Psychology / Psychiatry News From Medical News Today

• Study Examines Testing Model To Predict And Diagnose New Cases Of Dementia
• UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute Researchers To Begin Widespread Newborn Screening For Fragile X Syndrome
• Windsor Medicare Extra Hosts Behavioral Health Symposium In Little Rock, USA
• Face Recognition: Nurture Not Nature
• Facial Metrics Predict Behavioural Aggression In The Laboratory And In Varsity And Professional Ice Hockey Players
• How Memory Deals With A Change In Plans
• Suicidal Thoughts Not Uncommon Among US Students

Depression News From Medical News Today

• Suicidal Thoughts Not Uncommon Among US Students
• Actavis Receives Approval Of Generic Wellbutrin XL(R) 300mg In The United States
• Driving Ability May Be Impaired By Antidepressants, New Research Finds
• Studies Show ‘Hope Therapy’ Fights Depression
• Ancient Sheep Help Pinpoint Brain Timing Mechanisms Linked To Seasonal Affective Disorder
• Counselors Prepare To Assist Returning Servicemembers
• Alzheimer’s Society Comment On Age Concern Research Into Depression In Older People, UK

Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today

• Affymetrix Technology Helps Advance Schizophrenia Research
• Putting The Brakes On Psychosis And Its Impact
• Human Brains Pay A Price For Being Big
• Psychotic Symptoms Relieved With Estrogen Treatment
• Trial Into The Link Between Prenatal Vitamin D Levels And Schizophrenia Prevalence
• Improving The Prognosis For Schizophrenic Disorders
• Unusual Chromosomal Changes Increase The Risk Of Schizophrenia

Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical News Today

• Confusion About Nicotine May Stop Smokers From Kicking The Habit
• New Clinical Guideline Helps Healthcare Professionals Take A Positive Step In Alcohol And Substance Use Prevention
• HIV-Positive Drug Users In Thailand Experience Difficulties Accessing Treatment, Advocates Say
• Mechanism Behind Cocaine Craving Identified
• Males Account For Nearly 80 Per Cent Of Drug Related Deaths, UK
• Serial Killers, Excessive Drinking And Lifestyle Timebombs At The BA Festival Of Science
• Alcohol Dependence Drug Can Cause Adverse Reactions Warned FDA

Anxiety / Stress News From Medical News Today

• Oral Contraceptives May Ease Suffering Of Women With Severe PMS, Clinical Trial
• Suicidal Thoughts Not Uncommon Among US Students
• Study: Stress & Anxiety Make Your Allergies Worse
• Student Anxieties Often Based On Exaggerated Perceptions Of What Parents Expect, UCF Study Finds
• Lung Association: Going Back To School With Asthma Shouldn’t Cause Anxiety
• Stress, Anxiety Can Make Allergy Attacks Even More Miserable, Last Longer
• Counselors Prepare To Assist Returning Servicemembers

Autism News From Medical News Today

• Facial Structures, Brain Abnormalities Studied To Reveal Formula For Detection Of Autism
• Project Lifesaver Program Helps Law Enforcement Locate At-Risk Citizens Across The USA
• California Learning Center Offers Autism Programs Tailored For Chinese-American Children
• UT Houston Researchers Study Diet In Autistic Children - Possible Link Between Gluten, Dairy Products Will Be Tested
• Chairman Of National Association Of Karate And Martial Art Schools Has Asperger Syndrome, UK
• Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell Law Requiring Private Health Insurers To Cover Treatment For Autism
• Disrupted Communication Networks In Brain Lead To Autism’s Social Struggles

Bipolar News From Medical News Today

• Gene Abnormalities Implicated In Bipolar Disorder - Sodium, Calcium Imbalances Linked To Manic Depressive Episodes
• Astonishing 52 Percent Of Newly Diagnosed Bipolar Disorder Patients Receive Antidepressant Drugs In First-Line Treatment
• FDA Approves First Generic Divalproex Sodium To Treat Seizures, Migraine Headaches And Bipolar Disorder
• Depression And Bipolar Results Worth Striving For - A New Recovery Model For Mental Illness
• Supplemental New Drug Application For Risperdal® Consta® Submitted To The FDA For The Treatment Of Bipolar Disorder
• Alexza Initiates Second Phase 3 Clinical Trial For AZ-004 (Staccato(R) Loxapine)
• Improving Traditional Psychiatric Diagnoses With Genetics

