Workshop Event
Changing the Anxious Mind — Rapidly
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, April 6 (6 CE or CME)
Reid Wilson, PhD, Director, Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
www.anxieties.com • www.NoiseInYourHead.com
This full-day intensive workshop will outline and demonstrate a rapid-gain treatment model for panic disorder, social anxiety, phobias, and OCD. View more details and registration information here. Capacity is limited.
Free video screening of the "Noise In My Head" series immediately following Wilson workshop at 5:15 p.m. (open to all attendees.)
Reminder: Special group registration rates are available only until Feb. 1.
Learn more about the conference and register today.
ADAA
 ADAA is delighted to share international current research news on a variety of anxiety and depression topics. Visit the website page. Please contact us if you would like us to feature a current research paper or abstract.
ADAA posts clinical trials on our website. This is a free service for members. The non-member fee is $250 per posting. View our clinical trial page for more information.
If you are an ADAA member you can post your practice's support group on our website.
ADAA's Professional Education Committee and Multicultural SIG are focusing on offering more opportunities that address cultural diversity and the prevention and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders within marginalized communities. We invite you to listen to the podcast
Enhancing the Cultural Sensitivity of Interventions for Anxiety and Depression. Have a podcast topic you would be interested in presenting? Please contact us.
Interested in becoming more involved with your ADAA member colleagues? Why not join a Special Interest Group (SIG)? SIGs serve as a vibrant forum for ADAA members with a common interest, such as a particular disorder, treatment or population. The goal is to encourage collaboration, communication, education, research, mentoring and networking focused on anxiety and mood disorders, OCD and PTSD. Learn more here.
Have you been interviewed for a recent article/news story? Please let us know. We will share your article here in Insights and with our member community through the ADAA website and our social media platforms.
ADAA
 - Feb. 1 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
- Feb. 10 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
- Feb. 15 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
- Feb. 23 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Please note: These webinars are approved by the American Psychological Association and New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work for 1 continuing education credit/hour.
View and register for all upcoming February and March webinars.
Questions/Suggestions for topics? Please contact Mary Gies, MSW, ADAA Program Director
| | RESEARCH AND PRACTICE NEWS |
HealthDay News
Nearly one in 10 patients seeking facial plastic surgery suffers from a mental illness that distorts their perception of physical defects, but doctors often don't spot the problem, new research suggests. Researchers found that plastic surgeons correctly identified the diagnosis of body dysmorphic disorder in less than 5 percent of patients who screened positive for the disorder.
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Psych Central
Cognitive behavioral therapy has been shown to strengthen specific brain connections in people with psychosis. Now, researchers at King's College London have found that these stronger connections are associated with a long-term reduction in symptoms and recovery even eight years later.
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HealthDay News
People with severe mental illness are only slightly more likely to be screened for HIV than those in the general population, a new study finds. The study, published in the journal Psychiatric Services, included nearly 57,000 Medicaid patients in California. They were all taking medications to treat bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or major depression with psychosis.
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Reuters
Cancer patients who experience depression can use both therapy and lifestyle tools to help support their mental health, according to a new patient resource from the JAMA Oncology journal. People with cancer, as well as their doctors, need to remember that mental health is as important as physical health for these patients, the authors note.
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Psych Central
University of Montreal researchers have found a link between antidepressant use in the first three months of pregnancy and birth defects. The risk — 6 to 10 percent, versus 3 to 5 percent in women who do not take the drugs — is high enough to merit caution in their use, researchers said. The study appears in the British Medical Journal.
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Reuters
People recovering from depression but struggling with its effect on memory, concentration and cognitive function may benefit from the stimulant modafinil, according to results of a new study. Modafinil is a generic drug usually prescribed for sleep disorders such as narcolepsy.
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Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers have discovered a new avenue for antidepressant therapy, revealing new molecular information on how the brain regulates depression and anxiety. The researchers found that a protein called JNK when active, represses the generation of new neurons in the hippocampus, a part of the brain that controls emotions and learning.
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The Medical News
Smokers with depression who successfully quit smoking using stop smoking services may see an improvement in their mental health, according to new research published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Researchers studied people attending a stop smoking clinic in the Czech Republic, and found that successful quitters had a considerable improvement in their depression.
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Psych Central
New research suggests that estrogen levels play a factor in whether a woman will develop post-traumatic stress disorder. Experts believe that low estrogen levels may make women more susceptible to the development of PTSD at some points in their menstrual cycles or lifetimes. Conversely, high estrogen levels may be protective.
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Science Daily
Researchers have found that gestational diabetes raises the risk of postpartum depression in first-time mothers. This is the largest study of its kind to date, including more than 700,000 women. The results were published online in the journal Depression and Anxiety.
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Reuters
Infertile women who are depressed are less likely to proceed with fertility treatments, a small U.S. study suggests. Fertility specialists should consider screening patients for depression, the authors write, to help these patients improve their quality of life and not miss out on the chance of pregnancy. The study was published in the journal Human Reproduction.
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WebMD
Eating disorders among middle-aged women in the U.K. may be higher than previously thought, new research has concluded. The study of 5,320 women found that 3.6 percent of women in their 40s and 50s had developed an eating disorder in the previous year. Traumatic events, an unhappy childhood, parental divorce and sexual abuse in early life were found to be among the triggers.
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Psych Central
An emerging risk factor of growing older appears to be alcohol misuse as University of Georgia researchers connect multiple chronic illnesses, depression, and alcohol use in seniors. Investigators discovered older adults suffering from multiple chronic health conditions and depression are nearly five times as likely to be problem drinkers as older adults with the same conditions and no depression.
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