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Veterans who come home from Iraq and Afghanistan with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health diagnoses are hit with a double whammy: They also have greater risk factors for heart disease, according to a report in the Journal
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More than one-third of U.S. veterans seen at Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan were diagnosed with a mental health disorder, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression, according to a new study. Using national
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Tip No. 1: Know the signs of school phobia, separation anxiety and social phobia – Starting or returning to school can stir up a bevy of emotions with a range of effects, from bothersome to debilitating. Knowing a little bit
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When Holly Betten, 28, came home from the hospital after a rough delivery, she had one day to adjust to her new life as a mom before her husband went back to working 12-hour days as a computer-software architect. Her
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Depression treatment must be a holistic process. Depression itself is a jointly physical and psychological disease, one that infects the bodies of its victims as surely as it does their minds. No matter what causes depression, under those circumstances it
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New research discovers a common class of blood pressure medication could protect older adults against memory decline and other impairments in cognitive function. Wake Forest University School of Medicine scientists report that some of the drugs classified as angiotensin-converting enzyme
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A group of researchers proposes the definition for major depressive disorder (MDD) should be shortened to include only mood and cognitive symptoms. If accepted, the 35-year-old definition found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) would not
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Caregivers and parents know that seperation anxiety can be stressful for all involved especially the child. Alex Barzvi, Ph.D.,Clinical director of the New York University Child Study Center’s Institute for Anxiety and Mood Disorders says, by 6 months,introduce your baby
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This month, Georgia officially established its first branch in public health exclusively devoted to mental health. Mental health used to be lumped under the state resources department. “The opportunity presented by this new department brings with it both a higher
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5 Good Reasons to Track Your Mood: An Interview with James Bishop Today I have the pleasure of interviewing one of my first Internet buddies, James Bishop, who runs the site FindingOptimism.com and writes the Finding Optimism blog which has
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Pain symptoms that cannot be attributed, or at least not fully attributed, to an organic origin are more frequently and more severely experienced by patients with depression than by those without. “It is the case that women are much more
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Social cognition – the ability to think about the minds and mental states of others – is essential for human beings. In the last decade, a group of regions has been discovered in the human brain that are specifically used
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