Am J Psychiatry current issue

• [Book Forum] Metabolic Syndrome and Psychiatric Illness: Interactions, Pathophysiology, Assessment, and Treatment
• [Editorials] Cholinergic Agonists as Novel Treatments for Schizophrenia: The Promise of Rational Drug Development for Psychiatry
• [Letters to the Editor] D-Cycloserine Augmentation for Behavioral Therapy
• [Editorials] Neural Networks in Schizophrenia
• [Articles] Initial Phase 2 Trial of a Nicotinic Agonist in Schizophrenia
• [Editorials] New Insights Into Clinical Response in Schizophrenia: From Dopamine D2 Receptor Occupancy to Patients’ Quality of Life
• [Letters to the Editor] Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Patient With Emotional Stress

Diagnosis and Distress in Navajo Healing.

Psychiatric Distress Among Asian and European American Survivors of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake.

Development and Initial Validation of a Statistical Prediction Instrument for Assessing Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Subject and Interviewer Determinants of the Adequacy of the Dynamic Interview.

Latent Class Analysis of Delusion-Proneness: Exploring the Latent Structure of the Peters et al. Delusions Inventory.

Mindfulness Predicts Relapse/Recurrence in Major Depressive Disorder After Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.

Auditory Hallucinations in Adolescent and Adult Students: Implications for Continuums and Adult Pathology Following Child Abuse.

Psychosomatic Medicine current issue

• Drive for Thinness and Attention Toward Specific Body Parts in a Nonclinical Sample
• Impaired Central Processing of Emotional Faces in Anorexia Nervosa
• Depressive Symptoms and Heart Rate Variability: Evidence for a Shared Genetic Substrate in a Study of Twins
• Personality Predictors of Longevity: Activity, Emotional Stability, and Conscientiousness
• Depressive Behavior and Coronary Artery Atherogenesis in Adult Female Cynomolgus Monkeys
• Alexithymia and Somatization in General Population
• Community Socioeconomic Status is Associated With Circulating Interleukin-6 and C-Reactive Protein

MedPage Today Psychiatry

• ACS: Ear Infections in Childhood Linked to Obesity in Grownups
• Long-Term Benefits for Back Pain Seen with One-on-One Instruction
• New Technique May Predict Dementia Risk
• Poor Sleep May Lead to Hypertension in Teens
• Abortion Not a Risk Factor for Mental Health Problems
• Bariatric Surgery Doesn’t Put Sleep Apnea to Rest
• FDA Warns of Injection-Site Reactions with Naltrexone for Alcoholism

Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health Headlines

• Association of Environmental Toxicants and Conduct Disorder in U.S. Children: NHANES 2001-2004
• Mild Cognitive Impairment Linked to Diabetes Duration, Severity
• Combination of Severe Depression and Antidepressant Use Impairs Driving Ability
• Why Should I Report an Adverse Drug Event?
• The Multidisciplinary Team in Multiple Sclerosis: Harnessing the Array of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools to Improve Quality of Life
• FDA Approves First Drug for Treatment of Chorea in Huntington’s
• Training-Induced Brain Structure Changes In The Elderly: Commentary from F1000

Schizophrenia Bulletin - current issue

• An Investigation of the Relationship Between Activation of a Social Cognitive Neural Network and Social Functioning
• Structural Cerebral Variations as Useful Endophenotypes in Schizophrenia: Do They Help Construct "Extended Endophenotypes"?
• Making Progress in Schizophrenia Research
• Schizophrenia, Psychiatric Genetics, and Darwinian Psychiatry: An Evolutionary Framework
• Manganese-Enhanced MRI: An Exceptional Tool in Translational Neuroimaging
• Abnormal Superior Temporal Connectivity During Fear Perception in Schizophrenia
• Studying and Treating Schizophrenia Using Virtual Reality: A New Paradigm

Acad Psychiatry current issue

• [RESEARCH ARTICLES] Training Clinicians in Cultural Psychiatry: A Canadian Perspective
• [MEDIA COLUMN] Television Media as a Potential Negative Factor in the Racial Identity Development of African American Youth
• [SPECIAL ARTICLES] An Integrative Approach to Cultural Competence in the Psychiatric Curriculum
• [BRIEF REPORTS] Evaluating a Lecture on Cultural Competence in the Medical School Preclinical Curriculum
• [SPECIAL ARTICLES] Diversity Initiatives in Academic Psychiatry: Applying Cultural Competence
• [EDITORIALS] Culture and Psychiatric Education
• [SPECIAL ARTICLES] Using Non-Feature Films to Teach Diversity, Cultural Competence, and the DSM-IV-TR Outline for Cultural Formulation

