Anxiety UK will have an announcement on World Mental Health Day

World Mental Health Day is Wednesday, 10th October and Anxiety UK will be making an announcement! Please check back on Wednesday to see what we will be releasing in an effort to help support anxiety sufferers. (Source: ANXIETY UK News)

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Sexual and Physical Abuse Early in Life Can Affect GenesSexual and Physical Abuse Early in Life Can Affect Genes

This finding has implications for understanding clinical mental health issues in victims of abuse. Medscape Psychiatry (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

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From JK Rowling to George Mich…

From JK Rowling to George Michael: creative people and their struggles with anxiety http://t.co/8xutcRIc (Source: ANXIETY UK News)

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A Mindful Approach to Parent Conflict

Interactions between school personnel and parents don’t have to end in handcuffs. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)

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The disappearance of the "revolving door" patient in Scottish general practice: successful policies

Conclusions: "Revolving door" patients in general practice had significant health problems. Their numbers have reduced dramatically since 2004 and this probably resulted from improved drug treatment services, pressure from professional bodies to reduce patient removals and the positive ethical regulatory and financial climate of the 2004 GMS GP contract. This is a positive development for the NHS. (Source: BMC Family Practice)

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[Original Articles] Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis Function in Women With a Menstrually Related Mood Disorder: Association With Histories of Sexual Abuse

Conclusions An MRMD and an SA history are associated with independent and interactive effects on the HPT axis. The evidence that an MRMD moderates the influence of SA on T3 concentrations contributes to a growing body of work suggesting that an SA history may identify a distinct subgroup of women with MRMD. (Source: Psychosomatic Medicine)

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[Original Articles] Defective Nitric Oxide-Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate Signaling in Patients With Bipolar Disorder: A Potential Role for Platelet Dysfunction

Conclusions Impaired NO generation from platelets, inflammation, and oxidative stress may play pivotal roles in the multifaceted process of cardiovascular events in BD. (Source: Psychosomatic Medicine)

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Chemotherapy in Psychiatry(Baldessarini)

Pharmacologic Basis of Treatments for Major Mental IllnessUse of psychotropic drugs has come to dominate clinical practice in psychiatry worldwide—perhaps owing largely to perceived simplicity, ease of use, and apparent efficiency, as well as apparent cost-effectiveness of such treatments. Nevertheless, medicinal treatments for patients with psychiatric disorders are but one component of comprehensive clinical care of complex human problems. ... (Source: Springer Medicine titles)

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Concept Clearance » Cognitive Training Resource Exchange (CogTRex)

This initiative aims to create an online sharing site for researchers who are developing and testing the efficacy of cognitive training (CT) interventions for mental disorders. The CogTREx website would promote sharing of resources and information across disciplines and among researchers, addressing a range of mental disorders in children and adults. CogTREx aims to accelerate intervention development through early sharing of successes and failures, to promote rigorous clinical trial design, and to promote interaction across disciplines and disorders. (Source: National Institute of Mental Health)

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Concept Clearance » Emergency Department Suicide Prevention in Youth

Suicide continues to be the third leading cause of death among youth aged 10-24 years old. Emergency Medicine Department (ED) practitioners are responsible for risk assessment, discharge, and referral of high risk suicidal individuals, yet no evidence-based standards exist for these practices. This initiative aims to support research to improve identification, evaluation, and appropriate referral by ED staff of youth at risk for suicide. This research will lay the foundation for future efforts to match appropriate interventions to at-risk youth, increasing intervention effectiveness and improving long-term clinical outcomes. (Source: National Institute of Mental Health)

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Concept Clearance » Leveraging ARRA Resources to Accelerate Research on Neurodevelopment

This initiative aims to stimulate the broader research community to utilize NIMH resources funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to develop and evaluate hypotheses about the combined and interactive influences of genetics, brain maturation, neurocognitive function, and environment during development. (Source: National Institute of Mental Health)

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Concept Clearance » Gut Microbiome-Brain Interactions in Mental Health: Implications for Mental Disorders

The purpose of this initiative is to encourage hypothesis-driven research by multidisciplinary teams of investigators that will investigate mechanisms by which the gut microbiota modulate pre- and postnatal neurodevelopment, brain function, and behavioral domains relevant to the mission of NIMH. Such fundamental research may suggest avenues for future translational research. (Source: National Institute of Mental Health)

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Concept Clearance » PsycENCODE: Exploring the Function of Non-coding Elements in the Brain

This initiative aims to support studies on mental disorders based on new concepts of transcriptome complexity that assign functional roles to non-coding and potentially novel coding transcripts, exploring their potential as trans-regulators of gene transcription, mRNA splicing, mRNA stability, molecular transport, and influence on chromosome architecture. (Source: National Institute of Mental Health)

