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 We want to hear from you! Have you recently been interviewed for an article? Have you written an article or blog post or participated in a webinar? Please send us an email so that we can share (via social media and on the ADAA website) current research and news with the ADAA member community.
ADAA member Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg was recently interviewed for LawyerswithDepression.com.
Listen to the interview "Ten Best Ever Depression Management Techniques."
ADAA
 The Thanksgiving holiday is a wonderful opportunity for all of us at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America to let you know how thankful we are for YOU — our members! We are thankful for your innovative work in advancing science and treatment for anxiety and depression disorders. Your commitment and engagement drive ADAA's promise to find new treatments and one day prevent and cure these disorders. It is only with your support that ADAA is able to help thousands of people each year access free educational resources, webinars, podcasts, blogs and more. Together, we can triumph over anxiety and depression! With our best wishes for a warm and meaningful holiday.
| | ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION CONFERENCE 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — APRIL 6-9 |
ADAA
 20th Annual Scientific Research Symposium, "At the Intersection: Mood or Anxiety Disorders and Substance Use Disorder" and the 3rd Annual Clinical Practice Symposium, "Complex Cases: PTSD, OCD, and Substance Abuse" both held during the ADAA 2017 Conference in San Franciso. Learn more and register for the conference today!
ADAA
 Mary Gies, MSW, is the ADAA Program Director. Please email suggestions for new offerings based on your professional needs.
2017 Webinars
ADAA offers Webinars for Mental Health Treatment Providers that cover a wide range of topics. Relax in the comfort of your home or office and engage with the field's top professionals.
January Webinar — Register Today!
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| | RESEARCH AND PRACTICE NEWS |
ADAA
 The moderating effects of sex on insula subdivision structure in youth with posttraumatic stress symptoms
Megan Klabunde, Carl F. Weems, Mira Raman and Victor G. Carrion
Version of Record online: 11 NOV 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22577
ADAA Scientific Council Blog Post: Focal Brain Stimulation Interventions for Depression and Anxiety
by Paul Holtzheimer, MD Read the blog post here.
The New York Times
Exercise may be an effective treatment for depression and might even help prevent us from becoming depressed in the first place, according to three timely new studies. The studies pool outcomes from past research involving more than a million men and women and, taken together, strongly suggest that regular exercise alters our bodies and brains in ways that make us resistant to despair.
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HealthDay News
Teenagers living in cohesive neighborhoods — where trusted neighbors get involved in monitoring each other's children — experience fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety, a new study suggests. The researchers also found consistent results across different cities regardless of family composition and neighborhood income, indicating strong neighborhoods help teen mental health across various populations.
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The Medical News
Several anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder and specific phobias, share a common underlying trait: increased sensitivity to uncertain threat, or fear of the unknown, report researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago. The finding could help steer treatment of these disorders away from diagnosis-based therapies to treating their common characteristics.
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The CDI 2 can be used in both educational and clinical settings to evaluate depressive symptoms in children and adolescents.
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HealthDay News
Breast cancer patients with a history of depression are less likely to receive recommended care for their disease, a new study finds. The study included more than 45,000 Danish women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer between 1998 and 2011. Of those, 13 percent had been treated with antidepressants and 2 percent had previously visited a hospital for depression.
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The Washington Post
Pessimistic people tend to think the worst will happen. "If something can go wrong for me, it will," they believe. Might this attitude have an effect on the heart? Researchers analyzed data on 2,267 adults, 52 years and older, who were questioned at the start of the study to determine where they rated on an optimism/pessimism scale.
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Science Daily
Depressive symptoms in women during and after pregnancy are associated with reduced thickness of the cortex — the outer layer of the brain responsible for complex thought and behavior — in preschool-age kids, according to a new study published in Biological Psychiatry. The findings suggest that a mother's mood may affect her child's brain development at critical stages in life.
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Psych Central
Preliminary research suggests disruptions in sleep may raise the risk of an irregular heartbeat, known as atrial fibrillation. Until now, evidence supporting a relationship between disrupted sleep and atrial fibrillation — even when there's no sleep apnea — has been mixed. In the new study, presented by researchers examined three sources of data.
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NBC News
More and more teens say they've had serious depression, researchers report But more are not being treated for it. The troubling trend suggests doctors are afraid to ask about and treat depression, which is a major cause of suicide, the researchers said. The study was published in the journal Pediatrics.
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Psych Central
Emerging research suggests nutrition plays an vital role in mental health. The finding is important because diet has always been considered a cornerstone of physical health and now, in a series of new studies, researchers show that nutrition is also strongly connect to mental health. A special section in the journal Clinical Psychological Science is devoted to showing diet's effect on mental health.
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Kaiser Health News
For Kelly Kjelstrom, plugging the gaps in mental health care can mean something as simple as a late-night taco and a friendly chat. Kjelstrom, 45, is a community paramedic in Modesto, California. Part of his job is to help psychiatric patients in need of care avoid winding up in the emergency room, where they can get "boarded" for days, until they are released or a bed frees up at an inpatient facility.
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ADAA
When I first started working in the health field 30 years ago, I never thought much about clinical trials. Clinical trials didn't really come up in conversations at work or with my family. This all changed when I joined the Office of Women's Health at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). At FDA, I learned that clinical trials play an important role in helping to advance our understanding of chronic diseases like depression.
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Anxiety.org
Racism is a serious, prevalent issue in the U.S., and there is a link between racism and anxiety, stress and other mental and physical health problems. Racism can take on many forms including racial macroaggreesions, which are described as more overt racist experiences including being called a racial or ethnic slur, being physically assaulted due to race or being denied fair wages due to race.
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The Washington Post
As a young teenager, Inshirah Aleem was sure she'd be heading to Harvard Law School in a few years. But the straight-A student went down another road. Within months of her 14th birthday, the quiet girl was telling outrageous lies, running away from home and stealing. She eventually landed in front of a judge and later was sent to foster care, where she lived in a basement, her belongings stuffed into a trash bag.
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Romper
When Arthur was 3 ½ years old, his preschool teachers brought us in for a conference. One of them left a message on my phone telling me she had concerns about Arthur's development but that I shouldn't be worried, which of course worried me even more. I spent the next few days leading up to the conference scouring the internet for typical 3-year-old developmental progressions.
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