~~~~~~ MOOD ALERT ~ Week of January 5th, 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~

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Nature of traumatic memories: a 4-T FMRI functional connectivity analysis.

PTSD is associated with lateralized differences of brain connectivity, with
decreased connectivity in multiple left brain regions but increased in some
right brain regions.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list\
_uids=14702248
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Neuropsychosocial Intervention: Treatment of Severe Behavioral Dyscontrol After
TBI
by Robert L. Karol

Outlines the nature and significance of behavioral dyscontrol, explains
aggression, and details the neuropsychosocial treatment approach and the
principles on which it is based. Case vignettes.
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0849312442/top100
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Globalisation and mental disorders
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14702222

The role of atypical antipsychotics in bipolar depression and anxiety disorders.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14700010

Acute and maintenance treatment of bipolar mania
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14700009

The Nature of Traumatic Memories
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14702248

Reduced short-term obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenic patients
treated with risperidone
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14696023

Does writing reduce PTSD symptoms?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14695022

Do patients drop out prematurely from exposure therapy for PTSD?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14690352

Performance of a single screening question for depression in a representative
sample of 13 670 people aged 75 and over in the UK
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14701892

PTSD and Health-Related Quality of Life in Long-Term Survivors of Acute
Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14702249

Peritraumatic versus persistent dissociation in acute stress disorder.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14690353

PTSD, dissociation, and sexual abuse history in epileptic and nonepileptic
seizure patients.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14698697

Panic Attacks and Psychoticism.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14702255

Ask not for whom the bell tolls
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14697118

Anterior Cingulate, Gyrus Rectus, and Orbitofrontal Abnormalities in Elderly
Depressed Patients
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14702257

Birth weight and later risk of depression in a national birth cohort.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14702224

The relationship of sociotropy and autonomy to posttraumatic cognitions and PTSD
symptomatology in trauma survivors.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14692009

Early cognitive-behavioural therapy for post-traumatic stress symptoms after
physical injury
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14702229

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