World of Psychology

Archive for October, 2006

Depression may be More than Just Sadness

Friday, October 27th, 2006

A team of New York scientists has found that clinically depressed people may have abnormalities in a region of the brain that regulates pleasure and …

Conquer Stigma in the Workplace

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

The SAMHSA Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma (ADS Center) has produced a new fact sheet on mental health in the workplace. …

Stem Cells May Help Treat Mental Illness

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

A team of international scientists announced this week that it has found that embryonic stem cells may have potential use in the treatment of psychological …

New Program To Improve Employers’ Attitude To The Mentally Ill Launched In UK

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

A new initiative encouraging employers to improve the way they deal with mental health in the workplace has been launched by UK Health Minister Rosie …

Anxiety Disorders May be Linked to Physical Illness

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Anxiety disorders appear to be independently associated with several physical conditions, including thyroid disease, respiratory disease, arthritis and migraine headaches. Although depression has long been …

Does TV Cause Autism?

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

The other day Jennifer wrote about engineering autism, including, “even environmental factors such as television watching could play a role in child developing …

Public Perceptions of Therapy

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

This story from Reuters that covers new research on public perceptions of appropriate mental health treatment. Specifically, the focus of the article is on …

Children with accurate self-perceptions are less likely to suffer depression

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Children who can accurately assess how their classmates feel about them – even if those feelings are negative – are less likely to show symptoms …

Bipolar disorder disrupts the workplace

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Bipolar Disorder costs U.S. businesses twice as much in lost productivity than major depression, a new study finds. Each U.S. worker with bipolar …

Campaign to abolish the label ‘schizophrenia’

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

The term schizophrenia should be dropped because it is not scientifically valid and is stigmatizing, says Richard Bentall, a professor of clinical psychology at the …

Anxiety & Physical Health

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

CBS News carried a report on a new study today that links anxiety disorders and physical health problems. The idea is not new, particularly …

“Engineering” Autism

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

I relocated to Atlanta, Georgia two years ago from snow capital USA; otherwise known as Buffalo, NY (you may recall it from the recent …

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