Journal of Pediatric Psychology - current issue

• Implications of Resolving the Diagnosis of PKU for Parents and Children
• Chronic Pain in Adolescence: Parental Responses, Adolescent Coping, and their Impact on Adolescent’s Pain Behaviors
• A Cumulative Risk Model Predicting Caregiver Quality of Life in Pediatric Asthma
• Diabetes Problem Solving by Youths with Type 1 Diabetes and their Caregivers: Measurement, Validation, and Longitudinal Associations with Glycemic Control
• Commentary: Multiple Risk Models in Pediatric Research–Considering the Context that Shapes Children’s Health
• Toward Conceptual Clarity in a Critical Parenting Construct: Parental Monitoring in Youth with Chronic Illness
• An Integration of Parents’ and Best Friends’ Smoking, Smoking-Specific Cognitions, and Nicotine Dependence in Relation to Readiness to Quit Smoking: A Comparison between Adolescents with and without Asthma

In This Issue/Abstract Thinking: Pediatric Primary Care Providers and Depression in Community Settings.

Paying Attention to Stimulants: Height, Weight, and Cardiovascular Monitoring in Clinical Practice.

Helping Adolescents Affected by War, Trauma, and Displacement.

But Seriously: Clowning in Children’s Mental Health.

Flexibility Within Fidelity.

Effect of Stimulants on Height and Weight: A Review of the Literature.

Mental Disorders Among Adolescents in Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facilities: A Systematic Review and Metaregression Analysis of 25 Surveys.

Editorial introductions.

Mental health of people with intellectual disabilities.

Facial emotion recognition in intellectual disabilities.

Traumatic experiences and life events in people with intellectual disability.

Forensic issues in intellectual disability.

Aggressive challenging behaviour and intellectual disability.

Community services for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems.

Efficacy, safety, and tolerability of fixed-dose desvenlafaxine 50 and 100 mg/day for major depressive disorder in a placebo-controlled trial.

A 12-week, open, randomized trial comparing sodium valproate to lithium in patients with bipolar I disorder suffering from a manic episode.

Antipsychotics associated with pulmonary embolism in a Swedish medicolegal autopsy series.

A randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled trial of quetiapine augmentation of fluoxetine in major depressive disorder.

Impact of escitalopram treatment on Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire scores in major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.

Is the Defined Daily Dose system a reliable tool for standardizing antipsychotic dosages?

Association of the catechol-O-methyltransferase polymorphism with methylphenidate response in a classroom setting in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Alcohol and Alcoholism - current issue

• Alcohol Consumption in The Netherlands in the Last Decade: Sharp Decreases in Binge Drinking, Especially among Youngsters
• The Pervading Influence of Alcoholic Liver Disease in Hepatology
• The Short Allele of the Serotonin Transporter Promoter Polymorphism Influences Relapse in Alcohol Dependence
• A Response to the Paper ‘Investigation of the "Hangover" Effects of an Acute Dose of Alcohol on Psychomotor Performance’ by Lemon
• Distribution and Differential Induction of CYP2E1 by Ethanol and Acetone in the Mesocorticolimbic System of Rat
• Childhood and Current Determinants of Heavy Drinking in Early Adulthood
• Red Wine, but not Port Wine, Protects Rat Hippocampal Dentate Gyrus Against Ethanol-Induced Neuronal Damage–Relevance of the Sugar Content

FOCUS current issue

• [INFLUENTIAL PUBLICATIONS] Prenatal Infection as a Risk Factor for Schizophrenia
• [INFLUENTIAL PUBLICATIONS] Deconstructing Schizophrenia: An Overview of the Use of Endophenotypes in Order to Understand a Complex Disorder
• [CLINICAL SYNTHESIS] New-Onset Schizophrenia: Pharmacologic Treatment
• [INFLUENTIAL PUBLICATIONS] New Paradigms for Treatment Development
• [CLINICAL SYNTHESIS] Schizophrenia Host Vulnerability and Risk of Metabolic Disturbances During Treatment with Antipsychotics
• [INFLUENTIAL PUBLICATIONS] Mortality and Medical Comorbidity Among Patients With Serious Mental Illness
• [CLINICAL SYNTHESIS] Neurocognition as a Treatment Target in Schizophrenia

