~~~~~~ MENTAL HEALTH NEWS ALERT ~ Week of Sep 25th, 2006 ~~~~~~~~~~

A review of the best papers this year
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Neurofeedback: efficacious treatment for ADHD
Illustrates treatment modalities and compares them to neurofeedback
for ADHD
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16385424

Age-dependent decline of ADHD
ADHD's persistence into adulthood depend until strictness of one's
criteria. Partial remission criteria reveals 2/3rds of those with
childhood ADHD suffering from ADHD symptoms as adults.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16420712

Brain maturation in adolescence: neuroanatomy and neurophysiology.
Slow wave EEG activity declined in a curvilinear fashion with gray
matter volume during adolescence in specific area.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16767769

An fMRI task battery for assessing hemispheric language dominance in
children.
Techniques to assess hemispheric dominance for language in children,
to identify athological language organization.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16651012

Brain development and ADHD.
Reviews structural MRI imaging of ADHD. Differences in prefrontal
cortex, basal ganglia, corpus callosum, and cerebellum have been reported.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16480802

Discriminative analysis of brain function at resting-state for ADHD
Abnormalities in prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex,
along with other areas, discriminated the ADHD brain from others.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16685993

Should sex-specific norms be used to assess ADHD or ODD?
Authors argue for use of sex-specific norms for ADHD and ODD to
detect marginal girls who would otherwise not be diagnosed, but are
impaired.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16551155

Methylphenidate on attention in children with ADHD
Children with ADHD on methylphenidate treatment continue to exhibit
specific serious deficits in components of attention.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16521033

Understanding emotions in others: mirror neuron dysfunction in autism
Children with autism showed no mirror neuron activity in inferior
frontal gyrus (pars opercularis) while imitating and observing
emotional expressions despite normal task performance.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16327784

Failing to deactivate: Resting functional abnormalities in autism.
Social impairment correlated with activity in ventral medial
prefrontal cortex, which is perhaps indicative of abnormal internally
directed processes at rest for autistics.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16702548

Fragmented Visuospatial Processing in Pervasive Developmental Disorder.
Children with one form of PDD were deficient in visual global processing.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16897391

Expression of Conscious Feelings in Children with High-Functioning Autism.
Socio-emotional impairments in autism may be related to perceptual or
expression deficits of of conscious feelings.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16565884

Post-lesional cerebral reorganisation
Functional neuroimaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation were
used to assess post-lesional brain plasticity.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16723211

Functional MRI to study brain plasticity in clinical neurology.
Exhaustion of adaptive properties of cerebral cortex may be
responsible for 'fixed' neurological deficits.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16708177

Focal spikes in musicogenic epilepsy.
Right temporal lobe, notably the auditory area, is involved in
musicogenic epilepsy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16793574

Functional plasticity or vulnerability after early brain injury?
Younger children do not recovery from severe early brain injury as
well as older children, which goes against previous ideas.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16322161

Brain network dysfunction in bipolar disorder.
Bipolar disorder may arise from abnormalities within networks like
the the anterior limbic network, not a localized lesion.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16641836

EEG topography and tomography for pharmacodynamics of psychotropic drugs.
Shows how pharmaco-EEG topography and tomography assist in
neuropsychopharmacology and clinical psychiatry.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16733939

Frontal EEG Asymmetry, Emotional Intelligence, and Externalizing Behaviors
Emotional intelligence and frontal EEG asymmetry at rest are
independent predictors of child externalizing behaviors.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16369699

Frontal EEG asymmetry and the risk for anxiety and depression.
Frontal EEG alpha asymmetry was related to risk for anxiety and
depression in young adult females only.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16875773

Principles of magnetic resonance assessment of brain function.
Describes measurements of oxygenation, blood flow and volume, and
measures of connectivity using diffusion tensor imaging for fMRI.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16649206

Alcohol and adult neurogenesis in chronic alcoholism.
Reviews opposing neurogenic processes associated with alcohol
intoxication and abstinence.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16421863

Adolescent risk behaviors and religion: Findings from a national study.
Religiosity was associated with reduced risk behaviors in smoking,
marijuana and alcohol use, truancy, sexual activity, and depression.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16677701

Cannabis and neurodevelopment: implications for psychiatric disorders.
Cannabis use during adolescence can impact cognition, depressive
symptoms, schizophrenia and substance use disorders in the long term.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16783814
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