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Mental Health Update
http://mentalhealthupdate.blogspot.com
Summaries of all the latest research on mental health, psychiatry and psychology.
- Added on: Jun 3rd, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: John Gale
- Listed in: Health Fitness
- Tags: Psychology Counseling mental health psychiatry research psychotherapy
Recent Posts
Type D personalities and heart problems
Research into the links between health and personality has tended to concentrate on Type A personalities - competitive go-getters who are thought to be more at risk of a heart attack - and the more laid-back Type B personalities who are thought to be...
Depression and opioids
People with depression are more likely to be prescribed powerful opioids at higher doses and for a longer time. Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle looked at medical records from two large healthcare plans between 1997 and 2005. ...
More evidence for meditation
Researchers at the Maharishi University of Management in Iowa have found more evidence for the beneficial effects of meditation. They studied 298 students who either trained to do transcendental meditation or were placed on a waiting list. After thre...
The art of subconscious decision-making
People who do crosswords often find that when they go and do something else the answer to a clue they have been wrestling with pops into their head spontaneously. Dutch researcher Ap Dijksterhuis looked into the issue of subconscious decision-making ...
Mental-health problems and heart disease
Researchers from the VA Ann Arbor Health System in Michigan have been looking into the links between mental-health problems and heart disease. They studied 150,000 veterans who completed a survey in 1999 and were followed for eight years. By the end ...
Mixed halls mean more binge drinking
Binge drinking is a big problem on college campuses in the U.K. and the U.S. A study of more than 500 college students by researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah has found that students in mixed-sex accommodation are more likely to binge drin...
