~~~~~~ MENTAL HEALTH NEWS ALERT ~ Week of May 24th, 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~

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Effects of marijuana on neurophysiological signals of memory.

Marijuana disrupts sustained and transient attention processes resulting in
impaired memory task performance.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15133574
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Adult Children of Alcoholics: Expanded Edition
by Janet Woititz

General information for adult children of dysfunctional families.
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558741127/top100
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Sex differences in developmental reading disability
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15113820

Conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder in a national sample
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15055379

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

Gender differences in childhood onset conduct disorder.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15115070

Theories of conduct disorder
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15056305

PTSD arousal with increased right-sided parietal EEG asymmetry.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15122952

Depressive symptoms and anxiety on hemostatic responses to acute mental stress
in elderly.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15157751

Regional cerebral blood flow with subtypes of major depression.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15093962

Neurological soft signs in schizophrenic patients with OCD.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15149293

Orbitofrontal cortex in normally developing compulsive-like behaviors and OCD.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15134855

Symptom subtypes of OCD and their relation to dissociation.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15149707

High-risk relapse situations and self-efficacy
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15135557

Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of adolescent heroin users.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15152712

Effects of marijuana on neurophysiological signals of working and episodic
memory.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15133574

Neuropsychological executive functioning in children at elevated risk for
alcoholism
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15122950

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