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ADAA
 Today is #GivingTuesday — a global day of giving back. Every day ADAA staff and our members work tirelessly to educate individuals and families about the latest anxiety and depression research and treatment options, bringing together the greatest minds in the field to raise awareness and work toward wellness. #GivingTuesday is a day for everyone, everywhere, to give! Your generosity will help us continue to provide free access to webinars, podcasts, videos, blog posts, research and much more for family, friends and loved ones that struggle with anxiety and depression.
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ADAA
 Now Available! Online Program Guide. Review and browse all sessions, presenters and abstracts by date and time. Search by session category, presenter name and session code, or simply browse sessions by day.
ADAA
 Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Award
Deadline: This Thursday, Dec. 1
The CDLP award is an intensive mentoring and professional development opportunity for early career clinicians and researchers. Learn more and apply here.
Donald F. Klein Early Career Investigator Award
Deadline: Tuesday, Jan. 3
This award is given to an early career investigator for the best original research paper on neurobiology, psychopharmacology, psychosocial treatments or experimental psychopathology of anxiety disorders and depression. This award also offers a $500 stipend. Learn more and apply here.
These awards are your opportunity to earn VIP Access to #ADAA2017. Promoting careers and professional development is a central focus of ADAA. Since its inception in 1998, the ADAA awards program has awarded more than one million dollars to 345 aspiring professionals.
ADAA
 Mary Gies, MSW, is the ADAA Program Director. Please email suggestions for new offerings based on your professional needs.
In October 2016, ADAA was approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists for its recorded webinars. Check out these two recent recorded webinars:
- Essential Psychopharmacology: What Every Therapist Needs to Know (Nov. 2, 2016), presented by Beth Salcedo, MD
Watch the recorded webinar.
- CBT for Children and Adolescents with OCD: Incorporating Parents in Treatment and Managing Complex Symptoms (Oct. 5, 2016), presented by Eric Storch, Ph.D.
Watch the recorded webinar.
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ADAA
 Have you read the latest edition of our journal? 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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Medical News Today
Antidepressant medication is considered a primary treatment for major depression, but the drugs fail to fully work for more than half of Americans who use them. Now, researchers suggest a way to boost their effectiveness: breathing-based yoga. In a pilot study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, researchers reveal how eight weeks of Sudarshan Kriya yoga improved symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients with major depressive disorder who were not responding to antidepressants.
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Psych Central
Many types of anxiety disorders such as panic disorder, social anxiety disorder and specific phobias, share a common underlying feature: increased sensitivity to uncertain threat, or fear of the unknown, according to a new study at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The findings are published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
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Science Daily
Mental disorders and physical diseases frequently go hand in hand. For the first time, psychologists at the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have identified temporal patterns in young people: arthritis and diseases of the digestive system are more common after depression, while anxiety disorders tend to be followed by skin diseases.
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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
Chronically ill women who don't use the internet may struggle with worse health, a new study finds. Researchers at at Oregon State University analyzed information provided by hundreds of American women aged 44 and older with at least one chronic condition. These included heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, asthma, emphysema and anxiety.
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The Medical News
Individual sessions of cognitive processing therapy — a trauma-focused treatment that teaches patients more balanced thinking about traumatic events — were better at reducing the severity of posttraumatic stress disorder in active-duty military members, although group sessions also were effective, according to an article published online by JAMA Psychiatry.
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HealthDay News
About one out of seven children in 6th and 9th grades has been a victim of stalking, potentially boosting their risk of substance abuse, dating violence and other dangers, a new U.S. survey finds. The research doesn't confirm that being stalked makes it more likely that a teenager will do risky things or become a victim in other ways. But the findings do raise the prospect that stalking among teens is a hazard beyond the fear and danger that it creates.
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Medical Xpress
The interactive app developed by TU Delft, Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam to help people with chronic insomnia to learn a better sleep rhythm has been shown to work. The use of this virtual coach reduces sleeping problems, argues doctoral candidate Corine Horsch.
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Medical News Today
Fear-related anxiety disorders — such as phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder — affect millions of Americans. Although treatment options such as psychotherapy, medication and alternative therapies are widely available, their success rates vary. A team of international neuroscientists may have found a way to "remove" specific fears from the brain.
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Science Daily
Probiotics have become increasingly popular as a way to improve health and well-being. Previous studies have shown a direct correlation between gut microbes and the central nervous system. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri, using a zebrafish model, determined that a common probiotic sold in supplements and yogurt can decrease stress-related behavior and anxiety.
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U.S. News & World Report
The laundry is piling up. Calls from friends and family are going unreturned. You haven't been active for quite some time, and in general you've stopped doing many things you used to love to do. It's not that you're busy: You're depressed. Cognitive behavioral therapy, the gold standard in psychotherapy for addressing depression, helps individuals change the negative thought patterns that may contribute to the mood disorder.
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Medscape
Almost one-third of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) also have a diagnosis of depression, new research shows. The study was published online Nov. 23 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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