~~~~~~ MENTAL HEALTH NEWS ALERT ~ Week of August 9th, 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~

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Abnormal EEG synchronisation in heavily drinking students.

Heavily drinking students had more synchronisation in theta and gamma
bands during eyes closed, both with and without a task, interpreted
as changes in hippocampal-neocortical connectivity.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15294207
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The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive
Parenting...
by Robert Shaw

Definitely the author doesn't pull any punches: "(Spoiled) children
are not an aberration. They are the natural outcome of the way we
have been raising them,"
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060011831/top100
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Neuropsychology of adults with ADHD
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15291727

Sleep in young adults with asperger syndrome.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15292669

Meta-analysis of intellectual and neuropsychological test performance
in ADHD.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15291732

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15297934

Caring for people with learning disability using care management.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15284646

Efficacy of treatment for child and adolescent traumatic stress.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15289252

Anomalous prefrontal-subcortical activation in familial pediatric
bipolar disorder
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15289277

Placebo among patients with social phobia, panic disorder, and OCD.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15285978

PTSD and anxiety symptoms in children exposed to the 1999 Greek
earthquake.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15296542

Individual trait anxiety levels characterizing the properties of zen
meditation.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15292676

Virtual reality exposure in the treatment of social phobia.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15295148

Abnormal EEG synchronisation in heavily drinking students.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15294207

Cognitive impairments in sober alcoholics
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15283949

Disorders of desire
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15292703

Entangled identities and psychotropic substance use.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15283779

Marijuana and cocaine use among female African-American welfare
recipients.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15276224

A pilot trial of topiramate for the treatment of cocaine dependence.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15283944

Brief treatments for cannabis dependence
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15279529


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