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Archive for July, 2007

Living for Exactly What You Have

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

We go through life sometimes focusing on some goal, some prize, some future payoff. Maybe it's a new job at a new company, or moving from an apartment to a condo or home. Maybe it's ...

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Leadholm New Mass. DMH Commissioner

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

After spending the past decade at Magellan, one of the largest national behavioral health care companies, Barbara Leadholm comes back to the Department of Mental Health in Massachusetts to take over the reins. She was assistant ...

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Allowing States to Discount Drugs

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Our U.S. government is a funny thing. Without an experienced champion in Congress to walk a bill through the political process, causes die with the people who lead them. No better case in point is ...

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Antidepressant Prescription Increase for Kids

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

According to the BBC, the rates of antidepressant prescriptions for children under the age of 16 has quadrupled over the past 10 years. The article also notes that this has not corresponded with an ...

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Bipolar Disorder Shrinks The Brain?

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Research in the UK covered by the BBC has found that people suffering from bipolar disorder have a progressive loss of gray matter in their brains and are at risk for losing some functioning. ...

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The Psychology of Bottled Water

Friday, July 27th, 2007

We're a bit behind the times on this issue, but it's one that I think deserves a mention here. Twenty years ago, it was virtually unheard of to purchase water in a bottle, although there ...

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Gaining Weight? Blame Your Friends

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Probably not surprising to anyone who's ever grappled with weight issues is this week's finding from the New England Journal of Medicine that obesity spreads through our social connections, especially those of close friends. ...

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Side-Effect of Anti-Smoking Ads

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

According to a study out of the University of Georgia, there is a not-so-good side-effect of ads aimed at stopping kids from smoking: they may actually encourage smoking. It turns out that the campaigns ...

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Family, Genes, & Divorce

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

A study covered by the CBC provides one of the ultimate "no-brainer" type research findings in recent memory: the drive to divorce has more to do with your family environment in childhood than your ...

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Equal Coverage for Mental Health

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

My colleague Russ Newman over at the American Psychological Association, wrote this excellent op-ed piece for yesterday's Boston Globe. It's an issue many, many people have been banging on for well over a decade ...

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Albert Ellis, Dead at 93

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

We're sorry to report, but Albert Ellis died today at age 93 of natural causes. Albert Ellis was the founder of the groundbreaking and sometimes controversial rational emotive behavior therapy approach, which thumbed ...

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Art Wanted

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Scotland's Project Ability is calling for submissions to Mental Image: An International Open Art Exhibition Exploring Mental Health. Artists from all over the world may submit art in any medium "that ...

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