Author and journalist Judith Warner talks about children and mental disorders, and medications for children
Published Thursday 15 of July, 2010
Best-selling author and journalist Judith Warner met with NIMH Director, Tom Insel . Warner has written extensively about American family culture, raising children in today’s society, and now, the challenges faced by families of children diagnosed with mental disorders. Ms. Warner is a former contributing columnist for the New York Times and was a special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris.
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Children's Health Care About to be Transformed!
Published Friday 18 of June, 2010
June 2010 report by the American Academy of Pediatrics finds “Transformational changes” in children’s health care are coming. “By the year 2020, mental health care will constitute a significant part of general pediatric practice.” Read the whole task force report!
News on Children's Mental Health (editorial published in The Lancet, June 12, 2010)
Published Thursday 17 of June, 2010
“Focusing on Children’s Mental Health. Mental disorders often receive less attention than do other illnesses, and diagnosis of mental ill health in children can be especially challenging. In the USA, 21% of children are thought to meet criteria for diagnosis of a mental illness, with a further 16% showing some impairment; yet only about 20% of children... Read all
NHMH named in British press re new approaches to mental health education/advocacy
Published Tuesday 15 of June, 2010
Speaking out
With an election happening in the UK, Mary O’Hara reports from
the States on how activists there are lobbying politicians to put
mental health on the agenda across the pond
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Read allNew Findings on People's Emotional Reactions to Individuals with Mental Illness
Published Friday 07 of May, 2010
SUMMARY. Aims – Based on findings from population surveys, we provide an overview of the public’s emotional reactions to people with mental illness. Methods – A literature search for populations studies using measures of emotional response to people with mental illness was carried out. In addition, data on the public’s emotional reactions, originating from representative surveys conducted in... Read all
Impaired Brain Connections Traced to Schizophrenia Mutation
Published Friday 16 of April, 2010
The strongest known genetic cause of schizophrenia impairs communication between 2 brain regions and affects working memory, according to a study in mice.
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disabling brain disorder that affects about 1% of adults nationwide every year. People with schizophrenia sometimes hear voices others don’t hear, believe that others are broadcasting their tho... Read all
‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ - Times have changed - New rules enforcing treatment for the seriously mentally ill are needed.
Published Tuesday 16 of March, 2010
NHMH Board Member Stephen P. Hinshaw reviews new book, The Insanity Offense, by Dr. E. Fuller Torrey.
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Social reforms that occur too quickly or promise radical change often fail. Retrenchment and blaming of the reforms’ beneficiaries typically follow. Indeed, prolific author and psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey outlines in his new book, The In... Read all
Only One-Third of Teens Sceened for Emotional Health During Physicals
Published Thursday 18 of February, 2010
A UCSF study released by the U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services
February 2010 shows that even though most mental health problems begin
manifesting in adolescence, only 1/3 of adolescents are even screened for emotional
health issues in their visits to their primary care docs."
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U.S. Outreach to Haiti Includes Both Mental Health Care and Medical Health Care
Published Wednesday 17 of February, 2010
The two largest health care agencies in the U.S. federal government (NIH and NIMH) are
combining forces to extend BOTH mental health care assistance, as well as medical
care to the many Haitians in need, following the recent massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
Showing yet again, that complete he...
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Nature Magazine takes a stand in current January 7, 2010 issue!
Published Tuesday 12 of January, 2010
Nature Magazine takes a stand in current January 7, 2010 issue!
The highly respected Nature journal says “the stigma of psychiatric disorders is
misplaced. The burden of psychiatric disorders on society are significantly
greater than more publicized diseases……and biomedical science is poised to m...
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Of those who die from suicide, more than 90% have a diagnosable mental disorder
(Source: NIMH, Suicide in the U.S. Statistics and Prevention)
