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Sharing pain and relief: neural correlates of physicians during treatment of patients
Kong & T J Kaptchuk
Source: Molecular Psychiatry - January 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: K B JensenP PetrovicC E KerrI KirschJ RaicekA CheethamR SpaethA CookR L GollubJ KongT J Kaptchuk Tags: patient-provider doctor–patient placebo pain analgesia Source Type: research

DNA evidence for strong genetic stability and increasing heritability of intelligence from age 7 to 12
& R Plomin
Source: Molecular Psychiatry - January 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: M TrzaskowskiJ YangP M VisscherR Plomin Tags: cognitive development Genome-wide complex trait analysis (GCTA) intelligence twins Source Type: research

Elevated serum measures of lipid peroxidation and abnormal prefrontal white matter in euthymic bipolar adults: toward peripheral biomarkers of bipolar disorder
J Kupfer & M L Phillips
Source: Molecular Psychiatry - January 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: A VersaceA C AndreazzaL T YoungJ C FournierJ R C AlmeidaR S StifflerJ C LockovichH A AslamM H PollockH ParkV L NimgaonkarD J KupferM L Phillips Tags: bipolar disorder fractional anisotropy global probabilistic tractography lipid peroxidation oxidative stress radial diffusivity Source Type: research

Childhood intelligence is heritable, highly polygenic and associated with FNBP1L
ald, P Scheet, X Xiao, J J Hudziak, E J C de Geus, V W V Jaddoe, J M Starr, F C Verhulst, C Pennell, H Tiemeier, W G Iacono, L J Palmer, G W Montgomery, N G Martin, D I Boomsma, D Posthuma, M McGue, M J Wright, G Davey Smith, I J Deary, R Plomin & P M Visscher
Source: Molecular Psychiatry - January 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: B BenyaminBSt PourcainO S DavisG DaviesN K HansellM-JA BrionR M KirkpatrickR A M CentsS FranićM B MillerC M A HaworthE MeaburnT S PriceD M EvansN TimpsonJ KempS RingW McArdleS E MedlandJ YangS E HarrisD C LiewaldP ScheetX XiaoJ J HudziakE J C de GeusV W Tags: intelligence IQ cognitive association FNBP1L polygenic Source Type: research

BMJ debate: Are antidepressants overprescribed?
Source: BMJ Area: News These 'head to head' articles in the British Medical Journal discuss whether antidepressants are overprescribed. The author of the 'yes' argument is a GP, who believes that the rising prescription rates for antidepressants reflect overmedicalisation. The author of the 'no' article, a professor of psychiatry, argues that prescribing is cautious and appropriate.
Source: NeLM - Mental Health - January 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

‘Coming Out’ Can Bring Health Benefits, Study Says
Openness about sexual orientation may reduce stress for lesbians, gays and bisexuals
Source: Fertility News - Doctors Lounge - January 29, 2013 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Psychiatry, Reproductive Medicine, News, Source Type: news

Effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral group intervention for knee osteoarthritis pain: protocol of a randomized controlled trial
This study addresses the current topic of non-pharmacological conservative treatment of knee OA-related pain. We anticipate that these results will provide important new insights to the current care recommendations.Trial registration: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN64794760
Source: BioMed Central - January 29, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Eeva-Eerika HelminenSanna H SinikallioAnna L ValjakkaRauni H Väisänen-RouvaliJari P Arokoski Source Type: research

