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U.S. psychiatry gets makeover in new manual The latest makeover to a massive psychiatric tome honored by some, reviled by others and even called the "Bible" of mental disorders is being released Saturday with a host of new changes.
Canoe.ca | May 18, 2013 12:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Study Of Traumatic Brain Injury, Suicide Risk In Deployed Military Personnel JAMA Psychiatry Study Highlights A study by Craig J. Bryan, Psy.D., A.B.P.P., of the National Center for Veterans Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah, suggests that suicide risk is higher among military personnel with more lifetime traumatic brain injuries (TBI
Medical News Today | May 17, 2013 09:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Relationship Between Sleep Duration And Suicidal Thoughts In People With Insomnia. Results of a new study show that every one-hour increase in sleep duration was associated with a 72 percent decrease in the likelihood of moderate or high suicide risk, in comparison with low risk. Data were adjusted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, educa
Medical News Today | May 17, 2013 08:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Depressed Patients Have As Many Goals As Healthy People, But Describe Them In Vague Terms People suffering from clinical depression express personal goals and reasons for their attainment or failure in less specific terms than people without the disorder...
Medical News Today | May 17, 2013 08:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Political Motivations May Have Evolutionary Links To Physical Strength Men's upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science...
Medical News Today | May 17, 2013 07:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Traumatic Brain Injuries Among The Military Linked To Suicidal Thoughts Risk Researchers at the National Center for Veterans Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah, reported that the suicide risk among people in the military increases according to the number of lifetime traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) they have had. They published their fi
Medical News Today | May 16, 2013 12:00 PM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Researchers Find Male Testosterone Levels Increase When Victorious In Competition Against Rivals, But Not Friends Sporting events can bring a community together, such as when the Louisville Cardinals won the NCAA championship and University of Louisville campus was filled with camaraderie. They also can fuel bitter rivalries, such as the long-standing animosity betwe
Medical News Today | May 16, 2013 08:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Non-Communicable Disease Care And Mental Health Care Should Be Addressed Together Non-communicable diseases (NCD) and mental disorders each constitute a huge portion of the worldwide health care burden, and often occur together, so they should be addressed together. These are the conclusions of the third article in a series published i
Medical News Today | May 16, 2013 07:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Rubber Hand Illusion Shows That Thinking You Have A Darker Skin Can Positively Impact Racial Bias Scientists from Royal Holloway University have found that when white Caucasians are under the illusion that they have a dark skin, their racial bias changes in a positive way...
Medical News Today | May 16, 2013 07:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Targeting Frequent Health Care Users With Severe Addictions A program co-led by St. Michael's Hospital could be the next widely used model to treat patients who are frequent users of the health care system and have severe addictions, often complicated by homelessness and mental health problems...
Medical News Today | May 16, 2013 07:00 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

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