Mental Health News and Research

Latest Mental Health News and Research

Translating the health law into reality one regulation at a time

Part of implementing the health law includes replacing jargon in health insurance policies with plain English. Meanwhile, the release of a federal mental health parity rule is held up to coordinate it with the overhaul.

16 Mar 2012

Unconscious racial attitudes affect positive interactions leading to the detriment of patient health

Primary care physicians who hold unconscious racial biases tend to dominate conversations with African-American patients during routine visits, paying less attention to patients' social and emotional needs and making these patients feel less involved in decision making related to their health, Johns Hopkins researchers report.

16 Mar 2012

People with strong English and native language proficiencies report better health

Bilingual immigrants are healthier than immigrants who speak only one language, according to new research from sociologists at Rice University.

16 Mar 2012

New textbook about child and adolescent behavioral health, primary care

Within the health care system, children and adolescents with mental health and psychiatric conditions often go undiagnosed.

16 Mar 2012

Medical school students to learn their fate on Match Day

Medical school students around the country will learn their fate this Friday, March 16, on what is known as Match Day.

16 Mar 2012

Neuropeptide F in the fly's brain governs behavior linked with addiction

Sexually deprived male fruit flies exhibit a pattern of behavior that seems ripped from the pages of a sad-sack Raymond Carver story: when female fruit flies reject their sexual advances, the males are driven to excessive alcohol consumption, drinking far more than comparable, sexually satisfied male flies.

16 Mar 2012

Depression increases risk of death in PCI patients

Depression increases the risk of death in patients who have a coronary stent implanted. After seven years of follow up, depressed patients were 1.5 times more likely to have died than non-depressed patients. The findings were independent of age, gender, clinical characteristics, anxiety and the distressed (Type D) personality.

16 Mar 2012

New evidence on the link between suicide and economy

New evidence on the link between suicide and the economy shows that the monthly suicide rate in New York City from 1990 to 2006 was 29% higher at the economic low point in 1992 than at the peak of economic growth in 2000.

16 Mar 2012

Smartphone technology can help assess and treat schizophrenia

Psychiatry is employing smartphone technology as an innovative tool in the assessment and treatment of schizophrenia and other serious mental illness. Prominent in this endeavor is Dror Ben-Zeev, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and director of the Thresholds-Dartmouth Research Center in Chicago.

16 Mar 2012

High rate of trauma among women with HIV plays a role in the epidemic

Physical violence, sexual abuse and other forms of childhood and adult trauma are major factors fueling the epidemic of HIV/AIDS among American women. Scientists have known for years that traumatized women are at greater risk of becoming infected.

16 Mar 2012

Teva gets exclusive 180 days to market generic antidepressant and anti-anxiety pill Lexapro

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Has won U.S. approval to sell the first generic version of Lexapro for depression and anxiety. Teva has been granted a 180-day exclusivity, so no other firm can market the generic medication in the United States in that timeframe, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in a news release.

15 Mar 2012

African-American men who respond to stress with emotional control experience more depression

Enduring subtle, insidious acts of racial discrimination is enough to depress anyone, but African-American men who believe that they should respond to stress with stoicism and emotional control experience more depression symptoms, according to new findings from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

15 Mar 2012

Potential efficacy of specialized psychotherapy in bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder

An investigation published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics addresses the potential efficacy of a specialized psychotherapy in bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder.

15 Mar 2012

Scientists use novel system to discover sequential firing of neurons

Princeton University researchers have used a novel virtual reality and brain imaging system to detect a form of neural activity underlying how the brain forms short-term memories that are used in making decisions.

15 Mar 2012

Combined therapy effective in treating patients with severe facial acne

A combined therapy of common acne medications was shown to be a potent regimen for treating patients with severe facial acne, according to two published studies involving Henry Ford Hospital.

15 Mar 2012

Many women experience memory problems during menopause, confirms study

The difficulties that many women describe as memory problems when menopause approaches are real, according to a study published today in the journal Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society.

15 Mar 2012

One in four HIV patients have been sexually abused as a child

One in four HIV patients was found to have been sexually abused as a child, according to a two-year Duke University study of more than 600 HIV patients. Traumatic childhood experiences were also linked to worse health outcomes among these patients, who are aged 20 to 71.

15 Mar 2012

Viewpoints: Health law savings questioned; Ryan-Wyden plan for all; Penalizing hospitals may not save money

As we approach the second anniversary of ObamaCare, it's worth re-examining some of the claims its proponents made about the impact of the law on health-care costs. Three of the law's most-touted cost-control measures have already been shown to be unlikely to succeed.

15 Mar 2012

Teva commences commercial launch of Escitalopram Oxalate Tablets

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced today that it has commenced commercial launch of Escitalopram Oxalate Tablets, the Company's generic version of Forest Laboratories' depression and generalized anxiety disorder treatment, Lexapro Tablets.

15 Mar 2012

Special conference to explore moral basis of National Health Service

Health professionals, patients and philosophers will come together at a special conference next month to explore the moral basis of the National Health Service.

15 Mar 2012