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Breakthrough for Schizophrenia and Bipolar

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Earlier today, we reported that NIMH-funded researchers at three different genetic research institutes from around the world collaborated and published three new studies yesterday in the journal, ...

Chasing the Genetic Ghosts of Mental Illness

Monday, June 29th, 2009
For decades, scientists have been making claims about the genetic roots of mental illness, ranging from schizophrenia and depression, to bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder (ADHD). And for ...

Boredom Can Be a Door To New Growth

Friday, June 26th, 2009
A few days ago a friend forwarded me a post on DailyOM.com called "Boredom: Fanning the Creative Flames." It says: The human mind thrives on novelty. What was once a source of pleasure can ...

Positive Thoughts Make Things Worse for Poor Self-Esteem

Monday, June 22nd, 2009
You think positive self-talk would always result in feeling more positive about yourself. New research suggests that may not always be the case. If a person has poor self-esteem to begin with, and then tells themselves ...

Putting Cool Ahead of Science: TweetPsych

Thursday, June 18th, 2009
A new service launched this week by a web developer named Dan Zarrella called TweetPsych. Zarrella is also a marketing manager for HubSpot, an online marketing firm. Zarrella calls himself a "scientist," because I guess ...

Introducing the Psych Central Mood Tracker

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
After taking a look at a few of the mood trackers that have long been available online, ...

Online Mental Health Journalism Awards: 2009

Monday, June 15th, 2009
As we noted here, Mental Health America recently announced the winners of the "2009 Media Awards" that recognize excellence in mental health journalism. Sadly, despite the Internet's popularity for the past 15 years, the ...

6 Steps to Serenity

Sunday, June 14th, 2009
I don't know how many times I utter the Serenity Prayer in a day, but it's well into the double digits. In fact, the words penned by the late theologian ...

9 Myths of Bipolar Disorder

Friday, June 12th, 2009
Bipolar disorder has been the focus of attention in recent years, as a new slew of psychiatric medications have ...

Want a Bigger, Stronger Brain? Start Meditating.

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Midweek Mental Greening "In meditation, effort must be applied in a direction opposite to what we are used to. Our 'effort' must be to relax ever more deeply. We must ultimately ...

Twitter is the New Blogging, With a Twist

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
It's always interesting to me to see technology data trends repeat themselves, even when the technologies themselves are seemingly completely different and designed for different purposes. Case in point: blogging versus Twitter. Although Twitter is often ...

Turning Guilt Into Good

Monday, June 8th, 2009
The most powerful line in Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" is this: "And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good." My ...

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