Dear Friends,
Improving behavioral healthcare is an important and strenuous challenge, which IHBI takes seriously. This newsletter will update you on current developments and on opportunities for ways you and your organization can become more involved in improving care. Organized in 2004, The Institute for Behavioral Healthcare Improvement (IBHI) is a national effort to establish [...]
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UAB study documents connection between depression and abdominal obesity
Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by admin.
June 9, 2010
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A new study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) confirms the relationship between depression and abdominal obesity, which has also been linked to an increased risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease.
“We found that in a sample of young adults during a 15-year period, those who started out reporting [...]
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Adjuvant Aspirin Therapy Reduces Symptoms of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Results From a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by admin.
Wijnand Laan, PhD; Diederick E. Grobbee, MD, PhD; Jean-Paul Selten, MD, PhD; Cobi J. Heijnen, PhD; René S. Kahn, MD, PhD; and Huibert Burger, MD, PhD
http://article.psychiatrist.com/dao_1-login.asp?ID=10006874&RSID=40173234257663
J Clin Psychiatry 2010;71(5):520–527 10.4088/JCP.09m05117yel
© Copyright 2010 Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc.
Objective: Inflammatory processes may play a role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to determine [...]
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Thalamic Dopamine D2 Receptor Densities Are Negatively Related to Psychometric Creativity in Healthy Individuals
Several lines of evidence support that dopaminergic neurotransmission plays a role in creative thought and behavior. Here, we investigated the relationship between creative ability and dopamine D2 receptor expression in healthy individuals, with a focus on regions where aberrations in dopaminergic function [...]
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Psychiatric Morbidity, Violent Crime, and Suicide Among Children and Adolescents Exposed to Parental Death
Posted on 13. May, 2010 by admin.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Accepted 22 January 2010. published online 01 April 2010.
This retrospective cohort study examined the risk for suicide, psychiatric hospitalization, and violent criminal convictions among offspring of parents who died from suicide, accidents, and other causes.
Population-based data from multiple Swedish national registers were linked from 1969 to [...]
