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ADAA is seeking candidates interested in applying for a $1,700 grant to work with ADAA's president Karen Cassiday on an exciting project with Pedestal Foods. Pedestal Foods is a contract food services company with clients in higher education, assisted living, and K-12. Pedestal Foods and their customers have identified student wellness, specifically in the area of anxiety, depression and suicide as a major challenge and opportunity. ADAA will create an evidence-based protocol for the company which they will use to train their staff and create experiences in the dining areas that promote student mental wellness. The project is named Project Thrive and will be piloted at Father Ryan High School in Nashville, Tennessee.
To apply you must be an ADAA member (either a graduate student or post-doctoral fellow). The duration of the contract is Jan. 2, 2017 to on/about July 20, 2017. Please send your resume to Mary Gies at mgies@adaa.org by Dec. 27, 2016 for consideration. Learn more and apply today.
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Brain activation during fear extinction predicts exposure success
Tali Manber Ball, Sarah E. Knapp, Martin P. Paulus and Murray B. Stein
Version of Record online: 6 DEC 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22583
Posttraumatic stress disorder associated with unexpected death of a loved one: Cross-national findings from the world mental health surveys
Lukoye Atwoli, Dan J. Stein, Andrew King, Maria Petukhova, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, Evelyn J. Bromet, Giovanni de Girolamo, Koen Demyttenaere, Silvia Florescu, Josep Maria Haro, Elie G. Karam, Norito Kawakami, Sing Lee, Jean-Pierre Lepine, Fernando Navarro-Mateu, Siobhan O'Neill, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Marina Piazza, Jose Posada-Villa, Nancy A. Sampson, Margreet ten Have, Alan M. Zaslavsky, Ronald C. Kessler and on behalf of the WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators
Version of Record online: 6 DEC 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22579
Melancholic and atypical depression as predictor and moderator of outcome in cognitive behavior therapy and pharmacotherapy for adult depression
Pim Cuijpers, Erica Weitz, Femke Lamers, Brenda W. Penninx, Jos Twisk, Robert J. DeRubeis, Sona Dimidjian, Boadie W. Dunlop, Robin B. Jarrett, Zindel V. Segal and Steven D. Hollon
Version of Record online: 6 DEC 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22580
Repeated trauma exposure does not impair distress reduction during imaginal exposure for posttraumatic stress disorder
Alissa B. Jerud, Frank J. Farach, Michele Bedard-Gilligan, Hillary Smith, Lori A. Zoellner and Norah C. Feeny
Version of Record online: 6 DEC 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22582
Depression and Anxiety, the official journal of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, is available online for ADAA members only. The journal welcomes original research and synthetic review articles covering neurobiology (genetics and neuroimaging), epidemiology, experimental psychopathology and treatment (psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic) aspects of mood and anxiety disorders, and related phenomena in humans.
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As the holidays approach, and anxiety and stress levels increase for many of your clients and their families, we encourage you to share ADAA's informative and helpful resources to help your clients manage holiday anxiety and depression. Blog posts, articles, podcasts and webinars are written and presented by ADAA members.
Interested in presenting a webinar for ADAA? Please contact our Public Education Committee. We're scheduling 2017 webinar topics now.

Do you blog? Why not share your blog post(s) with ADAA? We post member blog posts on our website and share them via our consumer email newsletter and social media. Click here to view our archive of blog posts.
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 You're Invited to Join an ADAA Special Interest Group
A great opportunity to meet ADAA member colleagues with common interests
Special interest groups (SIGs) serve as a vibrant forum for ADAA members with a common interest, such as a particular disorder, treatment or population. The goal is to encourage collaboration, communication, education, research, mentoring and networking focused on anxiety, mood, obsessive-compulsive and trauma-related disorders. Participation in ADAA SIGS is a free member benefit.
- Child and Adolescent Anxiety
- Early Career Professionals and Students
- Genetics and Neuroscience
- Multicultural Advances
- OCD and Related Disorders
- PTSD
- Selective Mutism
- Social Anxiety
Several of the SIGS offer monthly online peer consultation sessions for its members. The purpose is to provide a supportive and confidential environment for clinicians to discuss cases, share resources and offer guidance to one another. Email Mary Gies, ADAA Director of Programs, for more information or to join.
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Earn up to 25 CE or CME credits by attending the ADAA 2017 Conference. Visit our website for more details on accreditation and approvals. (CE and CME are FREE for ADAA members!) Learn more about the conference and register today.
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Last call! 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.
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Psych Central
Researchers have identified six regions of the human genome that are significantly linked to personality traits, and some show significant correlations to certain psychiatric disorders as well. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, is based on a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies. The results are published in the journal Nature Genetics.
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TIME
Despite how often it's repeated, doctors haven't been able to definitively tell you that a positive attitude will help you live longer, mainly because most studies on the subject haven't followed people over long enough periods of time. So researchers decided to look at a long-term study to track how people's outlook over time affected their longevity. In a report published in BMJ, they studied nearly 10,000 men and women in the English Longitudinal Study of Aging between 2002 and 2013.
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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
One in six U.S. adults takes a psychiatric medication to cope with conditions such as depression, anxiety and insomnia, a new study finds. Researchers found that in 2013 nearly 17 percent of adults said they filled one or more prescriptions for antidepressants such as Zoloft; sedatives and sleep drugs, including Xanax and Ambien; or antipsychotics, used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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UPI
President Barack Obama on Dec. 13 signed into law sweeping bipartisan healthcare legislation intended to expand medical research and speed up approval of new drugs and medical devices. The $6.3 billion bill, called the 21st Century Cures Act, is a complex grab bag of initiatives amounting to nearly 1,000 pages.
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Psych Central
A neuroimaging study suggests patients with depression can be categorized into four unique subtypes defined by distinct patterns of abnormal connectivity in the brain. Researchers identified the depression biomarkers by analyzing more than 1,100 functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scans of patients with clinical depression and of healthy controls. The study appears in the journal Nature Medicine.
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Neuroscience News
New preclinical evidence was put forward by investigators in a series of presentations at the recent meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology suggest that the a metabolite of ketamine can produce antidepressant-like effects in a mouse model of depression. The metabolite is produced when ketamine is broken down in the body. This finding may lead to further research to better understand ketamine's efficacy in depression and its potential side effects.
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Psych Central
Neew research from American University proposes that mindfulness can counteract the adverse impacts of mindless consumption due to automatic thoughts, habits and unhealthy behavior patterns. In the article, Sonya A. Grier explores the challenges associated with realizing the transformative potential of mindful consumption.
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The Medical News
A woman's lifetime history of drug use can help predict whether she will suffer from postpartum stress and anxiety, according to a new study by researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of British Columbia. The findings could help healthcare providers identify pregnant women at greatest risk for mental health problems after delivery.
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Dartmouth College via EuerkAlert!
American Indian adults who were exposed to an early life trauma are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder and poor physical health in adulthood, according to a study recently published in the American Journal of Human Biology. The study is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between early life trauma, PTSD and adult physical health in American Indians.
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Psych Central
The violence that women in disadvantaged neighborhoods experience and witness can result in post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and full diagnoses, according to a new study. The Northwestern University study of a disadvantaged Chicago neighborhood also found that women with PTSD diagnosis or sub-threshold PTSD had significantly more severe depression symptoms than women in the study who didn't report experiencing trauma.
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