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Ketamine: a potential rescue drug for depression takes a step forward
For years, physicians have been inching their way to a better understanding of how -- and how well -- the drug ketamine, a "twilight drug" used to sedate some patients before a painful procedure, can lift someone with severe depression almost...
Tags: General Practitioners, LSD, Social Sciences, Drugs and Medicines, Chemical Industry
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Mental illness in youth: a common struggle
Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...
Tags: Learning Disability, Social Sciences, Behavioral Conditions, Demographics, Tourette Syndrome
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Army sergeant found guilty of premeditation in killing 5 servicemen
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Army Sgt. John Russell was found guilty Monday of the premeditated murder of five fellow servicemen in 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, a charge that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Families...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, U.S. Army, Murder, Behavioral Conditions, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Predicting stubborn alcohol addiction: mood, motive may hold keys
It doesn't take stacks of research to demonstrate that medicating painful feelings with alcohol or drugs is a dangerous and ultimately futile strategy (although those studies do exist). But the relationship between emotional difficulties and alcohol...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Medical Specialization, Substance Abuse, Medical Research, Psychiatry
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Women's brains more likely than men's to respond to crying babies
WASHINGTON – Why do kids grow up to cry “Mommy” more often than “Daddy”? The National Institutes of Health has an answer: The wailing of a hungry infant is less likely to bother a man than a woman. In an experiment, 18...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, Autism, Behavioral Conditions, Family
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Antidepressants: A help or hindrance to those facing surgery?
About 11% of Americans over age 12 take an antidepressant, making the drugs the most widely used medication in the United States. And with more than 51 million in-patient surgeries performed annually in the United States, a substantial overlap between the...
Tags: Placebo, Chemical Industry, Behavioral Conditions, Diseases and Illnesses, Internal Medicine
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Five killings at Camp Liberty in Iraq: Calculation or despair?
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial of Army Sgt. John Russell concluded Saturday with a military judge asked to decide whether the 14-year Army veteran was deluded by depression and despair as he shot five fellow service members in...
Tags: Shootings, Career and Workplace, Behavioral Conditions, Murder, Stress
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Yoga might help boost mental health
As you stretch into warrior pose and inhale and exhale, you're not just stretching those hamstrings and lungs; you're also doing good for your brain with a practice that can stave off or relieve problems such as stress, depression and anxiety. Yoga...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Chemical Industry, Harvard Medical School, Duke University, Stress
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Pastor Rick Warren takes to social media to mourn son's suicide
When in pain, pray. When you worry, worship. When in grief, share it in your small group. The Facebook post, sent in the early morning hours Friday by famed pastor Rick Warren, was short on words but deep in meaning. Since the suicide death of his son a...
Tags: Christianity, Human Interest, Suicide, Twitter, Inc., Mental Illness
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Rick Warren: I've cried tears of grief, joy since son's suicide
Famed pastor Rick Warren took to social media to thank the public of for its support in the wake of his son Matthew Warren's suicide and announced an effort to help bring awareness to mental illness. Warren said he and his wife want to "end the stigma...
Tags: Christianity, Mental Illness, Suicide, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Behavioral Conditions
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Rick Warren uses Facebook, Twitter to share sermon about loss
When in pain, pray. When you worry, worship. When in grief, share it in your small group. The Facebook post, sent in the early morning hours Friday by famed pastor Rick Warren, was short on words but deep in meaning. Since the suicide of his son a week...
Tags: Christianity, Twitter, Inc., Mental Illness, Suicide, Human Interest
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Rick Warren says 'haters celebrate' his pain after son's suicide
Rick Warren said it's been difficult to deal with some of the hate mail and online comments he's read since announcing Saturday that his son had committed suicide. "Grieving is hard. Grieving as public figures, harder. Grieving while haters celebrate...
Tags: Christianity, Suicide, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Behavioral Conditions, Barack Obama
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