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ADAA
 ADAA is delighted to announce its partnership with Pedestal Foods and the launch of Project Thrive.
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 and Pedestal Foods are taking action together to address these issues.
Under the leadership of President Karen Cassiday, ADAA has created an evidence-based protocol for the company to train their staff and create experiences in the dining areas that promote student mental wellness. This initiative — Project Thrive — rooted in positive psychology, will help create moments of joy for students and offer resources for those in need of support. Project Thrive is being piloted at Father Ryan High School in Nashville, Tennessee.
 ADAA is pleased to announce that Jamilah R. George, MDIV, Post-Graduate Research Associate at Yale University, OCD Research Clinic, is the recipient of a $1,700 grant to serve as a data analyst for Project Thrive.
We look forward to sharing more news about Project Thrive in future issues.
For questions about this project, please contact Mary Gies, ADAA Program Director.
ADAA
 ADAA is excited to welcome two new Board members, Sheila Rauch, PhD and Vasiliki Michopoulos, MD. Dr. Rauch and Dr. Michopoulos' commitment and expertise will help grow ADAA’s reach and impact. We look forward to working together.
 Sheila Rauch, Clinical Director of the Emory University Veterans Program, Associate Professor at Emory University School of Medicine and Director of Mental Health Research Program Evaluation at the Atlanta VA Medical Center.
Dr. Rauch has been providing PTSD and Anxiety Disorders treatment for over 20 years. Dr. Rauch has been providing PTSD and Anxiety Disorders treatment for over 20 years. She is currently Principal Investigator of two PTSD treatment outcome and mechanisms trials including a DOD funded, multi-site PTSD treatment trial comparing prolonged exposure and sertraline and a VA/DOD collaboratively funded trial examining biomarkers in active duty military service members completing psychotherapy. Read more.
 Vasiliki (Vas) Michopoulos is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Emory University and a Research Associate at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
Dr. Michopoulos' translational research is focused on understanding how adverse social experience, including chronic stress and trauma exposure, results in a number of adverse mental outcomes and co-morbid physical health diseases and conditions. Read more.
ADAA wishes Simon A. Rego, PsyD, ABPP, ACT and Anne Marie Albano, PhD, ABPP all the best all the best as they end their Board tenure. Their contributions to ADAA's outreach, fundraising and educational programming has made an enormous impact and we are very thankful and grateful for their dedication and support. ADAA looks forward to their continued engagement and collaboration.
We invite you to learn more about this month's Featured Board Member, Peter Roy-Byrne, MD.
ADAA
 ADAA is pleased to offer a listing of our member clinicians who provide telemental health services. Providers are listed by state and their specialty areas. This is a new listing (as of January 2017) and we will be adding new names on a daily basis so please check back frequently. If you are an ADAA member and interested in listing your telemental health services, please contact us.
ADAA
 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.
The January 2017 Journal issue is open access to all readers (whether an ADAA member or not). We invite you to explore all January Journal entries.
We also invite you to check out these early release Journal articles:
Upregulating the positive affect system in anxiety and depression: Outcomes of a positive activity intervention
Charles T. Taylor, Sonja Lyubomirsky and Murray B. Stein
Version of Record online: 6 JAN 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22593
Depression impacts the physiological responsiveness of mother–daughter dyads during social interaction
Marlissa C. Amole, Jill M. Cyranowski, Aidan G. C. Wright and Holly A. Swartz
Version of Record online: 6 JAN 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22595
Oxytocin response to youth–mother interactions in clinically anxious youth is associated with separation anxiety and dyadic behavior
Eli R. Lebowitz, Wendy K. Silverman, Alyssa M. Martino, Orna Zagoory-Sharon, Ruth Feldman and James F. Leckman
Version of Record online: 3 JAN 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22585
Improving late life depression and cognitive control through the use of therapeutic video game technology: A proof-of-concept randomized trial
Joaquin A. Anguera, Faith M. Gunning and Patricia A. Areán
Version of Record online: 3 JAN 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22588
Learn more about the Journal.
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Videos on Anxiety, Film Screening, Networking Receptions and Events and 170+ sessions! If you haven't attended the ADAA Conference recently, you need to see what's new and happening! View the online program. Need help securing funding to attend? View the Justification Toolkit.
Learn more about the conference and register today.