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Concept Clearance » Using Collaborative Care to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Care

This initiative aims to support innovative research on the implementation of evidence-based interventions to reduce disparities in mental health care among diverse racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The research supported will contribute to the reduction of disparities in access to care, retention in care, and treatment outcomes. (Source: National Institute of Mental Health)

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Concept Clearance » Building the Next Generation of Global Mental Health Researchers

The purpose of this initiative is to support the career development and training of outstanding early career mental health researchers interested in pursuing global mental health research careers. (Source: National Institute of Mental Health)

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Comorbid physical, psychiatric disorders common in BD

Findings from the Singapore Mental Health Study show that over two-thirds of individuals with bipolar disorder have other lifetime mental disorders, with approximately half also experiencing at least one chronic physical condition. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)

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Social, metacognition deficits in schizophrenia predict dysfunction type

Research findings suggest that deficits in social cognition and metacognition among individuals with schizophrenia represent different forms of dysfunction and symptomatology. (Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia)

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Comorbid physical, psychiatric disorders common in BD

Findings from the Singapore Mental Health Study show that over two-thirds of individuals with bipolar disorder have other lifetime mental disorders, with approximately half also experiencing at least one chronic physical condition. (Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder)

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Eating Disorders in Males

The article focuses on eating disorders in males and presents information on similarities and differences between males and females as they relate to risk factors, clinical presentation, and treatment. (Source: Psychiatric Times)

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Would you like to speak to the…

Would you like to speak to the DM about your experience of managing anxiety? Please contact media@anxietyuk.org.uk if interested. (Source: ANXIETY UK News)

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In Hamster Model, Fluoxetine Increases Aggressive Behavior, Affects Brain Development Among Adolescents

Fluoxetine was the first drug approved by the FDA for major depressive disorder (MDD) in children and adolescents, and to this date, it remains one of only two selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) registered for treatment of MDD in children and adolescents, despite reports that indicate this class of drugs is associated with side effects, such as agitation, hostility and aggression. SSRIs have been amongst the most widely prescribed medications in psychiatry for over a decade... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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'Placement budgets' for supported employment -- improving competitive employment for people with mental illness: study protocol of a multicentre randomized controlled trial

This study will show whether the effectiveness of IPS can be increased by the new concept of limited placement budgets. It will also be examined whether competitive employment leads in the long term to an improvement of mental illness, to a transfer of the psychiatric support system to private and vocational networks, to an increase in financial independence, to a reduction of perceived and internalized stigma, and to an increase in quality of life and job satisfaction of the patient. In addition, factors connected with fast competitive employment and holding that job down in the long term are being examined (motivation, stigmatization, social and financial situation).Trial registerISRCTN89670872. (Source: BMC Psychiatry - Latest articles)

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Social and emotional difficulties in children with ADHD and the impact on school attendance and healthcare utilization

Conclusions: In children with ADHD, the presence of social and emotional problems resulted in greater odds of missed school days and healthcare utilization. These findings should be viewed in light of the limited nature of the parent-report measures used to assess social and emotional problems. (Source: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health)

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Social, metacognition deficits in schizophrenia predict dysfunction type

Research findings suggest that deficits in social cognition and metacognition among individuals with schizophrenia represent different forms of dysfunction and symptomatology. (Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry)

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News: Autism Insights Added to Gale Academic OneFile

Libertas is pleased to announce that Autism Insights has now been added to Gale's Academic OneFile database.GALE operates more than 600 databases, including the popular InfoTrac and General Reference series. The Michigan based company i... (Source: Autism Insights)

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Makers of Antipsychotics Targeting Medicaid PsychiatristsMakers of Antipsychotics Targeting Medicaid Psychiatrists

A new report by the Washington, DC, Department of Health shows that manufacturers of antipsychotics are pushing high levels of marketing dollars toward Medicaid psychiatrists. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

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The Tranquilizer Trap

The scandal over benzodiazepines is getting quite-different attention in the UK and U.S.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)

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DSM-5 Criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder

New definition of autism in DSM-5 will not exclude most children with autism - Parents should not worry that proposed changes to the medical criteria redefining a diagnosis of autism will leave their children excluded and deemed ineligible for psychiatric and medical care, says a team of researchers led by psychologists at Weill Cornell Medical College. (Source: Disabled World)

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Success, Social Value, and Personal Mission (Part One)

Pat Deegan is the creator of CommonGround, a web-based application that empowers patients recovering from mental illness to take a more active role in their recovery. Pat’s own journey began in her adolescence. At 17 she was diagnosed schizophrenia. Psychiatrists told her that schizophrenia is a disease from which nobody recovers. They advised her to retire from normal life, avoid stress, and take high dose antipsychotic medication regularly. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)

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