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Current Psychiatry

• Your vote, please; What’s ailing psychiatry?
• Malpractice minute
• Antipsychotics in dementia: Beyond ‘black-box’ warnings
• Desvenlafaxine for depression
• The patient who ’spilled salt’
• Residents need CME, too
• CME: A polarizing issue

Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention - current issue

• Brief and Intermittent Approaches to Practice: The State of Practice
• The Role of Religion in the Generation of Suicide Bombers
• A Naturalistic Study of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Trial Therapy
• Gender Differences in Coping with Victimization
• Correlates of Crime and Violence among Persons with Mental Disorder: An Evidence-Based Review
• When You Look Like the Enemy

J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci current issue

• [LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] Multiple Embolic Phenomenon in the Brain Associated With Parenteral Buprenorphine Abuse
• [SPECIAL ARTICLES] An Evidence-Based Review of the Psychopathology of Frontotemporal Dementia: A Report of the ANPA Committee on Research
• [LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] Risperidone and Valproate for Mania Following Stroke
• [SPECIAL ARTICLES] Comparability of the Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Vascular Dementia: A Critical Review. Part I
• [LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] Neuroleptic Induced Laryngo-Pharyngeal Dystonia
• [SPECIAL ARTICLES] Validity of the Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Vascular Dementia: A Critical Review. Part II
• [WINDOWS TO THE BRAIN] Astroglia: Not Just Glue

Evidence of depressive symptoms in fragile-X syndrome premutated females.

Genome screen of 15 Australian bipolar affective disorder pedigrees supports previously identified loci for bipolar susceptibility genes.

Angiotensinogen M235T polymorphism and symptoms of depression in a population-based study and a family-based study.

Polymorphisms of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR, A/G SNP in 5-HTTLPR, and STin2 VNTR) and their relation to personality traits in healthy individuals from Russia.

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor polymorphisms and frontal cortex morphology in schizophrenia.

The influence of 5-HTTLPR and STin2 polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene on treatment effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in depressive patients.

Genome-wide parametric linkage analyses of 644 bipolar pedigrees suggest susceptibility loci at chromosomes 16 and 20.

Molecular Psychiatry

• Potential adverse effects of amphetamine treatment on brain and behavior: a review
• Continuous expression of corticotropin-releasing factor in the central nucleus of the amygdala emulates the dysregulation of the stress and reproductive axes
• The implications of gene–environment interactions in depression: will cause inform cure?
• The dystrobrevin-binding protein 1 gene: features and networks
• Panic disorder is associated with the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) but not the promoter region (5-HTTLPR)
• Excess of serotonin affects embryonic interneuron migration through activation of the serotonin receptor 6
• Soluble amyloid precursor proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid as novel potential biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease: a multicenter study

A Life Regained.

ECT-A Progress Report After 37 Months.

The Meaning of Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Patient’s Perspective.

Change in Seizure Threshold During Electroconvulsive Therapy.

Outcome of Electroconvulsive Therapy by Race in the Consortium for Research on Electroconvulsive Therapy Multisite Study.

The Use of Electroconvulsive Therapy in the Elderly: A Study From the Psychiatric Unit of a North Indian Teaching Hospital.

Electroconvulsive Therapy in Patients Taking Steroid Medication: Should Supplemental Doses Be Given on the Days of Treatment?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry current issue

• [Editorial commentaries] Late onset depressive symptoms can be a marker of cerebral vascular pathology
• [Short reports] Intractable hiccup and nausea in neuromyelitis optica with anti-aquaporin-4 antibody: a herald of acute exacerbations
• [Editorial commentaries] Treatment of neurocysticercosis: a randomised controlled trial
• [Research papers] Sporadic inclusion body myositis: Phenotypic variability and influence of HLA-DR3 in a cohort of 57 Australian cases
• [Research papers] Risk profiles for mild cognitive impairment and progression to dementia are gender specific
• [PostScript] Neuromyelitis optica in patients with gluten sensitivity associated with antibodies to aquaporin-4
• [Research papers] Abnormal plasticity of sensorimotor circuits extends beyond the affected body part in focal dystonia