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 01/11/17 The Human Side of Animal Hoarding, USA News (Health), Karen Cassiday
01/10/17 We're Still In The Wild West Phase Of Using Apps To Treat Mental Illness, The Huffington Post, Michael Van Ameringen
01/9/17 If you're having a really bad day, 7 mind tricks can help turn it around, Today, Karen Cassiday
01/07/17 Overworked? Join the club. Here's how to handle it, USA Today, Mary Alvord
11/01/16 Using Neuroscience to Help Understand Fear and Anxiety: A Two-System Framework, The American Journal of Psychiatry, Joseph E. LeDoux, Ph.D., Daniel S. Pine, M.D.
Have an article to share? Please let us know. We will share it in Insights and with our member community through the ADAA website and social media platforms.
ADAA
New For New York State Social Workers! ADAA SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0316.
View and register for all upcoming February and March webinars.
Questions/suggestions for topics? Please contact Mary Gies, MSW, ADAA Program Director.
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HealthDay News
Doctors have long known that a stressed life does no favors for the heart, and new research may help unravel why that's so. A Harvard team says heightened activity in a key part of the brain may explain why stress boosts people's odds for heart disease and stroke. The findings were published Jan. 11 in The Lancet.
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GoodTherapy.org
Two new studies suggest video games could aid the treatment of depression. One study, published in the journal Depression and Anxiety, found a video game could address cognitive issues associated with depression in older adults. A second study, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, found video games can improve symptoms of depression, particularly among people whose depression symptoms are more serious.
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Medical Xpress
Teenagers who play video games for more than four hours a day suffer from symptoms of depression, but frequent use of social media and instant messaging may mitigate symptoms of game addiction in these teens, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health-led research suggests. The findings are scheduled for publication in the March 2017 issue of the journal Computers in Human Behavior.
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Health Canal
Depression poses a risk for cardiovascular diseases in men that is just as great as that posed by high cholesterol levels and obesity. This is according to a report recently published in the journal Atherosclerosis. The researchers set out to discover the relationship between depression and other risk factors like tobacco smoke, high cholesterol levels, obesity or hypertension.
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Psychiatry Advisor
Feelings of hopelessness and anxiety, in particular, increase the risk of suicidal ideation in individuals at high risk for Huntington's disease, a recent study found. Other behavioral symptoms strongly linked to suicidal ideation included depression, irritability, aggression and impulsivity, according to the researchers.
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MISSED AN ISSUE OF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION INSIGHTS? VISIT AND SEARCH THE ARCHIVE TODAY. |
By Catherine Iste
 Dr. Norman Rosenthal first introduced seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and the "winter blues" back in the 1980s. And research shows these conditions could affect 10 to 15 percent of your staff this time of year. Colleagues experiencing symptoms of either can have a significant impact on those who do not. Here are three ways understanding SAD and the winter blues can help you be a more effective leader during these cold months.
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Live Science
How healthy are people in the U.S.? A new federal report shows that although the country has made progress in some areas, such as increasing how much exercise people get and lowering the number of teens who smoke cigarettes, it's fallen behind in others, particularly in taking care of mental health. The new report was published by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Psych Central
Antidepressant use is tied to nearly double the risk of sustaining a hip fracture among community-dwelling elderly people, particularly those with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study.The increased risk was highest when the patients first began antidepressant treatment but remained elevated even four years later. The findings are published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
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EuerkAlert!
Lower blood levels of a biomarker called brain-derived neurotrophic factor have been associated with depression in multiple studies, mainly in non-pregnant adults. Now, in a study published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, research from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center found that BDNF levels change during pregnancy, and can cause depression in the mother and low birth weight in the baby.
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ScienceBlog.com
National Institutes of Health researchers have discovered molecular mechanisms that may underlie a woman's susceptibility to disabling irritability, sadness and anxiety in the days leading up to her menstrual period. Such premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) affects 2 to 5 percent of women of reproductive age, whereas less severe premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is much more common.
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The Washington Post
Medication and psychotherapy have been shown to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Might smartphone apps be a helpful option as well?
A recent study set out to find the answer. It involved 99 adults with symptoms of depression anxiety or both. About 64 percent of the participants were taking medication and 22 percent were undergoing psychotherapy.
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Knowledge Science Report
Feelings of fear, dread or unease can be paralyzing. Identifying your symptoms — and knowing help is available — is key to recovery. When you feel a sudden rush of nerves or high emotion, it's likely that your body responds in turn. Sweating, shakiness or feelings of nausea, among other things, might occur.
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The Conversation
Depression is the leading mental health issue on college campuses in the U.S. In 2015, a survey of more than 90,000 students at 108 American colleges and universities found that during the previous year, more than one-third of them had felt so depressed at some point that it was difficult to function. More than two-thirds had felt hopeless in the preceding academic year.
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