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2017 San Francisco Poster Sessions Announced
View Session I and Session II poster abstracts in the online program and bookmark which poster you are most interested in viewing. (Coming Soon: E-Posters)
Interested in attending sessions on PTSD and Trauma? Below is a sampling, offered with more than 170 sessions on anxiety, depression, and related disorders in children and adults Thursday, April 6 through Sunday, April 9.
Reminder: Special group registration rates are available only until Feb. 1.
Learn more about the conference and register today.
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Through the ADAA Clinical Fellows program, clinicians participate in unique professional education activities, demonstrating their commitment to lifelong learning and providing quality patient care. More information, including benefits and requirements, can be found here.
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ADAA is now accepting nominations for the Member of Distinction Award and the Jerilyn Ross Clinician Advocate Award. Both awards will be presented at the 2017 Annual Conference. Nomination deadline is Feb. 28. Learn more about each award, criteria eligibility and the nomination process.
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Are you an ADAA member who has recently been cited or featured in a news article? Please let us know and we can share the media item in Insights, on the ADAA Member in the News website page and through our social media platforms.
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 ADAA is delighted to share member blog posts on various innovative and current research and practice issues. We encourage our members and the broader professional community to read and share these informative posts with colleagues. ADAA invites members interested in submitting a blog post to contact us. Blog posts need to be titled, no more than 500 words in length, and accompanied by a head shot and a two- to three-sentence biography. Blog posts will be shared here, on ADAA's social media platforms and on ADAA's professional blog post website page. ADAA members are also encouraged to submit blog posts (the same submission criteria applies) that are consumer focused. These will be posted on the consumer blog post page of the ADAA website and shared via social media and through Triumph, our monthly consumer email newsletter.
 New Member Consumer Blog Post
Using Humor in Treating Children's Phobias
by Karen Levine, PhD
January 2017
Humor is a useful tool that can be readily used together with gradual exposure/ CBT in treating children's phobias. Read the full post here.
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 - 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
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 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.
We invite you to read these early review articles:
Stressful life events and catechol-O-methyl-transferase (COMT) gene in bipolar disorder
Georgina M. Hosang, Helen L. Fisher, Sarah Cohen-Woods, Peter McGuffin and Anne E. Farmer
Version of Record online: 19 JAN 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22606
Beliefs about the causes of depression and recovery and their impact on adherence, dosage, and successful tapering of antidepressants
Nicola S. Klein, Gerard D. van Rijsbergen, Mascha C. ten Doesschate, Steven D. Hollon, Huibert Burger and Claudi L. H. Bockting
Version of Record online: 19 JAN 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22598
The risk factors for postpartum depression: A population-based study
Michael E. Silverman, Abraham Reichenberg, David A. Savitz, Sven Cnattingius, Paul Lichtenstein, Christina M. Hultman, Henrik Larsson and Sven Sandin
Version of Record online: 18 JAN 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22597
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UPI
Researchers have conducted a first-of-its-kind study of the effects of anxiety on postmenopausal women and how it relates to their quality of life. Researchers reviewed data from a study of 3,503 postmenopausal Latin American women and found that women who reported experiencing anxiety were five times more likely to have severe physical symptoms including hot flashes, sleep disruption and muscle and joint pain.
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Care for Your Mind
This is a wildly exciting time for cancer research. Work on new drugs is barreling ahead. Thanks to years of hard work, scientists are starting to understand the biology of cancer better than ever. This knowledge is helping them develop personalized treatments that can potentially save millions of lives. So why aren't we seeing the same kind of innovation for one of the other epidemics facing our nation: depression?
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Science Daily
A volume decrease in specific parts of the brain's hippocampus — long identified as a hub of mood and memory processing — was linked to bipolar disorder in a study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The research was published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
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Psych Central
Researchers have discovered that modafinil, a drug used to treat narcolepsy or excessive daytime sleepiness, can improve memory in patients recovering from depression. Investigators studied 60 patients between 18 and 65 with remitted depression completed computerized memory, attention, and planning tasks after receiving modafinil or a placebo.
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Psychiatry Advisor
There are clear disadvantages to prescribing higher rather than lower doses of selected second-generation antipsychotics, a study published in Journal of Psychiatric Research concluded. Researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to test the differences in clinical harms and benefits for low vs. high doses of SGAs in acute treatment of bipolar depression.
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Live Science
For people with insomnia, help falling asleep may soon be available online: A recent clinical trial found that a web-based course of treatment for insomnia was effective at helping people get more sleep. Compared with people in the study who received no therapy, those who participated in the online treatment group fell asleep faster, woke up fewer times during the night and reported less severe insomnia after completing the treatment.
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Healio
Eight 12-minute sessions of gaze-contingent music reward therapy improved social anxiety disorder severity, according to recent findings. To assess efficacy of gaze-contingent music reward therapy designed to reduce attention dwelling on threats in social anxiety disorder, researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial among 40 individuals with social anxiety disorder.
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Science Daily
A novel mechanism has been identified for how stress-induced anxiety — which can produce post-traumatic stress disorder — affects circuit function in the hippocampus. These studies fill an important gap in knowledge between the molecular, circuit and behavioral effects of the brain-signaling molecule called neuropeptide Y, and could lead to new therapeutic targets for patients with anxiety disorders.
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Psych Central
Emerging research suggests mental disorders that often occur in association with pregnancy affect a different area of the brain than traditional mood disorders. Neuropsychologists used fMRIs to study brain activity during postpartum depression and anxiety and discovered the distinct patterns.
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HealthDay News
Anxiety and depression may increase the risk of death from certain cancers, early research suggests. After analyzing studies involving thousands of patients in Great Britain, researchers found that people with greater levels of psychological distress had higher death rates for colon, esophageal, pancreatic and prostate cancers and leukemia. The study was published Jan. 25 in the BMJ.
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TIME
Three years after a highly publicized suicide attempt at the age of 15, Paris Jackson has opened up about the mental health issues that led to her trying to take her own life. During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the 18-year-old daughter of Michael Jackson revealed that the public incident was just one of "multiple" attempts that were brought on by depression, anxiety and drug abuse.
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SheKnows
Stress in the workplace or home can contribute to high levels of anxiety and create habits, sometimes physical, that are difficult to undo. In the United States, 18.1 percent of adults suffer from an anxiety disorder according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Furthermore, many patients are misdiagnosed or undetected which brings the number somewhere closer to to 30 percent.
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