~~~~~~ MENTAL HEALTH NEWS ALERT ~ Week of February 16th, 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~

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Special issues related to the treatment of depression in women.

Depressive disorders in women are commonly associated with reproductive events,
due in part to changing hormonal balances.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=A14700449&lis\
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Touched with Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
by Kay Redfield Jamison

Examines the links between manic-depression and creativity (artists such as Van
Gogh, Byron and Virginia Woolf).
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/068483183X/top100
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Executive control emerging from dynamic interactions between brain systems
mediating language, working memory and attentional processes.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14962396

Language development in children at risk for language impairment
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14965539

Effect of methylphenidate on time perception in children with ADHD.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14769100

Access to secondary care for people with learning disabilities.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14963958

The prenatal autistic imprinting hypothesis
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14962624

Autism and pervasive developmental disorders.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14959806

Genome-wide scan for loci of Asperger syndrome.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14966474

Special issues related to the treatment of depression in women.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14700449

Treatment of panic disorder with agoraphobia in an anxiety disorders clinic
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14967551

Generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder comorbidity
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14969778

Chronicity in PTSD and predictors of the course of PTSD among primary care
patients.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14770060

Clinical characteristics of magnetic resonance imaging-defined subcortical
ischemic depression.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14960292

An investigation of sex differences in nonpsychiatric morbidity associated with
PTSD.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14768986

PTSD in asylum seekers.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14768231

Can we help addicts become more autonomous? Inside the mind of an addict.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14959724

Mood disturbances and regional cerebral metabolic abnormalities in recently
abstinent methamphetamine abusers.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14706946

Counting apples as oranges
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14768460

Genetic and environmental analysis of behavioral risk factors for adolescent
drug use in a community twin sample.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14965459

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