Women Have Special Needs in Substance Abuse Treatment Addiction RecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 26, 2010Gender differences come into play when it comes to treatment for substance abuse. Just as each patient’s needs are unique, and a treatment program must be tailored to address those particular needs, attention also must be paid to the special needs of women. What works for men in treatment doesn’t always work the same way…
Video Game Addiction Growing in England AddictionBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 25, 2010London’s The Evening Post reported that an increasing number of young people in England are seeking treatment for addiction to video games. Young addicts are skipping meals, stealing money from their parents to buy games, and ditching school—all in the name of playing video games. An expert warned that for some teens, playing games for…
Late-Life Depression More Difficult to Treat Mood DisordersBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 24, 2010For many medical professionals, it is not uncommon to find late-life depression more difficult to treat. Now, scientists have found an important clue in the effort to understand why and how to keep patients well over time.
Reducing Niacin Could Help Prevent Obesity News and ResearchBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 21, 2010According to the latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, 63.1 percent of adults in the United States were overweight or obese in 2009, and 18.3 percent of young Americans are obese. Obesity is still on the rise, which suggests that there should be some common changes in diet worldwide.
Severity of Binge Eating Disorder Linked to Childhood Abuse Eating DisordersBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 20, 2010Binge eating disorder (BED) is a type of eating disorder that involves eating large quantities of food repeatedly and uncontrollably for at least several months. About four million Americans suffer from BED, and it is twice as common among women. Researchers didn’t know much about the underlying causes of BED until a recent study found…
Dads Suffer from Postpartum Depression, Too Mood DisordersBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 19, 2010About 10 percent of fathers experience prenatal or postpartum depression, with rates being highest in the 3 to 6 month postpartum period, according to an analysis of previous research appearing in the May 19 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on mental health. James F. Paulson, Ph.D., of the Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Va.,…
Study Examines Unhealthy Behaviors in Response to Stress Trauma & PTSDBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 18, 2010When people are under chronic stress, they tend to smoke, drink, use drugs and overeat to help cope with stress. These behaviors trigger a biological cascade that helps prevent depression, but they also contribute to a host of physical problems that eventually contribute to early death. That is the claim of University of Michigan social…
Resilience Factor Low in Mice with Depression Mood DisordersBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 17, 2010Scientists have discovered a mechanism that helps to explain resilience to stress, vulnerability to depression and how antidepressants work. The new findings, in the reward circuit of mouse and human brains, have spurred a high tech dragnet for compounds that boost the action of a key gene regulator there, called deltaFosB.
Changing Way of Thinking is Key to Battling Depression Mood DisordersBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 13, 2010Moderate to severely depressed clients showed greater improvement in cognitive therapy when therapists emphasized changing how they think rather than how they behave, new research has found.
British Indian Children Have Better Mental Health Than Others News and ResearchBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 12, 2010British Indian children have substantially better mental health than British Whites, new research from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine shows.