Gesture imitation impaired in schizophrenia patients
Schizophrenia patients have impaired gesture imitation, especially when the imitation depends on working memory and involves multiple actions, show study results.
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Childhood adversity raises comorbidity risk in bipolar disorder
Childhood adversity, including verbal, physical, or sexual abuse, is associated with the later development of multiple medical comorbidities in patients with bipolar disorder, researchers report.
Source: MedWire News - Bipolar Disorder - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Table of Contents
Abstract Antipsychotics for Youth at Risk for Psychosis Not Supported as First Option Relative Age in Class Affects ADHD Stimulant Treatment Survey Analysis Does Not Point to Overmedication Hyperprolactinemia Found in Risperidone‐Treated Youth Free the Future: Investment in MH Services Crucial Post‐Newtown Pediatric Social Anxiety Disorder: Predictors of Response to Pharmacological Treatment Ziprasidone vs. Olanzapine for 1st‐Episode Schizophrenia Utilization and Cost of Antipsychotics in Stimulant‐Treated Youth Acute Myocardial Infarction in Teen Taking Adderall with Alcohol Managing Side Effects of ADHD Medicatio...
Source: The Brown University Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The Bed Makes Gestures
Emil Kraepelin diagnosed the paranoid, catatonic, and hebephrenic forms of dementia praecox, a disease he created.
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Psychiatric risk increased in very preterm infants
Children born very preterm are at increased risk for psychiatric disorders in early childhood, study results suggest.
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Childhood adversity raises comorbidity risk in bipolar disorder
Childhood adversity, including verbal, physical, or sexual abuse, is associated with the later development of multiple medical comorbidities in patients with bipolar disorder, researchers report.
Source: MedWire News - Psychiatry - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

‘Sex With an Ex’ Common Among Teens, Young Adults
About half of young couples reunite after a breakup, and half of those have sex, researchers say
Source: Fertility News - Doctors Lounge - January 28, 2013 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Reproductive Medicine, News, Source Type: news

Expert psychiatric evidence
Most psychiatric expert witnesses will know, or know of, Keith Rix. This guide for psychiatric expert witnesses is typical of him, and shows his many years of thoughtful experience. Psychiatrists are always being asked for reports in criminal, civil, family matters, inquests and tribunal; but trainee psychiatrists receive virtually no training in inescapable element of their future careers, even if they decide not to take a special interest in expert witness work. Inexperienced expert witnesses often find the law, with its rules, practices, statutes, guidelines anxiety-provoking.
Source: Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine - January 28, 2013 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: M. Isaac Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

A repeated measures model for analysis of continuous outcomes in sequential parallel comparison design studies
Previous authors have proposed the sequential parallel comparison design (SPCD) to address the issue of high placebo response rate in clinical trials. The original use of SPCD focused on binary outcomes, but recent use has since been extended to continuous outcomes that arise more naturally in many fields, including psychiatry. Analytic methods proposed to date for analysis of SPCD trial continuous data included methods based on seemingly unrelated regression and ordinary least squares. Here, we propose a repeated measures linear model that uses all outcome data collected in the trial and accounts for data that are missing...
Source: Statistics in Medicine - January 28, 2013 Category: Statistics Authors: Gheorghe Doros, Michael Pencina, Denis Rybin, Allison Meisner, Maurizio Fava Tags: Research Article Source Type: research

Mental Illness Clues Revealed Via Facebook Activity
Facebook activity could be an indicator for psychological health, and be used as tools by therapists and psychologists A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Missouri and published in the journal Psychiatry Research, has revealed that social media profiles can provide insight into the mental health of patients. Social networking sites, like Facebook, are becoming increasingly popular and are becoming a primary method for communication and socialization...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Mental Health Source Type: news

ISPNE Call for Abstracts
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

ISPNE Conference Announcement
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

2013 Curt P. Richter Award of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Circulating plasma testosterone during early neonatal life in the socially monogamous and biparental prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster)
This study is the first to examine circulating testosterone in neonatal prairie voles, or any other species of Microtus, and the results indicate similarity to other rodents. This is surprising because some previous studies manipulating gonadal hormones in neonatal prairie voles have found limited effects on their neurobehavioral development, suggesting the existence of some unique, yet-to-be-revealed aspects of their neuroendocrine profile during early life.
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sarah W. Lansing, Jeffrey A. French, Joseph S. Lonstein Tags: Short Communication Source Type: research

