Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Kele Ding
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The Bill of Rights:
1. Treatment must be family- driven and child-focused. Families and youth, (when appropriate), must have a primary decision-making role in their treatment.
2. Children should receive care in home and community-based settings as close to home as possible.
3. Mental health services are an integral part of a [...]
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Filed under: Adolescent Health
Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Kele Ding
13 Apr 2008Female penguins mate with males who bring them pebbles to build egg nests. Hummingbirds mate to gain access to the most productive flowers guarded by larger males.
New research shows that even affluent college students who don’t need resources will still attempt to trade sexual currency for provisions, said Daniel Kruger, research scientist at [...]
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Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Kele Ding
10 Apr 2008
If you clean your house vigorously for twenty minutes non-stop once a week, your anxiety, distress or depression may improve, according to a study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The study also stresses that any type of vigorous physical exercise, sustained for a 20-minute period can have a good impact on [...]
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Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Kele Ding
12 Apr 2008
With Arizona facing a critical crisis of methamphetamine use, Dr. Gregory Ellison, Director of Advanced Medical Center, has identified a very promising new addiction treatment option that shows high success rates and is performed on an out-patient (versus in-patient) basis in 10 hours over five sessions. As the only doctor in the state [...]
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Filed under: Drug Use
Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Kele Ding
10 Apr 2008
Researchers have identified, for the first time, long-term changes in the brain circuitry of methamphetamine-addicted mice that can explain why the craving of addiction is so stubborn and long-lived. The research could lead to more effective treatments for addiction to methamphetamine and related drugs.
In their experiments, the researchers treated mice with methamphetamine and [...]
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Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Kele Ding
11 Apr 2008
Social integration affects the mental health of non-Western male immigrants in a positive way. For women however, social integration gives an increased risk for mental problems according to a new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH).
We found that social integration among non-Western immigrants is linked to good mental health in [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2008 by Kele Ding
08 Apr 2008
University of Minnesota School of Public Health researchers have found that older adolescents who have a bedroom television are less likely to engage in healthy activities such as exercising, eating fruits or vegetables, and enjoying family meals. They also consumed larger quantities of sweetened beverages and fast food, were categorized as heavy TV [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2008 by Kele Ding
05 Apr 2008
Whether you are running for president or looking for a clerical job, you cannot afford to get angry if you are a woman, Yale University psychologist Victoria Brescoll has found.
Brescoll and Eric Uhlmann at Northwestern University recently completed three separate studies to explore a phenomenon that may be all-too-familiar to women like New [...]
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Filed under: Psychology
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Kele Ding
02 Apr 2008
If you are struggling to retrieve a word that you are certain is on the tip of your tongue, or trying to perfect a slapshot that will send your puck flying into a hockey net, or if you keep stumbling over the same sequence of notes on the piano, be warned: you might [...]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Kele Ding
02 Apr 2008
A new study finds that references to illegal drug use in rap music jumped sixfold in the two decades since 1979, the year Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” hit the charts and introduced to a mainstream audience a music genre born from inner-city America.
Moreover, illegal drug use became increasingly linked during this time [...]
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