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IN THE NEWS
- Relaxation techniques are effective in reducing anxiety--meta-analysis
- Serotonin linked to impulsive aggression
- How working memory affects moral judgment
- Bipolar disorder may be over-diagnosed
- Family history of suicide and childhood abuse worsen bipolar outcomes
- Emotional memory impaired in bipolar disorder
- Adolescent bipolar disorder significantly increases risk for substance abuse
- Men and women show different depression symptom profiles
- "Mine!" How pre-school children reason about ownership
- Private, enhanced foster care associated with better mental health in young adults
- Body language in interviewing children--effect on suggestibility
- Trichotillomania
- The neuroscience of films
- Newer areas in the maturing brain show stronger genetic influences
- Mood dysregulation in BPD--should BPD be considered part of the mood disorders spectrum?
- Differences between criminal and non-criminal psychopaths
- CBT does not prevent relapse in psychotic patients
- Exposure therapy more effective than CBT for preventing PTSD after trauma
- Problem-solving therapy can be effective for adolescent depression
- Shorter duration of untreated psychosis impacts schizophrenia negative symptoms
- Some similarities between schizophrenia and brain damage
- Enzyme that contributes to Alzheimer's disease linked to schizophrenia
- Different symptoms of psychosis predicted by brain activity
FOCUS ON ... Synaesthesia
PSYCHLITS: ON THE PSYCH RADAR
- CBT shows promise for early first-episode psychosis
- Paediatric bipolar disorder may interfere with development of social-cognitive skills
- Humour recognition, but not appreciation, affected in schizophrenia
- Needle-phobia: most effective treatment for children
- Rorschach correlates of adolescent self-mutilation
- PTDS common and clinically significant in bipolar disorder
- Hypofrontality in depressed people at risk for schizophrenia
- Bidirectional association between type 2 diabetes and depression
PSYCH-POINTERS...
- Williams syndrome: A critical review of the cognitive, behavioral, and neuroanatomical phenotype
- When children tell stories: Developmental considerations
DRUGS & MEDICATION
- Lexapro takes the lead in the treatment of GAD
- Alternative & complementary therapy
- Valerian not effective for insomnia in older women
- Mice study suggests grape seed extract may reduce cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's
BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS
CONFERENCES & EVENTS