Anxiety disorders and salivary cortisol levels in older adults: a population-based study
Conclusion: Older adults from the general population with long-lasting anxiety disorders had a lower cortisol awakening response than those without. This is consistent with the notion that chronic anxiety may result in downregulation of HPA-axis activity. Longitudinal studies are needed to confirm this mechanism.
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Karin Hek, Nese Direk, Rachel S. Newson, Albert Hofman, Witte J.G. Hoogendijk, Cornelis L. Mulder, Henning Tiemeier Tags: Short Communication Source Type: research

Engagement with Cognitively-Based Compassion Training is associated with reduced salivary C-reactive protein from before to after training in foster care program adolescents
Conclusions: Engagement with CBCT may positively impact inflammatory measures relevant to health in adolescents at high risk for poor adult functioning as a result of significant ELA, including individuals placed in foster care. Longer term follow-up will be required to evaluate if these changes are maintained and translate into improved health outcomes.
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Thaddeus W.W. Pace, Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Brooke Dodson-Lavelle, Brendan Ozawa-de Silva, Sheethal D. Reddy, Steven P. Cole, Andrea Danese, Linda W. Craighead, Charles L. Raison Tags: Short Communication Source Type: research

Regional distribution of 5α-reductase type 2 in the adult rat brain: An immunohistochemical analysis
Summary: The enzyme 5α-reductase (5αR) catalyzes the conversion of testosterone and other Δ4-3-ketosteroids into their 5α-reduced metabolites. Of the five members of the 5αR family, the type 2 enzyme (5αR2) plays a key role in androgen metabolism, and is abundantly distributed in the urogenital system. Although 5αR2 has been reported to be highly expressed in the brain during early developmental stages, little is currently known on its anatomical and cellular distribution in the adult brain. Thus, the present study was designed to determine the detailed localization of 5αR2 in the adult rat brain, using a highly sp...
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: M. Paola Castelli, Alberto Casti, Angelo Casu, Roberto Frau, Marco Bortolato, Saturnino Spiga, Maria Grazia Ennas Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Long-term stability of the cortisol awakening response over adolescence
Summary: The cortisol awakening response (CAR) has been widely assessed as a measure of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity. Short-term stability is high; however, little is known about the long-term stability of the CAR. Because there are indications that development in adolescence influences HPA axis activity, this study investigated the stability of the CAR over adolescence.Participants were 229 boys and 181 girls from an adolescent general population sample who were assessed in three consecutive years, at mean ages of 15.0 (SD=0.4), 16.0 (SD=0.4) and 17.0 (SD=0.4) years. Cortisol was analyzed in saliva s...
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Evelien Platje, Robert R.J.M. Vermeiren, Susan J.T. Branje, Theo A.H. Doreleijers, Wim H.J. Meeus, Hans M. Koot, Tom Frijns, Pol A.C. van Lier, Lucres M.C. Jansen Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Repeatedly stressed rats have enhanced vulnerability to amygdala kindling epileptogenesis
Summary: Psychiatric disorders associated with elevated stress levels, such as depression, are present in many epilepsy patients, including those with mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (mTLE). Evidence suggests that these psychiatric disorders can predate the onset of epilepsy, suggesting a causal/contributory role. Prolonged exposure to elevated corticosterone, used as a model of chronic stress/depression, accelerates limbic epileptogenesis in the amygdala kindling model. The current study examined whether exposure to repeated stress could similarly accelerate experimental epileptogenesis. Female adult non-epileptic Wistar ra...
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Nigel C. Jones, Han Ee Lee, Meng Yang, Sandra M. Rees, Margaret J. Morris, Terence J. O’Brien, Michael R. Salzberg Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Stress induced hippocampal mineralocorticoid and estrogen receptor β gene expression and long-term potentiation in male adult rats is sensitive to early-life stress experience
Summary: Glucocorticoid hormones and their receptors have been identified to be involved in emotional and cognitive disorders in early stressed subjects during adulthood. However, the impact of other steroid hormones and receptors has been considered less. Especially, functional roles of estrogen and estrogen receptors in male subjects are largely unknown. Therefore, we measured hippocampal concentrations of 17β-estradiol, corticosterone and testosterone, as well as the gene expression of estrogen receptor α and β (ERα, β), androgen receptor (AR), glucocorticoid (GR) and mineralocorticoid (MR) receptors after stress i...
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Han Wang, Katrin Meyer, Volker Korz Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Depressive symptoms and cortisol variability prior to surgery for suspected endometrial cancer
Summary: Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most common type of gynecologic cancer affecting women; however, very little research has examined relationships between psychological factors and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis dysregulation in this population. The current study examined relations between depressive/anxious symptoms and salivary cortisol diurnal rhythm and variability in women undergoing surgery for suspected endometrial cancer. Depressive and anxious symptoms were measured prior to surgery using the Structured Interview Guide for the Hamilton Depression Inventory (SIGH-AD). Saliva was collected four ...
