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Relevant Topics + Exceptional Clinicians
The topics you care about, from the clinicians who know them best.
Each year, the Master Clinician sessions educate, challenge and inspire attendees! We're particularly excited about the lineup this year, which includes several high-interest topics that haven't been covered by Master Clinicians at ADAA before.
Year after year, the Master Clinician sessions are thought-provoking and valuable.
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SAMHSA
This resource assists professional care providers and administrators in understanding the role of culture in the delivery of substance abuse and mental health services. It discusses racial, ethnic and cultural considerations and the core elements of cultural competence.
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The Washington Post
Panic attacks had begun to overwhelm Matty Pitts, and he'd shown up at his doctor's office for help. The physician quickly connected the 22-year-old to a therapist — via computer. For the next 25 minutes, Pitts, sitting in a quiet exam room at Lincoln Family Practice in a rural county northwest of Charlotte, talked face to face with Julia Sherrill, who was on duty 40 miles away in Davidson. He told her about "the rough spot" he'd been having.
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BBC News
A poll of more than 1,100 parents found that 55 percent had not spoken about the subject to their offspring. Of those, 20 percent said they did not know how to address the issue. The survey results have been released as part of a campaign, funded by the Department of Health, to break down the stigma associated with mental health.
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Depression and Anxiety
Read what leading experts have to say about treatment response predictors in the December edition of Depression and Anxiety.
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Depression and Anxiety
No neurocognitive examinations of pediatric trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder; HPD) have taken place. As a result, science's understanding of the underlying pathophysiology associated with HPD in youths is greatly lacking. The present study seeks to begin to address this gap in the literature via examination of executive functioning in a stimulant-free sample of children with HPD.
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PTSD Research Quarterly
There is relatively little adoption of evidence-based
treatments (EBTs) into routine practice. Dissemination
of EBTs or practice guidelines through traditional
educational activities (e.g., formal continuing
education programs) has limited impact on
day-to-day clinical practice. Implementation
science is an emerging field that has developed
as the gap between research and practice has
been identified across a variety of healthcare
settings.
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American Diabetes Association
People with diabetes were more likely to have high levels of stress and/or depressive symptoms, which correlated with an increased incidence of stroke and cardiovascular death, than those without the disease, according to a study in Diabetes Care.
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MD Magazine
Study results indicate that adding aripiprazole to the treatment of adults aged 60 and older who do not achieve remission from depression with a first-line antidepressant appears to effectively achieve and sustain remission. The finding offers hope to the more than 50 percent of an estimated 7 million older adults with clinical depression who do not achieve remission on antidepressant therapy alone.
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UPI
Researchers found treating depression patients with escitalopram, or Lexapro, also caused the levels of two neurotoxic compounds connected to dementia to drop significantly — suggesting the drug could be used to prevent memory loss and dementia. The researchers were studying the immune response to depression, which interacts in a psychological and physiological cycle of stress and response.
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Reuters
People with diabetes are much more prone to depression and stress than other individuals, and these mental health problems in diabetics are tied to an increased risk of strokes and deaths from cardiovascular disease, a U.S. study suggests. The worst outcomes may result when people with diabetes suffer from both stress and depression at the same time, the study found.
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Medical News Today
New research published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research investigates a potentially neuroprotective role of escitalopram, a common antidepressant drug. The study looked at patients with severe depression who were prescribed escitalopram, a common form of SSRI. Of the patients that completed the trial, 80 percent reported at least some degree of remission in their depressive symptoms.
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Medical Xpress
A new scientific model that incorporates the myriad drivers of depression could lead to more precise treatment for an illness that affects 350 million worldwide. The model provides a better understanding of depression and the foundation for creating a pioneering tool to attack the complex disorder. A paper outlining the research team's findings is published online in the journal Psychological Medicine.
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Reuters
Youngsters who spend too much time staring at televisions and computers may be more depressed than those who abstain completely, but kids who enjoy screen time in moderation may be the happiest of all, a recent analysis suggests. Many pediatricians recommend that parents limit screen time to less than two hours a day because excessive use of television, computers and mobile devices is linked to obesity and other health problems and is also thought to impair cognitive development.
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HealthDay News
All kids should be screened for high cholesterol, depression and HIV, with some tests starting as early as age 9, a leading group of U.S. pediatricians recommends. The guidelines, from the American Academy of Pediatrics, are among some key steps the academy has recently taken to advise pediatricians on child health screenings. A summary of the recommendations is published Dec. 7 in the journal Pediatrics.
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Psych Central
New research finds that an imbalance between two neurochemical systems in the brain is linked to post-traumatic stress disorder with the greater the imbalance, the more serious the symptoms. Researchers found that people with post-traumatic stress disorder have an imbalance between two neurochemical systems in the brain, serotonin and substance P.
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HealthDay News
The companionship of a dog may lower a child's anxiety levels, a new study suggests. The researchers looked at almost 650 children aged 18 months and older who were screened for anxiety. Of those children, 58 percent had a dog at home. Only 12 percent of children with dogs tested positive for anxiety, compared with 21 percent of those without dogs.
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