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Calming the mind and changing sleep patterns will help individuals battling insomnia and depression, says psychology professor Colleen Carney. She is a co-author of self-help guide, Quiet Your Mind and Get to Sleep: Solutions to Insomnia for Those With Depression,
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With the recent appointment of Gen. Carter Ham, commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe, and Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon’s chief legal counsel, to head a yearlong study of the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” rule banning open gays
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The next time your restless infant keeps you awake all night, make sure you observe him more keenly. A study reviewed and published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research in February says that sleep disordered breathing (SDB), thought to
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I would like to illustrate different ways of coping with stress with two brief case histories. Patient X, a long-serving civil servant received an urgent and unexpected notice from his supervisor that his workload was to be increased tenfold. Unable
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U.S. researchers looking for genetic changes linked to autism reported on Monday an advanced gene test that searches for deleted or extra DNA in chromosomes worked three times better than standard tests. They said the test, known as a chromosomal
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On the front lines of the mental health system, treating the patient takes top priority. However, those who deliver these services say it’s equally important that practitioners are also involved in the research component of their fields. “When you look
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Older adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BP) have a greater medical burden outside of these illnesses when it comes to neurophysical deficits and cognitive function, researchers said here on March 7 at the 2010 Annual Meeting
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Psychotropic Medication Use Mediates Obesity in Patients With Mood, Anxiety Disorders: Presented at ADAA The increased odds of obesity in individuals with mood and anxiety disorders is mediated by medication use, according to a study presented here March 6 at
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A single-page questionnaire can help primary-care doctors screen patients for common psychiatric illnesses, U.S. researchers report. Called My Mood Monitor (M-3), the checklist includes 27 questions designed to screen for depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Those with more severe depressive symptoms report more relationship distress, U.S. researchers found. Twin sisters Leanne Knobloch of the University of Illinois and Lynne Knobloch-Fedders of The Family Institute at Northwestern University said more than three decades of research has
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A new study proved that the My Mood Monitor (M-3) – an online one-page secure questionnaire used to self-gauge mood and “relative risk for depression, an anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)” – is a useful and
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Diabetics with major depression are more than twice as likely to develop dementia compared to individuals with diabetes alone, found in a new study. The link between major depression diabetes and dementia is discovered from an analysis of the Pathways
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