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Timothy S. Sannes, Sally E. Jensen, Stacy M. Dodd, Shawn M. Kneipp, Stephanie Garey Smith, Seema M. Patidar, Michael M. Marsiske, Susan M. Lutgendorf, Linda S. Morgan, Deidre B. Pereira Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Blunted cortisol awakening response in men with first episode psychosis: Relationship to parental bonding
Summary: Early life adversity has been associated with an increased risk for the development of mental health problems, including psychotic disorders, perhaps mediated by a changed regulation of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) axis. Aim of the present study was to confirm our previous finding of an attenuated cortisol awakening response (CAR) in men with first episode psychosis (FEP) and to explore a possible link between a blunted CAR and early adversity as indicated by perceived parental bonding.Fifty-eight patients (38 men, 20 women; mean age 23.25±3.86) with a FEP and 33 healthy community controls (16 men, 17...
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Marita Pruessner, Nadia Vracotas, Ridha Joober, Jens C. Pruessner, Ashok K. Malla Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Effects of early life social stress on maternal behavior and neuroendocrinology
Summary: Maternal mood disorders such as depression and chronic anxiety can negatively affect the lives of both mothers and their adult offspring. An active focus of maternal depression and anxiety research has been the role of chronic social stress in the development of these disorders. Chronic exposure to social stress is common in humans, especially in lactating mothers, and postpartum mood disorders have been correlated with high levels of social conflict and low levels of social support. Recent studies have described an effective and ethologically relevant chronic social stress (CSS) based rodent model for postpartum ...
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Christopher A. Murgatroyd, Benjamin C. Nephew Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The impact of stress systems and lifestyle on dyslipidemia and obesity in anxiety and depression
Conclusions: Increased dyslipidemia and (abdominal) obesity risk in patients with more severe anxiety disorders and depression may be partly explained by chronic low-grade inflammation and smoking. TCAs may increase metabolic risk through enhanced sympathetic and decreased parasympathetic ANS activity. That the HPA axis had no impact in our sample may reflect the possibility that the HPA axis only plays a role in acute stress situations rather than under basal conditions.
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Arianne K.B. van Reedt Dortland, Sophie A. Vreeburg, Erik J. Giltay, Carmilla M.M. Licht, Nicole Vogelzangs, Tineke van Veen, Eco J.C. de Geus, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Frans G. Zitman Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The effect of tryptophan on the cortisol response to social stress is modulated by the 5-HTTLPR genotype
Conclusion: Tryptophan attenuates the cortisol response to acute social stress depending on 5-HTTLPR genotype. S′/S′ carriers may indeed be more reactive to 5-HT manipulations.
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hilâl Cerit, Linda A.W. Jans, Willem Van der Does Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Childhood adversity and inflammatory processes in youth: A prospective study
Conclusions: This study documents that exposure to adverse events prior to age 8 is associated with elevated inflammation at age 10 and in mid-adolescence. These findings provide prospective evidence for a biological mechanism by which early experiences may shape long-term health. Future studies with earlier assessments of inflammation are necessary in order to elucidate potential sensitive periods and mechanisms that link childhood adversity to later disease vulnerability.
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Natalie Slopen, Laura D. Kubzansky, Katie A. McLaughlin, Karestan C. Koenen Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Long lasting effects of smoking: Breast cancer survivors’ inflammatory responses to acute stress differ by smoking history
This study examined cortisol and inflammatory responses to a laboratory stressor in breast cancer survivors who formerly smoked compared to their counterparts who had never smoked. Participants included 89 women (age=51.6±8.9 years) who had completed treatment for stage 0–IIIA breast cancer within the past three years and were at least two months post surgery, radiation or chemotherapy, whichever occurred last. Cortisol and interleukin-6 (IL-6) were evaluated in response to a standardized laboratory speech and mental arithmetic stressor. Former (n=25) and never (n=64) smokers did not differ by cancer stage, cancer treat...
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jeanette M. Bennett, Ronald Glaser, Rebecca R. Andridge, Juan Peng, William B. Malarkey, Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Pharmacokinetics of testosterone and estradiol gel preparations in healthy young men
We report here, for the first time, pharmacokinetic data on both high dose testosterone and estradiol gel application in healthy young males. The proposed model will assist in the design of future studies that seek to establish causality between testosterone and estradiol gel administration and behavioral as well as neurophysiological effects.
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Christoph Eisenegger, Arnold von Eckardstein, Ernst Fehr, Sigrid von Eckardstein Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Editorial Board
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Corrigendum to “Identification of a circuit-based endophenotype for familial depression” [Psychiatry Res.: Neuroimaging 201 (3) (2012) 175–181]
The author regrets that he did not include middle initials for three of the authors. The names should have appeared as below: Marc J. Dubin.
Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Marc Dubin, Myrna Weissman, Dongrong Xu, Ravi Bansal, Xuejun Hao, Jun Liu, Virginia Warner, Bradley Peterson Tags: Corrigendum Source Type: research

