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ADAA
 We are delighted to share recent news articles that feature ADAA members. We encourage our members to send us links to any articles, published research papers, etc. so that we can share (via Insights, social media and on the ADAA website) with the ADAA member community.
- Mary E (Beth) Salcedo, MD — If You're Thinking of Trying Anti-Depressants, Nov. 28, 2016 — Manreppeler.com
- David H. Barlow, PhD, Michelle G. Craske, PhD, Alicia E. Meuret, PhD, Daniel S. Pine, MD — For Better Talk Therapy Try Napping, Nov. 28, 2016 — Wall Street Journal
- Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD — The Ten Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques: An Interview with Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg, November 10, 2016, Lawyers with Depression — Guest Article
- Mary Alvord, Ph.D. — Hillary Clinton Supporters: Here's a Post-Election Recovery Plan, Nov. 10, 2016 — USA Today News
ADAA
 ADAA is the only multidisciplinary professional organization in the mental health community engaging the world's leading experts focused on anxiety, depressive, obsessive-compulsive and trauma-related disorders in children and adults. As a member of ADAA, you'll connect with the leaders in your field, increase your professional education opportunities and support ADAA's mission to reach more patients and change more lives. Join the vibrant association of clinicians and researchers in the field of anxiety, depression and related disorders who want to share, learn, innovate and connect. We invite you to learn more about member benefits.
ADAA
 2017 Conference, April 6-9, Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Come early and stay late! View the Top 10 Things Not To Miss in San Francisco and then book your hotel at the discounted ADAA Conference Rate. For more information, click here.
Watch: A Day in the Life: San Francisco
ADAA
 Deadline: Tuesday, Jan. 3
This award is presented at the ADAA Conference to an early career investigator for the best original research paper on neurobiology, psychopharmacology, psychosocial treatments, or experimental psychopathology of anxiety disorders and depression. Learn more and apply here.
ADAA
Autism Spectrum Disorder Across the Life Span
Jan. 21-22, 2017
Westin Copley Place, Boston
The Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy conference on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) presents the latest research and will enhance the way you care for patients of all ages with ASD and related conditions. The agenda offers a broad review of advances in ASD research, genetics, diagnostic tools, and treatments. This includes assessment measures, neuroimaging, psychological interventions, and pharmacologic options. Featuring new sessions on screening and assessment of ASD in the primary care setting, state-of-the-art treatments for low-functioning ASD, and more.
- Save $100 by registering online with the registration code ADAA.
For more information and to register, click here. Questions? Email or call 866-644-7792.
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Questions/suggestions for topics? Please contact Mary Gies, MSW, ADAA Program Director.
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HealthDay News via CBS News
For teens, depression can affect more than their relationships and educational achievement — it can harm their future prospects. But a new study suggests that many of these young people could reap long-term benefits from psychological counseling. Psychological treatments are effective in the short term in about 70 percent of adolescents with depression. But it’s not clear how these patients fare in the long term, the study authors noted in the study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.
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USA Today
Comparison is the thief of joy, as Theodore Roosevelt said, and new research finds you're more likely to lose your joy when your comparisons take place online. A review of studies on social media and depression found that comparing yourself to others on Facebook is more likely to leave you feeling depressed than when you do so offline.
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Medical News Today
The ancient Chinese exercise Tai Chi could help veterans manage symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a new study published in BMJ Open. Boston University researchers enrolled 17 veterans — 11 males and 6 females — with symptoms of PTSD to take part in an introductory Tai Chi program, which involved four once-weekly sessions over four weeks.
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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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Reuters
The vast majority of the estimated 350 million people worldwide suffering from depression are not receiving even minimally adequate treatment, according to an international study backed by the World Health Organization. The research, which covered almost 50,000 people in 21 countries, found that even in wealthy nations with relatively good health services, barely 20 percent of depression patients get adequate treatment.
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Psych Central
New research is challenging the idea that working memory helps us remembers things through sustained brain activity. Instead, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that our brains tuck less-important information away beyond the reach of the tools that typically monitor brain activity. The researchers then were able to bring that information back into active attention with magnets.
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Reuters
Treating depression with video conference calls may offer symptom improvement similar to in-person visits, a recent U.S. study suggests. Researchers randomly assigned 241 depressed elderly veterans to receive eight weeks of psychotherapy either by visiting a clinician's office or by using in-home videoconferencing technology. All of them could also take antidepressants.
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Medical Xpress
People with depression can't even imagine what it feels like to not be depressed. People who aren't depressed, however, are more easily able to empathize with those who are. That's according to a new study by McMaster psycholinguists Constance Imbault and Victor Kuperman, who used a word test developed at the University to measure empathy levels between the two groups.
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HealthDay News
Disruption of certain brain circuits may be related to depression in soldiers with brain injuries, researchers report. The researchers conducted brain scans on 130 male soldiers who suffered mild traumatic brain injury and a control group of 52 men without brain trauma. The study was to be presented at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago.
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Psych Central
A single dose of psilocybin — the hallucinogenic compound found in psychedelic mushrooms — has been found to significantly reduce mental anguish in patients with advanced cancer for up to several months, according to a new study led by researchers at New York University Langone Medical Center.
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HealthDay News
People find help for all sorts of maladies online. Now, insomnia might be one of them. A web-based interactive program may help chronically sleepless individuals get needed shuteye without taking medication or spending time on a therapist's couch, suggests a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry.
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New York Post
It is 8 p.m. on a weekday in Manhattan. The penthouse ballroom of the Mandarin Oriental hotel is a swirl of fancy folk, here for a charity event benefiting a children;s hospital. Guys in power suits swan around the room, while ladies in Christian Louboutin shoes tote Prada bags. Everyone munches on mouth-watering sushi and diminutive steak sandwiches. I am easy to recognize in this crowd: the guy standing on the periphery, cocktail in hand, staring at the ceiling, wondering if someone will come by and lob an introduction.
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HealthDay News
Since her 2008 breakthrough role in the Disney Channel musical "Camp Rock," singer and actress Demi Lovato has released five best-selling albums and a slew of hit singles. Numerous music awards have followed, as has a stint as a judge on the TV megahit "The X Factor." But for the 44 million American adults struggling with mental illness, it's the 24-year-old's decision to share her own mental health battles that may rank as her most meaningful achievement to date.
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Variety
Sally Field revealed that she was "deeply depressed" in her late teens and even once gained 10 pounds in two days. In an emotional interview with Hailee Steinfeld for Variety's "Actors on Actors," Field talked about her early career and the depression she suffered from during that period.
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