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Eric A. Storch Live Webinar — CBT for Children and Adolescents With OCD: Incorporating Parents in Treatment and Managing Complex Symptoms
Noon ET | Wednesday, Oct. 5 | 1 APA CE
This webinar will discuss cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with a particular focus on involving family members, including managing comorbid presentations, poor insight and motivation and other complex symptoms.
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Every morning, Mia and Chris tape a red or a green piece of paper to their front door. It's a signal for their son's bus driver. Green, pick him up. Red, keep driving. On this morning, at 6, it's not looking good. Mia and Chris climb the stairs and gently try to wake Jared, their 16-year-old. They've brought him breakfast and his medication: "You don't want to get up?" Mia asks Jared.
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Depression and Anxiety
Obstructive sleep apnea is frequently comorbid with late-life depression. The purpose of this project was to determine, using a sample of older adults with major depressive disorder, whether patient-reported diagnosis of OSA was associated with rate of response to venlafaxine.
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HealthDay News
Depression can often follow a traumatic brain injury, but new research suggests the antidepressant Zoloft might help prevent this from happening. One expert said prior studies have produced similar findings. The study was published online Sept. 14 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
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HealthDay News
Almost 10 million U.S. adults seriously thought about committing suicide last year, federal health officials report. Rates of suicide are at historically high levels, having jumped 27 percent since 2000, according to a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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Science Daily
A study has found that EPO (erythropoietin) — best known as a performance-enhancing drug in sports — may improve cognitive functioning in patients suffering from bipolar disorder or depression. This raises hope for the first long-term treatment for this problem, which affects hundreds of millions of patients throughout the world.
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Psych Central
New research discovers a drug prescribed to many patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder may decrease negative symptoms for people with a certain gene variant. Investigators have discovered valproate, a medication used to stabilize moods, is effective for treating negative symptoms in patients with two copies of the "Val" variant of the COMT gene.
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Science Daily
After years of studying the effects of near-infrared light on veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injuries, a team led by a University of Texas at Arlington bioengineer has published groundbreaking research in the journal Scientific Reports that could result in an effective, long-term treatment for brain disorders.
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HealthDay News
Negative experiences on Facebook can increase the odds of depression in young people, a new study found. "It's important that people take interactions on social media seriously and don't think of it as somehow less impactful because it's a virtual experience as opposed to an in-person experience," said study author Samantha Rosenthal. The study was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
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Psych Central
New research identifies that postpartum psychosis, a serious disorder, often goes undiagnosed and untreated among women with bipolar disorder. Researchers have discovered the gap in coverage from a review of literature on the rare and under-researched disorder. Postpartum psychosis almost always stems from bipolar disorder but is often missed because of its rarity and lack of research on the subject, they said.
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Medical News Today
Previous studies have largely assumed that the prevalence of mental disorders declines with old age. The results of a new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry revel that considering the previous year retrospectively, approximately one-third of the respondents in the age group between 65 and 85 had suffered from a mental disorder, and roughly one quarter were mentally ill at the time of the interviews.
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Psychiatry Advisor
A newly developed self-report scale to assess the severity of patients' social anxiety demonstrated "high internal consistency, convergent validity and discriminant validity in U.S. patients," a recent study found. Among the changes included in the DSM-5 were new guidelines for assessing the severity of disorders within various categories, including anxiety disorders.
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Medical Xpress
A recent national survey of 1,484 U.S. military veterans shows that post-traumatic stress disorder remains a major health problem, even for service members who have never seen combat. More than 85 percent of veterans reported exposure to a wide range of traumas, the most common of which were sudden death of a family member or friend, seeing somebody get badly hurt or killed, and experiencing a natural disaster.
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