Altered resting-state functional connectivity of the dentate nucleus in Parkinson's disease
Abstract: We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure functional connectivity of the dentate nucleus (DN) between patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and normal controls who were studied in a resting state. Images were acquired in 18 PD patients and in age- and sex-matched normal controls. Connectivity of the bilateral DN was calculated and compared between patients and controls, connectivity of the bilateral DN within the cerebellum was compared between rigidity and bradykinesia-dominant patients (PDAR) and tremor-dominant patients (PDT), and correlation analysis was performed between the connectivi...
Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hu Liu, E. Kale Edmiston, Guoguang Fan, Ke Xu, Bin Zhao, Xiuli Shang, Fei Wang Tags: Functional magnetic resonance imaging Source Type: research

Decreased fMRI activity in the hippocampus of patients with schizophrenia compared to healthy control participants, tested on a wayfinding task in a virtual town
Abstract: Intact episodic memory requires the ability to make associations between the contextual features of an event, referred to as contextual binding. Binding processes combine different contextual elements into a complete memory representation. It has been proposed that binding errors during the encoding process are responsible for the episodic memory impairments reported in schizophrenia. Since the hippocampus is critical for contextual binding and episodic memory, it was hypothesized that patients with schizophrenia would show a deficit in information processing in the hippocampus, measured with functional magnetic ...
Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Andrée-Anne Ledoux, Jennifer Lynne Phillips, Alain Labelle, Andra Smith, Véronique Déborah Bohbot, Patrice Boyer Tags: Functional magnetic resonance imaging Source Type: research

