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Easter is awarded Treatment Advocacy Center honors for her efforts in pushing Tennessee legislation that established a pilot program for individuals with untreated severe mental illness Knoxville, TN (PRWEB) October 23, 2012 Knoxville resident Karen Easter has been awarded national honors by the Treatment Advocacy Center for years of effort that led in 2012 to establishment of a pilot program in Tennessee to help people with untreated severe mental illness who are too sick to seek care....
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During the final presidential debate, in the war of words between President Obama and Governor Romney over U.S. foreign and military policy, there were three brief references to America's veterans. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100216/NAMILOGO) Only once was traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) specifically mentioned. "One of the terrible costs of war is mental illness," said...
UCLA researchers test proposed criteria for diagnosing 'hypersexual disorder' The idea that an individual might suffer from a sexual addiction is great fodder for radio talk shows, comedians and late night TV. But a sex addiction is no laughing matter. Relationships are destroyed, jobs are lost, lives ruined. Yet psychiatrists have been reluctant to accept the idea of out-of-control sexual behavior as a mental health disorder because of the lack of scientific evidence. Now a UCLA-led...
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last night, the presidential debates finally talked about mental illness, but in the same breath as criminals and guns. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100216/NAMILOGO) Never mind that one in four American adults experience a mental health problem in any given year, that less than one-third get treatment, and that the U.S. Surgeon General determined over a decade ago that "the overall contribution of mental...
Including educational, occupational, economic and social outcomes Men who were diagnosed as children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) appeared to have significantly worse educational, occupational, economic and social outcomes in a 33-year, follow-up study that compared them with men without childhood ADHD, according to a report published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA Network publication. ADHD has an estimated worldwide prevalence of 5...
People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia. This according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet, whose large-scale Swedish registry study is the most comprehensive ever in its field. Last year, the team showed that artists and scientists were more common amongst families where bipolar disorder and schizophrenia is present, compared to the population...
Hypnotherapy improves overall mental health and is not just for smoking cessation and weight loss. Milton, GA (PRWEB) October 15, 2012 MMI Press announced today that local hypnotist, Stephanie C. Conkle. C.Ht., of Clear Life Results Hypnotherapy, is offering free stress relief group sessions in honor of Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW), on a first come first serve basis, to promote mental health awareness. She will also teach self-hypnosis after the sessions to those participants who...
OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich., Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Oakland County Community Mental Health Authority (OCCMHA) is proud to announce that its executive director, Jeffrey L. Brown, received the Michigan Association of Community Mental Health Boards' Hal Madden Outstanding Service Award at the MACMHB Conference in Traverse City on Monday, October 15, 2012. This distinguished honor recognizes the personal and professional conduct of an individual from within the public mental health...
A new genetic study in Biological Psychiatry One of the biggest challenges in psychiatric genetics has been to replicate findings across large studies. Scientists at King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry have now performed one of the largest ever genetic replication studies of bipolar affective disorder, with 28,000 subjects recruited from 36 different research centers. Their findings provide compelling evidence that the chromosome 3p21.1 locus contains a common genetic risk...
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Representative Paul Ryan pulled no punches in Thursday's vice presidential debate, but "mental health" and "mental illness" were never mentioned. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100216/NAMILOGO) "Finding concern for mental illness is in the presidential debates is like playing a game of Where's Waldo?" said Michael J. Fitzpatrick, executive director of the National Alliance on...
