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ADAA Announces Awards for Early Career Professionals and Students
Application Deadline: Dec. 1
Promoting careers and professional development is a central focus of ADAA. Since its inception in 1998, the ADAA awards program has granted more than one million dollars to 345 aspiring professionals, providing
- access to a professional home
- unique pairings with senior mentors from our membership
- participation at the annual conference
Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program is an intensive mentoring and professional development opportunity for early career clinicians and researchers.
Donald F. Klein Early Career Investigator Award goes to an early career investigator for the best original research paper on neurobiology, psychopharmacology, psychosocial treatments or experimental psychopathology of anxiety disorders and depression.
Early career clinicians and researchers and students who are interested in becoming active and a leader in ADAA are encouraged to apply.
ADAA
Tuesdays With Mary brings you ADAA's professional education opportunities.
ADAA Online Peer Consultation — Learn from your colleagues
"I'm very grateful for all of the feedback and how much I learn just from listening to others." Nina F. Rifkind, LCSW, ACS
ADAA special interest groups (SIGs) now offer monthly online peer consultation groups. They provide a supportive and confidential environment for clinicians to discuss cases and offer guidance to one another. What's your special interest? Join a group dedicated to child and adolescent anxiety, OCD and related disorders, selective mutism or social anxiety.
Peer consultation is an exclusive ADAA member benefit offered at no cost.
 "This group is an invaluable benefit of ADAA membership!" Jennifer Lish, PhD
Mary Gies, MSW, is the ADAA Program Director. Please email suggestions for new offerings based on your professional needs.
Check out our upcoming webinars.
The Wall Street Journal
Women often internalize depression — focusing on the emotional symptoms, such as worthlessness or self-blame, experts say. Men externalize it, concentrating on the physical ones. Men typically don't get weepy or say they feel sad. They feel numb and complain of insomnia, stress or loss of energy. Often, they become irritable and angry. The larger problem is that men have been conditioned not to talk about their feelings.
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Woman's Day
About one out of five women in America will experience depression in her lifetime, twice the number of men. Some are depressed throughout the course of their lives; others become depressed following a big change. Over the past decade, people have increasingly treated depression with medication: Starting in 1994, the number of antidepressant prescriptions written by doctors went up 400 percent over a 10-year period.
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Bustle
Living with anxiety, and more specifically living with obsessive compulsive disorder, is living in a private sort of hell. In my early twenties, OCD manifested as a lot of hand washing and turning knobs on doors a certain number of times. It also manifested in the form of obsessive thoughts, mostly bent toward the unsavory, that would arrive, for example, in the middle of a dinner party.
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Depression and Anxiety
Complex emotional, cognitive and self-reflective functions rely on the activation and connectivity of large-scale neural circuits. These circuits offer a relevant scale of focus for conceptualizing a taxonomy for depression and anxiety based on specific profiles (or biotypes) of neural circuit dysfunction. Here, the theoretical review first outlines the current consensus as to what constitutes the organization of large-scale circuits in the human brain identified using parcellation and meta-analysis.
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HealthDay News
For some teens with bipolar disorder, the risk that they will abuse alcohol and drugs may increase as they get older, a new study suggests. The research included 105 young people with bipolar disorder and 98 without the illness (the "control" group). Their average age was 14 when they first enrolled in the study, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
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By Dorothy L. Tengler
 Although sadness is something we all experience from time to time, depression interferes with daily life and normal functioning, causing pain not only for us but also for those who care about us. Major depressive disorder affects approximately 16 million people in the United States and 121 million people worldwide. While many patients respond to antidepressant treatment, 10 to 30 percent do not improve or only partially respond. But hope may be on the horizon.
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UPI
A hormone best known for its use as a performance-enhancing drug among athletes such as Lance Armstrong showed promise as a treatment for depression and bipolar disorder, according to a recent study. Researchers in Europe found erythropoietin, or EPO, improved cognitive performance in patients with both psychological conditions, though it did not improve quality of life.
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Live Science
Depression during and after pregnancy may be linked to gestational diabetes, a new government study found. Women in the study who reported feeling depressed early in pregnancy were more likely to develop gestational diabetes later in pregnancy compared with those who did not report depression early in pregnancy, according to the study published in the journal Diabetologia.
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Live Science
Men who experience excessive anxiety may be at increased risk of dying from cancer, a new study from Europe suggests. In the study, presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress in Vienna, the researchers analyzed information from more than 15,000 people ages 40 to 79 in the United Kingdom, who were followed for 15 years.
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Los Angeles Times
There are certainly many perks that come with a job at the top of the corporate ladder, but this is not one of them: When people with prestigious jobs fall into depression, they are less likely to benefit from treatment than their coworkers several rungs below them. In a study of 654 employed patients who sought help for depression, researchers found that those in occupations with high wages and status showed a poorer response to treatment and higher rates of treatment-resistant depression.
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U.S. Army
Preliminary results indicate that therapeutic retreats can reduce post-traumatic stress symptoms in veterans and improve relationships for both veterans and their caregivers. The results come from four-day healing retreats studied by the Institute for the Health and Security of Military Families.
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The Times of Israel
A team of researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem say what you may have known all along in your mind and in your gut: there is a connection between anxiety and binging. According to a study, the researchers have identified genes that control both factors. The discovery, they say, opens up new possibilities for detecting and treating anxiety and metabolic disorders.
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Psych Central
Pharmacological therapy for depression often includes prescribing a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or SSRI. And while there are six common SSRIs, no one knows in advance whether one or the other will be effective. Now, a group of European researchers has developed a new theory of SSRI action, and tested it in stressed mice.
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HealthDay News
People who have a brother or sister with schizophrenia are 10 times more likely to develop the mental illness, a new study out of Israel suggests. Researchers also found increased risks for bipolar disorder when a sibling had been diagnosed with it. The findings were presented recently at the annual meeting of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology in Vienna, Austria.
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The New York Times
Attention deficit disorder is the most common mental health diagnosis among children under 12 who die by suicide, a new study has found. Very few children aged 5 to 11 take their own lives, and little is known about these deaths. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, included deaths in 17 states from 2003 to 2012.
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Psych Central
Researchers from the University of Warwick Sleep and Pain Lab show in a new study that conditions like back pain, fibromyalgia and arthritis are linked with negative thoughts about insomnia and pain — and this double whammy can be effectively managed by cognitive-behavioral therapy. The researchers developed a pioneering scale to measure beliefs about sleep and pain in long-term pain patients, alongside their quality of sleep.
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