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Anxiety & stress
- Individual vs group CBT for children with anxiety disorder
- Differences between MDE and GAD uncovered
Depression
- Patients may stop taking antidepressants due to a feeling of hopelessness—CBT recommended
Diagnosing mood disorders in the laboratory
- Blood tests to determine mood disorders
- Brain protein could change future diagnosis and treatment of depression
Emotions
- Suppression not the best cognitive strategy—evidence from neuroscience
Internet & child abuse
- Internet predators stalk teenagers, not young children
Neuroscience
- Babies may have a gift for numbers
- Sex differences in the brain
Organizational psychology
- Best practices for performance appraisals
Sleep disorders
- Insomniacs and normal sleepers have similar definitions of sleep quality
Psychotherapy
- CBT for anxiety disorders
- MBCT effective for suicidal bipolar patients
- More proof that psychological intervention reduces pain
- Brief internet-based depression interventions have long-term benefits
Schizophrenia
Focus on ...
… Bipolar spectrum disorder
- Factors that can lead to undiagnosed bipolar disorder
- Inability to identify facial emotion linked to higher risk for bipolar disorder
- Circadian rhythm defects in ill and recovered bipolar patients
- Early-onset depression—a bipolar spectrum subtype?
- Light therapy may be useful in bipolar disorder depression
- Bipolar rapid cycling
- Vagus nerve stimulation effective for rapid-cycling bipolar disorder
- Bipolar I and II patients show different neurocognitive profiles
… Personality, genes and mental disorders
- Cancer risk not linked to personality traits
- Genes and personality
- Increasing the risk for depression
- Happiness—nature or nurture?
- A gene for fear
- Interaction between genes, personality and susceptibility to psychosis
Psychlits: on the psych radar
- Curvy mothers have brainier children
- Brain abnormalities in adolescents linked to psychosis
- Low testosterone levels linked to depression in older men
- Parental Type 2 diabetes common in schizophrenia patients
- Adolescents with mood disorders have enlarged pituitary glands
- Psychosis patients with abnormal EEG have worse symptom outcomes
- Company profits are linked to the CEO's face
- Suicidal electrocution in Sydney: 1996–2005
Drugs & Medication
- Antidepressants benefit only some of the severely depressed
- Evidence for the effectiveness of antidepressants questioned
- Abilify approved for acute treatment of Bipolar I Disorder in paediatric patients
- Antidepressants can be effective for OCD
- No link between MMR vaccine and autism
Books & Publications
Conferences & Events
