~~~~~~ MENTAL HEALTH NEWS ALERT ~ Week of December 20th, 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~

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Quantitative sleep parameters from childhood to old age

40 years of research find: in adults, total sleep time, sleep efficiency,
percentage of slow-wave and REM sleep, and REM latency decrease with age, while
sleep latency, percentage of stage 1 and stage 2 and wake after sleep onset
increase with age
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15586779
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What Causes Addiction?
by Mercedes Muunoz

Overview of addiction and its likely causes. Written for junior high students
(young adults)
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0737727551/top100
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ERPs correlates of EEG relative beta training in ADHD children.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15598513

Attentional blink in adolescents with varying levels of impulsivity.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15589569

Learning, language, memory, and reading
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15579854

Aggressive behaviour in people with learning disabilities.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15495051

Autism - atypical brain responses to fearful facial expressions of emotion.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15595374

Bimanual coordination deficits in ADHD (ADHD).
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15590456

Neuropsychological functions in anxiety disorders in population-based samples
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15589570

Alertness and sleep quality in depressed patients.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15163350

The Role of Endogenous Opioids in the Placebo Effect in PTSD.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15604626

Amphetamines for schizophrenia.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15495131

Suicidality and bereavement
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15585457

Mood state as predictor of the polarity of relapse in bipolar disorder.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15601606

Executive dysfunction in cocaine addiction
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15590917

Non-medical use of prescription stimulants among US college students
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15598197

Sensation seeking and adolescent drug use
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15590343

Electronic gaming machines
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15598190

Dopamine in the processing of drug cues in heroin dependent patients.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15589390

Impairment on a simulated gambling task in long-term abstinent alcoholics.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15597080

Dopamine and alcoholism
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15588749

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