~~~~~~ MENTAL HEALTH NEWS ALERT ~ Week of August 11th, 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~

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Abnormal cognitive processing of drug cues in heroin dependence.

Patients exhibited larger slow positive wave components on heroin related
pictures than on neutral pictures, indicating abnormal information (or
anticipatory?) processing.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list\
_uids=12898125
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Brain Injury and Mental Retardation: Psychopharmacology and Neuropsychiatry
by C. Thomas Gualtieri

Clarifies key issues in the psychopharmacologic treatment of brain injury and
mental retardation
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0781734738/top100
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Cognitive underpinnings of pretend play in autism.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12908832

Narrative ability in high-functioning children with autism or Asperger's
syndrome.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12908827

ADHD treatment and academic performance
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12899816

The comprehension of humorous materials by adolescents with high-functioning
autism and Asperger's syndrome.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12908828

MMR and autism
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12901553

Is recurrent brief depression an expression of mood spectrum disorders in young
people?Results of a large community sample.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12904979

New advances in the management of anxiety disorders.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12897703

Stress, social support and depression in single and married mothers.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12910340

Anxiety and psychoactive substance use disorder comorbidity in anorexia nervosa
or depression.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12898557

Methylphenidate-induced obsessive-compulsive symptoms in an elderly man.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12907924

Abnormal cognitive processing of drug cues in heroin dependence.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12898125

Differential changes in signal and background firing of accumbal neurons during
cocaine self-administration.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12904500

Illicit methylphenidate use in an undergraduate student sample
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12741435

Alcoholism and the dopaminergic system
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12893451

Psychological characteristics of volunteers in studies on gambling.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12913397
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