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US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

It would be spending $33 million to add about 200 mental health professionals to help soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health needs. "As the war has gone on, PTSD and other psychological effects of war have increased,...

Virginia Tech Shooters Mental Health Records No More Secret

...ns, investigating officers obtained the university mental health records of Seung-Hui Cho , who caused one... have said they could not turn over Cho's medical, mental health, or scholastic records because of the federal privacy laws. For the first time since the sh...

UK Facing Major Sexual Health Crisis Among Teens

...ng at school, building up longer-term physical and mental health problems and becoming addicted to alcohol and drugs. A recent UNICEF report put the UK at the bottom of a table of 21 countries for children's well-being. It found that more children in the UK have had sexual intercourse by the age of 15 t...

Indonesia's Acehnese Suffer High Rates of Mental Trauma

... long-running civil conflict, suffer high rates of mental trauma that could trigger more violence, a report ...ty." The report calls on the government to fund mental health services, as well as on the international community involved in Aceh's post-tsunami reconstru...

Major Mental Disorders Cut Life Span by Ten to Fifteen Years

...est, it has been stated that adults// with serious mental illness and treated in public systems die about 25...he gap has widened since the early '90s when major mental disorders cut life spans by 10 to 15 years. "We're going in the wrong direction and have to change...

Cousins Recovering from His Substance Abuse Problem

...detrimental to the individual's physical health or mental health, or the welfare of others. The disorder is distinguished by a pattern of continued pathological use of a medication, non-medical drug or toxin, that results in repetitive adverse social consequences connected to drug use, such as failure to ...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...he chance that the woman's child will be born with mental retardation. Around 140 British families claim that their children are suffering from fetal anti-convulsant syndrome because their mothers took valproate during pregnancy. The syndrome includes a range of neural, behavioral and physical disorders s...

One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems

...ts. One, soldiers are at an ever greater risk of mental health problems. Second at the current level of st...d high levels of combat or screened positive for a mental health problem were nearly twice as likely to mistreat non-combatants as those who had low levels of...

A ‘Fit’ of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgey

...e condition is left untreated, it could also cause mental retardation. This condition does not improve with medication. Dr Schneider, co-chief of the hospital's pediatric neurosurgery unit, after examining the child, took a decision of operating upon the child. He did this by dividing the lobes of the li...

Migraines may Be a Symptom of Other Problems for Iraq Soldiers

...who evaluate combat veterans for headaches perform mental health screening in order to ensure that psychiatr...ldiers returning from deployment presently undergo mental health screening.” The American Academy of Neurology, an association of over 20,000 neurologists ...

Malfunction of Gene Causes Schizophrenia, Depression

...ventative strategies for certain symptoms of major mental illness." They wrote that "our findings lend further credence to the growing recognition that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share, at least in part, the common genetic etiologies and thus underlying molecular mechanisms". Source-IANS/M...

Breastfeeding and Omega-3 Fatty Acids Help New Moms Fight Depression

...her than something that lessens the risk. Mothers' mental health is yet another reason to intervene quickly when breastfeeding difficulties arise." Source-Eurekalert/B...

Gulf War Veterans Exhibit Memory Impairment

...he exposure to wartime chemicals. The physical and mental symptoms experienced by the gulf veterans could be due to exposure to bio-warfare agents such as toxic pesticides and sarin gas. Comparison of the brain scans showed that the size of the entire cortex, or grey matter, was on average 5% smaller in t...

Marijuana can Trigger Psychotic Symptoms, New Study Finds

... The results, to be presented at an international mental health conference in London on Tuesday and Wednesd...resented at the conference, a two-day gathering of mental health experts discussing the connections between cannabis and mental health, scientists found that ...

Link Between Migraine Attacks in Teens and Suicidal Tendencies

... serotonin levels in the brain have a bearing upon mental health. The study is published in the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology....

Dementia – Worse With a Dull Life. Keep Busy, and Active to Improve Memory, Study Recommend

...he worst that can happen to such patients; lack of mental stimulation, social activity and a fun filled life...to regain the lost memory with a certain amount of mental stimulation and training. Study leader Dr Li-Huei Tsai said: "This recovery of long-term memory was ...

Row in Australia Over Mental Health Support Available for Returning Soldiers

...lled upon the federal government to provide better mental health support services for soldiers //returning f...seen." Dr Marr says some soldiers suffering from mental health problems such as post traumatic stress are sometimes dealing with three different government ...

The Pain Relieved With the Help of Palliative Workers

...o is finding it difficult to bear the physical and mental pain of the illness. Her family could seem to do nothing to ease the pain. It was then the family got help from unexpected quarters- the palliative care team at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. A doctor at the center specialized in this field arr...

Cricket Science and Medicine Congress in Barbados

...wler. * This maybe the result of a better tuned mental state leading to better batting performance. * ...f meditation or yoga in sports. * Improving the mental state of players is important to get the best results for a team. In a study which was looking at...

Chemo Brain- Nothing Forgettable About It

A mental fog referred to as ‘chemo brain’ that chemotherapy... and an overarching sense that they had lost their mental edge. Once brushing such complaints aside, these very people, i.e. health professionals, are beginni...

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