A stunning map of depression rates around the world. Redder countries have higher depression rates.
Bluer countries have lower depression rates. (Max Fisher/The Washington Post) The Middle East and North Africa suffer the world’s highest depression rates, according to a new study by researchers at Australia’s University of Queensland -- and it’s costing people in the region years off their lives. The study, published this week in the journal PLOS Medicine, used data on the prevalence, incidence and duration of depression to determine the social and public health burden of the disorder around the world. OK2TALK. Piracy Isn’t Killing The Entertainment Industry, Scholars Show. The London School of Economics and Political Science has released a new policy brief urging the UK Government to look beyond the lobbying efforts of the entertainment industry when it comes to future copyright policy.
According to the report there is ample evidence that file-sharing is helping, rather than hurting the creative industries. The scholars call on the Government to look at more objective data when deciding on future copyright enforcement policies. Over the past years there have been ample research reports showing that file-sharing can have positive effects on the entertainment industries. Interestingly: the sentence adverbs of PubMed Central. Scientific writing – by which I mean journal articles – is a strange business, full of arcane rules and conventions with origins that no-one remembers but to which everyone adheres.
Surprisingly, we find that the execution of karyokinesis and cytokinesis is timely… Grossly, the tumor is well circumscribed with fibrous capsule… Correspondingly, the short-term Smad7 gene expression is graded… The example that always makes me smile is interestingly. “This is interesting. You may not have realised that.
So I said interestingly, just to make it clear.” My Doctor's Office Asked me to Lie. For current political commentary, see the daily political notes.
RMS' Bio | The GNU Project -- Richard Stallman August 2011 I saw a doctor this week. Recovery residences and long-term addiction recovery. By Leonard A. Jason, Amy A. Mericle, Douglas L. Polcin, and William L. White Drug abuse and addiction are among the costliest of health problems, totaling approximately $428 billion annually. In contrast, recovery residences are lower cost, community-based residential environments that require abstinence from substance use and abuse.
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals. How Lariam can trigger psychosis. Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders. The Psychologists Daily. Template.cfm?Section=First_Episode&Template=%2FContentManagement%2FContentDisplay. Co-hosts: Ken Duckworth, M.D., NAMI medical director and clinician, Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC) Prevention and Recovery from Early Psychosis (PREP) program, and Michelle Friedman-Yakoobian, Ph.D., MMHC Center for Early Detection and Response to Risk (CEDAR).
How individuality develops: Experience leads to growth of new brain cells. The adult brain continues to grow with the challenges that it faces; its changes are linked to the development of personality and behavior.
But what is the link between individual experience and brain structure? Why do identical twins not resemble each other perfectly even when they grew up together? Mental Health and the DSM-5: Is Anyone Normal Anymore? Today, the American Psychiatric Association released the much-anticipated fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , a 1,000-page revision 20 years in the making.
The book has come under heavy fire from mental health professionals, including the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which has distanced itself from the DSM-5 because of its tendency to define disorders based on symptoms, not scientific data. Many others have come out against the book's broadening of diagnoses, including its assertion that the grief experienced after a loved one’s death can be diagnosed as major depression. Other changes include labeling children’s tantrums as “disruptive mood dysregulation disorder," and excessive thoughts about pain as “somatic symptom disorder.”
Some mental health experts say the DSM-5 is leading us down a dangerous path toward treating and medicating normal human emotional responses. Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories. Crazy as these theories are, those propagating them are not — they’re quite normal, in fact.
But recent scientific research tells us this much: if you think one of the theories above is plausible, you probably feel the same way about the others, even though they contradict one another. Subgrouping the Autism “Spectrum": Reflections on DSM-5. Figures Citation: Lai M-C, Lombardo MV, Chakrabarti B, Baron-Cohen S (2013) Subgrouping the Autism “Spectrum": Reflections on DSM-5.
PLoS Biol 11(4): e1001544. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001544 Academic Editor: Eric Nestler, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, United States of America Published: April 23, 2013 Copyright: © 2013 Lai et al. Ten Common Fallacies Everyone Should Know. The Real Problems With Psychiatry - Hope Reese. A psychotherapist contends that the DSM, psychiatry's "bible" that defines all mental illness, is not scientific but a product of unscrupulous politics and bureaucracy.
Wikimedia Commons On May 22, the American Psychiatric Association will release the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-5. National Fibromyalgia Association: About Fibromyalgia. About Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia: What we now know Patrick B. Wood, MD Senior Medical Advisor National Fibromyalgia Association. Nellynette Torres - Ad with secret anti-abuse message only visible to children.
Older grandfathers pass on autism risk through generations. Men who have children at older ages are more likely to have grandchildren with autism compared to younger grandfathers, according to new research. This is the first time that research has shown that risk factors for autism may accumulate over generations. The study led by King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Queensland Brain Institute in Australia is published today in JAMA Psychiatry. By using Swedish national registers, researchers identified 5,936 individuals with autism and 30,923 healthy controls born in Sweden since 1932.
The Large Print Giveth; The Small Print Taketh Away. Genetic evidence that new therapies targeting Parkinson's disease may cause harm. NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) and Mayo Clinic researchers have partnered on a study that shows genetic and clinical evidence that therapies targeting the expression of alpha-synuclein -- a gene whose function is involved in the development and progression of Parkinson's disease -- may accelerate disease progression and increase the risk of physical incapacitation and dementia. ADHD Pictures Slideshow: Daily Living Tips for Adult ADHD. PsycExplorer. Molecular roots of Down syndrome unraveled. Researchers have discovered that the extra chromosome inherited in Down syndrome impairs learning and memory because it leads to low levels of SNX27 protein in the brain. Happy Birthday, Viktor Frankl: Timeless Wisdom on the Human Search for Meaning. 1 in 5 city preteens have mental woes. More than 145,000 city children — roughly one in five — between 6 and 12 struggle with mental illness or other emotional woes, a new study has found.
The city Health Department’s analysis shows that 6 percent of kids in that age range have been diagnosed with ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and other behavioral problems. The Time Is Now. List of Machine Learning and Data Science Resources - Part 2. Study: Silent treatment best way to deal with jerks. Online Newsroom - Press Release - Binge drinking is a serious, under-recognized problem among women and high school girls.
Binge drinking is a dangerous behavior that can lead to tragic circumstances. It’s not often recognized as a women’s health problem but nearly 14 million U.S. women binge drink about three times a month, and consume an average of six drinks per binge, according to a Vital Signs report released today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report highlights how binge drinking puts women at increased risk for many health problems such as breast cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, heart disease, and unintended pregnancy. Pregnant women who binge drink expose a developing baby to high levels of alcohol, which can lead to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and sudden infant death syndrome.
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VMNIS. The Numbers Count: Mental Disorders in America. Nellynette Torres - Freud. Freud hypnotises von Schlosser. '+windowtitle+' Teaching my 5 year old daughter to code… Children: reducing mortality. The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal — www.guardian.co.uk. Fraud, not error, accounts for most scientific retractions. Words Matter. World Mental Health Day - focus on depression (PSA) Scientism. How to Stop Hospitals from Killing Us.
The Scientific Cure for Hangovers. Digital Age overload: ‘Internet addiction’ to be classified as mental illness. Mental Disorder posters. Predicting how patients respond to therapy: Brain scans could help doctors choose treatments for people with social anxiety disorder. Research Publication: Spanner. Consent to research. Psychology. Warning Signs of Suicide. 5 Essential Books and Talks on the Psychology of Choice. Predicting how patients respond to therapy: Brain scans could help doctors choose treatments for people with social anxiety disorder.