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| | ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION CONFERENCE 2017 |
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ADAA members: Register for the 2017 Annual Conference by Nov. 1 and save $59 off the registration fee (includes CE and CME.) Join and save!
Be sure to buy a ticket for the just-announced "Saturday Night Slide: Closing Reception, the ultimate conference networking event.
Supported by the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy and ADAA
7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, April 8
Tickets are available for purchase when you register for the conference.
Professionals: $55 each
Trainees, Residents, Postdocs, Students: $30 each
Price includes a ticket for two drinks* and two hours of passed hors d'oeuvres, which will feature sliders, ahi tuna, mushroom tarts, filet on a baguette, homemade truffles and much more.
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Non-prescribers: This one is for you!
Essential Psychopharmacology: What Every Therapist Needs to Know
Beth Salcedo, MD
Noon ET | Wednesday, Nov. 2 | 1 APA CE
Register today.
Mary Gies, MSW, is the ADAA Program Director. Please email suggestions for new offerings based on your professional needs.
ABC News
"Harry Potter" actor Devon Murray took a bold step on World Mental Health Day and revealed his decade-long struggle with depression. The 28-year-old actor best known for his portrayal of Seamus Finnigan in the "Harry Potter" films tweeted, "I've been battling depression in silence for 10 years & only recently spoke about it and has made a huge difference #worldmentalhealthday."
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New York Magazine
Plenty of TV comedies these days feature women dealing with mental-health issues, but "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" stands out from the crowd. The show's heroine, Rebecca Bunch (played by creator Rachel Bloom), is a successful lawyer with a disaster of a love life. She's a funny, winning, relatable sitcom character, but she's also a realistic portrayal of a woman whose life is constantly being driven off-course by the effects of anxiety and depression.
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The Washington Post
In January, Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff wrote an extraordinary piece for The Washington Post about her struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. Here she writes a new piece — for OCD Awareness Week — about how OCD affected the life of one young man and his struggles to get through school, which is highly revealing about what many young people with OCD face.
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CNN
Yousef Erakat is the kind of person who just makes you laugh. The YouTube digital artist has a spark about him; his online pranks spur laughter from his growing audience. But beneath that joyful exterior, Erakat struggled with bipolar disorder and depression. His condition can cause extreme mood swings, from manic emotional highs to the lowest of depression.
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| | RESEARCH AND PRACTICE NEWS |
Depression and Anxiety
Researchers developed the Suicide Crisis Inventory (SCI) to evaluate the intensity of the Suicidal Crisis Syndrome, an acute state hypothesized to precede suicide attempt. The psychometric properties of the SCI, including predictive validity for suicidal behavior, were assessed.
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Depression and Anxiety
Depression and anxiety have been related to poorer self-reported physical functioning over time; however, objective measures of physical function are less frequently examined. This study assessed the six-year trajectory of hand-grip strength and lung function in persons with depressive and/or anxiety disorders.
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CNN
Some of the drugs most commonly used to treat people with high blood pressure could also be affecting their mood — particularly their risk of depression — according to a new new study. Research published in the journal Hypertension found that people taking one of two classes of drugs, known beta blockers or calcium channel antagonists, had twice the risk of being admitted into the hospital with a mood disorder.
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HealthDay News
Internet addiction may signal other mental health issues among college students, according to a new study. Canadian researchers say their findings could affect how psychiatrists approach people who spend a significant amount of time online. For the study, the researchers evaluated the internet use of 254 freshmen at McMaster University in Ontario.
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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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Psych Central
New research suggests MRI scans and a questionnaire can help health professionals predict which patients are likely to be helped by antidepressants. In the new study, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine successfully predicted with 80 percent accuracy whether antidepressants would help patients recover from depression.
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Medical News Today
Eating disorders are much more common among women than men. Now, a new study may have uncovered a neurological explanation for this disparity. Researchers find that women are more likely than men to experience brain activity relating to negative body perception. The findings were published in the journal Cerebral Cortex.
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Reuters
Insomnia patients who focus on behavioral changes may be less stressed and more functional during the day than counterparts relying on medication, according to a recent study published in Behavior Research and Therapy. Researchers offered 160 adults with chronic insomnia six weeks of treatment with cognitive behavioral therapy; half of them were also randomly selected to take medication in addition to counseling.
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Psych Central
A new U.K. review of more than 30 years of research on bipolar disorder found that people with the condition are more than twice as likely to have suffered emotional, physical or sexual abuse as children than the general population. Researchers identified 19 studies from hundreds published between 1980 and 2014 which gathered data from millions of patient records, interviews and assessments.
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HealthDay News
Children whose mothers used an often-prescribed type of antidepressant during pregnancy may be more likely to develop speech and language disorders, a new study suggests. Researchers found that mothers who bought selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drugs at least twice during pregnancy were 37 percent more likely to have a child with a speech and/or language disorder than those who did not take the antidepressants.
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Reuters
Worsening depression symptoms are associated with shorter survival for lung cancer patients, particularly those in the early stages of disease, according to a new U.S. study. Conversely, when depression symptoms lift, survival tends to improve, researchers found. The study was published online Oct. 3 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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