Self-Fulfilling Fakery: Feigning Mental Illness Is a Form of Self-Deception
Symposium To Explore Broadening Partnerships To Spur Medical Advances For War Injuries
The USU-HJF Military Medicine Symposium will gather prominent civilian and military researchers and clinicians from across the United States to discuss current research and identify opportunities to collaborate and share information that could speed treatments to wounded warriors...
Three-Time Victims: Colombians Continue To Face Violence, Neglect, And Stigma As A Result Of Long-Standing Conflict
Victims of the on-going conflict in Colombia not only suffer from the direct consequences of violence caused by the conflict but also from social and institutional stigma and neglect, according to a report released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...
Seaside Therapeutics Reports Data From Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2 Study In Fragile X Syndrome
Seaside Therapeutics, Inc. announced data from the largest randomized, placebo-controlled study conducted to date in individuals with fragile X syndrome. In a Phase 2 study of STX209, clinically meaningful improvements on global and specific neurobehavioral outcomes were observed in the general study population...
Conference On Positive Psychology: UC Berkeley Psychologists Bring Science Of Happiness To China
The ranks of China's millionaires continue to grow, but the increased wealth has done little to boost the country's gross domestic happiness, according to psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley. They say the pursuit of prosperity in the nation is fast outpacing mental health and well-being, and are seeking to correct that imbalance by spreading the science of happiness in China...
Labor Increases Mental Health Investment But More Needed, Australia
The AMA welcomes today's announcement of a greater investment by Labor in mental health services. AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said it is another downpayment on the bigger long-term investment needed to make a real difference in meeting the growing mental health needs of the community...
More Education Delays Dementia Signs–But Not Damage
Education has been liked to decreased risk for dementia for decades, but researchers behind a new study opened up the brains of hundreds of people who had died with the disease to try to find out why this correlation exists. [More]
Dementia - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Neurological Disorders - Education
Forum Explores Youth Mental Health, Australia
Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry will be one of the experts casting a critical eye over the mental health policies of the major parties at a forum tomorrow at The Australian National University. What: Youth mental health: is anybody listening? When: 8.30am to 9...
Insomnia In Children Receiving Mental Health Treatment
A new survey of child psychiatrists indicates that insomnia is a major problem among children in mental health treatment and at least a quarter of these patients are given sleep medication...
Rural Doctors Welcome Additional Mental Health Funding, Australia
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has welcomed today's announcement by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon of additional funding for mental health services, saying it will help increase access to mental healthcare for rural and remote Australians...
