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Shootings at Fort Hood; alleged gunman is mental health worker
Thirteen people were killed and several more wounded in a shooting in Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday. The alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist at Darnall Army Medical Center...

Trauma Therapy from the Client's Perspective
Bonnie Burton is a trauma survivor who writes about therapy from the inside. As a gifted writer, she conveys some essential truths about the process of therapy, and shatters...

Resilience
Why do some people develop post-traumatic stress disorder after a trauma and others remain symptom free? We are still trying to understand resilience, one characteristic of good mental health....

Sustained Release Schizophrenia Drug may be available Soon
AstraZeneca announced last week that they have submitted a New Drug Application to the FDA for a sustained release version of their antipsychotic medication Seroquel (quetiapine). The company reports...

FDA issues an advisory on the Use of Triptans and Antidepressants
The U.S.Food and Drug Administration has issued a public health advisory about potential risks of taking certain migraine medications - triptans - together with certain antidepressants. The advisory states, "A...

Make Better Decisions
Good decisions are made "with the head and the heart". We actually make better decisions when we use our conscious mind together with our unconscious mind. Researchers in Denmark studied...

Depression Treatment can be Expensive
Unlike most develped countries, the United States does not have universal health care. A new study by NAMI (The National Alliance on Mental Illness) has found that the cost...

A Nicotine-like Drug for Schizophrenia?
Numerous studies have found that people diagnosed with mental illnesses smoke more than people without such a diagnosis. Up to 80% of patients with schizophreia smoke cigarettes. It...

Legislating Managed Care
Managed care continues to have a chilling effect on mental health treatment in the United States. Many therapists are required to complete lenghty paperwork after every few sessions of...

Autism - Brain areas Grow too Fast
Researchers at Univeraity of California Davis have found that the amygdala and the hippocampus are abnormally large in boys with autism. The amygdala, an area associates with processing emotions,...