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ADAA
On the Cutting Edge of Wellness: Behavioral Medicine and Its Application to Anxiety and Depressive Disorders
Submit your session and/or abstract for the ADAA Conference 2017, the only meeting for researchers and clinicians focusing exclusively on innovations that advance science and treatment of anxiety, depressive, obsessive-compulsive and trauma-related disorders in children and adults.
Submission Deadlines
- July 10 — Master Clinician Sessions
- Aug. 15 — Symposia, Workshops, Roundtables, Ignite Symposia
- Nov. 1 — New Research Posters
ADAA
The Task Force wants to hear from patients, families, consumer advocates, healthcare providers, insurers and other stakeholders on their experience with mental health and substance use disorder parity requirements.
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Mashable
Finally, a new place (i.e. not your brain) to access all your deeply held anxieties. Behold, Anxiety: The Magazine. This imagined publication covers all your biggest daily fears — from your friends, to your colleagues to your bare feet. Twitter user @CrayonElyse is the designer behind the mock covers.
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Racked
For years, Cheryn Salazar never went anywhere without her makeup. Even in labor, she waddled over to the mirror to make sure her eyebrows were still drawn on. Salazar has trichotillomania, or "trich," which means she compulsively pulls out her hairs one at a time. The disorder is a cousin of nail biting and skin picking, and was added to the psychiatric bible, the DSM, in 1987.
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ADAA
This month, Depression and Anxiety focuses on PTSD. Eleven peer-reviewed articles from experts in the field cover a wide variety of topics on PTSD. They include studies of symptoms in pregnancy and early postpartum, combat veterans and other soldiers, children who have experienced sexual abuse and other forms of maltreatment, as well as outcome of comorbid PTSD and MDD following electroconvulsive therapy, sleep and treatment outcome, and more.
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Psychiatry Advisor
Earlier this year, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force published an update to its 2009 recommendations for depression screening in U.S. adults. Based on a systematic review of recent evidence, the task force concluded "with at least moderate certainty that there is a moderate net benefit to screening for depression in adults, including older adults, who receive care in clinical practices that have adequate systems in place to ensure accurate diagnosis, effective treatment and appropriate follow-up after screening.
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Psychiatry Advisor
In February 2016, The United States Veteran Affairs Department convened a summit to discuss recommendations for improving suicide prevention, highlighting the urgency of addressing the unique needs of suicidal veterans. This population is vulnerable due to a variety of factors including post-traumatic stress disorder and/or traumatic brain injuries sustained in combat.
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Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Two-generation studies demonstrate that treating maternal depression benefits school-age children. Although mothers prefer psychotherapy to medication, little is known about how psychotherapy for maternal depression affects offspring, especially in very high-risk families in which both mothers and children concurrently meet syndromal criteria for psychiatric disorders.
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NutraIngredients-USA.com
People suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder may benefit from daily omega-3 supplements, says a new study from Japan. PTSD is known to produce psychological symptoms such as a pounding heart, but new data from 83 Japanese accident survivors indicated that DHA-rish omega-3 supplements may reduce the increases in heart rate associated with PTSD.
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HealthDay News
The antidepressant Lexapro may not help heart failure patients suffering from depression, German researchers report. "Depression in heart failure may not be the same depression patients without heart failure get and who respond well to antidepressants," said lead researcher Dr. Christiane Angermann, a professor of cardiology at University Hospital Wurzburg.
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Psych Central
People who visit parks for 30 minutes or more each week are much less likely to have poor mental health than those who don't, according to a new study. In fact, researchers suggest people might need a minimum "dose of nature." The study was published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.
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Psych Central
In a recently published case study, doctors describe how a woman with treatment-resistant depression was eventually diagnosed with a brain tumor. "Depressive symptoms may be the only expression of brain tumors," researchers write in BMJ Case Reports. "Thus, it is challenging to suspect a brain tumor when patients with depression have a normal neurological examination."
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Hartford Courant
Nationally, at least one in five military veterans who experience trauma are at a heightened risk for depression, suicide or substance abuse but are often overlooked in clinical settings because they don't fit the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a Yale University-led study. The research, published June 1 in the journal World Psychiatry, examined sub-threshold PTSD.
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Psychiatry Advisor
Plasma inflammatory markers are associated with psychomotor retardation in individuals diagnosed with major depressive disorder, according to a report published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. Major depressive disorder has the highest lifetime prevalence of any neuropsychiatric disorder and is a leading cause of disability worldwide.
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Healio
Recent findings suggest that the timing of depression onset among pregnant women is significant and may indicate risk for associated mood disorders. To determine risk factors that distinguish the onset of unipolar and bipolar depression and associations between depression onset by diagnosis, researchers assessed depression symptoms in an obstetrical sample of 727 women.
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