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ADAA
 Susan Gurley, who joined ADAA as Interim Executive Director in 2015, will stay on as our Executive Director. Her leadership experience in health and access-to-justice nonprofit associations, higher education administration and international development is a great asset to our mission. Welcome, Susan!
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ADAA
Join ADAA in two weeks for its first Twitter Chat, How to Worry Less at 1 p.m. ET on Monday, Aug. 1. Experts David Carbonell, Ph.D., and Debra Kissen, Ph.D., MHSA, will be available to answer your questions. Follow our Twitter page @Got_Anxiety and help us spread the word.
ADAA
Submit your sessions and abstracts by Aug. 15 for the Anxiety and Depression Conference 2017 in San Francisco.
Submission Deadlines
Workshops, Roundtables, Symposia, Ignite Symposia — June 9 - Aug. 15
New Research Poster Sessions — June 22 - Nov. 1
American Psychological Foundation
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) is now accepting proposals for the 2016 David H. and Beverly A. Barlow Grant, which seeks to support innovative basic and clinical research on anxiety and anxiety related disorders. The deadline for applications is Sept. 15.
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Psych Central
Although "Pokemon Go" is still fairly new, many players have already taken to Twitter and other social media to share how the app has helped their mental health, mood, social anxiety and depression. We already know that exercise helps greatly with depression (along with virtually every other mental health problem), but being motivated to exercise when you're depressed is a challenge. That's why an engaging game like "Pokemon Go" can be helpful.
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MedPage Today
Severe diabetic retinopathy was linked to depression, and its presence should prompt clinicians to inquire about a patient's mental health, according to a study in JAMA Ophthalmology. After controlling for sociodemographic factors and clinical characteristics, including visual acuity, severe DR was independently associated with greater depressive symptoms, the research team reported.
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Psychiatry Advisor
Neuroscience and neuroimaging have revealed much to provide evidence that depression is a biological disease. Indeed, depression is not just one thing, despite the efforts of mainstream psychiatry to classify it into a single illness category. Neuroimaging studies have shown several neurophysiological substrates for depression.
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HealthDay News via Physician's Briefing
For patients with diabetes, the presence of depression is associated with increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease, according to a study published online June 16 in Diabetes Care. Researchers examined the correlation between depression and incident CKD, mortality and incident cardiovascular events in U.S. veterans with diabetes.
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HealthDay News
In just one year, almost 3 million U.S. teens suffered a major bout of depression, a new government report shows. The overall rate of depression among young people jumped to 11 percent between 2013 and 2014, up from 9.9 percent the previous year, according to the report published July 7 by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
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Psych Central
For the first time, scientists have shown that genes in the brain's striatum could be deeply involved in bipolar disorder, according to a new study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Until now, most research on bipolar disorder has focused on the cortex, the largest part of the brain in humans and the area associated with higher-level thought and action.
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The New York Times
They are among war's invisible wounds: the emotional and cognitive problems that many troops experience years after combat explosions sent huge shock waves through their brains. Whereas the link between concussions and post-traumatic stress disorder has become clearer in recent years, a specific connection between PTSD and blast waves has remained elusive.
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Medical Xpress
Treatments for social anxiety disorder often include either selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or cognitive behavioural therapy, but new research from Uppsala University indicates that social anxiety disorder is best treated with the combination of SSRI and CBT, which also improves emotion processing in the brain.
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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Researchers at Northwestern Medicine say they have manipulated a novel target in the brain using gene therapy that could lead to new treatments for depression. The investigators showed decreasing hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channel proteins reduced depression-like behavior in mice.
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The Associated Press via NBC News
On average, 20 veterans a day committed suicide in 2014, a slight decrease from the previous government estimate, but federal health officials are cautious about concluding the suicide problem is getting better. Rather, they say the Department of Veterans Affairs is relying on a more comprehensive database than ever before, making comparisons to prior studies difficult and possibly offering a truer snapshot than what was captured in the past.
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Reuters
Untrained people helping at the scene of terror attacks are much more likely than trained responders to later develop post-traumatic stress, a Norwegian study finds. In July 2011, Norway suffered two terror attacks in which 77 people died and many more were injured. In the first attack, a car bomb in the capital killed eight people and in the second, a shooter killed 69 teens and young adults at a youth camp.
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