Dorsal/ventral parcellation of the amygdala: Relevance to impulsivity and aggression
Abstract: Investigations into the specific association of amygdala volume, a critical aspect of the fronto-limbic emotional circuitry, and aggression have produced results broadly consistent with the ‘larger is more powerful’ doctrine. However, recent reports suggest that the ventral and dorsal aspects of the amygdala play functionally specific roles, respectively, in the activation and control of behavior. Therefore, parceling amygdala volume into dorsal and ventral components might prove productive in testing hypotheses regarding volumetric association to aggression, and impulsivity, a related aspect of self-control....
Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Abilash Gopal, Erika Clark, Amy Allgair, Christopher D'Amato, Margery Furman, David A. Gansler, Carl Fulwiler Tags: Structural magnetic resonance imaging Source Type: research

Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board
Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

FDA Panel Calls for Greater Restrictions on HydrocodoneFDA Panel Calls for Greater Restrictions on Hydrocodone
After 2 days of hearing pleas for and against rescheduling of hydrocodone products, an expert panel of the FDA voted 19 to 10 in favor of moving these agents to Schedule II. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - January 28, 2013 Category: Cardiology Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news

The Newest Edition of Psychiatry s Bible, the DSM-5, Is Complete
For more than 11 years, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has been laboring to revise the current version of its best-selling guidebook, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) (see " Psychiatry's Bible Gets an Overhaul ” in Scientific American MIND ). Although the DSM is often called the bible of psychiatry, it is not sacred scripture to all clinicians--many regard it more as a helpful corollary to their own expertise. Still, insurance companies in the U.S. often require an official DSM diagnosis before they help cover the costs of medication or therapy, and researchers fi...
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - January 28, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Mind & Brain,Mind Brain,Language Linguistics,Language Linguistics,Pharmaceuticals,Neurological Disorders,Neuroscience,Psychiatry,Psychology,Thought Cognition,Health,Addiction Recovery Source Type: research

Does getting more sleep reduce memory loss?
Conclusion The experiments in this complex study have suggested that age-related shrinking in a specific part of the brain (the prefrontal cortex) is linked to impairment in older adults' abilities to remember new information, and that this link could be related to how much short wave brain activity older people have during sleep. The authors themselves are very cautious about their findings, noting that they cannot directly establish that this chain of events is what causes memory impairment in older people. For example, it is difficult to determine from this study whether poorer quality sleep causes changes in the brain...
Source: NHS News Feed - January 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Neurology Source Type: news

Training Yourself To Have More Willpower
You can train your body, your mind ... and your willpower. That's according to a new study by researchers at The Miriam Hospital's Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, who say that with a little practice, it may be possible to strengthen and improve your self-control - and lose more weight. The Miriam research team found that individuals with more willpower - or self-control - lost more weight, were more physically active, consumed fewer calories from fat and had better attendance at weight loss group meetings...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news

Strong Link Discovered Between Personality And Grades
In one of three studies, Pia Rosander carried out personality tests on 200 pupils in southern Sweden when they entered upper secondary school at 16. Three years later, when they received their final grades, she was able to observe a strong link between personality and grades. In personality psychology one talks of "the big five" - the five most common personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news

Introduction to the Special Edition on School & Community Contexts of Youth and Mental Health
Source: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing - January 28, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Kathleen R. Delaney Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Health Tip: Avoid the Winter Blues
Title: Health Tip: Avoid the Winter BluesCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/28/2013 8:35:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/28/2013 12:00:00 AM
Source: MedicineNet Depression General - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

A randomized controlled trial of olanzapine improving memory deficits in Han Chinese patients with first-episode schizophrenia
Abstract: Olanzapine is an atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia, in which memory impairment is a core deficit. The methods of positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS), Wechsler memory scale-4th edition (WMS-IV) and event-related potential (ERP) were used to study the effects of olanzapine on the cognitive function in the first-episode schizophrenic patients. We performed multicentre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group clinical trial to study the cognitive functioning in Han Chinese first-episode schizophrenic patients in a 12-week treatment regime with olanzapine (129 case...
Source: Schizophrenia Research - January 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Chang-Hong Wang, Yan Li, Jun Yang, Lin-Yan Su, Yao-Guo Geng, Hao Li, Ji-Kang Wang, Jun-Lin Mu Tags: Neurocognition Source Type: research