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Art-based mindfulness activities reduces headaches in adolescent girls

Teenagers report higher levels of stress than adults, and cite school as the highest contributing factor, according to the American Psychological Association's annual report.

30 Jul 2019

Cancer patients share survivorship story, celebrate strength and self-care

To survive in his struggle against an aggressive form of prostate cancer, Bin McLaurin didn't only have to overcome the disease attacking his body. He said he also had to toss out his long-held image of masculinity.

16 Jun 2019

Priory’s Roehampton Hospital rated as 'good' across mental health and addictions services by CQC

The Priory’s Roehampton Hospital in south-west London has been rated as ‘good’ across all the mental health and addictions services it offers by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission.

6 May 2019

Using robots in autism therapy for children

Autistic children lack essential social and communication skills, and the type and severity of the symptoms experienced are wide-ranging. Because they have such diverse ways of expressing their emotions, it is difficult for therapists to gauge how engaged they are with the therapy.

13 Mar 2019

Up-to-date guidance for clinicians to treat HIV-related cardiovascular disease

Since the advent of effective antiretroviral therapy, human immunodeficiency virus infection has become more like a chronic illness.

5 Mar 2019

Study: Wide and varied body of evidence support best practices in palliative care

A study commissioned to help guide revisions of best practices in providing palliative care finds that there is a wide and varied body of evidence to support such clinical practice guidelines.

1 Nov 2018

Penn's Radiation Oncology department provides VR mindfulness experience for patients

As your eyes scan the horizon, the starry nightscape gives way to the first hints of light as the sun peeks above the point where the ocean meets the sky. As the sun rises over the water, you glance to your right and notice a swing hanging from a tree that's lightly rocking in the gentle breeze, a breeze you can hear as it rustles leaves and calmly plays through the wind chimes on the deck of the house nearby.

22 Aug 2018

Intensive outpatient treatment shows rapid and meaningful changes in veterans' PTSD symptoms

Military veterans who participated in a three week, intensive outpatient treatment program for post-traumatic stress disorder saw rapid and clinically meaningful changes in PTSD and depression symptoms, according to results of a study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center published July 30 in BMC Psychiatry.

1 Aug 2018

Researchers report first randomized trial results of 'kick and kill' approach to treat HIV

Researchers have reported the results of the first randomized clinical trial to test a novel strategy involving waking up and then killing the 'sleeping' HIV that is hiding in the body using an experimental approach known as 'kick and kill'.

24 Jul 2018

Virtual reality may improve empathy and understanding for older adults with dementia

Virtual reality technology gives high school students greater insight into what it's like to be Alfred -- a 74-year-old African American man with suspected mild cognitive impairment, plus age-related vision and hearing loss, or Beatriz, a middle-aged Latina, as she progresses through the continuum of Alzheimer's disease.

23 Jul 2018

Rush receives $45 million WWP grant to improve mental health care for veterans and their families

Wounded Warrior Project will provide $45 million to Rush University Medical Center to substantially grow its Road Home Program, allowing an expected 5,000 military veterans or their family members to receive mental health care services without cost to them over the next five years.

6 Jun 2018

New research could advance art therapy for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders

Studies conducted at the University of Vienna by Marie Curie fellow Matthew Pelowski have contributed to the formation of the Vienna Integrated Model of Art Perception, a holistic framework within which the multiple cognitive processes underlying art viewing can be systematically organised.

29 May 2018

Art therapy helps veterans cope with trauma and everyday life, study finds

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have found that 98 percent of veterans participating in the University's Artopia program consider that art therapy helped them cope with service-related trauma or disability. An equal percentage reported that art therapy helped them cope with everyday life.

10 May 2018

Brief bedside visual art intervention reduces pain, anxiety in cancer patients

A brief bedside visual art intervention (BVAI) facilitated by art educators improved mood and reduced pain and anxiety in a study of inpatients with haematological cancers.

19 Apr 2018

To treat pain, PTSD and other ills, Tennessee vets try tai chi

Every week in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Zibin Guo guides veterans in wheelchairs through slow-motion tai chi poses as a Bluetooth speaker plays soothing instrumental music.

6 Apr 2018

Coloring books can have some positive effect, but not nearly as potent as art therapy

A new study shows that while those adult coloring books can reduce stress, they're still not art therapy.

15 Dec 2017

Art therapy facilitates improvement of patients with severe depression

Create a picture of how you are feeling on this particular day, said the first exercise in the art therapy. After ten treatments the patients who suffered from severe or moderately severe depression had shown more improvement than the patients in the control group, shows research at Sahlgrenska academy.

6 Nov 2017

Using improv to enhance confidence, combat stigma that surrounds mental health disorders

When it comes to improving the quality of life for people with mental health and substance use disorders, improvisational comedy is no joke. Just ask Rutgers School of Public Health student Mark Lee, who teaches vulnerable populations to gain confidence, communicate better, be spontaneous and trust others through improvisational exercises.

11 Sep 2017

Research highlights need for expert treatment to manage subarachnoid hemorrhages

Research led by the head of the Barrow Neurological Institute and published in the July 20, 2017 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine reveals that subarachnoid hemorrhages, which are caused by ruptured brain aneurysms, account for 5-10 percent of all strokes and are best managed by experienced and dedicated experts at high-volume centers with neurosurgeons, endovascular surgeons and stroke neurologists.

17 Aug 2017

Study suggests use of tablet devices as safe, effective way to control agitation among dementia patients

A new pilot study led by McLean Hospital's Ipsit Vahia, MD, medical director of Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatient Services at McLean Hospital, suggests that the use of tablet computers is both a safe and a potentially effective approach to managing agitation among patients with dementia.

9 Jan 2017