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Earn your CE or CME credits at the Anxiety and Depression Conference. Here, you can receive up to 27.5 CE or CME credits focusing on anxiety disorders, depression and related disorders in children and adults.
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- American Psychological Association
- National Association of Social Workers
- National Board of Certified Counselors
- New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work
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You can participate in a study to assess the feasibility of practicing online yoga
Roberta Tovey, Ph.D., Director of Communications, MoodNetwork
Interest has been growing in yoga as an alternative treatment for both anxiety and mood disorders. Although many existing studies on this subject are small and poorly designed, a few randomized control trials in recent years indicate that yoga can help reduce stress and may alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression. Yoga seems to be most beneficial to those with anxiety or mild to moderate depression. Preliminary research suggests that for some people with anxiety, yoga may even be more effective than medication.
Yoga appears to work by reducing stress hormones in the brain, not unlike meditation, mindfulness, exercise, and other self-soothing techniques. It also reduces heart rate and blood pressure and slows breathing. Any kind of yoga practice can be effective, from hatha yoga, which focuses on individual poses, breathing, and meditation, to vinyasa yoga, a more movement-oriented practice where poses flow into one another.
MoodNetwork, an online research study for people with mood disorders in collaboration with doctors and researchers, has recently launched a study to assess the feasibility of practicing online yoga. Volunteers participate in a 30-minute hatha yoga class via online video, and then share their feedback about the experience. Launched by MoodNetwork's director of operations, Louisa Sylvia, PD, with researchers at Brown University, the study may open the door to an effective therapy for people who lack the motivation to go to a class, do not have access to yoga in their communities, cannot leave their homes for physical reasons or cannot afford regular yoga classes. The study is designed for people with all levels of yoga experience, as well as those who have never practiced yoga.
To join the study or to learn more about MoodNetwork, please go to moodnetwork.org.
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National Institute of Mental Health
Three types of symptoms emerged as powerful predictors of whether a youth with one parent with bipolar disorder will go on to develop the disorder, according to a study of 391 at-risk youth. The findings offer a much more specific roadmap than previously available for assessing risk of bipolar disorder early in at-risk youth, and one that is based on symptoms, not traditional psychiatric diagnoses.
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Healio
In women without a history of CAD, those who had anxiety were more likely to exhibit ischemia on a single-photon emission CT exercise stress test than those who did not, according to new findings. The same was not true for men or for mood disorders. Researchers performed SPECT exercise stress testing on 2,342 participants to determine the presence of ischemia.
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Antidepressants are frequently initiated in persons with Alzheimer's disease already before the diagnosis, shows a study published in International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. Among persons with Alzheimer's disease, the initiation of antidepressant use was most common during the six months after the Alzheimer's diagnosis, and more frequent than among comparison persons without Alzheimer's disease even four years after the diagnosis.
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Psych Central
A large majority of women with breast cancer develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder within the first few months after diagnosis, according to a new study led by German researchers. The findings reveal that receiving a breast cancer diagnosis often has a stronger psychological impact than experiencing other types of severe trauma, such as a serious accident or a violent assault.
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Kaiser Health News
Often referred to as the "common cold of mental health," depression causes about 8 million doctors' appointments a year. More than half are with primary care physicians. A new study suggests those doctors may not be the best to treat the condition due to insurance issues, time constraints and other factors. The paper, published in the March issue of Health Affairs, examines how primary care doctors treat depression.
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The Washington Post
Struggling with clinical depression can be especially challenging for people who don't have strong support from loved ones. But having that kind of social support may end up discouraging some men from seeking out professional help, according to a study published this month in the journal General Hospital Psychiatry. That's a dynamic that doesn't appear to play out for depressed women, the study found.
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Newsweek
Some degree of stress is a fact of life, but not all stress is created equal. Following a traumatic event, nearly 7 percent of Americans will have nightmares, physical pain, inability to concentrate and worse. Their debilitating stress is categorized as post-traumatic stress disorder. Chinese researchers studied survivors of one of the most stressful encounters on Earth: a devastating earthquake.
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Psychiatry Advisor
Patients diagnosed with traumatic brain injury have an increased risk of depression if they have high lipid levels, particularly if their hyperlipidemia is not controlled with statins, according to research published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Using data from a national health insurance database from January 2001 to December 2008, the researchers followed 3,792 patients diagnosed with TBI but with no history of depression.
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Medcape
A common neuropsychological test may help predict which older patients with treatment-resistant depression will respond favorably to the addition of aripiprazole, a new study shows. The study was published online March 9 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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Psychiatry Advisor
New research suggests people suffering from anxiety perceive the world in a fundamentally different way than others. Investigators believe this finding may help to explain why certain people are more prone to anxiety. The new study, published in the journal Current Biology, shows that people diagnosed with anxiety are less able to distinguish between a neutral, "safe" stimulus.
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Psych Central
A provoking new research study builds upon the knowledge that children with asthma are at higher risk for depression, and that a parent or caregiver's depression is linked to worsening symptoms in an asthmatic child. The study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, explores this connection further to determine whether treating a depressed caregiver will improve the child's asthma.
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HealthDay News via Psychiatry Advisor
A considerable proportion of patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation meet the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression at six months after the procedure, according to a study published in the March 1 issue of Cancer.
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