Archive for July, 2010

Blog Post » Three Principles for Clinical Research

Dr. insel discusses two important initiatives that will have a broad impact on NIMH’s clinical research portfolio.

Minister Moloney Announces 2.6m Euros In Innovation Grants For Disability And Mental Health, Ireland

John Moloney T.D., Minister of State with responsibility for Disability and Mental Health announced the first round of grants, totalling over 2.6m euros, awarded by the Genio Trust to support transition from institutional to personalised models of care in disability and mental health services...

Survey, 30 Percent On Gulf Coast Suffer From Mental Illness In Wake Of Oil Spill

The oil spill ravaging the Gulf of Mexico has inflicted widespread psychological distress among coastal residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, etching scars even deeper than those whipped by Hurricane Katrina, according to a survey by Ochsner Health System, a nonprofit, academic healthcare delivery system...

How Can You Control Your Dreams?

Some dreams feel so revelatory--if only returning to sleep would take us back there. It turns out, however, that our ability to shape our dreams is better than mere chance. In the blockbuster movie Inception , Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his compatriots use drugs and psychological profiles to trigger specific dreams in people. Although the heavy sedation and level of detail incited are far-fetched, dream control isn't entirely a Hollywood fantasy. [More]

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Leonardo DiCaprio - Dream - Inception - Social Sciences - Psychology

Dopamine Determines Impulsive Behavior

Binge-shoppers and serial daters might perpetually be living at the whim of their latest impulse, and now research is getting to the biological basis of their seemingly random behavior. [More]

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Follow Your Nose: Sniff Controller Gives the Severely Disabled a New Way to Communicate and Move

Assistive technology that helps severely paralyzed people navigate the world and communicate with others often taps into whatever abilities the disabled retain, such as blinking or moving the mouth and tongue. Now, for the first time, researchers have invented a device that allows the paralyzed to write, surf the Web and steer an electronic wheelchair--all by sniffing. Initial tests, described July 26 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ), suggest that many severely paralyzed people can easily master the "sniff controller," which offers certain advantages over other technological aids.

2 Potent New Predictors Of Suicide Risk Developed By Psychologists

Two powerful new tests developed by psychologists at Harvard University show great promise in predicting patients' risk of attempting suicide. The work may help clinicians overcome their reliance on self-reporting by at-risk individuals, information that often proves misleading when suicidal patients wish to hide their intentions...

People With Mental Health Problems Must Be Heard On Welfare Reform, UK

Mind's Chief Executive Paul Farmer has joined a scrutiny group which will advise and challenge the independent review set up to look at the fairness and accuracy of the Work Capacity Assessment (WCA), a move which will ensure that the voices of people with experience of mental distress are represented at the highest level in the ongoing review of welfare reform...

Study Reveals Nearly 1 In 5 Californians Report Need For Mental Health Services

In a comprehensive new study of mental health status and the use of mental health services by Californians, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that nearly one in five adults in the state - about 4.9 million people - said they needed help for a mental or emotional health problem...

Will Anyone Be Normal?

This month Journal of Mental Health features a special issue on diagnosing mental illness...