~~~~~~ MENTAL HEALTH NEWS ALERT ~ Week of April 12th, 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~

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Children on the borderlands of autism: social, imaginative, communicative
...domains.

Children with autism show greater deficits in joint attention, functional play
and pragmatic language, and engaged in more repetitive behaviors, than language
disordered children.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=A15070548&lis\
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Minds Behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries
by Stanley Finger

Neuroscience is steadily replacing psychology, philosophy, and even religion as
a model of self-understanding -- here are the pioneers, from Cajal, Sperry,
Galen, to Descartes.
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/019508571X/top100
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Theophylline compared to methylphenidate for ADHD in children
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15068402

Children on the borderlands of autism
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15070548

Autistic disorder in nineteenth-century London
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15070544

The broad autism phenotype
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15070545

Patterns of use--alternative health care practitioners.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15069805

Depressive status of leprosy patients in Bangladesh
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15072127

Understanding relationships among trauma, PTSD, and health outcomes.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15068106

Foetal origins theory
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15073566

Attentional biases for alcohol cues in heavy and light social drinkers
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15071718

Sources of information about MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15072806

Alcohol, nutrition and health maintenance
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15070441

The role of pharmacoepidemiology in pharmacovigilance
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15073887

Gender-specific vulnerability for rCBF abnormalities among cocaine abusers.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15073517

Cocaine self-administration produces a progressive involvement of limbic,
association, and sensorimotor striatal domains.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15071103

Effectiveness of the community reinforcement approach in alcohol, cocaine and
opioid addiction.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15072802

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