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ADAA
ADAA welcomes Susan Gurley, JD, as interim executive director. Susan has more than 15 years of leadership experience in the access to health and justice-centered nonprofit sector, international development and higher education administration, as well as in global membership-association management, and she has held various senior-level positions with various organizations.
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ADAA
Submit your poster abstracts by 11:59 p.m. ET Tuesday, Dec. 1 for the Anxiety and Depression Conference 2016, March 31-April 3 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.
Submit your application for the ADAA Awards Program 2016: Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program, Clinician Trainee Awards, Donald F. Klein Early Career Investigator Award and Travel Awards. The deadline for all awards is 11:59 p.m. ET Tuesday, Dec. 1.
ADAA
New! The ADAA Child and Adolescent Anxiety SIG announces a monthly online peer consultation group. The goal is to provide a safe and confidential forum for cognitive-behavioral therapists who treat children and adolescents to discuss cases, collaborate, share resources and further develop core CBT/ERP competencies. Peer consultation is an ADAA member benefit offered at no cost.
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Good Housekeeping
When Jenny Foster picked up her older daughter from preschool one day in fall 2010, the teacher approached her with an odd question. "She asked, 'Does Lily know how to talk?'" recalls Jenny, 34. After three months in the classroom, Lily, then 4, hadn't spoken a word to her peers or her teacher. Jenny and her husband, Drew, 35, were shocked. "At home, Lily was a chatterbox," says Jenny, now a preschool teacher herself. "She was always talking to her younger sister, Ella, and playing dress-up. She acted like a normal kid."
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The Washington Post
Digital behavioral health is increasingly viewed as a way for organizations to improve patients' overall health, reduce unnecessary and expensive hospitalizations and comply with laws requiring insurers to provide mental health benefits at the same level as benefits for other medical care.
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Mic
Sophie Saint Thomas writes: I've kicked a lot of bad habits, but one that lingers is obsessive, unconscious picking at my face. I've never had perfect skin, but digging into my pores at blackheads with my grubby fingers wasn't helping my cause. Everyone has popped a pimple, but extreme skin picking is something else. Which is why some, like me, are literally taking matters into our own hands.
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Gadgette
Feelings are hard to explain sometimes, especially when they're related to mental illness. So often people find it difficult to engage on an empathic level with pain they can't see and have never experienced, and there's something about anxiety in particular that many are frustratingly inclined to dismiss as nothing more than sensitivity.
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Depression and Anxiety
Many patients fulfill criteria for both posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD). Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is generally acknowledged to be the most-effective treatment for refractory MDD. This study investigated the efficacy of ECT on long-term clinical outcome of comorbid PTSD and MDD.
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Psych Central
New research published in Frontiers in Neurology Neurotrauma has identified a potential brain-based biomarker for depressive symptoms in people who have experienced a traumatic brain injury. About half of those who experience a TBI will also experience depression within a year, according to researchers.
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Psychiatry Advisor
Late-life depression affects adults aged 60 years and older and is associated with increased healthcare utilization and costs, reduced quality of life, poorer prognosis for comorbid conditions, lower survival rates and suicide. Approximately 5 percent of community-dwelling older adults are estimated to be affected by depression.
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Medical Xpress
Researchers have found anxiety around the arrival of a new baby is just as common as postnatal depression, and the risks for men are nearly as high as for women. Researchers reviewed 43 separate studies and found anxiety before and after a child arrives is just as prevalent as depression, affecting around one in 10 men. The study was published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.
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Phys.Org
Despite the prevalence and severity of bipolar disorder, little is known about the processes underlying the disorder, while treatments remain limited. Researchers have set out to address this by using mathematical modelling to better understand the "mood dynamics" of people with the disorder. In a new paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, researchers investigate how the subjective experience of mood can be understood using oscillators that "map" the fluctuations in mood reported by participants.
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HealthDay News
Black Americans who are depressed may be at increased risk for heart disease and stroke, a new study finds. The study included more than 3,300 blacks between 21 and 94 years old who were screened for depression. None of the participants had a history of heart attack or stroke. The study was published recently in the journal Circulation: Quality and Outcomes.
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Drug Discovery & Development
Stress chemicals released at times of trauma can cause physical changes in the brain leading to PTSD, according to research. But the molecular feedback of trauma may be blocked in rats, potentially preventing agony for humans in the wake of abuse or accidents, according to new research published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
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Kaiser Health News
Almost 8 percent of Americans 12 and older dealt with depression at some point between 2009 and 2012. With that many of us feeling blue, wouldn't it be nice if we could simply hop on the computer in our pajamas, without any of the stigma of asking for help, and find real relief? Online programs to fight depression are already commercially available, and while they sound efficient and cost-saving, a study published in The BMJ reports that they're not effective.
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HealthDay News
Light therapy, a treatment for seasonal affective disorder, may also benefit nonseasonal depression, a new study indicates. "The combination of light and an antidepressant seems to work very well for treating nonseasonal depression," said study leader Dr. Raymond Lam, a professor and head of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the University of British Columbia in Canada.
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FierceHealthIT
Telemedicine sessions at home can be a viable way to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in active-duty military personnel, according to a preliminary study published at Telemedicine and e-Health. The study involved 10 previously deployed soldiers who agreed to complete eight sessions of behavioral activation therapy, a well-established treatment for depression, by telemedicine.
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